Darrowshire
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2008
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This is my 2nd original WoW tune to be published. The first was "Big Blue Dress". This song was inspired by the "Darrowshire" quest line in the Eastern Plaguelands:
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Here is what I had to say on my blog about the song when I released it:
My next song, "Darrowshire", was inspired by the quest in the Eastern Plaguelands. The story is a heart-breaker as you find a little girl named Pamela wandering around in the Eastern Plaguelands looking for her family. Your quest is to set things right, which my brother, Tydup, did with style while filming this movie. There are many such stories in the "World of Warcraft", some of which I've tucked away in the back of my mind to write songs about some day.
I wrote this song on vacation last summer with a Martin backpack guitar, sitting in a folding chair at the mouth of beautiful Lake Chelan in a little town called Stehekin. The town can only be reached by ferry. No Internet access or phone in the cabin where we stayed. Perfect for writing music. I highly recommend it if you need to just get away.
I had been wanting to write "Darrowshire" ever since I first experienced this quest in roughly early 2005. The little girl's story grabbed my attention, and as the song says, "will not let me go". What I didn't know was that by making the movie, I'd be exposed to lore that probably most people never see. For example, I had been trying to figure out how to create a scene where father and daughter are reunited. I figured I'd have to use the model viewer to composite this scene. What I found, however, by having to repeat the quest several times to get the necessary footage for the movie, was that the scene was already in-game - I just had to capture it. You just have to hang around town for a few minutes after completing the final stage of the quest to see it. As the movie shows, the father walks up to their home, summons Pamela, she comes running out, and the two are reunited.
Here are the lyrics to "Darrowshire":
I've seen a great many things that cause a man to wonder
I've seen a great many things that can tear a man's heart asunder
But the day that will not let me go, it haunts me to my burning soul
Is the day I found Pamela wandering in Darrowshire
Can you help me find my dolly? I left her by the window sill
Have you seen my daddy? I think he went off to war
And can you tell my family I've been missing them for oh so very long
Ask them why'd they leave me here alone in Darrowshire
I bring word from your sister, she's alive and well in Winterspring
Here I found your dolly, it's up to you to keep her safe
And your father's coming home again. The war for him is over
And your spirits once again may be at rest in Darrowshire
Note that the 3 gnomes, Ei, Ohi, and Fahrenheit from "Big Blue Dress" are singing the backup vocals in this song too. I was planning on putting them in the movie, but when I did, they sorta trivialized the drama of the story. Don't worry though. You'll be seeing them again soon.
I dedicate this song to the lore masters. Enjoy! 
Игры
In my opinion it really was the little things like this that made WoW as great as it was. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that there are overarching stories now like in the Stone Talon mountains and the military quest line in the barrens, but it was always nice to have these mini stories to kind of take you away from it all. Like your character is busy saving the world, but every once in a while something like this pops up and it just kind of makes you forget everything else. Like helping this little girl is the most important thing in the world. That was honestly what made the game for me.
+armsdragon05 This specific storyline is still in the game
SvartTK yea, but they removed others that were dubbed "obsolete" like the one to go to Uther's tomb and ask for a blessing. It may not have been important in the grand scheme of things, but thats how it is in a real world. Not everything serves a purpose for some grand design; some things are just meant for closure.
+armsdragon05 "like the one to go to Uther's tomb and ask for a blessing." That one also still exists as a world event (Harvest Festival) quest. The Horde version has you go to Grom's Monument instead.
***** same
Definitly man! I totally agree with you man. There were many of these.
Doing the quest now, reading every word of it in your honor.
*salutes*
13 years...it feels like a lifetime
bro...
dude...
💯
years later I still come back to this song
We all do
+1
Indeed.
years later and I still tear up to this song.
I remember when I heard this song is what led me to go actually finish this quest chain
2019 and this song still gives me the chills...
2020 baby!
@@emeraldcrusade5016 im glad to see someone i still listing
It will never not give me chills.
I will return here always
Now 2020.....
When the quest still had you go see her uncle and he said "You've seen Pamela? She's alive?
