Children’s Week – Part 2

Hey there, everyone.  Sarra back to tell you about the rest of my adventures during Children’s Week.  After I returned Grunth to the Orgrimmar Orphanage and Orphan Matron Battlewail, she told me that there was an orphanage out in the Outlands at Shattrath City and they might be able to use my help too.  So I decided to make my way to Shattrath and see if I could be helpin’ out.  I hopped the zepplin, Iron Eagle, to Grom’gol in the Eastern Kingdoms and then took a windrider to Stonnard in the Swamp of Sorrows.  From there it was a nice ride into the Blasted Lands and the Dark Portal to the Outlands.  On the other side of the Dark Portal, I talked with the flight master and got another windrider into Shattrath.  It was a long journey, but the Horde transportation system is very efficient and it seemed like no time at all before I was making my way to the Lower City in Shattrath.

A slow canter around the Lower City found me at the doorstep of the Shattrath Orphanage.  Orphan Matron Mercy was there watching the children playing on the steps and she was more than happy to let me know that they could use any help I could offer and she had a little Blood Elf girl that could use some company for a bit.  Orphan Matron Mercy gave me a little whistle to blow to call the girl to me.  When I blew the whistle, a little Blood Elf girl came running up to me and introduced herself as Salandria and made no bones about letting me know what she’d like me to do for her.  She is really a rather forward little thing and seems to think she is being all sly and sneaky about something.  ~Shrugs~ I came here to help and this is what the Orphan Matron asked me to do, so there is really no need for Salandria to try to be sly about her requests.  I guess it’s just in her nature though, being one of those blood elves and all.

The first thing Salandria wanted to do was go and visit one of her friends from Sporeggar.  Hch’uu was at the Shattrath Orphanage before one of her relatives came and got her and took her back to Sporeggar.  So off we go to Sporeggar.  Salandria and I went up to Shattrath-proper and found the Flight Master and caught a flight into Zabra’jin in Zangarmarsh.  What is it about kids and their need to lean out off anything high?  I had to grab her by the ribbons more than once to keep her on the beast…especially when we were flying over the huge mushrooms in Zangarmarsh.  She insisted we should be able to walk on their tops! When we finally landed in Zabra’jin, the flight master there got a real good laugh over the fact that Salandria was tied to the windrider harness and we had to take time to undo the knots before she could dismount.  Thank goodness the beast was good natured about the whole thing.

We rode west out of Zabra’jin over the road across the marsh to eventually make our way into Sporeggar.  Of course it wasn’t quite as simple as all that.  There were Marshfang Rippers, Sporebats, Fireglow Stingers and Fen Striders to terrorize along the way.  Salandria was curious about them all and what magic they may hold.  She was especially interested in the Fen Striders with their odd ways.  I must say though, Salandria was much more well behaved while we were on Kar than Grunth was.  She was just more convincing when it came to requesting stops to “study” things.  A reminder of our mission to go and see Hch’uu usually convinced her that we should really continue on.

Once we reached Sporeggar, she found Hch’uu easily in the center of the village.  I let the two of them visit a bit while I took a look around the village and caught up on any news with Msshi’fn.

When the girls were done with their visit, we were off again to take a Trip to the Dark Portal.  It seems that Salandria was not convinced by the stories she had heard of the demons and dangers of the Stair of Destiny and the Dark Portal.  We rode back to Zabra’jin and procured a flight directly to the Dark Portal.  Once there, Salandria seemed awed by the sight of the swirling nether of the Dark Portal itself and the majesty of the Stairs of Destiny.  I really don’t think she was expecting what she got on that trip.  She was especially surprised when a soldier of the Horde came through the Portal in front of her.  I think that after seeing the on-going battle for the Stair of Destiny, the constant sacrifice of soldiers of both the Horde and the Alliance as they try to keep the demons away from the Dark Portal, she will not be so skeptical of the stories in the future. 

I need to go and help Zy with something for a bit now.  But I’ll get the rest of this adventure to you right away. 

- Sarra

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The Zangarmarsh Trip, Continued

 Hey there.   Sarracenia back to bug you all.   I realized today that in my distraction with the pumps in the marsh, I left out a few more sites I found out there that I wanted to share with you all. 

I spent the night in Zabra’jin.   That’s the big troll village in the middle of the marsh.   It actually has an inn and a blacksmith.   Although I’m not so sure the blacksmith is really happy to be there…and he might actually be an engineer.   I always thought Gnomes tended to be a bit nervous around us trollies but this guy has enough attitude for a tauren with hoof-rot.   Anyway, Zabra’jin is a laid back kinda place to visit.   There are even guys playing catch in the yard (yeah, right over your head as you enter the main common area…brats! — Zy).   There are also many more of the apartments hanging off the mushrooms overhead too.   I could get used to being there. 

I left the village to go exploring some more and traveled to the west for a while.   I eventually came to the sporelok village, Sporeggar.   There were sporeloks in the main common area harvesting fungi and they had gardens and cozy mushroom houses.   They seem to be doing okay for themselves there.   They have to patrol their village these days though, because of the troubles they have been having with the bog giants and bog lords. 

When I left Sporeggar I went around the edge of the marsh and checked in on the little guys at the Spawning Glen.   Things are sadly the same there:  Bog Lords and Bog Giants everywhere harassing the sporelings that tend the Glen.   As I continued around the edge of the marsh I came upon one little Sporelok, named Coosh’coosh, tending a mushroom garden on the border between Zangarmarsh and Terokkar.   I stopped to pass on the news from the Spawning Glen and Sporeggar to him.

After leaving him to his mushrooms, I wanted to check out the roaring I could hear nearby. I found a set of waterfalls where the marsh empties into a lake in Terokkar.   It was a very pretty scene that I happened upon there with the water spraying and pouring out between the glowing mushrooms at the border. 

When I was done gawking at the falls, I continued on to investigate the huts I could see in the distance while I was talking to Coosh’coosh in his garden.   It turns out they belong to a swamp people that make their homes there in the boggiest parts of the marsh.   This collection of huts is Umbrafen Village.   The huts seem to be made of the outer skin from the caps of some of the big mushrooms.   I can only guess that the support beams in their village are from the old mushroom stalks maybe from the same ones where they got the covers for their huts.   That would make sense I guess since trees are in rather short supply and mushrooms are everywhere. 

Behind Umbrafen Village are some ruins that don’t really look so ruined to me.   There are shamans and druids, from Umbrafen Village I presume, protecting the stairs up to the main temple but I got a picture for you all from the bottom of the steps.   The ruins, in Zabra’jin I found out they are called the Boha’mu Ruins,   look to me like they were made by the same people who made Shattrath City.   They have the same shape and the same kind of markings on them.   I’m thinking that means they maybe the oldest buildings in Zangarmarsh, along with another set of ruins I rode past on my way from Zabra’jin to Sporeggar.   I didn’t stop there because there were a bunch of rowdy Alliance people hanging around them at the time.

The next stop I made was the entrance to Hellfire Peninsula through Thornfang Hill.   I was thinking I may want to go through there and do a little tour around the peninsula, but there was a big ravager looking at me so I thought maybe that would wait for another day. 

You all keep yourselves well until next time

– Sarra

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Tags: Boha'mu Ruins, Coosh'coosh, Sporeggar, Umbrafen, WoW, Zabra'jin, Zangarmarsh