Very curious, since a young age, Mero would collect books, scrolls, and devices from all over Vol'dun, sometimes from travelers, sometimes from abandoned ruins. An insatiable thirst for knowledge, he loved to learn and to figure out how things worked. Breaking down others' creations and building them himself. In time, he became adept at designing devices on his own, in building inventions out of whatever scrap he could get his paws on. As vulpera value such resourcefulness, he became affectionately known in his caravan as Mero the Mechanic.

     Among the inventions he managed to create through reverse engineering and his own innate mechanical instincts were a long-range teleporter and a shapechanging device. The arrival of the Horde and the Alliance in Zandalar sparked a desire to learn more about them, their war, and the greater current threats to Azeroth. To this end, he made several secret trips abroad (being seen by either side before vulpera officially joined a faction could create an incident). Sometimes simply hiding, sometimes disguising himself as a Bilge Rat pirate, other times even using his shapechanging device. He saw places and things he'd only read about. He got the opportunity to visit the Lazy Turnip Inn in Halfhill, the origin of a news report series he had often listened to on one of his devices in Vol'dun. He also saw that Azeroth was a world of many perils.

     It came to be, his people would eventually finally choose to side with a faction and they would ally with the Horde. Though he thought the faction war itself impractical, there are far greater threats for all of Azeroth to combat united, Mero agreed with the decision. While openly warring with the Alliance was not in his own personal interest, he could not see himself trusting those whose celebrated 'heroes' had attempted to burn and enslave the caravans (There could be few greater, deeper insults to vulpera - who had received that same treatment from the vile Faithless Sethrak)

With the vulpera in a faction and thus free to explore Azeroth openly, Mero looked forward - to gaining new knowledge, to seeing new things... but his engineering spirit gave him another ambition. It was in his nature to want to fix things. And Azeroth was undoubtedly broken. Perhaps he could not repair it completely but, maybe, in a small way - like so many of the heroes from stories he'd read - he could try his very best to make the world a little less broken.

A further small tale from this vulpera's past, Mero's Hero, here

To Be Continued? (Mero is on the Wyrmrest Accord-NA server in a guild of my creation called the Raccoons). As mentioned above, a letter I submitted as "Mero" was read by host Toshmifune on episode 49 of the Halfhill Report (and Mero is referenced again in 55, 56, 72, 88 & 110). The Halfhill Report is a great, fun in-character news-style podcast I highly recommend if you've ever played WoW. Seriously, go listen to 'em all, you'll thank me. Thanks, again, for the opportunity, Tosh!)

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