World of Warcraft Trick Lets Players Glitch Their Camera Into the WKM Room in Orgrimmar

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The zones in World of Warcraft have changed numerous times over the game's seventeen years of existence, and no zones have changed as much as Orgrimmar and Stormwind. World of Warcraft's capital cities are about to be changed yet again, though, despite all the additions and alterations they have endured since 2004, some of their secrets remain – as do the means of reaching them.

With the release of Cataclysm, World of Warcraft had redesigned the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor zones entirely, building them from the ground up to support the introduction of flying mounts to the old continents outside Outland and Northrend. During this set of changes, the famous WKM room in Orgrimmar was built.

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While some methods of obtaining access to this secret area have been patched out since then, a user in the World of Warcraft community on Reddit named Avoumen discovered that players could glitch the camera into the room through the use of a protodrake mount. By flying against the side of one of the pillars in Orgrimmar – with the exact coordinates being 57.49 and 44.66 – the camera could be rotated in a way to reveal what lies within: a simple altar with a single candle lit below a frame bearing the label «WKM.»

Players have long wondered about the origin and reason for the room's existence, and the initial hypothesis was that the altar represented a memorial built for Michael Koiter, a deceased Blizzard employee. The actual truth isn't too far off: Chad Max, the 3D artist working on Orgrimmar's redesign, built the secret room as an homage to his father – William Kenneth Max. Chad Max left the company after the Warlords of Draenor