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Well, my warlock Bratta is keyed for Karazhan and ready to go. Tonight our guild is making its first O-L attempt at the instance. I really hope it goes well. For those not familiar with World of Warcraft, Karazhan is a very large tower located in an area called Deadwind Pass. It is considered a raid instance because it requires a group of 10 players (Raids are groups of players consisting of anywhere between 6-40 members).

The owner of Karazhan is a legendary Warcraft persona–Medivh, the last Guardian of Tirisfal. Medivh was possessed and corrupted by the Demonlord Sargeras, turning to the dark arts and eventually opening up the Dark Portal. Opening the portal is what brought the swarm of orcs into Azeroth and started the entire chain of events of the Warcraft series (trivia note: Medivh was voiced by Michael Bell in Warcraft 3, a “friend” of ours and a dirty old man to boot). Medivh was slain in Warcraft 1, but that wasn’t the end of him.

Anyway, his tower lives on and is the source of a lot of mysteries. There is a pretty long quest chain required to get the key to enter Karazhan, and the tower itself is filled with some very difficult encounters. I doubt we will get very far at all with our first run. In fact, I can imagine that we will have difficulties with the first boss. But it will be fun and we will all start learning how the instance works. We will learn some valuable teamwork skills and become better players in the process.

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