Forum:The Origin of the Blasted Lands

So a little kown fact is that Blizzard weren't the first people to think of the Blasted Lands. In Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 collaboration, The Talisman, the lead protagonist Jack Sawyer has to travel through a place called The Blasted Lands. This is a wasteland with red, powdery soil and surrounded by high mountains on all sides. The wildlife is hideous, deformed, and pretty much universally evil while the plantlife consists of short, twisted trees. It wasn't always a demonic, red barren waste, but it was devastated in the previous generation by the effects of nuclear testing in our world seeping into The Territories...or possibly done by travellers from our own world into theirs.

So...think there's any connection?

--Blacktouch (talk) 17:49, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Little known fact? Nothing in WoW was first thought of by Blizzard, pretty much anything and everything is based off something within the history of fantasy literature. :P Max Krist (talk) 13:21, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Go ahead and add that bit of trivia to the Blasted Lands page, under the heading "Trivia" just as something for people to know. And yes, most everything in WoW seems to be inspired from outside sources. Myrlen Midnightstar (talk) 07:41, 10 January 2011 (UTC)