The channels were alive with “HOLY CRAP AWESOME.”

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There is the brief Forum moment where Feathermoon declared Bricu their emperor. Those were the days.

But she was involved in Keltyr’s.

In the fallout from Elerlissa being banished from the body of the elven paladin that she had possesed, all the things that Dorri had been doing, all the little evils she had her fingers in came to the surface.

Those revelations made the normally calm Keltyr a little crazy. And Dorri got the brunt of it. Keltyr’s descent into booze and drugs was actually one of the best RP weeks the group had had in a long time. Kel’s player managed to drag a huge host of people in just by RPing Keltyr before raids. It was fantastic. And he totally amazed me with the depth he was able to convey.

In the end, he risked everything and did something extremely illegal by putting his trust into Destril and Ambika to get Dorri’s mind returned to the way it was. And that moment of awesome, when he looked at Then’liath and Destril and said that he was grateful, picked Dorri up and rode away was one of my favorite WoW moments.

I have never had a character experience a true Crowning Moment of Awesome. I am congenitally incapable of writing them. Linedan, in particular, has the potential for them; he’s a huge-ass Tauren prot warrior in high-end gear, so he’s at least got the badass look. But for whatever reason, I find myself totally incapable of writing him that way. Look at the climax of the Maunt storyline we did. Threnn rescues Bricu, Lin gets the shit kicked out of him, falls in the river outside Stratholme, and has to drag himself back to Light’s Hope, mostly naked, with four cracked ribs and a bad case of athlete’s hoof. You might’ve considered his standing his ground and allowing Skyborne and Rashona to escape from Maunt Manor a CMoA, but can you have a CMoA when Bricu’s already been dragged inside and the whole plan’s gone to hell in a bucket?

I suppose his closest was in that abortive Zul’gurub storyline I did around the time of Uthas’ plague, where three undead jumped him in EPL and he went batshit on them, ending up beating the last one into a pulp until he broke his shovel. (Although that was more of a way of simply disposing of the shovel.)

Turning this back on you…Threnn’s final confrontation with Maunt. Serious CMoA.