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I would love to know who Anthony Ray Stark was; why is he memorialized here? Is Rousch his (no longer needed) WoW character? I visit this gravesite anytime I'm in the immediate area, the nature and execution of this little scene moves me deeply.

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According to a blue post by Drysc:
"It's an in-game memorial for a friend of one of the developers. "

Kommentar von Thottbot

Who was Anthony Ray Stark? How did he die? Was he a game developer?

This memorial can be found at 67.84 in Hillsbrad Foothills.

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just seen this too, is rousch just a mourner or does he have any other purpose?

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Just found this memorial, too . Someone in chat said he may have been a developer that had died in a car crash (memorial says 1961 - 2005).

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I also found this
I googled a few sites and none could find an answer

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The Super Hero, Iron Man's alter ego was Anthony Stark...... not sure that has anything to do with the somber and cryptic monument and grieving dwarf...as far as I'm aware Iron Man is still kicking ass somewhere in the future.... either way it's kind of touching really

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he was a blizzard empolyee that died in devolopment of wow, they made a memorial for him as well as another designer that died, his memorial is the shrine of the fallen soldier in barrens.

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I'd hazzard a guess and say that Rousch was probably the character he used to play in the testing of the game.

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Who is Anthony Ray Stark? I cannot find out anything about him. The Grave says, 'In Loving Memory, Anthony Ray Stark, 1961-2005'

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Don't know but it had a Wild Steelbloom behind it!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

It's an in-game memorial to a friend of one of the developers.

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no idea. saw this a few days ago.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Only thing I can think of is Iron Man's real name was Tony Stark

Kommentar von Allakhazam

found this form another site about this.

(Hello Im a GM of the House of the Holy on the US realm Perenolde. I came across ur website and was checking it out. I also came across ur mystery of the Gravestone. I heard sometime last year that of a Blizzard employee who took part of the creation of WoW, died in an accident, so they made a marker in his memory. But i heard of it being in the Barrens.
Hoping you can read my response being we are from different sides of the world, but I thought it would be cool to through my thought into ur mystery.)

So there you go :P

Kommentar von Allakhazam

friend of a dev.

its a in-game memorial for him

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(Copied from wowpedia.com's "In Loving Memory" page)

From the Allakhazam page on Rousch is this explanation:

Tony never worked for Blizzard (in fact, he was a mortgage broker), and he didn't die in a car accident.
I met Tony Stark (that was indeed his real name, the fact that it's Iron Man's secret identity is a coincidence) several months before he died. We both hung out at the same cigar store. While we didn't get to know each other well enough to be friends, I liked him and saw him several times a week. We got together at the cigar store on Tuesday nights to play WOW with a group of people and smoke cigars. Some of those people worked for Blizzard, and were friends of Tony's.
Rousch was Tony's main, and when Tony died he was somewhere in the mid 40's. Since that was Tony's first ever character, he was hardly one of the first to try a dwarf.
Tony died while doing something he loved, which was scuba diving. It was later determined that something went wrong with his heart. (The truth in this case is more dramatic than the made up stories. As we all know, that happens sometimes.)
I was touched to see that some of Tony's friends at Blizzard went to the trouble of arranging the memorial in the game to him. It was added in a patch a few months after his death. He was a kind, cheerful guy, who was always ready to help out someone in need. We all miss him.

Mendicantus

Rousch

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