She's dead? No! Oh, Pamela! Why does your spirit still suffer in this world. Why are you perished, while fortune keeps me alive? In an instant I would switch places with you and wander dead Darrowshire, a ghost and alone!" That quote really hit me deep.
its a display of true love. Somewhere deep in all of us that resonates. Its the kind of thing that can bring people together and dispel hatred. Good on you for seeing it.
It's been 14 years. A long road, getting from there to here. The last few years have been dark, barren, and tortured. I hope they turn once more towards better times.
Take us back to Darrowshire.
🙂
this quest is heartbreaking, poor little pamela :(
This is The wow.......that we used to play
+Jericho Kővári Tamás my heart...T.T
+Jericho Kővári Tamás feell ya :C
14 years later and this still hits me right in the feels
I still remember the lyrics..." and your father's coming home again, the war for him is over" always make me teary :)
I love this song. Not ashamed to admit I cry every time.
2024, and this song/video/quest still gets to me.
I remember doing the Pamela and Battle of Darrowshire quests back in the days of Early WoW; and not that long ago Classic WoW, and it was one of the hardest, saddest, and yet happiest quest chain I ever did.
I came back to this song. I left wow But I always come back to this song...Cranius You are a legend, Hope you are doing well.
The part about her dad and hat the war is over....MAKES ME TEAR UP EVERY TIME!
Yeah. I remember doing this questline. The best thing ever! :(
Yeah. does me too. Also, reminds me of real things that my nation is doing.
2021 and it still does for me too
Years later, every time I play through this questline on an alt, I have to have this playing in the background.
Its no longer the same questline. :(
Well it is if your playing on one of the many private servers out there ;)
Always a nice trip down nostalgia lane, the song holds up.
the nostalgia is soooo strong within this one..... :_(
I found this song when I was 11. I am 26 now and it still gives me chills. Thank you Cranius for the good music and good memories. I have never forgotten this song and many others of yours.
... Just one day... Put some Bard in WoW... AND MAKE HIM A CHARACTER IN HIS HONOR TO SING THIS SONG AT STORMWIND OR IN THE HAND OF TYR !!!
Yes please
I just recently came back to Wow after three years or so and one of the first things I did was catch up with a friend of mine and we took a trip down memory lane. Guess what came up? Pamela Redpath and Darrowshire. These "small stories" are worth if only for the story itself. I finished this quest again for the third or fourth time and it never gets old.
yea same i returned a while ago after a few years , i always end comeing back to old zones and the stories . also i miss class quests , thank god for classic wow i guess.
You see... THIS is the kind of thing that makes a legendary game. Sure, Bioshock and PvZ references are cute and all, but it is bits of lore like this, helping the ghost of a young girl and her father who was cursed to find some measure of peace and pass on... THIS is a flipping 'sidequest'.
Years later, long after I stopped playing WoW, this song still brings tears to my eye.
With the return of WoW Classic, we'll get to relive this all over again.
it's 2023 and this song is still an absolute banger!
2024.🙂
whatever dude
I'll never forget the hayday of wow at its heights. All the Machinima's and rap videos and things. Though out of all of them this one was always my favorite. The song and the story just struck to the core, especially at the end. "And you're fathers coming home again, the war for him is over." Just the supporting vocals and how he is walking up as a ghost just...ugh...feels. I love this video.
years later I can still say I get misty the first time you get to say "Darrowshire," that's inspiring. Please keep on.
Ahw I just keep coming back to this! ❤ And not just to this one, to all of your songs. They mean so much to me! Thank you ❤
It's been 14 years and i stumbled upon this in my old account's playlists, thank god it's awesome
They just don't make quests like they used to... I miss this questline (pre-cata). I cried many a manly tear the first time I did it.
First time? Dude, every time.
Brought back a lot of wonderful memories of the first time I completed the full old school version of this quest. So very rewarding. Thank you!
Same here on my Rogue. Ahhh the old days when stories hit ya in the feels.
Seeing the video yet again, brings it all back.
when I did it on my pally, I was a river of tears. right in the feels *cries on Mia's shoulder*
i stopped playing wow but i still love these songs and all the legacy of the game i played for a decade
I'm not normally one to cry at movies and the like, but this is one of the few things that can literally bring tears to my eyes and give me chills.
darrowshire really changes men
Oh this brings back some memories... When I first heard this song I went back and replayed this quest on my paladin. I miss those days, sadly WoW is no longer what it used to be... no deep hidden gems of story, just unrefined fetch quests with no real emotion to them.
