I apologize as it has been some time since I have sent word from the field, upon your departure from our campaign for the sake of more administrative affairs in securing Northrend's re-establishing government.  Your presence has been missed and your sacrifices to the Light not forgotten, I assure you.    The word that deliver to you was one that I wish would liberate you from the provincial labors that beset you, and while there is a graveness to the news I present, I hope there is a measure of relief as well.

The march to Icecrown has been a long one with Tirion's pointless pageantry only delaying our efforts, as while our ranks were strengthened during the senseless tournament, admittedly, little prepared us for the horrors locked within the citadel. It was daunting, rallying resolve against monstrosities that challenged sanity and the terrors that found unearthly life in that sanctuary for the most vile of evils.  Yet, today, the march comes to an end.

Arthas proved to be beyond salvation and now may his eternal rest be a peaceful one.

The fate of Bolvar is a much more complicated one and one that I can inform you of in only the strictest of confidence, one that I ask that you keep closest to your heart.  Fordragon remains a champion to the strength of men, the best our race has to offer Azeroth.  He may of perished at the foot of the Lich King's throne, but is not ... lost.

It would do well for us to speak in person of the matter, so I can inform you of the details to dare not commit to parchment. May your priestly insight help console the burden that lingers upon me still after the events atop that spire.

Yet while there is security to be had for Northrend, already there are rumblings of other forces at play throughout Azeroth; other perils that may come to bear.  While I know the plight of Northrend  has been a personally charged one, it as righteous as the path still set before.

I fear there is no rest for us.  Even with some further cleansing to be done in the vile citadel, soon there will be other battles to be fought, as there other battlefields that we must -- unfortunately -- seek out.  It sorrows me to know that while Northrend may be freed, I am unable to relinquish my hold on those soldiers of your Commonwealth that have served with me. 

May we speak soon of these matters and more, but for the moment priestess I suspect we only have a great amount of work still set before us. Yet, at long last, may Northrend finally be returned to those it was taken from.

Peace to the living, blessings upon the lost.

Dutifully,

Gradar Kincade,
Leader of the Reprise
Son of Stormwind, Sentinel of Ironforge

And today?
We spit all over Tirion Fordring.

Because man, FUCK that guy. We did all the work, and then he took the credit at the end!

In all seriousness, the Lich King I feel is really a testament to good storytelling, amazingly hard mechanics (until hardmode, neh?),  and bringing your team together to set things to right in Azeroth, and hopefully rebuild anew as we look towards harder fights and Cataclysm. In the end, I think it is hard to not feel a speck of sympathy for Arthas, and I feel that this was the death he so richly deserved.

Green dragons are tricky things - they need lots of care, plenty of rest and apparently tons of healing. Thankfully we were there to heal this dragon back to fullsies and all we got as thanks for a dumb chest full of clothes. Thanks a lot, Valithria!

I really dislike Futurama, but we finally got Putricide down on January 31st.

We finally killed Putricide on January 31st. I really hate Futurama. That is all.

We've been rather busy here at Fordragon's Reprise, but unfortunately your intrepid narrator's computer has suffered some losses. Namely my screenshot folder. Also a lot of lag/disconnects on bosses! Hence why there's at least several boss kill pictures missing here. We tromped our way through the first floor of the Citadel immediately, even taking on Saurfang quite handily. Our mages don't stop dying on Gunship, we have people running into ice gas, but we trudge on.

Plague and Blood Wings have proved to be trickier but our morale is high.

Change the colour palette on this and you'd have our Rotgut kill too.

There's things that impress me in this world. One of those things is how marshmallows can't be singly eaten. Another is the human spirit.

Third is our raid team. 

Our Yogg-Saron defeat came in no more than a couple raiding days, and schoolgirls everywhere sighed in relief. Our victory relied heavily on ancient Ulduar secrets such as "PRESS TEH BUTTAN HARDUR" and "healers staying alive." When it was all said and done, we felt a little wilder, a little more insane. (Well, except Nellenya, she's already titularly Insane.)

 
It's crazy to me that this last boss is palpably a new beginning to the instance, one of hardmodes and one hour spawn bosses that could decide the fate of our universe. So while Yogg Saron's door has closed, a window opened... uh...somewhere. I've never been good with stuff like this.  Either way, we were not content to just rest on our laurels and get drunk like other guilds after a finishing boss kill. What did we do? We partied with some iron dwarves and did Iron Council medium-mode:

Yogg-Saron being defeated means that now we here at Fordragon's Reprise are looking towards hard-modes. Good thing there's so MANY of them! Much in the spirit of our aggressive train-wreckers, we demolished Flame Leviathan with two towers:

My sincerest apologies for not posting sooner, faithful readers.

Fordragon's Reprise has been moving ever upwards in their quest to be molested by a tentacle monster. 

Mimiron proved to be a difficult challenge, due to rockets and insane healing demands, but with a little experimentation, I believe we all came out the better for it.

Fordragon's Reprise has been slowly winning the Titan Keepers to our side. Putting points in Diplomacy helps.

On Sunday, we finally harnessed the power of mojo and mastered the arena/tunnel dance and downed Thorim.

Fordragon's Reprise has continued their streak this reset of punching very large giants in the goolies.

 The Council of Iron was our first stop and after figuring out the whole "this circle is good, this circle is bad" thing and eventually getting my butt off the floor from being dead, we downed the bug dwarven trio! Proper respect goes to Adrine for having a dual-spec that includes 4 interrupts.

We found a really awesome backroom that will unveil more secrets of Ulduar as we progress further into the dungeon. Notice our stellar campfire positioning. We were really psyched to start Hodir, obviously.

After that, we did our second bout with Kologarn. This was not noteworthy with the exception of our very first [Fragment of Val'anyr]! The decision to give the shards and eventual mace was a raid-wide decision but ultimately rested on our healers. Thusly, with much gnashing and flailing and self-flagellation, Gradar dutifully accepted the first of many shards that will ultimately give him a bigger ego mace.

A good portion of our time on Sunday was spent just figuring out the pull to the next boss, Auriaya. I suspect someone in the dungeon design department of Blizzard has a fetish or perhaps loathing of team-building exercises ('99) and therefore wanted us to down the boss only using immolation trap, our wits and some pipe cleaners. Thankfully, we all managed to learn to trust eachother, get line of sight and downed Auriaya. She doesn't shave, by the way, as Nellenya found out.

Yet another screenshot where the boss isn't even in the picture. No one's going to believe us now, guys.

Grats to Adrine and Fellina for our first raid tier 8 chestpieces!

Our second night in Ulduar was full of swift vengence, particularly towards Ignis, considered one of the harder bosses pre-hard modes for some. We went in and put the old Fordragon's Reprise try into it and successfully got him down. However, we still wipe on his trash. Go figure.

SUPERHEATED WINDS THIS, BLIZZARD. 

Due to server instability from patch 3.1, Fordragon's Reprise had to contend with two additional, previously fought bosses from beta - Blue Bar Boss and World Server Down Boss. Thankfully, both these were conquered. Even though we got a late start to Ulduar raiding (starting Sunday, April 19th), we got off on the right foot as fast as we could hope for. 3 bosses down the first night of raiding in the newest end-game instance, that's definitely a hat trick!

Flame Leviathan was far too demolished to snap a picture, but Razorscale and XT-002 did much better at letting us pose on their dead bodies.