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Since the first appearance of the Kael’thas in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, many talented artists have sought to do justice to powerful mage. Below are ten fantastic pieces of fan art featuring Kael’thas, which were submitted by talented artists from around the globe.

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"Kael’thas Sunstrider" by Angju
"Kael’thas Sunstrider" Cosplay by Shushunya

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"Kael’thas" by Breathing2004

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"Prince Kael’thas Sunstrider" by pulyx
"Blood Elf" by Unknown Artist
"For Now" by Heather Martin (Dawnshower)
"Kael’thas" by startime2

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"Kael'thas'" by liuhao726

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"The Eye" by Sandara Tang (Sandara)
"Kael’thas Sunstrider" by Jeremy Sun (Sun)





Kael’thas’s legacy has left a profound mark on the Warcraft universe, and if you’re interested in learning more about him, make sure to check out the following related content:

• Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Game – 2003)
  
  
• World of Warcraft (Game – 2004
  
  
• Road to Damnation (Short Story – 2006)
  
  
• Tides of Darkness (Novel – 2007)
  
  
• Beyond the Dark Portal (Novel – 2008)
  
  
• Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (Novel – 2009)
  
  
• World of Warcraft: Official Magazine (2009)
  
  
• Blood of the Highborne (Short Story – 2014)
  
  You can also dive into some official art and concepts featuring Kael'thas' below:
  
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  Kael’thas, as seen in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
  Concept art of Kael’thas Sunstrider
  
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  Kale’thas’s evolution within the World of Warcraft
  
  
  
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  Concept art of Kael’thas Sunstrider
  Kael’thas, Akama, and Lady Vashj, as seen in a World of Warcraft CInematic
  
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  “ My demise accomplishes nothing. Let's see what yours does. ”
  
  We hope you’re enjoying our Kael’thas Hero Week! What is your favorite Skin or piece of art of this formidable Blood Elf? Let us know in the comments below!
  
  
  
  
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Going into the Mid-Season Brawl, a general question: Sam Walker has a book called The Captain Class, which says that the common thread among dominant, athletic sports teams that consistently win championships is the captain of the team -- not the superstar of the team, not the coach of the team, but the player that is the leader of the team in a social dimension. Walker found that the captain was the most important variable in these teams' success.

Do you see this in play at all in e-sports, and specifically in the Heroes community? Granted, the comparison may not be perfect as many teams are already handicapped by not having a coach (as all athletic sports teams do).

Honest feedback:

• Working on the [candice] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(music) ) of your voice would greatly help your casting. I had a hard time understanding you at times.
  
  
• Your mastery of English needs some work. In your title, you didn't capitalize the first word in the sentence, there are two unneeded commas, and 'if feedbacks' makes no sense. I cannot tell if this is a lack of attention to details or just honest mistakes. In any communications art, knowing the correct word usage and grammar are essential.
  
  
• Whatever your native language is, there are some great materials on learning English for non-native English speakers to help correct common problems. This would help in life as well as casting.
  
  
• For voice work, you can try [Carol Fleming's Sound of Your Voice] (https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Your-Voice-Carol-Fleming/dp/0743551796)
  
  

Thats a fallacy though. It's a fell known social habit, that unhappy customers are more vocal about their opinions:

https://www.amazon.com/Satisfied-Customers-Three-Friends-Angry/dp/038552272X

Just because there have been some threads with upvotes, does not mean thats the majority, it is highly likely (and the community polls from the past week actually support that claim) that more people are happy or indifferent to this change, than there are people who are unhappy.

It's something that was very easy to see very recently with the mass effect launch. The game was hugely successful and the mass effect sub is buzzing with excited customers, but a few people bandwagoned on the bad press so there is a huge gap between media coverage and outside people "looking in" and the people who actually play and enjoy the game.

For me it was wrist alignment. Try to get your wrists level, keeping your chair the same height or very close is usually best.

