Nesingwary's extinction plan (hasn't worked)
by Mike Schramm 
Aug 28th 2008 at 3:30PM
Players have been doing the math on the notorious Hemet Nesingwary (murderer of animals everywhere), and on the forums, Stubblez has figured out that if you follow all of Nesingwary's beast-killing instructions to the letter, you're responsible for murdering 278 of Azeroth and Outland's fauna. Of course, most players kill even more than that (and there are other quests that ask you to kill even more animals), but even if you take those total numbers and multiply them by the 10 million players Blizzard claims, you get two billion, seven hundred and eighty million animals, all slaughtered in the name of Nesingwary. And that doesn't even count alts.Fortunately, as Neroblanc notes, all that killing hasn't actually thinned the Azerothian animal population at all -- if anything, the beasts in Stranglethorn Vale are herding thicker than they used to be. We'll have to nuke them from orbit just to get rid of all those Raptors down there.
But that, of course, doesn't keep the hippie animal lovers from fighting back -- as you might know by now, in the expansion Nesingwary is going to face some opposition in the form of D.E.H.T.A., or Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals. We have a feeling that Hemet's impeccable taste in leather and animal-skin based wear, not to mention his classic novel, probably won't be too much protection against the do-gooders.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Quests, Humor, Lore, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Brasson Aug 28th 2008 3:48PM
Think of all the leather... *_*
Jason Aug 28th 2008 3:51PM
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Jason Aug 28th 2008 3:52PM
I heart skinning critters & the Nesingwary quests are delightful. Next thing you know, DHETA will be having famous Azerothians posing nude for woodcuts saying "I'd rather go naked than wear a Primalstrike Vest."
Ametrine Aug 28th 2008 4:11PM
I am in favor of this.
Hooda Aug 28th 2008 4:02PM
The whole DEHTA is the most embarrassing thing to happen to the druid class ever.
In protest, I'm going to kill every animal I see in Northrend even if I don't need it for a quest.
Lykourgos Aug 28th 2008 4:05PM
Non-human virtual animals have rights too! Don't be so corporal centric!
I blame these hunters for artificially inflating the population by killing off many of the animals natural predators. In addition to that, they hunt the strongest of the animals, weakening the gene pool. All this suffering for what? Vanity? Phat l00t?
Nature always finds a balance. What you fail to consider is that these animals make up for this savage hunting by reproducing more frequently and producing more offspring to fill in the gap left by the slaughter of others.
Go DEHTA! We love your work!
MechChef Aug 28th 2008 4:06PM
Buncha tofu eating hippies.....
Acariquara Aug 28th 2008 5:02PM
Buncha whipper root tuber eating hippies...
there, fixed for ya
Oldbear Aug 28th 2008 4:07PM
Will I be able to kill and skin DEHTA members?
Jewbanks Aug 28th 2008 4:14PM
only if you kill them while there in a feral form...
gabe Aug 28th 2008 4:54PM
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9336794187&sid=2000&pageNo=10
Oldbear Aug 28th 2008 4:11PM
As a rogue I look for the weakest animals to kill rather than the strongest.
Andy Aug 28th 2008 4:16PM
Dr. Nesingwary is simply fighting an over population problem. These beasts in various regions reproduce at a rate even higher than that of a Tribble!
As far as the D.E.H.T.A goes. I will personally kill each and everyone of these members that I can for trying to interrupt Dr. Nesingwary's vitally important work!
Zali Aug 28th 2008 4:22PM
Aww man, why is it the druids that have to be associated with the fringe kook crowd?
Verakum Aug 28th 2008 5:02PM
"We'll have to nuke them from orbit just to get rid of all those Raptors down there." ROFL! at this....
Mazul Aug 28th 2008 5:22PM
I for one will support dwarf, down with the treehugging hippies :)
Linkage Aug 28th 2008 5:20PM
My favorite part of this is that one of the druids main forms, the lion, hunts and kills other animals!
RogueJedi86 Aug 29th 2008 4:02AM
The Night Elf Druid cat form isn't a lion. If anything, it's a panther, looks just like the ones in Northern STV.
Lumpkins Aug 28th 2008 5:29PM
What's all the fuss? I assume all the animals just run back to there corpses and rez like the rest of us
Jewbanks Aug 28th 2008 6:23PM
win