And now we present the highly anticipated final part of this ambitious and not insignificantly geeky trilogy. Viewers are warned that the following may contain spoilers and that this post has been rated S.

For spoiler.

And sad.

And scuttlebutt.

I must be getting sentimental in my dotage. You see, I’d normally think of myself as a hard-hearted, unfeeling bastard with less emotional attachment than a T1000 sent through time to kill an annoying teenager. Sadly, the provocation of this uncharacteristic reaction was not my son taking his first unassisted steps (which delighted me) nor him saying “Daddy” (or possibly “Dadda”, perhaps “addy”) or even when he finally said “Mummy” (which came after “duck” and doggie” it should be pointed out. Oh, and “Kwa” which is the sound ducks make of course.) No. My cold, dark heart was stirred by an easy to complete World of Warcraft quest found in the Ghostlands zone.

The quest is started by finding a dropped item called, appropriately, the Lady’s Necklace. Now I was going to add some images to this post but quite frankly it’s been sitting in my drafts for weeks on end and I can’t be arsed. So I’ll try to describe it instead. As I mentioned, the quest is easy enough but a little time consuming. After reading the inscription (which reads something like “Dear Sylvanas, a gift from your loving sister”) you take it to some nobby nob blood elf bloke who sends you to some zombie bloke who sends you, finally, to the Undercity, home of the Forsaken where you are instructed to present it to Sylvanas Windrunner, the Banshee Queen of the undead legions.

Following these instructions and finding yourself in the throne room of the dingy underworld capital, you present the necklace to the queen. This is her response. Get your xp, wam, bam, sorry to have disturbed you mam!

So far nothing special. But if you’re patient and hold on for a couple of seconds longer, this is what happens:

For such a simple quest, this is a very striking reward. A lot of effort has gone into putting this together in an attempt to add some depth to the… you know what, strike that pretentious crap. It was just an enjoyable surprise that was different to the usual “here’s another magic sword of leetness for ya, now get back out there and kill more rats!”

Of course, most of the discussion about this quest that I’ve read all depressingly read the same - “don’t you get a reward? what a shit quest!”

/sigh