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Cost of Honor tells the past of the Riverglades
Blizzard has released Cost of Honor, a new short story for World of Warcraft: Forever. Knight-Captain Demar Brant of Farholde Keep tells the young people of the Riverglades the stories behind their legends. A narrated video of 7 minutes appeared on 13 November.
Blizzard describes the story like this:
As a storm rages in the skies above, the young people of the Riverglades gather around a campfire to hear the stories behind their history’s legends from the great Demar Brant. Through tales of war, sacrifice, and hard choices, they learn that the true strength of a people lies not in victory alone, but in the courage to protect one another.
Who made it
Jonathan Maberry wrote the story, Surfside 3D made the illustrations and Peter Jessop narrates as Demar Brant. The full story is a PDF of 10 pages. Sean Copeland did the lore consultation, and Chris Metzen and Joshua Greenfield are among the names under game team consultation.
What it is about
Under a thunderstorm, Brant gathers the young people around a fire. He tells them about the Siege of Blackrock Spire in the Second War, and about the choice of the brotherhood to break with Stormwind and the Alliance to hunt the fleeing Horde. He asks them whether an oath is worth more than the lives of the villagers who depend on them. He ends with the Twilight’s Hammer, which took Sunnyglade, and with Farholde Keep as a safe home.
The Riverglades is one of the new zones of Forever, for levels 30 to 45, and Farholde Keep is its Alliance town. More about the zone is on the Forever page. Blizzard also points again to the lore episode of the World of Warcraft: Forever Podcast, which is in the post about episode 7.
Source: Wowhead