Blizzcon Lore Interviews with Steve Danuser & Morgan Day

Sir I’m going to have to ask you to stop guessing these incredibly plausible things, it’s upsetting me.

I will fight for this.

Yes, they really ought to even though it clearly doesn’t save you from a determined necromancer. Gotta make life hard for those smelly nerds.

It’s a matryoshka doll right down to the One Being, creator of all and we’re right back to WC 1 and 2 lore being right all along. Deo gratias.

Arbiter is a machine confirmed.

Yet Maldraxxus is full of explicitly Undead creatures. Very curious.

Wisps are night elf souls lingering in the world as some sort of nature spirit, called Loa by the trolls and can be amalgamated into a new being as a tree ancient. This is canon.

It’s a really weird choice if your rightful Good Person afterlife is on pause while your twisted undead corpse with a broken moral compass and hollowed out empathy goes murdering people for giggles for longer than you ever got to live.

Chaos of mind and spirit, the discordant tune that shakes things in the wrong way, as opposed to the Light’s clean, unchanging melody. Through the Void, the mind is subject to the imbalance and suffering associated with what made the Sha as living embodiments and eventually, the nihilistic madness of Deathwing.

Mortals just can’t handle having their minds scrambled.

With their egos, sure. All cats go to revendreth…

I’d be more okay with this part of the lore had Anduin been crippled and is now only able to function by constantly infusing himself with the Light and certainty of Goodness, aching when he doubts and collapsing in agony if ever truly wrong and despairing.

Sacrifice your firstborn so you can cross over and bring them back? It’s a stable economic model, I guess.

Seeing them talk about all of this simply reaffirms my stance that they have already added too many playable races and need to stop adding more ASAP because they can’t even keep the ones we currently have up to date and in the loop.

if this is r.e. the new vegas mod then boy there’s some bad news

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It did. The mod release is… Pretty competent mechanically, all things considered, with working vehicles and the like which Bethesda never did. The story is mediocre and mostly just ripped from other properties.

Unfortunately, all got overshadowed in drama relating to a Deathclaw you could sleep with, a character called ‘America’ who you could enslave (and also had dialogue lines about her smelly feet for some reason), and some pretty creepy stuff in general connected to one of the mod authors who left the project after a while.

The player character also isn’t allowed to join the Enclave or be sympathetic to the Legion.

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“Lingering”…except for the NElves who insta-turn into wisps immediately in BfA. Not really lingering, more like insta-morph.

Not exactly clear why Draenei need to do the whole auchenai shenanigans if you can just casually choose to not cross over either, like if “yeah no I don’t feel like going to the afterlife I’m gonna stick around” was an option you’d think more baddies would take it.

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But the Legion is woke now.

That’s the biggest æ moment I’ve had in this week. I just looked it up. I wish I hadn’t. Feels like Goldshire Simulator.

:sob:

Words that you hear the soundbite for, crystal clear, heh.

Your soundcard works perfectly.”

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Bring back WoW RPG lore.

Gotta keep the dead from being defiled by the Legion aaaaand we put all eggs in one cathedral size basket. Uh-oh spaghettios…

Yes!

:nose:

That’s genuinely hilarious. Jesus.

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never underestimate modders desire to put their fetish in unrelated mods

I honestly suspect this is what will happen. She did briefly go to a much nicer afterlife before being raised into undeath by Arthas.

I think the original author intent behind Edge of Night was that all undead automatically go to the setting’s equivalent of hell, regardless their deeds. Of course, this has now been retconned.

Both written by Christie Golden.

I guess there’s superficial similarities, but not really? Acturus was a tyrant and a S-bag, who even Valerian wasn’t sad to see go, because he wanted the Terrans to have a better future.

Anduin cared a lot about his father, who was a decent person, and then had to struggle to fill the void, both politically and emotionally, that his death left.

Similar in that they’re both ‘good guys’, royal and blonde, I guess…?

I’d really rather you didn’t.

Considering that would give us these guys, I say, yes, let’s do that.

Section about Argent Dawn Templars.

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My loyalty in this instance can be bought but they’re such a charming bunch…

That’s not going to happen. The guy is basically self-insert writer (hello nathanos) supremo who seems to take his cues from half-watched MCU movies, except with the same quality as a fanfic writer on deviantart.

The magical energies pouring out of Goldshire.

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