The Arcantina is a chill hangout where NPCs you thought were your friends give you chores

The Arcantina is a new tavern coming in Midnight where any character can carouse to their heart’s content with a variety of Azerothian notables regardless of your faction, or theirs. I’ve seen D&D campaigns that started with the same exact setting and narrative framework, so we may have something here.

You first unlock the Arcantina at the end of Arator’s campaign in Midnight. At the end of his varied emotional and physical travails, he winds up at the Arcantina, with you in tow. Khadgar is there in his purple chair holding court with his favorite floating crystal motif, but there are tons of NPCs you may remember as ghosts of expansions past hanging out there. From the video presented in the longer Midnight Deep Dive, I recognized Alonsus Faol, the prominent Undead Priest who is going to help Arator along on his journey through the campaign, as one of the NPCs we may get to rub shoulders with, along with Kurdran Wildhammer, Thisalee Crow, Gamon, and Kelsey Steelspark.

But it isn’t all hanging out and drinking ale. In addition to hobnobbing, these NPCs will also send us on adventures and quests. It sounds like a bit like the Inn from the Garrison, where you aren’t quite sure what objectives you’re going to get or NPCs will show up on a regular basis, plus likely a bit of a lore dump from these factions and subfactions we haven’t seen in a while. I do hope there’s some degree of bad luck protection, because I care deeply about some of these characters and not a bit for the others, and I’d venture that’s the same for all players even if we don’t share the same opinion on which ones.

The one real question which remains is just how long it’ll take before I get to kick back with a pint and my bestie Kelsey. We’ll find out as people start doing the campaign with Arator.