Nordrassil vs Teldrassil

[Focke]

Why is it that the world tree in Hyjal seens so much smaller than Teldrassil? is this simply because Nordrassil is still young and considered a "sappling" since the wisps blew it up? I mean the girth of Teldrassil is remarkably larger than Nordrassil and it has me curious. What do you guys think?

[Suikoden]

Well I'm not sure this has anything to do with Teldrassil's overall height but it does suffer from corruption from within.

[Focke]

Right I am aware of that or hell the corruption might have been removed since Malfurian is back and I am assuming the present game takes place post book.

[Puck]

Nordrassil isn't important because of its size, it's important because of what lies under it, the Well of Eternity.

[eucatastrophe]

Teldrassil is a fake World Tree.
Its abnormal size probably has something to do with it's druidically enhanced-engineered growth (lol does that make sense? >_>).
It lacks the blessing of all the dragons and the powers of the Well of Eternity.

[Zatheyll]

Why is it that the world tree in Hyjal seens so much smaller than Teldrassil? is this simply because Nordrassil is still young and considered a "sappling" since the wisps blew it up? I mean the girth of Teldrassil is remarkably larger than Nordrassil and it has me curious. What do you guys think?

Nordrassil is much older then Teldrassil. The former being thousands of years old, with the later being just a few years (six or seven I believe). Teldrassil was grown with druidic magic but was flawed without the help of the Aspects. The reason they are different sizes is I believe Teldrassil was made as a home for the Night Elves, with it being in the ocean they would have to live on it. Nordrassil on the other hand is on land, they didn't need to live on it, just around it. It granted them eternal life and stuff like that, while Teldrassil didn't.

[lemaurey]

I do believe if I read correctly the new quests in Teldrassil, that Malfurion has returned and stands alongside Tyrande in Darnassus now, and Nordrassil at the wedding of Tyrande and Malfurion recieved the blessings from Ysera and Alexzestra. I believe only Norzdormu hasn't given his blessing, and the blue/black dragonflights are in a sort of state of limbo.

All the quests point to the tree recieving those blessings however and finally beginning to grow properly.

[Rivin]

Nordrassil is much older then Teldrassil. The former being thousands of years old, with the later being just a few years (six or seven I believe).

He called Nordrassil young because it was destroyed in Warcraft III and has been regrowing since.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that in-game scale and real-world scale don't really match. If Nordrassil was as massive as it was in lore, you wouldn't even be able to see all of it in-game. It would probably go beyond the limits of the engine to render fully, even if you could set your view distance high enough to see it all.

[Zatheyll]

I do believe if I read correctly the new quests in Teldrassil, that Malfurion has returned and stands alongside Tyrande in Darnassus now, and Nordrassil at the wedding of Tyrande and Malfurion recieved the blessings from Ysera and Alexzestra. I believe only Norzdormu hasn't given his blessing, and the blue/black dragonflights are in a sort of state of limbo.

All the quests point to the tree recieving those blessings however and finally beginning to grow properly.

I don't believe the tree has fully lost it's taint, that might take years of work.

[Signolias]

nordrassil is the true world tree it was blessed by all dragon aspects during warcraft 3 it was "destroyed" thus the night elves lost their immortality. wanting to reclaim their immortality arch druid Fandral staghelm, who was the interim leader of the druids while malfurion was missing, planted teldrassil. he also had the help artificially grow teldrassil. but he also tainted it as well as he grafted a portion of xervius' tree form into teldrassil of course xervius was playing fandral like a fiddle. when malfurion returned he removed the tainted portion of the tree and teldrassil was ultimately blessed by alextrasa and ysera. unfortunately without all 5 aspects blessing teldrassil can not give the nightelves their immortality back. as far as the well of eternity it was destroyed in the war of the acients illidan attempted to recreate the well but was ultimately stopped. but the lake under nordrassil is a well of eternity tainted lake but it is not the well of eternity

[imzhell]

I would always pick teldrassil... have been my alltime favourite.

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I would always pick teldrassil... have been my alltime favourite.