The best I can come up with is that he thought Brann and his crew could handle it, and that the Horde couldn't afford to divert its attention.

On a related note, what is the official story of C'thun's death? Is it still something done by nameless adventurers, or has a lore figure replaced us (as happend with Varian / Onyxia and Mograine / Naxxramas)?

You can see examples of that in recent times too; compare WW1 and WW2 (Italy, Japan "switched"), or WW2 and the Cold War (Germany, Russia, China, etc), or a host of regional conflicts.

The one example of where Blizzard didn't really pull it off (which has occupied a few pages recently) was with the Blood Elves joining the Horde.

Let's just hope someone gets a few lore questions in during the Open Q&A, rather than some screaming about buffs, nerfs and ponies.

1. The Preview Panel after the opening ceremonies, provided it's about Cataclysm, will likely answer a lot of these questions without issue.

2. I'll be at the show clawing my way to the front of Q&A lines. What kinds of questions would the community like asked?

I was hoping someone here would be able to do this. Okay here is one I have been wondering about.

Are there any plans to do anything with Tyr? (We got a vague, non-answer about him somewhere, so more info would be good).

Thanks for doing this, Crow. My question is this:

The four Watchers we face in Ulduar each have links to one of the 'classic' elements found in both eastern and western mythology (Freya for Nature/Earth, Hodir for Ice/Water, Mimiron for Metal/Fire and Thorim for Lightning/arguably Air).

Was this an intended decision? If so, what is Watcher Tyr's element?

Lol if you really wanted to get poetic you could say he's the Quintessence both because there's allusions to him representing valour/spirit and that no one has ever found him

A question I'd ask is with the (presumed) addition to Highborne to the NE race will there be any aesthetic changes available (not that Highborne have been depicted than anything other than regular NEs) for new Nightelves and other races now that there are more class combos being added and the lore points to support them.

Also what role if any will the War of the Ancients play in the expansion? A CoT raid of the War of the Ancients would be amazing.

Actually, this was a temporary bug with all buildings everywhere. You couldn't fly over building in Outland any more than you could fly over buildings in Northrend.

Quick summary/continuation.

They discuss more members they'd like to join. Rohan Ironforge, Thunker Axeljink who is dead, so they get his son Krank,

Cho'gall summons a Forgotten One to attack Theramore.

Thrall & Jaina meet, he declines joining because he's preparing his fleet for Northrend. She explains about Cho'gall and what they're trying to do with a new council. Thrall suggests that she take Rehgar instead, and also to recruit the Tauren Druid, Hamuul Runetotem.

The Old God voices still haunt Me'dan @ Theramore, and the Forgotten One attacks, the newly formed group of heroes engage the monster. During the battle the Dreadlord Kathra'natir starts working on Meryl, hoping that they can come to some accord, and it seems to be having effect as he becomes stronger. Me'dan fights off the voices and combines arcane and shamanic magic to create a a powerful bolt of lightning to kill the Forgotten One that the others had struggled with. He then later heals Valeera's wound with both the Holy Light as well as Shamanic healing powers combined as well(Nerf!)

Meryl & Aegwynn have a slight argument about the Dreadlord in Meryl's body, and later again about telling Med'an who his father is, she hangs it over his head about the Dreadlord, and he hangs it over her head about who his father is, so neither say anything. Yet later that night while he's in bed resting he has a vision and Medivh's ghost summons him to Karazhan and tells him that he is his father. :P

Quote from Boubouille on the MMOC forums, implying the Thrall developments wouldn't happen immediately with 4.0, but would unfold over patches:

Yeah, after reading the comic the idea of anyone being the Guardian other than Med'an looks ever more unlikely, since he fits so neatly with the plan to make the new Council more, ahem, ecumenical when it comes to magic types.

Unless, of course, Cho'gall succeeds in his plan to capture him and turns him instead into an immensely powerful antagonist. Speaking of Cho'gall, I usually dislike the art in the Warcraft comics, but what they're doing to him is really interesting. He would make a pretty awesome raid boss.

I'd appreciate seeing Sara cleared up a bit - she just feels out of place in the Y-S encounter. The change of her from Vrykul to Val'kyr seems odd too, since I still equate those to Scourge.