It's 2016! What is this...why is all this dust still in my eyes? /*grabs for a tissue*
;(
+Calomel
I know that feel, there is something hopelessly sad about ghost little girls that does not know they are dead...
I am glad we made her rest in peace.
Thanks Cranius for the beautiful song.
2018 HERE
The new achievement to unlock old Scholomance brought me here. Masterpiece.
i cry. Darrowshire remembers. Please, return to vanilla this summer.
Gooo
oh them memories and feels! Still get's me in 2017!
At 2022 i still found this song most touching song of all.
Arrh man i cant believe i waited this long to hear this. Its so awesome. How i miss the legacy and community of the early universe of WoW.
Those damn onion cutting ninjas again , in Darrowshire :c
Inspired me to start on a book surrounding Darrowshire. It's split off into it's own thing now, but it's heavily WoW based.
Firose Also want a link!
Firose lnik please
Firose We want the link!
honestly guys, I've barely started on it. I'm in school for an engineering degree so it's difficult to have time to write. Besides it's my first writing project so it's likely that it won't be that good.
In that case it is fine xD I just thought you were done with it xD
"Entire planetary systems born and razed in the time that it takes your mortal hearts to beat once." -Algalon the Observer
Before the time it takes for this mortal heart to beat, this piece already crushes and reduces me to tears.
A random day with bad sleep, woke up with this tune inside my head. Had to come here to relive the memory!
I have'nt seen this song of Darrowshire in a long time and i still love it the first time i saw it.
We are going home.
Yes bro!
2023
When i back to this video it always an eternal reminder that the world i grew up does not exist anymore and move forward whit out forget what it was back them
So many years has passed since I discovered this gem... An even though I stopped playing WoW, I still feel chills listening to Darrowshire. Dang.
Hope you and Legs are still well and kicking!
holy...i didn't just stream tears i literally broke down and cried like full blown....wow
I love the other videos, but this one is really a emotion-ripper and is probably my favorite.
many years. still tears
For those that want to do the original quest chain, there are many private free servers that you can join that stop at WOLK or BC, or Vanilla, (depending on which one you choose to join). I did enjoy the little extra touch that Bliz added during Cata, where if you do the quest chain, you can go back to the caravan afterwards and Pamela will follow you around Eastern Plaugelands.
It's a real shame WoW has lost all its flavour. Stuff like this was what made WoW amazing.
should see Dreanor the stories they put in are amazing
***** They're really not
***** I found them to be really fun
Sam Cooper agree bro ^^
fix djole WoD is awesome and i see why people love it, but Cata and MoP killed wow for me, i played when wod came out level 2 toons too 100 and then quit, i cant handle wow anymore, its lost its magic in my opinion, but for new players WoD is great.
2019 Wow Classic Dolly Quest accepted and first i have to start this song.
Every time I level a new character and I get to this quest I come back and watch this.
i used to sing both "Darrowshire" and "captain placeholder" during my watch service back then when i was serving my country, thank you Cranius for the good time
Lots of ninjas slicing onions here..
My congratulations to 1 000 000 views! Quite an unique video and still very good after all these years.
On the one hand, streamlining the Darrowshire quest helped with the more annoying bits, like getting the items you needed from uncommonly spawning enemies, but on the other hand it damaged the feel of the quest by making it too easy.
Before the change, I would ALWAYS do the Darrowshire quest, no matter what class I was taking through the Plaguelands. I would gladly struggle to do everything in order to finish the quest and redeem Joseph Redpath. Even the final battle which, if I remember correctly, was classed as a RAID QUEST, that I usually had to do on my own.
I always kept the Tea with Sugar, too.
Finishing the original quest line felt epic. Now it's just another notch in a character's belt.
