Leaving Ironforge and traveling west through snow-covered Dun Morogh, one could reach the edge of this mountain-ringed snowy land in about two days. Dwarven outposts lined the route, and rumor had it that a mysterious airfield lay in the mountains behind Ironforge.
It was said to be an aircraft laboratory built for the Gnomes who had fled to Ironforge for refuge. The knights accompanying him treated that as an absurd joke. They could not imagine anything flying through the sky besides Gryphons, the Elves' Hippogryphs they had seen, and terrifying Dragons.
But Dick knew it was true. The airfield for crude wooden aircraft behind Ironforge was no secret among players. When the game had first begun, players eager to explore this unfamiliar continent had already discovered those wooden planes that closely resembled the First World War aircraft of another world.
They were all creations of Gnomish engineering.
Dick wanted to learn engineering too, but unfortunately, he had only unlocked one secondary profession. After weighing his options, he could only resign himself to learning the basics of smithing from the Deep Mountain Mining Company's finest blacksmith at the Great Forge in Ironforge.
Of course, that was merely a formality. The moment he accepted the Forging Hammer, Dick heard the sound announcing the unlocking of his secondary profession. A smithing option also appeared in his field of view. Naturally, it was still empty. Dick had not been lucky enough to bring every recipe from the game with him. Fortunately, he already had a dozen or so recipes in his pack, gifts given to him personally by Ironforge's smiths.
The most valuable among them was a purple-quality recipe called the "Truesilver Sword." Dick was quite pleased with that gift.
This time, he had brought fewer than forty Paladins, all of whom came from