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Know Your Lore: Archdruid Fandral Staghelm
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. Fairly soon, World of Warcraft players will get the chance to raid the Firelands (and in case it needs to be said, clicking that link to patch 4.2 information will take you to spoilers). When that happens, the long, strange, painful trip of Fandral Staghelm will finally come to an end -- at least, presumably. He's been a fixture of the game for years, and his history with the kaldorei goes back generations. He learned druidic magic from Malfurion himself and rose through the ranks of the Cenarion Circle, eventually even replacing Shan'do Stormrage as Archdruid. His rise took thousands of years; his fall, a mere six. When discussing Fandral, we're discussing a complex night elf. He led the defense of Kalimdor against the Silithid and the Qiraji servants of the Old God C'thun before the dragons deigned to take a hand, and it cost him dearly. It's time for a new look at Fandral and all he's done, for good and for ill.
