Ekrund - Cut content?

[space44]

wanted to go do another exploration so i opened up the map and saw that Ekrund had a lot of realestate (lots of mountains and clouds covering up the top left of the map). this one is by far the most fleshed out landscape wise. theres distinctive paths, places where hubs would be, and maybe a PQ or 2. this one was by far the most exciting one ive discovered, not only because of how hard it was to reach it but the nice view it had to show. heres a few screenshots of what could have been the rest of Dwarf T1. the area is also named "Redhammer Station".

Spoiler:

[Grock]

Looks interesting indeed! You can see a path leading to this area from Ch1 PQ, and at the end of the path there are gates blocking the passage.

One note though "Redhammer Station" is the name for the Chapter 2 area as it is literally the railway station

[space44]

yeah i believe the original devs had bigger plans for Ekrund but ran out of time so they made the Ch1 PQ and covered up the path. there are 2 world objects in that area shown in one of the screenshots.



heres a little spoiler for the next topic about Death Peek

Spoiler:

[Grock]

Death Peak and Cinderfall have a lot of cool content, i dont remember if it was ever used on Live, but there's some actual Holds in there

[space44]

yes Death Peek is actually the most fleshed out zone compared to the cluster mess of Cinderfall. im actually hoping the Devs could plan something for Death Peek, after wandering around cut zone i had an idea of maybe a RvR but the winning realm unlocks a raid for the week seeing that Order has a dwarf Hold of Karak Azul and the south half for Destro has a huge orc village.