"Where is Mankirk's Wife?" is one of the longest running memes in World of Warcraft, and it all started with a small, forgotten quest.When World of Warcraft first launched in 2004, Horde players were on a vast Barrens and encountered an orc named Mankirk, who had been separated from his wife in a Quilboa raid.

Barrens was one of WoW's largest zones, and the directions to the location of Mankrik's wife were so vague that the quest was notoriously difficult. At the time, there were no markers to indicate where to go, so players would spend hours trying to find her. Most players turned to the Barrens chat (a zone-wide chat channel) for help.

It is quite dark that this meme became a big joke in the community because Manklik's wife never recovered. Instead, the player discovers the body of an Orc woman marked "beaten corpse," assumes it is her, and returns to give Mankrik the bad news.

This little tale never really came to a proper conclusion; in the Cataclysm expansion, Mankrik's quest was removed from the game and he was relocated near a newly created monument to his dead wife named Olga. And that was it.

However, a decade later, some dedicated players discovered that an NPC named Olga was trapped in the Warcraft version of the afterlife. Called the Shadowlands, it is a kind of multiverse of heaven and hell. Each soul that dies in Azeroth is judged according to its deeds and sent to one of these realms to live forever. Olga seemed to have a fighting spirit and was sentenced to live in the afterlife in Maldraxus, the realm of undead soldiers in a constant state of war.

If you don't have access to the Shadowlands beta, you'll have to wait until the November 23 launch; according to Wowhead, she is in Burning Thicket in western Maldraxxus, fighting monsters as part of the Undying Army She is fighting monsters as a member of the Undying Army. If you talk to her, she will tell you that "[the monsters'] screams are not as satisfying as Quilboa's, but they are enough."

All this time I've seen Olga as a victim of being slaughtered by the cruel Quilboa, but it turns out she's actually kind of a badass. Regardless, it's great to see Shadowlands complete one of Warcraft's longest running jokes.