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There's a great question fluttering around the community lately: just when are we anyway? It's a good one for the Lore Nerd, actually, and maybe he can answer it in more detail than I can, but it's almost a question of relativity as much as it is of lore. The official lore says that World of Warcraft takes place four years after Warcraft III (hence the reason for the "four years have passed..." in the opening cinematic). And since then, we've heard from Blizzard that they consider every expansion to be another year in the history of Azeroth -- Burning Crusade takes place a year after the original game, and Wrath of the Lich King two years after that. But when, for example, did Van Cleef fall? Has it been just under two years since his plan to attack Stormwind was defeated? And what about our characters -- you'd assume that if you started from level 1 today, the story would be beginning four years after the events of Warcraft III again, so have our characters aged two years since they first stepped foot out of Elwynn or Durotar? And we'll ignore that when you get to Orgrimmar, you might see Death Knights walking around, who technically won't join the Horde until two years in the future.
We had such a good time in our first few weeks there that we decided we would stay longer -- but with funds running low, that required getting jobs. I saw an advert for a summer job in a jewellers' shop as a sales assistant, applied for that and was successful. My friends got various other jobs, one as a car mechanic, another in the building industry. The summer in Jersey was really warm, and we had such a great time going to clubs and sunning ourselves on the beaches that the long and short of it is, we all stayed. That was the start and end of our world tour.
During my time in the jewelry business, I trained specifically as a gemologist, became a Fellow of the Gemological Association in the UK and ended up as one of the main buyers for the company.
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