Rossi - I LOVE the Know Your Lore columns and most everything you write here, so please take this as constructive criticism. I have to finally comment on something in your writing that's been irking me: Please don't use the emphatic "itself", "herself", and "himself" so often. It jumps out at the reader (or at least to me) every time, and oftentimes the reference doesn't seem "heady" enough to warrant such a strong emphasis. It seems like every KYL column has 2+ incidents of using this emphasis or clarity every time. As I understand it, this writing convention should be used for extreme emphasis, or when there is dual use of the word (for both a region and a city, or for both a faction and faction leader).

Just in this article:
"...carved their way through the Eversong Woods to Quel'thalas itself."
"...themselves allied to Gruul himself"
"...while the Alliance forces struck further south and destroyed the Dark Portal itself..."

All of those would read more smoothly if "itself" and "himself" were removed... though the first incident is likely the most appropriate of the three.

Keep up the excellent work and writing!

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