So, hey it's been a while. Kind of a long while. I mean, crap a lot of stuff has happened. Sounds like the same old, same old, right? Not quite.

First, let me just say that for the most part everyone's doing fine. Earth hasn't been completely reclaimed but we have reclaimed about twenty percent of what we've lost. I'm not a great strategist, obviously, but I'd say that's pretty good for the few years since we kicked the Legion's ass back into the twisting nether.

Let's see…let's start with the nicer stuff first.

You know that trash island in the Pacific? The goblins found out about it and it's officially being called New Kezan. I haven't been there yet, but Fizz told me that I probably wouldn't like it there, seeing as I like trees and blue skies and clean air and not being caught in random explosions.

So the goblins are pretty happy and they've been working really hard to keep good relations with our world.

Some guy sent on behalf of the royal family in Stormwind has been working with a lot of leaders of the remaining countries here. Fun fact: a lot of the southern hemisphere countries or the ones who weren't hit hard by the Legion are leaning more toward the Alliance as they've been really helpful and all with providing relief and all that.

People from countries pretty much decimated by the Legion tend to be more Horde oriented, since, you know, the Horde believes in glory in battle and focuses more on fighting than sending care packages.

There have been rumors that the new world powers—Australia, Brazil, Argentina, and India—are going to politely ask the Horde to leave. That humans are deciding they should be allied with other humans rather than brutish orcs and all that.

God, this was supposed to be the happy section.

Oh, well.

The orcs are almost nonexistent here now. We do have a lot of trolls and tauren. And even some talking panda bears. Stuff's getting really bad in Azeroth, from what I've heard. They were in an all out war and more than that, the orcs went all master race on everyone. Even their allies.

You know how I hoped that Hellscream guy could be reasoned with? Yeah, not so much.

Back to good news: he was overthrown. And back to the not so much news: The Alliance raided the Horde capital. The Horde is not very happy. See, they were planning their own raid, but the Alliance beat them to it.

And yeah.

So I guess the Alliance is sort of threatening to make the Horde their bitch?

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Elizabeth has me cursing so much more these days.

You know, there was this study before the world ended, that if you don't curse all the time and you get hurt, cursing will help numb the pain. But if you do it all the time, then it doesn't have much of an affect. Food for thought, for all you cursers.

Me included these days.

Anyway, so off topic.

So tensions are really high in Azeroth. And getting there here.

And it gets worse.

You know Mr. Hellscream?

Okay, so. I've been getting decent at following stuff. I know my fireblasts from my fireballs and what an ice lance looks like compared to a frostbolt. I am pretty good with my daggers, though I am now also proficient with dual wielding hand guns. It's really fun until you have to reload. You know how in the movies they have those extra clips positioned so that they can just drop the old clips and slam in the new ones and keep going?

Brath and Hendric laughed at me for a week after I tried that and lost the new clips. They weren't secure enough or something. I don't know. I keep myself pretty busy, so I don't have a lot of free time to figure this stuff out.

Brath's doing okay, by the way. He's really happy that his little brother is off playing around in some panda land thing. Sounds like a theme park.

Senta'ri caught him being a bit too cuddly the other day and the troll has nicknamed him Cuddlion, the Earth Snuggler. Senta'ri is in hiding right now, since Brath is pretty much set on teaching the 'overly familiar vermin' that his place is to be a smoking pile of ash.

But, argh. I can't stay on topic to save my life, it seems. As I was saying before I got to Brath, I have a decent understanding of magic and all that. It's still all magic-y and beyond my abilities—I guess it always will be, since I'm a rogue—but what we're hearing about Mr. Hellscream now is seriously trippy. And as upset as the Azerothians are about it, I don't think they've realized what they've started in the minds of the people in my world.

Apparently Mr. Hellscream was supposed to go to trial, since an orc living after battle is shameful and stuff. Well, he got away. And went to the place called the Caverns of Time.

And went back in time?

How does that even…?

Ugh.

I don't…

Whatever.

So, he went back in time. And I don't know how they know, but dragons are involved and they think he went to Outland. Like there are time dragons and they followed his trail or something?

Well, apparently people are worried about the ripple effect of, you know, changing the past. And they think it's gonna start in Outland. So right now all eyes are on there—well, all eyes not being gouged out in bloodstained battle fields and stuff—as they wait to see what's gonna happen.

I can't help but wonder if the changes are already taking place and we just don't know it because it's the past being rewritten, so it's always been that way for us now. Brath doesn't think it'll happen like that, but he's not a time dragon, is he?

The worst part is, it's so selfish, but most people in my world, when they heard that, sure they felt back for Outland and Azeroth, but what's really on all of our minds is, well…

Where does that leave us?

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Author's Note: Hey all. So there's going to be a second arc to the Burning Legion story. I'm going to wait until I have a few more chapters written so that I can post regularly and it will have its own fic. Think of this as the teaser chapter and keep an eye out for it in the next month or so.

I won't advertise in this fic why I haven't been updating lately, but if you're interested, head to my profile. I will say that I've never stopped writing.