I still come back to play this song anytime I quest in Darrowshire, this time it was on the HC challenge. Made it even better
I quit world of warcraft partly because of them butchering stuff like this. They added so much content and made it so the whole point of the game was rushing to max and raiding but way back in the day pre bc and bc there was SO much game to be experienced before max level. I used to full clear entire zones just so I could read the lore and quests and see, hear, and read all these crazy, intense and touching backstories and stuff about the zone. This one and the story and questline of morgan ladimore were always ones I looked forward to. Now you don't even have to go to 90% of the zones to get to max. Before you HAD to go to 90% of them.
I really hope WoD is like WotLK, in the sense that every zone has lore that leads up to the final fight of that expansion.
Actually, i had to grind/do dungeons to reach lvl 60 in vanilla cause there were not enough quests. I hit lvl 60 farming elementals in felwood...I reached lvl 90 in pandaria by doing two zones, so yeah. I say they have focused too much on the easy part. They should atleast cut down on the quests so that you'll see the entire map before hitting max.
Selor12 haha i know how you feel. I played pre bc sadly i dont have the honor of being an end game pre bc veteran. my best friend who introduced me shortly before bc was in Eitriggs top guild and he ran out of quests and round from i think it was 56-60 in the small graveyard at the entrance to western plagulands simply because he was a paladin and that place had a stupid respawn rate. regardless. If wow eeeeeeeeeeeeer brought back real story? id go back to it. i was an end game raider. I was the top tank on my server in wotlk, vashj. Shit server but still. i just coulkdnt handle the fact they took away everythin but the end game, gave it away for free, and even to people like me who were of the few who spent four hundred plus hours getting the winterspring frostsaber before they nerfed it to shit? MY fuckin gosh. they gave me the achievement for it. but the date on it was 3 fking years after i got it. I had it when maybe 1 or 2 people per server had it. my honor was a dat that everyone could get. I ground my sexy kitty from level 40 to level 60. i spent 700 HOURS getting her. i named her hope. and then they made her a 5 hour ordeal and an achievment 2 expansions later.... i ADORED the game. then blizzard lost sight of what they made and simply wanted money. they havent gotten mine in 4 years.
Selor12 I so wish.... this was stilll world of warcaft.... Nothing today in my opinion compares to the old WoW. fck... id pay 20 a month for a real rerelease. i search and search for a true private server but they all have sped up exp, new gear, or random shit. I dream of the old Wow. if blizzard just started over.... just.... to me they dont have a game anymore.... theyre just milkin a concept...
This song is amazing, have heard it 50 times or something, and still love it :-3
Still makes me cry! 2024
Here in 2021, listening to this masterpiece and remembering the good old 2004/2005 when I did this quest. Damn, I cried so much back then, many manly tears were shed.
I still love this
Yup this never gets old, still the best wow song ever made!
Finally we can do this questline again
yes we can... god damn it..
I love that Brill is a prequel to this..
Still tears my heart out. I love Cranius. Because of them, I gained a greater passion for the smaller side stories in WoW.
2019 не изменяя традициям
Дароушир!
i really hope Mr.Cranius still plays wow, if not i hope he returns for warlords of draenor at least!
This still packs a punch no netflix concoction ever will.
6 yrs old and still brings a tear to the eye. GREAT JOB CRANIUS!
But alas, the days of the crusade has passed and big, fat, furry pandas roam the lands...
Johnny Midnite They did before.. The pandaren had a somewhat large role in the defense of Khaz'modan.. well one. who happened to be in a bar nearby.
It is sad they did not give her a place in Shadowlands. Guess today's devs don't even have an idea about the story of this girl did exist.
2023 and i still sing this song randomly going about my days. Truly a great one.
It is mode march 2023 and this video/song still gets to me. I have watched it for God only knows how many times. I loved this quest line so much. I just waited to get my alts to EPL to do it. Yes, it created a lump in my throat every time but I had to help Pamela!
Cranius, I am not sure you will see this but thank you for this song and all the rest as well. I listen to them all.
Mid-March not mode! I hate autocorrect !
Cranius! it would be so cool if you would make a comeback when the new nos/Elysium server launch!
i did not kill a single crusader doing this quest chain, i just get into hearthglen fleeing from the one who aggroed me, and then used divine shield to get in, take the item needed, and get out. Yea u need to be pala for make it without dying
Pamela wants her daddy. They are in the way. They must go!
