The Earthen are the new playable race coming in the War Within. We've already highlighted several Earthen NPCs that were added to Ironforge, Stormwind, and Orgrimmar. More Earthen can be found in Thunderbluff now as well.
Gedoldaz can be found in the Pools of Vision, learning more about Azeroth's ley lines.
I've spent many cycles studying the runic ley lines beneath Khaz Algar and the Ringing Deeps. They were familiar to me, like a language I have always known and understood.
But here in these lands. the lines are different, the runes somehow familiar yet entirely alien to me.
These runemasters speak of them as 'veins within the earth'. They have many legends on their origins and speak of an 'earthmother' and her veins that surge with primordial essence.
They even speak of nearby healing hot springs powered by ley line energy! How intriguing...
Hekgarda can be found on Hunter Rise, looking out over Mulgore. She seems impressed by the tauren's reverence for the land, and disturbed by stories of the dwarves.
I'm starting to understand why we were met with some distrustful gazes when we first arrived.
The tauren tell me of their history with our fleshy descendants and how they tore through their land in search of treasure and secrets--secrets pertaining to my kin. no less..
<Hekgarda exhales softly as she shakes her head.>
Even the most ambitious of the Stonebound knew that when the earth rumbled and quaked, its voice must be heard. and its might respected, lest we paid the price for angering it.
There is a mighty reverence for the land here. Perhaps other Stonebound will visit it one day.
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