by Byron Mudry on Aug 08, 2005
Blizzard Europe has posted a fairly detailed page about what to expect from the new 20 man raid instance that is coming with the next patch. It is aimed as an in between from the UBRS (Upper blackrock spire) and MC (Moltecore) raids, and has over 120 new Epic and set items! Also being a 20 man raid it should be a lot easier to get groups together for than MC. Sounds pretty good so far!
Over a thousand years ago the powerful Gurubashi Empire was torn apart by a massive civil war. An influential group of troll priests, known as the Atalai, called forth the avatar of an ancient and terrible blood god named Hakkar the Soulflayer. Though the priests were defeated and ultimately exiled, the great troll empire collapsed upon itself. The exiled priests fled far to the north, into the Swamp of Sorrows, where they erected a great temple to Hakkar in order to prepare for his arrival into the physical world.
You can read the whole article here.