#10.2.5

[artistofdragons]

[ask-naraenil]

Farewell - 21.1.24

The worst part of Veldrinath’s passing was how she never had the chance to say goodbye. There was no body, and his spirit didn’t return as the wisps their people tended to do. After all, he passed away in the scarab, old god worshipping infested desert of Silithus.

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A distance from the central hub of Bel’Ameth, Nara’enil wandered until she found the area where the barrow dens were going to be readied. People poured into the town every day, be they visitors or those who intended to settle at the kaldoreis’ new seat of power. The High Priestess declared all were welcome, including the now-former outcasts that were the Illidari and the undead, along with the sorcerers of the Shen’drelar who leaned towards more sinister magics than the arcane. Only two named defectors of Druids of the Flame were with them. As for the Horde, they were allowed to visit, albeit with the invisible watchful eyes of the Sentinels constantly trained on them.

Though it gladdened her heart to see the new town built from scratch and to witness the joy of her kin as they celebrated and started their lives anew, Nara’enil felt the same hollow that never left her since she could remember. The same hollow that yawned more painfully in the wake of the deaths of both friend and family. The same hollow at witnessing the estrangement between her foster father turned honoured teacher and his son, her brother and best friend once upon a time.

Don’t be ridiculous, her sisters in battle often chided her over the millennia about the latter. You can’t mourn those who are still alive, they said. Immortal then and with immortality taken for granted, the end of a life was the utmost incomprehension despite how many were lost in the war of the ancients, and were still lost in the war of the satyr and of course the shifting sands. How ironic, thought Nara’enil at the time, that the lives of the hated were taken so cheaply in the years after the exile of the Highborne when the strays were hunted down and slaughtered.

And immortality taken for granted meant that any rift, while seemingly permanent, had the chance to heal be it centuries or millennia later. A disowned son, a former friend, a divorced spouse - any of them may return and perhaps be forgiven eventually as the passage of time healed the wounds that caused the separation.

But it wasn’t the same any more.

Some felt their mortality more than others. Nara’enil’s own hair, a rich navy for her entire life, greyed after Nordrassil was attacked by Archimonde. Fatigue had set into her very bones, despite her being in the prime of her adulthood at a few centuries before her fourth millennium, and she suspected it was less physical than emotional.

It was astounding how the state of mind of a mortal being affected its body.

But perhaps her late sentinel compatriots were right in the end: here at a new beginning, feeling the consequences of borrowed time both bad and good, it was her late husband whom Nara’enil missed the most painfully.

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Those who passed or looked towards the southeast of the isle would see a solitary druidess strolling near one of Amirdrassil’s mighty gnarled roots threaded with the unusual blue that pervaded its bark. They’d see a wisp appear, seemingly from thin air, and float towards her.

Minutes later, if they were still watching, they’d see the athletic form of the woman hunch, her shoulders sagging while the wisp circled her. It touched the staff on her back, a wooden branch of blossoming blue leaves curled around a dreamcatcher at its head, and turned the living green threads into a soft blue similar to the threads patterned throughout the world tree. The wisp then hovered by the tear stained face of the druidess as if to give her a kiss, and then it floated away, disappearing into the non existence from whence it came, leaving the elf sobbing and defeated as her fingers tried in vain to reach for the spirit of her lost love.

She crumpled to her knees on the grass in a perfect picture of utter grief.

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[spo0ky-toast]

happy patch day to my wow mutuals

[noxith-sky]

ok, not really a patch spoiler, but in the Azerothian Archives, Zenata the tech draenei has the line, "I feel......at home...in the Azerothian Archives. Girl, who is holding a gun to your head??

[nzoth-the-corruptor]

[the-nerd-beast]

Valenda, Champion of the Dragonflights!

I'm really going to miss this expansion, after WoW has been floundering for so long it was such a breath of fresh air. Yes the aesthetics and artistic liberties don't suit everyone's taste, but it was objectively a good expansion with a solid story, lots of content and incredibly fun.

[deathbydarkelves]

*stops in the middle of the road pointing shouting* YOU'RE THE KID FROM ELEGY WITH THE SUPER ON-THE-NOSE NAME ABOUT BEING THE LAST CHILD BORN ON TELDRASSIL.

[daphrona]

i just

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHAW HE'S A HUMAN PRIEST IN PLATE

si:7 is a fucking embarrassment.

