Oneofus…oneofus…
Thanks to this thread for reigniting my unholy flame for DK RP!
And thanks to the Ebon Onslaught for keeping acherus cold for me
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Jaina destroyed a necropolis with a blizzard though. Lamest death ever.
Finding RP as a Death Knight depends pretty heavily on your focus as a Death Knight, and particularly your presentation. People will test you as a Death Knight role-player, simple as that. Many will assume that your Death Knight should not be there and that you need a very good reason to linger about in a city.
Think of a vaguely interesting and plausible hook as to why your Death Knight is spending time say, for example, in Stormwind. It doesn’t have to be anything grandiose, or unique. It will also help your cause if this hook can easily involve other people. Maybe the Dark Irons’ new addition to the Alliance has made your Death Knight want to study their runes to apply to his own runecrafting, I don’t know.
Another important aspect is personality. If you’re going to be the millionth Death Knight standing around Stormwind muttering dark things, then people are going to have a rough time engaging with you. Remember that your character’s inner thoughts are a lot more interesting to you than anyone else.
It seems as if most Death Knights are either dark and cruel or stoic and aloof. Try to give your character a personality that goes a bit beyond that. Starting with a very general set of personality tropes is fine, but remember that you can flesh out a Death Knight’s personality quite a bit. Not all Undead are deadpan edgelords, see for example the Headless Horseman.
Best of luck!
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Jaina is non-canon
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Yo someone hit me up with a cool DK character concept. Want to make one but struggling to find inspiration. It’s not necessarily that I’m going to RP them, I don’t have enough time or headspace, but I only play characters if I find their concept cool.
I think it’s why I’ve struggled to play one before.
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Race: Tauren
Memories: Intact
All around view on his undeath: Disgusted. Tries to ‘redeem’ himself by serving the Earth Mother and the Ebon Blade to once again - be accepted by his people, by the Earth Mother. (Spoiler alert: Will never happen.)
Or, you can go for a Grimtotem. Even MORE BRUTAL! Kind of the guy that will throw his enemy on the ground and stomp their face with their hooves.
Metal.
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How/when did they die?
Were they part of the Scourge before Acherus? During Acherus? Were they never part of the Scourge at all? Their life will inevitably inform their death (knight) - Darion, Arthas, Thassarian as examples. Perhaps they even sought to become a DK of their own volition.
Once you’ve got that you’re gonna wanna think about how they reacted to being a DK and major affiliations (if any) - Scourge, EB, factions, independent, etc.
I suggested it as a Forsaken concept but it works for DKs too - a “man out of time”. A semi-infamous warrior who died thousands of years ago who the EB sought out and now finds their world to be totally bizarre and different, along with the changes they’re dealing with. They almost could’ve done something with Thoras for this but they didn’t bother giving him the time of day oh well.
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just rp a witcher bro
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why didn’t i think of that. thanks moody
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This IMO is the most important part of creating a DK. When. Why. Why would they be raised? What happened?
The Ebon Blade/Scourge doesn’t raise anybody. They need a reason to ‘seek you out’. Or to get you into their ranks. A worthy warrior, a good commander or even…
This, I quite like it.
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Yeah yeah yeah this I can get behind. Makes my special area tingle.
But what race would work best with this 
Even more importantly, what faction? So many questions.
I think I’d want them to be as recently raised as possible, really drive home that fish out of water point.
NElf, BElf, human or troll. Potentially zandalari if they really do get added as DKs. I guess tauren too but I don’t like them so pfffttttt.
I’d actually steer away from elves too, simply because their long natural life could make it less…impactful to be raised immortal. So probably human or troll. Troll would have the added thing of potentially having lived through the peak of the troll empires which are now…not there. At all.
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I was thinking troll, mainly because I do have a troll death knight that I was playing a year or so back that made it to the mid 70s. Didn’t really have a solid concept for him back then, but this could work well.
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please don’t there’s already sinners who do this uwu
Someone hit me up with that argent archives profile that is basically a straight witcher rip off with all of the signs and stuff
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Yeah, what he said.
Another one, no!
of course I know him, he’s me
https://www.argentarchives.org/node/106197
Not the one I was looking for sadly, but still a good example of it.
There is an Argent Archives profile somewhere where someone went into great detail describing all of the elixirs and stuff and it looked like it had been copypasted from the Witcher wiki.
that’s not a witcher, that’s Constable Natalis of Temeria
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Alright, bit of workshopping.
Troll warrior sought out by an Elven death knight who remembered battling him (maybe in the troll wars?) and finding him a worthy adversary, advising the Ebon Blade that he would be a prime candidate for reanimation.
He was mummified as part of their tradition (am I remembering that right?) in one of the troll catacombs that has since fallen into ruin. I seem to remember seeing them in the Ghostlands and in Grizzly Hills/Zul’Drak. A hunt begins for him on the sly and eventually he is located and raised.
Someone with some deep troll lore knowledge about to help me flesh this out a bit?
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