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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Defence of the Ancients, more commonly known as DotA is a modified (mod) map for Blizzard's Warcraft 3. Although Warcraft 3:The Frozen Throne (TFT) is a popular game amongst the more mature gamers, you don't often find many people playing it in LAN centers. However, since the coming out of DotA, more and more people are simply getting WC3 just to play DotA. As an avid fan of Blizzard's games, namely Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo, i find it ridiculous. Ironically, i do not mind the ever expanding number of people who are playing DotA because i can actually persuade them to try out the official WC3 maps. The idea between the 2 forces, the Sentinels and the Scourge originate from within the storyline of WC3 itself. Apparently, many people who plays DotA does not know even this simple fact! How laughable is that? Even some of the heroes in DotA were associated with characters in the WC3 storyline, Kael, Furion, just to name a couple. Again, how many people actually know the backgrounds of Furion and Kael? Kael, or Kael'Thas was the Prince of the high elven homeland, Quel'Thalas. Ever since the rogue Frostmourne wielding Prince Arthas destroyed the high elven homeland, Kael and the remaining high elven survivors banded together to form a new faction, called the Blood Elves. During their quest for revenge and magic, the Bloodelves eventually allied with Illidan Stormrage( a night elf), brother of Furion Stormrage. Unfortunately, in the story, Illidan was defeated by Arthas and Illidan's acquaintance were forced to retreat to recuperate their forces. I'm still questionable whether Kael would join the Sentinels at all.

Furion Stormrage, the hero. In DotA, he has the role of Prophet. Though true that Furion's so called prophecies came true, i still think that he should be given another name. Furion is the apprentice of Cenarius the demigod. In the War of the Ancients Trilogy, Furion has mastered the magicks of the druids and managed to hold off the first coming of the Burning Legion. In Reign of Chaos (ROC) and TFT, Furion , the Alliance led by Jaina Proudmoore and the Horde led by Thrall, held off Archimonde's attempts to corrupt the World Tree. Furion being a druid, has close affiliation with nature and thus, he can communicate with nature. The lands had told him of the second coming of the Burning Legion and thus tried to stop them again. The real prophet who has seen all these coming was actually Medivh, the Last Tirifal Guardian. So the thing is, if anyone should be called a Prophet, it should be Medivh. What's intriguing about DotA is that the proximity of the World Tree and the Frozen Throne. The World Tree was planted by the Great Dragon Aspects in the lands of Kalimdor. The Frozen Throne is located at Northrend. The 2 continents are actually separated by the sea and thus, not so close to each other!

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