The Bloody Elf On The Shelf

 Half the battle of writing a post is getting just the right title.  I pondered quite a bit before that gem came up.

 You will recall I made this character to snare some of the new Blood Elf themed furnishings now available.  I haven't any at all, I don't think.

My plan to level her using dungeons on high pop Horde server Area 52 has not been a grand success.  She's level 28, which is perhaps a little higher than she would be if I had just quested with her.

The Blood Elf starter area is Sunstrider Isle, Eversong Woods and The Ghostlands.  It may be somewhat akin to Ammen Vale and Azuremyst Isle for the Draenai in size. It feels like it goes on forever.  I'm in the Ghostlands portion, and you can see how much more there is to do.

 

There's no flight here.  Also, it turns out, the whole area is in the Burning Crusade Time Period, not the Midnight era of the game.  The big gate you see on the map leads to the current era.   Additional timey wimey twistiness is that in order to get Classic Dungeons for my runs, I went to Orgrimmar and chose the Cataclysm timeline.   I don't believe I have gotten a single low level Classic era dungeon in my queues, as they time out and try for another era.   A trip to the Big Bad O for nothing.

I did travel there yet another time to get my house at level 11.  I went with the traditional Blood Elf style home. I've not done much with it because I have no money (though I took 2000 gold out of the warband bank to get her started), and also, I want to use this house to experiment with changing the structure of the inner house, trying to add stairwell rooms and such.  Simple is good, I can just stuff all my things away and then move walls and ceilings and doors around, constructing staircases from beams like the big boys and girls do.

 

I got a really nice plot looking out to sea again in the neighborhood. There aren't any close neighbors here either.  It's a good escape on a day when my girl may have gotten pounded into the ground by bad guys.

I'm unsure where I'll go once I finish the Ghostlands.  I was trying to think of an era of the game where there's a neutral hub so I can be in a city I'm familiar with. The three possibilities I came up with are Draenor, Legion, or Dragon Isles.   Dunno.