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In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, the rulers of Aethiopia. After her mother boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids, the god Poseidon (who the Nereids served as handmaidens) was so offended that he sent the sea monster Cetus to ravage the coast of Africa until her father chained her naked to a rock so that the monster might slay her and satisfy the god’s vanity.

Luckily for Andromeda, the hero Perseus just happened to be heading home after having killed the gorgon Medusa and noticed a naked girl chained to a rock. Even for someone who killed gorgons, it’s not every day you see a naked princess chained to a rock, and so he stopped to investigate. One thing led to another, and soon Cetus was dead and Perseus was proposing marriage. Being that her family had chained her to a rock to be eaten by a sea monster, Andromeda was no longer willing to marry her original betrothed. Which was her uncle Phineus.

Anyway, one thing led to another, Phineus and a bunch of his buddies crashed the wedding, Perseus turned them all to stone, and Perseus and Andromeda went to save Perseus’ mother Danae and settled in Tiryns, a city in Argos, where they became the founders of a dynasty that would include such famous and powerful descendants as Heracles. (Incidentally, Perseus was the son of Zeus, as was Heracles, meaning that Zeus came back and slept with his own great grand-daughter.) The name Andromeda comes from the Greek words for ‘ruler of men’ denoting her royal lineage and her position as the founder of a dynasty.

What? Everyone’s talking about Andromeda today, I figured I would too.

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Return to Karazhan is full of surprises — like the fact that Medivh’s library includes a full collection of Steamy Romance Novels. Were they for him, for the guests, or did Khadgar bring them in while he was serving as Medivh’s apprentice? The world may never know.

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As a Rogue, I realize the class is very talented and all — but I wasn’t expecting Jorach and the rest of the Uncrowned gang to just…make the Chamber of Shadows completely disappear. I mean there’s subtlety, and then there’s ridiculousness, you know?

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Conventional wisdom says healers are the nice guys of World of Warcraft.

Conventional wisdom is wrong. Healers are dark, vengeful creatures who have the power to control life and death. Never anger your healer, and if you get in the middle of a healer fight you should get out of the way.

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Absolutely one of my favorite weapons in WoW. If I was going to do a list of my favorite 2h’s, it would easily make the top five.

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Part of the reason I liked Pandaria so much was the scenery. I mean, take a look at the screenshot above — it’s an idyllic scene that looks like it leapt straight out of a children’s book. Thinking on it, I think that’s part of the reason why the actions taken in Jade Forest bothered me so much. It was like we’d arrived in a perfectly charming edition of Peter Rabbit and arbitrarily decided to just straight up detonate Mr. McGregor’s garden.