Wintergrasp

It has been long since I updated, and for that I apologize. But I wanted to be absolutely sure that what I was about to write about Wintergrasp was completely accurate. Because it seems quite unlikely. Yet knowing the mindless tenacity of the fight between the Horde and the Alliance, it somehow makes sense.

The Horde and Alliance seem to always need something over which to fight. It seems to be in their nature. The Warsong Gulch, the Arathi Basin, Alterac Valley; they even took the war to another world with the Eye of the Storm in Outland. Today they carry on the struggle in Northrend on two fronts: the Strand of the Ancients and Wintergrasp.

Wintergrasp used to be an unimaginably cold frozen lake. The Taunka, Tauren of the north, frequented this lake for the prize fish that lay beneath its frozen surface. The lake has since dried up (my unconfirmed theory is that this is the Lich King's doing) and left something a bit more valuable in its wake. Found beneath what used to be Lake Wintergrasp, there is a mine filled with valuable riches. And the Horde and Alliance fight over control of this mine.

That's it.

Just a mine.

With some stones.

...Really, Thrall? Really, Varian? The fate of all of Azeroth lies just a little north of this dried up lake and you're sending your most valuable siege technologies and talented heroes to CAPTURE A MINE WITH SOME SHINY STONES!?

As a boy I was raised by the Alliance. As a man I took part in the creation of the Horde. I have many regrets in my life, some of which may better lie with the creature that possessed my body, but the biggest regret is that, however hard I tried, I could not stop the war between these two factions. They are polarized over ancient prejudices and blinded by an ignorant hatred. I thought immanent attack by the Lich King would bring them together. I was wrong. It has only torn them farther apart.