Harvest Festival
The Harvest Festival is celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance as a time to commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help their allies. The Alliance honors the memory of all the fallen, but particularly Uther Lightbringer. The Horde also remembers those who have fallen, with special emphasis on the memory of Grom Hellscream.
Event Details
When: September 13 - 19th
Where:
- Alliance: Ironforge, Tomb of Uther Lightbringer in the Western Plaguelands
- Horde: Orgrimmar, Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.
Activities: Honoring A HEro
Throughout history, many have given their lives to aid their comrades. Every year, members of the Horde and the Alliance set aside time to honor the memories of the fallen and to pay tribute to those whose memories are held most dear.
To show their respect, members of the Alliance light a candle at the Tomb of Uther Lightbringer in the Western Plaguelands. Members of the Horde show their respect to Grom Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the Hellscream Memorial in Ashenvale.
FESTIVAL FOODS
Throughout the festival, remembrance feasts will be held outside of Ironforge and Orgrimmar. Adventurers are invited to partake of the feasts to be strengthened for challenges to come in the future. Available foods include:
ITEM REWARDS
- After you complete your journey to your hero's tomb and have left a tribute to his memory, return to Javnir Nashak outside of Orgrimmar or to Wagner Hammerstrike outside of Ironforge in order to receive your reward: The Horde's Hellscream or For the Light!
Check out our Harvest Festival screenshot gallery.
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Comments (88)
Durotan
Black Dragonflight
Echo Isles
Moon Guard
Garrosh
also, can't wait for Thanksgiving =d
Sentinels
Arathor
Madoran
Steamwheedle Cartel
Wildhammer
Wyrmrest Accord
Dawnbringer
Quel'dorei
That being said though, I do wish blizz would add a few more other heros who deserve it. Cairne being one of them. Another thing that would be cool is instead of having generic 'heros' at the feast, have actual named heros there we can talk to, and maybe get a story or two from.
One thing that would really up this, is maybe blizz start putting in some scalable level scenarios based around each hero, so not only could they tell us their story, we could live it. And at the end, instead of getting some fabulous new gear, we get some transmog items from that era.
Possibly even items from quests that we've passed over.
Mug'thol
Staghelm
We need this.
Zul'jin
Nesingwary
Arthas
Draenor
Borean Tundra
Illidan
Earthen Ring
Scarlet Crusade
Likewise to Night Elves who never benefited from or were protected by Uther.
It's a bit like the allies in WW2 spending a day saluting an ancient samurai and an old British knight respectively as if it mattered any to Germans or Americans.
Mug'thol
It isn't so much the respect of what that person did for YOU as it is respect for that person and what THEY did. It's like how Gandhi is almost universally admired, even by non-Indians, or Mother Teressa, even by non-Catholics.
So the person doesn't have to be a great person within a society for likeminded societies to honor them, they just have to be a great person worthy of honoring.
Darkspear
Thrall
Firetree
Silvermoon
Area 52
I would visit uther's tomb more often but the alliance don't care for my goblin sacred honoring bomb/and/or/explosives.
With this i leave you all a fond farewell and a ditty little prayer.
To all the heroes of Azeroth may your days be merry.
And the drink sweeter in the moon.
To all the pugs i'll never carry.
I hope you learn to play real soon.
Terokkar
Action.
Baelgun
Illidan
Proudmoore
Thanksgiving holiday. Or as I like to call it "How to get to 350 cooking in under an hour."
Nesingwary
Shandris
Sisters of Elune
For some people, it is more than enough to just pick up some food that will be useful at all levels and make your way to some distinguished lore sites. For myself, I usually go by the Tauren graves to the North of Thunder Bluff rather than Grom's monument, but to each their own. Perhaps a Forsaken visits the place of their "death." Maybe a paladin heads to the freaking Froustmourne Cavern and spends some time lamenting the fall of Arthas, in addition to paying tribute to Uther. Perhaps I visit Cairne's funeral pyre and do what I can to honor the chieftain, then pay my respects to his surviving son.
For any RPers out there, this holiday is simple yet more than enough. To those that aren't, just sit down and collect some food and drink to take with you for free into Pandaria if you want. Whatever fits your fancy. If you find this really too boring, you don't have long to wait for Brewfest!
Grizzly Hills
Wyrmrest Accord
Moon Guard
I'm glad there are others who enjoy sitting in nostalgic places like I do. :)
Kargath