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Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mathew McCurley will be your host today. Oh boy, The Queue! Have I told you guys how much I love writing The Queue? When I'm not YouTubing or twittering, some of my most wonderful memories are sitting at my computer and browsing through your questions and ... Ooooh, looks like someone just put a link into Mumble ... ... ... ... Bubble bubble bubble pop. Happy Monday, ya'll. jamie9966 asked: At the start of the Burning Crusade, blood elf paladins got their powers by bending the light to their will, through M'uru who they held captive at the time. Since they no longer have M'uru in captivity, where do they now get their power from? In the beginning, M'uru was the source of the Blood Knights' powers. It was thought to have been stolen, being ripped from the naaru forcibly. I was always a fan of the ruthless, almost sadistic way the blood elves bent the very light to their will because, well, at the time, it fit the race. After it was revealed that the naaru sort of sent M'uru, who full well knew what he was doing by letting the blood elves take some of his power to create the Blood Knights, that sadism sort of fell to the wayside.
Throwback signs new execs, still has nothing to show for it
Canadian publisher Throwback Entertainment has been eerily silent since it soaked up the rights to 158 video game properties from off the corpse of the then newly eviscerated Acclaim in mid-2006, including Extreme-G Racing, Vexx, and Re-Volt, not to mention the terribly poor Rise of the Robots. This morning the company made a new announcement, this time bringing on board animation production vets Ken Duer and Eric Radomski, who join the publisher from Warner Bros. where they worked on such properties as Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters, Animaniacs, and Batman: The Animated Series. Duer will serve as Throwback's new president of media while Radomski steps into the role of chief creative officer. Both are the latest names to join the company, following VIC and Commodore 64 designer Yash Terakura, former Capcom boss George Nakayama, and David Siller of Crash Bandicoot and Maximo fame. Of course, there's a big difference between owning all the toys and playing with them, and besides throwing a lot of fancy names around, Throwback hasn't done anything – wake us when something comes of all this name dropping.
