A very interesting article. I like your idea for Therazane's possible role in the Titan/Old God war, but I'm not sure I agree with it.

There's no real evidence that earth elementals are more able to manifest on Azeroth than other types. It seems to me that elementals just tend to manifest wherever their element is in abundance, and earth is pretty much everywhere. There's certainly no shortage of water elementals in every lake, stream, pond, and puddle, and you can't throw a rock at a volcano without hitting a fire elemental. No doubt when Azeroth develops an airliner industry, they'll have to worry about sucking air elementals into the jet engines. That's got to be worse than a Canada Goose.

Too, I'd be cautious about leaning too heavily on (story-wise) legendary sources like Therazane's 'pain' when the earth is dug up. Even in-game that's a legend, with who knows how much or little grounding in 'real' truth.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying this KYL series, and it's getting me pumped to roll a dwarf shaman come Cataclysm.

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