If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground no doubt you’ve heard that there will be some big events pre-Cataclysm, as well as the audio files and info for the Gnomes and Trolls who will be fighting to regain their homelands. Well today Blizzard released info (via Nethaera) about the details of Vol’jin and High Tinker Gelbin Mekkatorque planning assaults to take back what they lost.

The info pages really give some good background on how and why they lost Echo Isles and Gnomeregan. The story even goes so far as to explain the previous wins against Thermaplugg and Zalazane and how these were just ruses to make Mekkatorque and Vol’jin believe that they were able to defeat their enemies. I’m pretty excited for these events to take place and even more excited to know that the Gnomes and Trolls will have their own capitols again. It is a bit disappointing that the gnomes won’t be able to reclaim all of Gnomeregan (Blizz still wants to keep the dungeon around), but it’s a start!

As the first major pre-Cataclysm events to happen I’m pretty excited. I’m sure that there will be other, more dire events that will occur to herald the return of Deathwing and the imminent destruction of Azeroth as we know it. I’ll bring you the latest as I hear it so stay tuned to Gaming Angels!