Comic #983: Anaria Shola (Patreon)

I haven't played in over a year, and I was tired of struggling for comic ideas and not keeping up with game news so I bought Midnight. I have no self control. But the good news is I jotted down a good 10 ideas over the past week so it definitely did the trick.

While leveling I noticed how many quests had the <skip conversation> options, and I knew I wanted to do something with that. As soon as I saw this specific quest, with that exact choice in the quest window, I laughed out loud. The idea that you could choose to console him or just basically tell him to get on with it was really funny to me. I took a screenshot immediately so I wouldn't forget the exact text:

I decided on using Gigz because she seemed to be a good fit for this premise.

I had so many choices for ideas it was hard to pick which one to do, but in the end I felt like since this one involved the lore behind the campaign, it would become less relevant over time as more and more players moved on to the endgame.

Also, look! I made a Silvermoon background! I was feeling lazy and wanted to just reuse some old background, but I knew if I made it now I could milk it for a good year or two.

I knew I wanted the title to use some of the blood elf language. At first I was going to try to make a pun with the word "Lore" in it, like "Be'lore Anore" or something, but it just wasn't working. So in the end I just went on the wiki and looked through common phrases to find the one that fit the best. Anaria Shola, means, "Speak your Business", which I thought was kind of appropriate.