Quote Originally Posted by Raugnaut View Post
Valeera is a strong lore character in the books, just not in game.
Which is still a shame. Blizzard have a tendency to look forward and keep going but to leave the foundation they're climbing in tattered ruins. Cataclysm would be have been the perfect expansion to put in so many of those "book characters and events" as flashbacks or residual NPCs with a bit of right-click flavor text in a few cities.