Vindicator Maraad is a Draenei Paladin, what the heck does he want with Garona/Valeera.

Here's hoping we find out who Med'an's father is before #22. Though it if it's like the first series this arc should last until #28, IE no conclusion until.......Feb next year. >_<

To branch off for a second, I wanted to bring up the Nathrezim(Dreadlords), in WC3 there were 5 Dreadlords of note(6 if you count Anetheron, but he was fairly minor and was murdered horribly @ Hyjal).

Balnazzar - "Killed" by Varimathras, later found to be alive and took hold of the Scarlet Crusade in the Plaguelands.
Mal'Ganis - "Killed" by Arthas, later found to be alive and lead the corrupted Crusade to Northrend.
Varimathras - Alive, attempted a coup against Undercity and failed, and is now dead...maybe >.>
Detheroc - Killed by Sylvanas
Tichondrius - Killed by Illidan after he absorbed the Skull of Gul'dan.

Now I'd assume that Detheroc is probably dead for real...maybe, you just never know with these Nathrezim. But there's another one that I have serious doubts about, and that's Tichondrius. He was killed by Illidan in an attempt to push the Legion back out of Felwood, after being defeated, Illidan was expelled by his brother, and then somehow he came to be under the employ of the Legion. >.> Granted, the legion's forces were all over Kalimdor at that point, but there's always a good chance that it went through somebody of Tichondrius's standing. Then it occurred to me that if a member of the Nathrezim was "killed" and keeping cover in Kalimdor, he'd have to take possession of a high profile mortal, and from there, I made the leap over to our old friend Fandral Staghelm.

Now, it's not much to go on, but in the comics, after Saidan Dathrohan was possessed by Balnazzar, it appeared that Balnazzar retained most, if not all of Dathrohan's memories. Nobody could tell, the Nathrezim operate in shadow if they can, they sow seeds of discord, and attempt to rise to positions of power and bring those around them crashing down hard to their own ends. Fandral's actions fit in WoW/Comic fit the criteria. Dividing the Cenarian Circle, getting possesion of artifacts, challenging Tyrande's rule in Malfurion's absence. Fandral is in a position very very similar to that of Varimathras, he has more then enough followers if he wanted to stage a coup.

Most of this is pretty baseless speculation on my part, but I'd like to hear other people's opinions. Is Fandral possessed, or is he just a jerk with a tragic history? Does he have more to do with the Nightmare in the dream? In Warcraft #17 he contacts Broll through the dream and summons him back to Darnassus, which means he retains his Druid magic and ability to travel the dream.

I doubt he is possessed just since he was never around where any of the powerful Dreadlords were when they 'died'. All the other possessions occurred in the area where that Dreadlord was supposedly killed not on entirely different continents. Sure we have Tichondrius (and possibly Anetheron) but I'd imagine Tichondrius was pretty killed when Illidan used the Skull on him.

I seriously question if Dreadlords can die at all, at this point.

Balnazzar could have been explained away since Varimathras was the one to "kill" him.

Mal'Ganis, though? As said, he was struck by a weapon no less evil than the skull of Gul'Dan, and it was a blow from Arthas. You could argue that maybe Arthas wasn't as strong as Illidan at the time, but I still find it hard to believe Tichondrius is dead now that we know Mal'Ganis is still up an about.

What's more, who's to say the being Varimathras was attempting to summon wasn't good old Tichondrius? I really don't think the methods his crew were using to summon were strong enough to bring any beings of Kil'jaeden's quality into Azeroth, so I don't think it's out of the question.

Sargeras was originally said to have imprisoned the Natherzim in the Twisting Nether, perhaps because they were indestructible and had he killed them they would have simply come back from the Nether when they'd recovered enough. Not sure if all that was retconned out, I get confused at the mess it all became after they insterted Dranei in there with a sledge hammer.

I don't think it was intended originally but I think the theme Blizzard are going with are that Dreadlords are near impossible to kill permanently. Perhaps the Naruu can help us with that.

All the talk of Staghelm though makes me wish they'd involve the other faction leaders and heroes more often. Cairne, Magni and Tyrande seem to be mutes at the moment. Velen had his little bit at the end of Sunwell but hes disappeared now. Cairne especially I'm disappointed with, WotLK was touted as discovering a lot more about the roots of the Tauren and in the end we got a few quests for some humanoids that all look like they're wearing Tauren Halloween masks and no lore at all really.