The Fate of Dalaran - The War Within Alpha (Alpha Spoilers)
At the very beginning of The War Within, players are dropped into a familiar location. While we don't know exactly what's going on yet, the area is easy to recognize...
The (New) Dalaran Crater
The very first quest on the War Within alpha begins with a bang: one big enough to create a whole new Dalaran Crater. According to the quest text, the last thing will remember will be Dalaran plummeting to the earth. We wake up surrounded by the ancient city's ruins, and we have to fight off hostile nerubians, who seem to have been involved in the city's fall.
The last thing you remember is Dalaran, the great, floating city of magic, plummeting to the earth--then nothing but darkness.
Mixed in with sounds of shouting and battle, you hear a strange, insectoid chittering.
The nerubians were waiting for you.
You must rejoin the fight, but first you need to free yourself from the crushing weight of the rubble piled atop you.>
Screenshots of the wreckage below:
What's more, something awful also seems to have happened to Khadgar. There are no cinematics on the alpha, but a description of a cutscene reads,
They take a moment for Khadgar.
So What Happens?
In the new Wowcast about the War Within, Ion Hazzikostas hints a little further at the events of the War Within pre-patch, suggesting that the debris that surrounds us is the result of some sort of battle that didn't end too well for us.
