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''[[http://tzumainn.com/kumas-song.html Kuma's Song]]'' by Tzu-Mainn Chen

* ''Synopsis'': When Asric finds himself somewhat unexpected reunited with Jadaar, he's not sure if his life is about to get better or worse. Regardless, they need to get out of the middle of this frozen war zone and into somewhere civilized. The only thing standing between them and Dalaran are angry vrykul, inclement weather, scheming Forsaken, local wildlife, past mistakes, and each other. What could possibly go wrong?

* ''Synopsis'': The story follows a young human warlock named Synapse who wants to take over the world. Her journy plays out like that of a player's in that she starts in the starting zone and works her way through the levels to higher zones, going through dungeons and raids. The whole story is filled with humor and for a long time lacks much seriousness.
* ''Comments'': A great, and epic, read. The story spans hundreds of pages and is still going, though since the writer is french all new chapters need to be translated into english, but due to great translation efforts the translated chapters are pretty much caught up with the untranslated ones. The story is quite silly and doesn't follow the lore within the game, though pretty much everything is played for laughs. That said it has a great story, with great characters, and one of the funniest fanfics I've ever read. Note the above link is a recent forum created due to the previous one being used went over 600 pages. A link to the previous forum can be found [[http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=299001827&sid=1&pageNo=1 here]]. There is also a official site that has many of the chapters, but stopped updating some time ago, found [[http://tribulations.synapse.free.fr/en/Synapse/Welcome.html here]].

* ''Synopsis'': In order to form stronger political links between Theramore and Ogrimmar, Not to mention getting the Horde and Alliance to start thinking cooperatively again, Jaina proposes an extreme solution to Thrall. That is to say, she ''Proposes.''

** Comartemis: Decent, but it suffers from a few very major sticking points. Avarian is perfectly in-character for your typical Space Marine, which means he's an [[{{ @#!*% }} insufferable prick]] to just about everyone on this xeno-infested world and yet he's somehow managed to pick up the beginnings of a ''harem'' despite making it ''very obvious'' that he has nothing but contempt for everyone around him -- they're either filthy xenos who need to be cleansed or traitors and heretics who ''also'' need to be cleansed. Worse still, Avarian's massive tech advantage and various Space Marine augmentations make him so much deadlier and more intimidating than anyone else that he can walk all over everyone from instance bosses to faction leaders and get away with it. Bobcat might think it's awesome to watch everything on Azeroth get curbstomped by a Space Marine, but for most Avarian will probably just invoke BoringInvincibleHero ''hard''; we're 36 chapters in as of this writing and Avarian has yet to encounter anything even remotely resembling a serious challenge, though the author ''has'' stated that Avarian will be facing Arthas sooner or later and that the Lich King is going to be anything but a walk in the park even for an Astartes. Arguably, the only reason Avarian doesn't invoke JerkSue is because he ''is'' undergoing CharacterDevelopment, albeit at an absolutely ''glacial'' pace. The writing itself also has a few issues; the plot moves at the pace of a dead snail swimming in molasses in January and PurpleProse is scattered liberally throughout the narrative; stick these two together and you get the current arc with the Scarlet Crusade and the battle for the Plaguelands, which has been going on since around the beginning of summer [[ArcFatigue and the end is still nowhere in sight]] because Tyrant bogs down the story and inflates the word count with the aforementioned PurpleProse instead of ''getting stuff done''. I do recommend it in spite of everything, but not right now; give it a few months and then [[ArchiveBinge burn through the whole thing in one sitting]] instead of waiting for another criminally-short update every week or two.

Synopsis: A minor accident with an experimental portal device on Tol Barad results in a portal opening into the Southwestern United States.

