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COLDRIDGE VALLEY

DWARVEN STARTING AREA
By Doug Reynolds
The Tavern bustled with the claptrap of the Dwarven quarter in Stormwind, people going about
the business but in reality trying to hear and get a hand In everyone else’s business.

I

n the corner of the Tavern

charged with the writing of this

please regale me with the tale of

sat a Shaman, a tired looking

grizzled old Shaman’s memoirs.

your adventure’s beginning.”
The Shaman looked up and

soul who had seen many a battle

“So Sir,” said Thonir. “We

and vanquished many a foe. Next

need to go back to the beginning,

smiled wryly. “Listen laddie,

to him looking out of his depth

back to where it all began for

there will be no storytelling until

and a little starstruck, sat a young

you. I know you have not visited

I have a belly full of beer!”

dwarf named Thonir - he had been

Coldridge Valley for many a season,

“IT WAS A COLD HARD TIME,
DEATHWING HAD RIPPED THE
WORLD ASUNDER AND LIFE WAS
CHANGING FOR THE WORSE.”

As they both settled
in and the beer ran freely,
Thonir started to write.
“It was a cold hard time;
Deathwing had ripped the world
asunder and life was changing for
the worse. I was called upon to

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