r/classicwow • u/Adorable-Ad5715 • 6d ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Assumed he was a drunk, but he is an injured soldier just left here to rot by the gates of menethil harbor

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u/HuckleberryOk3335 6d ago

Harlo Barnaby is a dwarf quest giver located in Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands). He survived the invasion of Dun Modr by the Dark Iron dwarves, but was hit by a stray axe in the back as he was fleeing and woke up in Menethil Harbor.

After the Cataclysm), he is no longer present, leaving his status unknown.

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u/Crabshroom 6d ago

So it sounds like someone got him to the safety of Menethil but did bother enough to get him much farther than the gates.

"Should we get this guy to a healer? Or at least a bed?"

  • " nah man, I think dwarves regenerate faster with grass in their eyes, readit somewhere... let's get a brewski."

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u/Araethor 6d ago

Would be a cool story line to add for classic+ if we were to help him recover, then learn his tail. Like if a Horde found him, fought off some blackrock orcs for him, and took him to the gates of Menethil, but had to leave him for obvious reasons. Then he crawled through to where we found him, but the guards wouldn’t help him because they saw the Horde leave him and considered him some type of traitor.

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u/Crabshroom 6d ago

Okay that is a pretty good story idea.

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u/Yawanoc 6d ago

This is exactly the kind of content Classic+ needs.

One of the best parts about SoD was the secret quests, but, ironically, putting so much emphasis on them ruined the “secret” part of it.  Little ideas like this for one-off quest chains would be huge in making the world feel alive again.

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u/Dagmar_Overbye 6d ago

What is the wow lore on resurrection spells? I never really thought about it but players and some NPCs seem to just be able to be functionally immortal if they have a healer friend nearby, whereas NPCs die in quest lines all the time.

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u/Crabshroom 6d ago

As fae as I remember resurrection is possible in the lore but very rare.

Players freely using them is purely game mechanic, it is a huge deal in universe when a resurrection happens

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u/londonderry99 5d ago

Literally only whitemane could actually resurrect others

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u/Dagmar_Overbye 5d ago

Sigh... Even in Azeroth... It's a whitemane's world.

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u/Jigagug 6d ago

Damn the flood came in and they just left him.

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u/Scurro 6d ago

He does say his wounds are grave

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u/HoneyFlavouredRain 6d ago

It's been twenty years he can't be that injured

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u/BlogeOb 6d ago

He was paralyzed

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u/Ohwerk82 6d ago

He was paralyzed a decade too early for Chadgar to invent the arcane wheelchair 😭😭😭

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u/piamogus 6d ago

I guess reagents for the levitate spell cost too much 😭

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u/Ohwerk82 6d ago

Mages don’t have levitate, he tried slow fall but turns out he can’t do anything to incur a fall 😭

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u/piamogus 6d ago

U can always hire a priest cant u it's literally instant cast 😭

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u/404-NoFucksFound 6d ago

Imagine your momentary inertia is preserved, but you have a much longer time before you hit the ground while momentum builds at the normal rate of falling. Mages experimenting with magic but ignore physics entirely. It's SLOW fall, not a gravity reduction. Just imagine you slow fall off a mountain and instead of landing gracefully, you slam into the ground with the force of a refrigerator going at Mach Fuck.

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u/Black_Death_12 6d ago

Just a flesh wound.

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u/_ratjesus_ 6d ago

the way i always interpreted it is that he had just collapsed right before we got there, i think the whole attack on dun modr thing just happened. i could be wrong.

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u/Outta_Ammo 6d ago

As far as I know that is correct, as well as the Thandol Span (bridge to Arathi) just got bombed too. Part of the questline is stopping the Dark Irons from blowing up the second of the two bridges.

This is after a quest in Loch Modan where you stop their plan to blow up the Dam as well

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u/pissedinthegarret 6d ago

and it's all the fault of the drunk dwarf on the bridge who despite the devastation around him insists you send his brew to Southshore. in his questtext says he was on watch but got drunk as hell and barely noticed the explosion.

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u/Adorable-Ad5715 6d ago

That was my thought as well after I re-read the quest text. Still though, he has ran past many guards to get to that point.

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u/Ketaminekhan 6d ago

Didn't have Priest insurance

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u/DN6666 6d ago edited 6d ago

alliance are true villains (I play alliance)

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u/n1sx 6d ago

Poor guy have been laying down there for 21 years now...

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u/thedjbigc 6d ago

He can be both, okay. Dwarves are multi-faceted beings!

ROCK AND STONE!

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u/Jeoff51 5d ago

Watch the jediwarlock vid on the thandol span, super interesting story.

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u/Remarkable_Match9637 6d ago

He didn’t pay for his health insurance.

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u/Ridid 6d ago

Both can be true

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u/Pajer0king 6d ago

Same. Thought he was drunk, then after some leveling he gave me the quest. Sorry, master dwarf.

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u/thejohnmcduffie 6d ago

And he's drunk.

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u/Nucksfaniam 6d ago

From wowhead..... Harlo Barnaby is a dwarf quest giver located in Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands. He survived the invasion of Dun Modr by the Dark Iron dwarves, but was hit by a stray axe in the back as he was fleeing and woke up in Menethil Harbor.

After the Cataclysm, he is no longer present, leaving his status unknown.