When it comes to the Book of Mercenaries, I believe that the first sentence of many viewers is definitely: "Dogs don't play", and I also found that there are very few players around the Book of Mercenaries.
But after digging deeper into the story of the Book of Mercenaries, Pai Sauce discovers that the entire Year of the Griffin actually hides a story comparable to the Year of the Dragon! Even in the three versions of the Year of the Griffin, the "trial", "assembly", and "break" used have another meaning! Missing out is definitely everyone's loss!
There may be some viewers who are hindered by difficulty and time, and have not played the Book of Mercenaries, but it doesn't matter, today let the card sauce briefly review the plot of the Year of the Griffin with you to see the deep meaning behind the names of these three versions.
The trials of the barren land
In the barren land, 10 mercenaries gathered here.
On the tribal side, Brukan takes her to the Barren Lands in order to train Lokara, and on the way they meet the Minotaur Guf, the Rum who has turned into a necromancer, and the Blood Elf Mage Morning Embrace.
After forming a squad of 5 people, they are tasked by Kazakus to find the mysterious goods, which are the Naru fragments.
The Horde squad later traveled to the Wailing Cave to purify the corrosion, where they found a piece of Naru, which led to the Barren Lands version of the mini-series, The Wailing Cave.
As for the Alliance, Zerrella came to the Barren Lands to save her daughter and encountered Thunder Spear and Knife Oil, both of whom were hired by Ms. Presto to find the Naru Fragments in the Barren Lands.
On the other hand, Ember travels to the Barren Lands in order to hunt anna Theron and meets Kerryl, who has come to find his sister, and they meet the three of them briefly, defeating Kazakus and capturing the Left Behind Morning Embrace.
Later, Ember and Kerryl met Tamsin, and Kerryl fought with Ember in order to protect her sister, but the result was that both sides were injured, and Tamsin ran away.
Whether it is for the tribe side or the alliance side, they meet in the barren land and team up to overcome difficulties together, there may be disputes, conflicts of opinion, but this is actually the test for them.
Assemble under Storm City
Knowing that Chenyong had been captured in StormWind City, the tribal squad regrouped and prepared to go to Storm City to launch a rescue, tamsin took advantage of this and prepared to take the opportunity to enter Storm City, of course, she had other plans. On the other hand, the League squad has also returned to Stormwind City.
So with the help of the pirates, the tribal squad smuggled into StormWind City, and when the group was going to rescue Morning, Tamsin left alone, opening the portal, intending to destroy StormWind City.
Lokara, Brukan, and Guf all stepped forward to stop Tamsin, and the Alliance squad was also stopping the demon invasion. Eventually, Tamsin twisted his father, but ended up dying at the hands of Kerryl.
But in this cooperative battle of the tribal alliance, two people did not participate in the battle, one was the captured morning hug, and the other was knife oil.
Knife oil gets word from retired spy Bob (yes, tavern owner Bob is a former spy) that Ms. Presto has a problem.
So Knife Oil secretly sneaks in and discovers that Presto is a dragon, and learns that she is in collusion with Kazakus, and Tamsin obeys her, even handing over all the Naru fragments to Dafan of the Death Mine.
But soon Knife Oil was captured and thrown into storm city prison, where he met the tribal squad's morning embrace. The two eventually escaped from prison together. (In the original painting of the mage mission, the knife oil is behind the morning embrace)
Knife Oil then goes with the Members of the Alliance Squad to the Death Mine to find the Naru Fragments. This leads to the Stormwind version of the mini-series, The Death Mine.
The battle was scorched, and the tribal squad also arrived, and the two groups fought side by side, and finally defeated Dafan.
In the Stormwind version, the 10 mercenaries may have their own purposes, but they are all gathered under Stormwind, and the word "assembled" in the version name may refer to this.
Of course, the assembly may have another meaning, whether it is the cooperation between knife oil and morning embrace to escape from prison, or the tribal alliance mercenaries joining forces to meet Tamsin Röhm, or even finally going to the Dead Mine to meet Dafan, the cooperation between these two camps can also be seen as a kind of assembly.
Ortrank's rupture
After defeating Da Fan, everyone did not get the shards, because all the Naru shards were taken to Otrank by Da Fan's daughter Vanessa.
And in this place, the clan of thunder spear and the clan of Lokara are in a state of opposition, in the face of the opposition of the camp, the clan, the two sides can only fight for their respective camps. The friendship that has just been established in Stormwind City seems to have broken down. And this may be the origin of the word "break" in the version.
Of course, did the two sides really break up, why did Vanessa come to Altrank, and how will the story continue? Predict what will happen next, and you will find out in the follow-up mercenary book!
Due to the limitation of space, there may be many details of the card sauce is not mentioned, here is still very recommended that the audience who has not played the Book of Mercenaries, you can play, experience the plot, is definitely a good story comparable to the Year of the Dragon. Of course, the card sauce also hopes that the follow-up mercenary book can be simple, difficult to pass but dissuaded many people....
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