Sylvanas twirled the very ordinary crystal ring around her slender, pale fingers. "Could that crystal cave itself be a fairly large ley line node? Because the node was large and rich in arcane energy, the ordinary crystals in the mine eventually became singing crystals? Oh! Just like Eversong Woods in northern Quel'Thalas. The Sunwell's energy affected the trees and turned them red."
"Well..." This time, Old Charlatan was truly stumped.
"It's not impossible..." Old Charlatan finally nodded.
For ordinary people who were not well versed in magic or had not reached the rank of archmage, there were two convenient ways to find ley line nodes. The first was to search for Ancient Racial Temple Ruins, because in the magical world of Azeroth, most races built their temples atop the large magic nodes they could find. The second was to search for Ancient City Ruins, preferably those dating back to the Ancient Elves Magic Kingdom, such as Dire Maul-now Eldre'Thalas. These ancient cities were generally built only after a suitable ley line node had been found.
Aside from those two options, ordinary people really had little chance of finding ley line nodes. Only experts in the study of the ley line network or those who had reached the rank of archmage stood a chance of locating one in the untouched wilderness. But beyond those methods, there was another possibility called dumb luck, and examples of that were far from rare.
The crystal mine cave Sylvanas had just mentioned was exactly the sort of find that counted as dumb luck-assuming singing crystals really formed the way she suggested. A group of wanderers might stumble upon a place rich in energy-bearing minerals, settle there, and gradually grow by relying on those resources until their settlement became a city.
Old Charlatan also believed that