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The Queue: Canon-ish

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

When the Warcraft RPG books were basically declared non-canonical back in 2011, I had hopes that the idea of ‘not canon unless we make it canon’ would include Tandred Proudmoore. I’m still incredibly happy to see him in-game, and that Jaina has an actual family she can lean on now. This does make me wonder if we’ll see anyone else from the RPG books pop up now, though…I really need to get my hands on those things and give them a once-over.

I also need to give your questions a once-over and answer them, so let’s get to that, shall we?


What would a Durotar Warfront be like?

As with all things datamined, here come the disclaimers -- this is datamined content from the patch 8.2.5 PTR (courtesy of the folks at Wowhead), it may not go live, it may not even be intended to go live, the fact that the map is from Siege of Orgrimmar could in fact be a bit of the developers at Blizzard having some fun with the dataminers and those of us who leap on the latest news and breathily tell you all about it, and so on.

The Queue: It’s taking every ounce of my willpower not to plaster this with Gorgonopsids

I’ve probably talked about the shrink wrapped effect, when a fossil is reconstructed with its skin and muscles so tight on the bones and not an ounce of any of the stuff like fat, fur, or feathers that we see on modern animals. To a degree, this is unavoidable — in many cases, we only have the skeletal fossils, since a fossil that preserves integument is extremely rare, so some shrink wrapping is unavoidable. We just don’t know what these amazing animals looked like.

I just wrote six paragraphs about that and then realized it was way too much, so I’m forcing myself to stop. Let’s do the Queue, guys.


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