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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