** Comartemis: Decent, but it suffers from a few very major sticking points. Avarian is perfectly in-character for your typical Space Marine, which means he's an [[{{Jerkass}} insufferable prick]] to just about everyone on this xeno-infested world and yet he's somehow managed to pick up the beginnings of a ''harem'' despite making it ''very obvious'' that he has nothing but contempt for everyone around him -- they're either filthy xenos who need to be cleansed or traitors and heretics who ''also'' need to be cleansed. Worse still, Avarian's massive tech advantage and various Space Marine augmentations make him so much deadlier and more intimidating than anyone else that he can walk all over everyone from instance bosses to faction leaders and get away with it. Bobcat might think it's awesome to watch everything on Azeroth get curbstomped by a Space Marine, but for most Avarian will probably just invoke BoringInvincibleHero ''hard''; we're 36 chapters in as of this writing and Avarian has yet to encounter anything even remotely resembling a serious challenge, though the author ''has'' stated that Avarian will be facing Arthas sooner or later and that the Lich King is going to be anything but a walk in the park even for an Astartes. Arguably, the only reason Avarian doesn't invoke JerkSue is because he ''is'' undergoing CharacterDevelopment, albeit at an absolutely ''glacial'' pace. The writing itself also has a few issues; the plot moves at the pace of a dead snail swimming in molasses in January and PurpleProse is scattered liberally throughout the narrative; stick these two together and you get the current arc with the Scarlet Crusade and the battle for the Plaguelands, which has been going on since around the beginning of summer [[ArcFatigue and the end is still nowhere in sight]] because Tyrant bogs down the story and inflates the word count with the aforementioned PurpleProse instead of ''getting stuff done''. I do recommend it in spite of everything, but not right now; give it a few months and then [[ArchiveBinge burn through the whole thing in one sitting]] instead of waiting for another criminally-short update every week or two.

''[[http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/859356915 Tribulations of a Megalomaniac Warlock]] by Synapse, translated by Curufinwë.

''[[http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/859356915 Tribulations of a Megalomaniac Warlock]] by Curufinwë.

* ''Comments'': This is set between the events at the end of WC3 and the beginning of WoW canon. There are three further stories in this series with some gradually-building fanon for a group of red orcs from Draanor. Please bear in mind when reading that the ridiculously huge canon of WoW did not yet exist when these were written. Notwithstanding that, I've heard surprisingly few complaints, possibly because the fics are mostly about groups of OCs rather than game canon characters. All of these have some humor emphasis, although the one cited here is probably the strongest in that area.

* ''Synopsis'':

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5707920/1/Cold_Comfort_Castle Cold Comfort Castle]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2232816/Lord_Goregore Lord Goregore]]

* ''Comments'': ''Netherwing - The Movie'' holds the honor of having won 2nd prize in a Warcraftmovies.com contest in 2008. The machinima takes several creative liberties with the plot of the questline, partially to smooth out what would have been boring sections and partially to fit the story into the 15 minute limit imposed by the above mentioned contest. It's low point is most certainly its voice acting, which due to time constraints the creator was forced to do himself, and he admits readily that he is not a very good actor. High points include its superb pacing and nearly flawless technical execution.

* ''Synopsis'': A human mage and draenei warrior are trapped in a ruined castle in the Alterac Mountains by an apparently-malevolent blizzard. They must find a way to survive both the harsh conditions, and each other.

* Reccomended by {{PingZing}}

* ''Comments'': Easily one of the best pieces of character development I've seen in fan fiction in a long time. The main characters come across as very human (or draenei, as the case may be), with their motivations and intent becoming progressively clearer, chapter by chapter. With everything from to alchemy-brewed booze-substitute to excellent fight scenes, I highly recommend this. A sequel/spinoff of sorts named [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6296866/1/Feat_of_Clay Feat of Clay]] is currently being written.

* ''Comments'': Easily one of the best pieces of character development I've seen in fan fiction in a long time. The main characters come across as very human (or draenei, as the case may be), with their motivations and intent becoming progressively clearer, chapter by chapter. With everything from to alchemy-brewed booze-substitute to excellent fight scenes, I highly recommend this.

* ''Comments'': Quiet easily the best WoW machinma to date. You have to see to believe.

* ''Synopsis'': The Far Lands series consists of three books: In The Farthest Fields, War Cry and The Beginning Of All Things. They tell the tales of the Night Elf hunter Faeryn and his travels. We see the World (of Warcraft) through Faeryn’s eyes, as he is guided by invisible forces on a mission that may turn out to be quite important…