With a heavy heart, Ryan set off alone to find the NPC.
Well—"find" wasn't quite accurate. He had completed the Redemption quest three times before and knew the NPC's exact location by heart. All he really needed to do was comb through the Bloodfang Cliff area thoroughly.
The problem was the sheer number of players swarming the region. It made his plan—revive the NPC, finish the quest, and move straight on to the next map—far more complicated than he'd hoped.
Running on foot, he quickly fell behind the waves of Human faction players thundering past on their warhorses. All of them were headed for Bloodfang Cliff, where the Orc faction awaited them in a full-scale battle.
The war between the Human and Orc factions had escalated to the point where some players simply gave up participating. Those unwilling to fight either created new characters and retreated to their faction's heartlands to level in safety, or they abandoned leveling altogether.
