So I wanna try and join the dark side…I mean the Horde side with a BE Priest. But I wonder if there are any good resources for a BE priest background. Do they all get powers by the belief into the Light or are they purely powered by the Sunwell?
Also, any good groups/guilds for priests around?
Either or is perfectly valid, though they tend to lean into the former more than Blood Knights do.
Up until they left the Alliance there was a presence of the Church of the Holy Light but was expelled and banished.
It isn’t necessary to still be a member of the Church but some still retain their faith in the Light in that manner while others are faithful privately.
You will have your connection with the Sunwell regardless.
Question: Blood Elves being the mana sucking vampires from the OG lore, would it also be an option for the character to drain holy light from other individuals?
Because that would be badass.
If they did not get redeemed during BC…
No culture operate as a hivemind. If you want to play it as a Blood Knight sucking holy magic from an external source, I’d say go for it. It’s probably not considered kosher by their peers, however.
Liadrin would probably RKO you for it. My take is that a refusal to move on from the practice would/should lead to said knight’s expulsion from the order, but that doesn’t mean they’d have to stop. They could keep it up but without being under the auspices of the order.
Oh the implication was very much that it’s possible, but they’d have to keep it a secret around their peers. Liadrin is so over TBC.
“Hey fella, why do you still keep having those headaches?”
“N-no reason, my lady.”
Blood Knights practicing Haredi Judaism confirmed!!
There’s an exact quote that confirms that blood knights can still theoretically siphon the Light like the good olde days, but it’s by Afrasiabi lmao
It’s a bit of a grey zone, considering the only example we have of blood elves draining the Light is M’uru. And M’uru was consenting.
Blood Elf priests (and to an extent the rest of the blood elves) were never really depicted as losing their faith or being violently against the light*. This is the domain of Blood Knights, to be fair, and they were loathed for a while due to rumours of M’uru.
"Already the rangers speak of your blessings with awe and respect. Now you can see how the Light serves us, allowing us to help others, but only after we have helped ourselves." - Cleansing the Scar.
Is a good example, doesn’t really sound hostile to me. Sounds like generic selfless priest mumbo-jumbo. There’s probably more I can dredge up - there was a blood elf priest guide floating around a few years ago. A lot of people conflate the Silvermoon priesthood with those found in the Sunfury or Dawnblade because they have cool, thematic names such as “Dawn Priest”. Which is probably where the confusion over blood elves worshipping the sun comes from too, come to think of it.
*That is, to whatever extent that Silvermoon was/is religious.
Edit: after a cursory google I can’t find the guide, which is a shame. =/
People have long conflated the cultural move of revering the sun as iconography in order to stick a middle finger up at night elf society with a religious devotion, yeah. It was the norm when I first got to AD.
People keep coming back to roleplay that in the current year, but most of the time it is done heavily over the top, pretending that it is TBC, with the whole kit and kaboodle. Imo there is nothing wrong with it, as long as it isn’t absolutely “heh, I still drain Light from X and you are all inferior”, because that just alienates people from your character.
If your character is old - you can always create a storyline how she/he, for the first time, felt the connection with the Light with the help of the humans and their Church of the Holy Light. That said, some priest elves participated in halting the Scourge’s advance on Lordaeron (some even were during the Stratholme Purge), so you could easily create some interesting background with that.
EDIT: that said, three currently active blood elf guilds: us (Sunspear), Division Twenty Three and The Sanguine eye - all recruit priests. There’s also Bloodsong, but they are all Horde races, not blood elf exclusive.
Another easy path is that you have retired from the Argent Crusade working as a Priestess in its ranks returning to your people.
It might not be much to go by, but if we look at what blood elven priest trainers say to non-priests when approached by them, it suggests that their society is still to some degree fairly religious.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Belestra
I have no time for a sermon now, . Seek your knowledge elsewhere.
Otherwise I don’t think they would be holding sermons, least of all to the public.
its a bit vague, but I go with it can be a mixture of the two (faith + sunwell) or one or the other exclusively
for my guy its a loss of faith in the light as a sentient benevolent force but restoration of trust in the sunwell as an everproviding font of life and power
That said a lightwielding priest for a blood elf would probably be bing chilling in the current culture of Quel’thalas where Light has a more prominent pressence in part thanks to the sunwells restoration
They would be able too yes in my mind, but they wouldn’t need too in order to sustain themselves as the sunwell is just there providing them with what they would be trying to drain from others.
at best it could be a tactic to deny others, though questionable if you can actually drain a person of all their light because iirc the light just keeps on giving to its believers so long as they keep faith so questionable if that would even be viable (then again naaru exist and they have fullness gage with massive implications tied to it)
I have used manatap IC still as a method to drain the magic from objects or spells but I approach the ‘forcing’ or ‘twisting’ of light to be a willpower thing (mostly because of the mental drawbacks it also gives)
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