Some people like a foam bar that you rest your palms on ex: https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-WaveRest-Wrist-Keyboards-F8E263-BLK/dp/B00004Z5RA

I also use a wrist brace to help keep my wrist straight when my symptoms are bad.

I would/tend to sleep on my hands and it amplified this problem, my doctor recommended the wrist braces they work well.

I agree with the changing your mindset part...in fact, I'd highly recommend a book I just finished titled, appropriately, "Mindset". It talks about failure fixation, learning to focus on improvement, and some tips for shifting mindsets. Basically it covers this exact topic and has some good science behind it that I think helps sell the ideas to skeptics.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322

I'm sorry that I do researches and read books.

Btw. I would suggest following Book: Illidan: World of Warcraft. If you do reading, you will love this book and will be impressed about the lore of Illidan!

Wait, there's an Abathur novel? Amazon link please.

Edit: is it this one? https://www.amazon.com/StarCraft-Evolution-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0425284735/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493305864&sr=8-1

There weren't enough framberries in the cake.

The novel was a childhood favorite of mine.

Yeah, the fall of the Pantheon drove Loken and Ra crazy in their own ways. Ra was enslaved during his depression by the Mogu Thunder King, and Loken committed crimes against the other watchers and re-wrote a lot of the titan machinery to cover up his actions (also why when he dies Algalon gets summoned). Archaedas I think has been reclusive too long and just attacks us on sight trying to protect the earthen and the secrets of Uldaman.

I highly recommend picking up the Chronicle if you're interested in lore. They have such a great story and a detailed mythos that for obvious reasons can't be found in the game as they are 'lost to time'.

If you actually bothered to read the article (which you clearly did not) you'd know that the source of the numbers is Philip J. Cook's Paying the Tab; the Washington Post was merely reporting on them. Philip Cook himself got the numbers from the US government.

Why are you so butthurt about this? Is it because you're an alcoholic, or is it because you sell liquor?

I see you're still having trouble reading posts. You'll get it next time, champ. It doesn't seem to take much to boggle your mind.

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Thinking-Introduction-Analytical-Reasoning/dp/019979622X/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1421025284&sr=8-10&keywords=critical+thinking

As my favorite book says, "“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

We can choose to be offended by things or choose to ignore them and be positive.

You should give the Gentleman Bastard series by Scott Lynch a try.

First one.

> The space between the inner concentric circle of a ring is not "within" the ring.

The space inside the inner concentric circle of a ring is within the ring. Here's a demonstration of the correct usage of "within" and "ring" in the English language.

https://www.amazon.com/Fellowship-Ring-Lord-Rings-Part/dp/0345339703

> They decided to make for the top at once, while the daylight was broad. Concealment was no longer possible, and they could only hope no enemy or spy was observing them. Nothing was seen to be moving on the hill. If Gandalf was anywhere about, there was no sign of him.

> On the western flank of Weathertop they found a sheltered hollow, at the bottom of which there was a bowl-shaped dell with grassy sides. There they left Sam and Pippin with the pony and their packs and luggage. The other three went on. After half an hour's plodding climb Strider reached the crown of the hill; Frodo and Merry followed, tired and breathless. The last slope had been steep and rocky.

> On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stone-work, now crumbling and covered with age-long grass. But in the centre a cairn of broken stones had been piled. They were blackened as if with fire. About them the turf was burned to the roots and all within the ring the grass was scorched and shrivelled, as if flames had swept the hilltop; but there was no sign of any living thing.

Planet = wanderer.

Technically, if you're an ancient greek, Grubby is mostly linguistically correct, the Moon is not a Fixed Star. Grubby = Ptolemaic astronomer confirmed!

