Shaurria was tutored by the Great Cat Spirit after her parents died, so she considers him a mix of mentor/surrogate parent. He taught her how to hunt and fight before she rejoined the rest of the world. Pitch has taken up coaching her and is fine-tuning all the things she learned from the Spirit, as well as teaching her How To Druid.

I read a lot of WoW blogs and I have seen this in more than a few.

On the one hand you acknowledge that very few people saw all the end game content in both vanilla and BC. At the same time you also acknowledge that you enjoyed that content. You were one of the blessed few.

You also stress that you do not think ICC is that hard, but I would like to point out that you have seen the top end-game content. I would suggest that what you find so blissfully easy, others do not. That sometimes the difficulties people have are not because they are dim or not paying attention, but because they find these things that come so easily for you much more difficult.

I struggle every raid period to improve. If you think it doesn’t gall to get constantly shown up in DPS by one of the raid tanks on the few nights a month he has to DPS, you’d be wrong. I know my class. I know my rotation. I know how to gem and enchant. I do everything right. Yet I continue lag behind.

What sticks in my craw is the insinuation that because I am willing to use the buff, I am “cakewalking” my way to epics. I work hard, dammit. Damn hard. I’ve said this to a few other of the people in my raid with this same attitude “If I had to use you as my standard, I would quit the game.” There would be no point in trying. I am not going to be that good but that doesn’t ever mean I am not trying.

Aríen had pretty much any of the paladins at Stormwind’s Cathedral of Light, where she was trained, to go to for questions/advice, so she really doesn’t have an individual mentor.

Kalenedral had her older sister, Riatha, as a mentor, until Riatha went with a squad of Sentinels to Northrend, before the actual start of WotLK, and was killed, to be raised as a DK later. Kal was pretty crushed at her loss, and has been mostly solo since.

My one human character is from the deep hills of Alterac, and she has always cried when she has to go to the Plaguelands. I suspect she’ll still cry, but for different reasons now.

Once Arthas dies, she’s going back, mostly for the closure of actually knowing what happened to them, but also partially to say “this is over”. The writing of this is already in process, but it means I have a definite deadline for getting this finished!

Like Bricu, she doesn’t really seek to rebuild Lordaeron – she’s pretty well convinced that Lordaeron isn’t coming back. The land itself might, but the culture and the people are so scattered now that it’s more a history than it is a living thing that needs “rebuilding” in her mind.

Whether that changes as the plagued-parts of the world go away remains to be seen.

Poor QQ, all alone in the world.

I just sent her heirloom gear.

I would also strongly consider playing someone else’s NPC. Last time I did that, I got to play with Thomas Maunt, and that was hella fun.