[findmeinshattrath]

The Worgen are officially returning to Gilneas in Patch 10.2.5: Seeds of Renewal!

Love Worgen so I hope this will be great! I'm not sure what it's going to look like in-game, probably no new capital city, but I hope it at least ends up actually visibly populated. If it does, one thing I'm hoping for from this is that there will end up being a sizeable Night Elf presence when it's rebuilt, maybe in the Blackwald or the woods near the Greymane Wall. Just something to show the bond between the two still going, you know?

[lynxfrost13]

NELF ENJOYERS

WE HAVE A HOME AGAIN 🥹

[heckinwacky]

10.2.5 spoilers yet again

never going to get over this i think

[sheyshen]

tomorrow is 6.55 for xiv and 10.2.5 for wow and i will be playing both of them. I'll be sure to tag anything i post about them with xiv spoilers and wow spoilers respectively for at least the next week!

[consequencesofargentdawn]

So there's a a quote by Hamuul Runetotem in the new 10.2.5 text that states that the Horde ARE permitted in the new night elf city. Well that solves that, the Dirge of derp can STFU. The PCU is officially redundant in every aspect. What a god damn lore-disregarding joke they've become.

That settles the debate on that!

[snowflake-obsidian-cat]

how do you make the background on the characters transparent? i'm trying to make a banner for my blog but i've never worked with WoW screenshots before.

I am not sure how familiar you are with editing software, so this tutorial is going to be detailed.

Step 1:

You need a simple screenshot of your character. Here are some ways you can get it:

a) in-game screenshot

b) Wowhead Dressing Room screenshot

c) Wow Model Viewer

d) WoW Tools

e) far stretch, but if you want to mess around with mogs, Epsilon Private Server is fantastic for that (they also support the Narcissus addon)

I prefer Wowhead's Dressing Room, so that's what I'll use. Recommendation: If you use Wowhead, use the PTR version of the page (right now it's 10.2.5) to remove Wowhead's watermarks in the background.

Step 2:

Take the screenshot of your character (Print Screen on Windows keyboard) + paste it to Paint.

Now you have your very own Screenshot with a background.

Step 3:

To remove the background, you will need an app that can do that for you. The two options I can personally recommend are:

a) Photoshop

b) Photopea (basically free in-browser photoshop) (link)

I will use Photopea for this tutorial.

Step 4:

Once you upload your screenshot to Photopea, you will need to select the character with the Magic Wand tool.

Everything you select will be outlined with a scissor line.

Step 5:

There will be some areas where the tool might 'overselect' and get bits of the background. There might also be areas which the tool will not select. To fix that, use the Lasso tool (red circle).

If there are any areas that are on the character, that the Magic Wand did not get, draw over them with the Unite option (green square). If there are bits of the background, exclude them with the Subtract option (blue triangle).

If you need to zoom in or out, hold Alt and use your scrolling wheel. It will make some smaller areas easier to see and select/deselect.

This is the most important step, so be meticulous.

Step 6:

After you mess around with the Magic Wand and Lasso tools, you will have something like this.

Now you need to remove the background completely. On the right side of the screen, there is the Add Raster Mask option. Click on it.

Voila!

Your character is separated from its background!

Step 7:

To save it, you will need to export it. Here's a quick how-to:

Press on File in the top left corner. Then Export as. Then save it as a PNG (make sure it's a .PNG as .JPG / .JPEG do not support transparency).

After that, you will be prompted again. Just click Save.

Step 8:

And here's your character, completely divorced from the background! Now you can use an editing app to put her in any background your heart desires. If you don't have any software of that sort, there are also plenty of websites that you can use.

Some that I know of:

a) Pixlr (link)

b) Canva (link)

c) BeFunky (link)

d) Picsart (link)

I often use BeFunky because it's easy to get the hang of, minimalistic and convenient to use!

At this point, only your creativity is the limit.

This is by far not the only way to do it (and not the fastest), but it's the simplest one that I could come up with.

It might seem a bit tedious, but I find it quite relaxing :3

Good luck, anon!

[marxismgoblinism]

absolutely adoring the new leaning animations added in 10.2.5, they've got so much CHARACTER

[nzoth-the-corruptor]

...Then the bond of the Incarnates is truly ended...