There have been a total of two times I had to stop playing because I was tearing up. This quest was the first time. The emotion in this quest series just hit me like a brick. Maybe two. The second was the first time I ran through Darkshore after Cata. Everything I remembered was gone, replaced with the shattered remains and dead bodies. I think I actually logged out for a bit on both.
Awesome job, Cranius, on keeping the memory alive!
This song got me through some rough times, its sad yet inspireing, i regularly come back to listen to it. It is hard to think this is now over 10 years old.
Hang in there bud....
Great song...
Like armsdragon05 mentioned... these little things were what made wow so incredible for me...
I also remember I actually wanted to KILL that bastard Stalvan when I was doing that questline...
Incredible and wonderful quest-stories...
All my Forsaken do this quest.......
+Tak Wolf one thing we forsaken must grapple with each and every day is that the same darkness that doomed Darrowshire is the same darkness that gives us life. Our destiny is to forever strive and prove that our darkness is not always evil. Sylvanas is not the Lich King and will never be anything like him.
Kekity Kek
=.= would you like some light beer while you make out with your sister, or would you prefer to use that word some more and tell us all that natural selection failed with you? It's your own particular style. We won't judge. Out loud.
FATEd Pondera tl;dr
+FATEd Pondera omg......you are awesome! :D
+Ionescu Cosmin I'm a Roleplayer in StarCraft 2! :D
This guy was a genius. Im so sad nothing more will be available. Such a great man.
I'm so so glad I managed to do quests like this before. Such memories... quests that could be made songs of.. oh, wait..
are these videos ever entered into those blizzard contests... just saying that the Don't make me get my main vid should of won one of the contests
He entered "Don't make me get my main" at errr the Cata blizzcon or something, if I remember right.
Still here in 2022 anyone?
No sorry
ofcouse yes
2024
man, has it really been 10 years? amazing how time flies and how a game can change your life.
the reintroduction of old scholomance in retail got me coming back to remember this machinima, such good memories
2019 anyone?
In my opnion, Wrath was the greatest expansion. Not because of Northrend content, or because of Deathknights or because it introduced flying to the game, but because you where finally able to make Arthas pay for everything he had done. Everything him and Nerzhul did to ravage the world and destroy azeroth. The redpaths, Scholomance, and even the horrors of Lorderon.
+Alexander Anderson Arthas really didn't do anything at all to be honest. If anything, he's pretty much a misled hero. I find Arthas and more importantly - the Scarlet Crusade to be the pinnacle of Blizzard's story-telling. Like, they're good but at the same time, they're bad. Rather than the goody-two-shoed Alliance lore-characters we have these days and the evil Horde that claims to be good. I hope they somehow return to what they used to do!
+Ionescu Cosmin Yeah... arthas didn't do anything hu.. well.. the forsaken beg to differ. Uther the light bringer would also beg to differ.
He was possesed by Frostmourne. :P
Wrath didnt introduce flying,BC did it.
+Alexander Anderson
Arthas did nothing wrong.
2023 and this song still gives me the chills...
Legendary, u have my utmost appreciation and admiration for your legendary work here, Sir Cranius.
Man.. i still love WoW just not retail or blizzard anymore
Private servers FTW!
which server u playin on
Is my memory correct about the fact that Pamela's quest chain just ended unresolved prior to cataclysm?
Sup arch :D, pretty sure it was always the same in cata and vanilla
*Edit, meant to say it had the same ending.
Yeah, the cata version is
1: Shorter
2: PISS EASY
3: Really soddy boring compared to the original.
4: Not nearly as touching.
Yeah, I was very disappointed by what they did to it in Cata.
Cata was the expac that kinda killed the entire game for me. They had so much going for it then just make it to easy and boring
2022, my fiancée and I leveling in Eastern Plaguelands and this song comes to mind. Such an awesome song~
You better ALWAYS go pay Pamela a visit! She doesn't deserve to be lonely. 😢
@@Viper4382 Always ;w;
This never gets old.
Liek dis if you cri evritim.
2021 and yes the game is "still" alive
classic WOW at it's best.
I get a chill every time I hear this song.
And I'll always remember my level 60 dwarf hunter with whom I did the first time this chain.
Really great job,Cranius!