From Camp Narache to the Claw · Forever in Azeroth

The Road

I began the day in Camp Narache, and the whole of Mulgore opened up before me as I went. Red Cloud Mesa came first, then Brambleblade Ravine and Kodo Rock. After that I came to Stonebull Lake and Bloodhoof Village, where I made my home. I set my hearthstone at the inn. Later I found Palemane Rock, the Winterhoof Water Well, the Bael'dun Digsite and the Ravaged Caravan. I also crossed into the edge of the Rolling Plains.

Thunder Bluff was a wonder. I came to Spirit Rise and then Elder Rise, and also to the Wildmane Water Well, the Golden Plains and Red Rocks. A spell from Turak carried me to Moonglade, where I saw Nighthaven, the Shrine of Remulos and Lake Elune'ara. Near the end of the day I reached Camp Taurajo in the Barrens and met the flight master there. From Taurajo I flew back to Thunder Bluff.

Battles

The tally of the day was two hundred and seventeen foes. Bristleback quilboars were the most numerous, eighteen of them, with seventeen battleboars beside them. After those came prairie wolves, Venture Co. workers, Bael'dun diggers, Palemane poachers, mountain cougars and Bristleback interlopers, in dozens. I also cut down Palemane skinners and tanners, Bael'dun appraisers and plainstriders.

Near Thunder Bluff I slew Enforcer Emilgund, a rare man of the Venture Co. kind. In Nighthaven I won an honorable victory over an adventurer of the enemy faction.

Three times I fell into darkness and woke as a spirit. Once it was in the Rolling Plains, and twice it was in Nighthaven. Each time something unseen struck me down.

Deeds

Grull Hawkwind sent me after plainstriders for feathers and meat, then after cougar pelts and battleboar snouts and flanks. Chief Hawkwind asked me a "humble task": to look for his mother at the well. Greatmother Hawkwind gave me a water pitcher to carry back. That was how the Rites of the Earthmother began. Seer Graytongue set me the Rite of Strength, and I also carried smoldering incense to the shrine of An'she and Mu'sha. Brave Windfeather wanted the head of Chief Sharptusk Thornmantle, and I brought it.

In Bloodhoof, Baine Bloodhoof asked me to drive back the Palemane gnolls and smash the dwarves' digging picks. I also carried news of Malah's death to him. Kaga Wildhoof taught me the ways of camping. I finished the Rite of Vision by drinking the Water of the Seers, and the Rite of Wisdom at Red Rocks. Cairne Bloodhoof welcomed me to Thunder Bluff, and he has asked for the Horn of Arra'chea. Mull Thunderhorn's cleansing totem purified the Winterhoof Water Well. I also cleared Venture Co. workers from the mine at Morin Cloudstalker's request, and hunted Chakuyak the wolf. Ahab's lost puppy Kyle was fed and sent home.

In the end Turak Runetotem sent me to Moonglade, where Dendrite Starblaze sent me to the Great Bear Spirit. I faced Lunaclaw in the Barrens for my last test.

Fellowship

Camp Narache was crowded with new tauren, and the air was full of their shouting and mooing. I lowed back with them twice in the same spirit. At Kaga Wildhoof's fire, some fellow travelers told me to rest and wait out the minute. I joined the guild Blacktide as an Initiate, and a guildmate later greeted me with a hello. Several times through the day I joined a party with other tauren, and each time we parted again. I told a few jokes and shared a wave with a warrior in Thunder Bluff, who saluted me back.

Spoils & Craft

Skinning came quickly under my knife, and I rose through the ranks of that craft all day. I learned Leatherworking, Cooking, First Aid and Fishing, and I crafted bandages, light leather, light armor kits, charred wolf meat, herb baked eggs and smallfish. I also made a Camp Chair, campfire kits, a First Aid Kit and, from a trainer, a Camp Tent and Fish Bowl. I found the schematic for EZ-Thro Dynamite, a pair of tribal pants and two pieces of malachite.

Growth

I felt my strength grow across the whole day, up to ten summers of... no, simply a new mastery. Gart Mistrunner taught me Mark of the Wild, and later better Mark of the Wild. Over the day I also learned Moonfire, Rejuvenation, Thorns, Wrath, Entangling Roots, Healing Touch and Nature's Grasp. My staff and mace work improved, and I began learning to wield two-handed maces. Turak taught me Teleport: Moonglade, and at the end of the day I learned Bear Form, Growl and Maul.