Through the Dark Portal

The little warrior rode her trusted Mechanostrider across the barren red wastes of the Blasted Lands, taking good care to skirt the roaming helboars and felguards. She followed the old and worn path through the crater rim and came to a halt at the inner edge of the crater.


The Dark Portal was ahead of her, green-glowing, carved in stone, leading to that other world, the Outland. Many had gone before her, many would come after, but this time, this one time, it was her turn to pass through the void, spanning the dimensions between the worlds.

She approached the other-wordly thing with trepidation, her heart beating fast and her senses all on maximum alert, thrilled and terrified at the same time.

The thing was huge, it loomed above her and she had never felt so small and insignificant in her entire life. The gateway itself swirled in greenish colours before her, almost hypnotically. She felt as if it was trying to lure her in, beckon her to come enter the glowing enticing mists of the portal, and suddenly she was not at all sure she wanted to go through.


What was on the other side? Was there really another world?

For a fleeting moment she considered turning back, riding back to her old world, never going through the portal. But then she took a deep breath, and without really making a conscious decision about it, her body leading and her mind tagging along, she stepped through the gateway.

The green mists felt oddly cold to the touch, the passage through them felt like it took forever, she was floating in space, time elongating and then snapping back in an instant as she stepped through on the other side.

The portal was high up on a stairway and the view of the new world was breathtaking. It was all different. The sky was red, streaked with nebulae and stars and planets never seen in Azeroth. It was beautiful beyond words and the little warrior was just standing there at the top of the stairs, looking in awe and delight and wonder at the new world unfolding beneath her.


All fear and worries and second-thoughts were gone, she was thrilled and excited about exploring this new world like she had the old one, one adventure after the other, and she ran down the stairs, giddily, happily, joyfully, ready to go find friends and quests and fame in this new strange place...