Thinking back on this, I was at a loss to explain why my kid brain — which had a bottomless capacity to suspend disbelief — wanted to see a «real» purple - and -
black dragon spit green flames at a «real» prince, or a «real» wooden boy sprout donkey ears, until earlier this week, when a piece of clickbait unveiling the «real» Lumière and Cogsworth from the upcoming Beauty and the Beast jogged my memory: ghoulish curiosity.
In an official Blizzard update on the World of Warcraft forums, it was revealed that the act of Deathwing — the malicious, fire -
spitting bastard of a
dragon — rising from the depths of the earth only to impose his superiority over the land of Azeroth will be represented in - game by a
black sky and entire zones suffering sudden deaths at once.