If you're not being technical, it's a crazy-ass Mary Poppins metaphor for picking an unneeded teamfight, what the heck do you want?¯\_(ツ)_/¯


And if you're concerned about proper English language:
>The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary. --James Nicoll

The only REAL reason to really object is if you're concerned that Grubby is secretly lobbying for Pluto to be re-instated as a Planet. A decent book with a great title lays out the argument against the closet crypto-plutonians, though: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

Switch your mouse hand to your other hand while working/browsing the internet. It'll only take a couple of days to feel natural. This will let your wrist take a break when needed. Still use your other hand occasionally as complete rest is bad. Motion is key.

Is your issue coming from your wrist? Just because you have wrist pain doesn't mean it's the source. A lot of mine comes from neck/shoulder/elbow I've learned (can feel it pull when I do shoulder stretches/movements). You sit down all day for work. Check your back/neck/shoulders/elbow. Make sure you aren't locking up. Again, keeping motion in your body is key.

Make sure your posture is good. This is important too.

This book helped me a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chronic/dp/0553379887/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1524415698&sr=8-3&keywords=chronic+pain. It has a overview in the first 3 chapters then specific parts to focus on that hurt in other chapters. So you read chapter 1-3, then skip to your problem chapter.

You most likely hurt because some muscles are over compensating while others are not moving at all. What this book taught me is a lot of our issues from deskjobs/gaming come from being immobile. Evolution, the way our bodies are, are used to constantly being used. Basic muscle-skeletal motion is the backbone of your health. It's how you breathe, blood circulates, speaking, etc. If you stop moving your body adapts to that lifestyle.

Basically, from seeing doctors, and being told to stretch specific parts that hurt (your wrist) never fixed the underlying issue. You should stretch your wrist, it helps a ton and prevents injury. But I had to getup and stretch everything and get my body moving again due to my lifestyle.

Sorry for the wall of text. Idk you position or lifestyle, but if you have a desk job and play video games you're most likely immobile most of the day and only your arms and wrist move, thus they work hard and hurt to makeup for your shoulder and other parts doing nothing. I felt the need to type this out to you and everyone else as a PSA because it'll become much worse than just wrist problems in a few years.

How is it not apparent to you that only 3 out of 8 colours mean the same? That is such little overlap, it is literally worse than randomly guessing.

Holy shit, you're identifying way too much with this bad argument.

I'm saying that arbitrary colours instead of numbers is a bad thing, because it's arbitrary. Is it arbitrary? How about we look at your table. Yes. Arbitrary. Two games by the same company use a completely different and conflicting system. Apparently "Orange" is better than "Yellow", and "Purple" is between the two, and "Green" is sometimes top dog and sometimes basically trash. No reason as to why that should be the case. Clearly completely arbitrary.

Is arbitrary bad? I don't know. How about we ask some designers. Like this book here, which is considered a must-read: https://www.amazon.de/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654

What does he say? Well golly I don't know, maybe someone quoted him? Oh wait, yes, I did, because I read the fucking book: Good design is not arbitrary. You don't need a manual to operate an emergency exit door bar, because those are well designed.

So stop frothing at the mouth like a lunatic, because you're wrong about a dumb thing on the internet.

Colors are a bad design to designate 2500 levels.

Well for starters, Germans used to kill their own that tried to desert (check out Red Road from Stalingrad which has some accounts for that). Russians did the same, even in situations where supplies were limited (they would literally tell you to follow the guy in front of you, and when he died, to pick up his gun and fight. If you did not, and tried to leave, you were shot and killed. This was a carried over practice of Roman ages and even earlier). There were also reports of killing wounded who were beyond help, "wouldn't make it", or jeopardized missions (very similar to the game mechanic).

I looked around for a little bit trying to dig up articles, but I couldn't find particular ones that I have seen on the History Channel. My father is a huge war buff and I spent most of my childhood propped up on the couch with him watching war films and documentaries. I do recall there being several missions where people were sacrificed by their own unit/military to protect information from getting into enemy hands. I suppose in that essence, that would be like preventing the enemy from getting a medal.

I'll see if I can't find some of those documentaries from the history channel, and I'll shoot my father a phone call and see if he recalls a few in particular.