Celebrating Christmas in World of Warcraft With the 2011 Feast of Winter’s Veil

Posted by | December 24, 2011

World of Warcraft has a winter celebration that affects both Alliance and Horde that involves the winter holidays. The Feast of Winter’s Veil involves a great deal of traditions taken from the Western celebration of the winter holidays and that primarily of Christmas. Such icons appear as the Abominable Greench – the Grinch of Dr. Seuss’s work added to the abominable snowman – Metzen the reindeer who is an echo of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – and even Greatfather Winter – an analogue to Santa Claus.

The orcs in Orgirmmar set up a Yule tree covered with decorations, holly and mistletoe are handed out to revelers who then can use that to make their mount into a reindeer. Gimmick gifts abound that allow the production of …

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Travelogue Azeroth: Dia de los Muertos and Skeleton Dancers

Posted by | November 4, 2011

The MMO game anthropologist strikes again as he visits the event that World of Warcraft is doing for the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) all two days of it. It’s one of the shortest world events in all Blizzard and comes and goes without notice by most.

It does have an achievement!

Don’t miss out, and while you’re at it, culture yourself.

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Mythic Moons Warhammer Online

Posted by | October 7, 2009

A new live event, Daemon Moon Rising, is coming to Warhammer Online on October 23 through November 2nd. It’s your basic holiday Halloween event, with masks, prizes, hordes of demons, and the understated negotiation between factions that Warhammer Online is so famous for.

Read more at Mythic’s website.

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