Adds up really, because most warlockery actually has incredibly little to do with fel. Most of it is dark fire magics, shadows, shadowflame, and the likes. Hell, to even get fel-ish abilities you need to do a whole optional questline for destro lock.
At the same time, warlock also builds on the purge squad lore. There was no small amount of warlocks involved there, so it’s the perfect place for a vulpera to find a no bueno magic tome/artifact/staff/etc and begin their new hobby.
Simply feels endlessly more fitting than mage to me for the wild desert scavs.
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Lets not forget that Destruction warlocks use the magic of the Firelands, originally, and not Fel!
I’m going to don my “ackhually” glasses for but a moment. Warlock lore is precious to me.
Warlocks are magicians of all creeds that crave power and where that power stems from does not matter. It’s about you jamming a cable into the firelands or draw energy from Sargeras’ armpit to produce a fireball the size of a car instead of adhering to careful arcane practices of Mages or Sorcerers. A warlock does not care about balancing the output with the input like Shamans or Druids. A destruction warlock can use any source of magic as long as it’s powerful enough for their desires, its not regulated to a specific area. The short story about the Council of the Black Harvest is but an indication of where some of the new spells were inspired from (The Firelands, Deathwing etc).
Ping me for more Ted Talk about warlocks.
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I think this common agreement is an extrapolation from the term “unholy strength”, which is/was (I don’t remember the context tbh) used here and there when referencing 3rd gen DKs in the game. Whether or not unholy strength means actual physical strength, or powerful attunement to unholy forces is up to interpretation I suppose.
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I think Vulpera are a great race with so much to do. It’s just sad that the overwhelming representation of them has been negative due to the actions of the player base.
This is a matter that has been discussed at length within the Pandaren discord. The lack of a fleshed out lore has led to there being little to guide the vulpera norms and customs that you might otherwise see in many other races. I’d hazard to say that they perhaps have the least fleshed-out culture among the allied races.
The lack of lore has led to there being a lot of Vulpera essentially taking on a whole different lore culture which results in them becoming a vulpera in name only (the amount of Vulpera master monks 
)
I just imagine Vulpera being somewhat akin to the Bedouin in nature, with a lot more grit and grift.
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I’d say that goes to void elves honestly, tho its a close one.
To this day we barely know jack about how/where/what they do, we just see a few standing around on telogrus (do they live there???) and a few military ones.
Void Elves as the current story goes, yes. But you have to consider they have the whole Quel’dorei/Sin’dorei story behind them etc. so you could say their culture and lore is largely fleshed out.
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Void elves are not blood elves, and void elves are not high elves.
They have a common history, but their paths are as divergent as those of the night elves and the nightborne, for instance. Not to mention that the connection to the Void has altered them to a significant (and thus far largely unexplained) degree.
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Yes and no. As Rykah said, they’re not the same. Sure we know about their past, but how the change has shaped them is basically unknown.
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The Vulpera design makes me uncomfortable. It drives me away. Their faces make me bite lemons.
From what i have seen and gathered from the BFA Alpha, the Quests and bits of Lore inside and outside the game.
Vulpera strike me as a very beduin like race, always on the move, or if they settle its not with huge foritifactions but rather tent cities.
I can see them picking up things as in traits or abilities over time or from learning from them from other cultures, or artefacts.
Still they strike me as very survivalist race which can be a threat if not taken seriously in numbers.
I know that UwU stuff won’t go away probably, but i ruins the way Vulpera should be viewed 
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This is actually a very interesting position and it is more or less what I had arrived at myself, it does seem to be their most recognizable trait as I mentioned in my post. Thanks for the input!
The furry fandom, of course.
Anyone who’s ever had any sort of contact with it, no matter how brief or accidental it may have been, will know that it was pretty much inevitable that Vulpera would fall victim to their…‘shenanigans’.
The Vol’dun questline does not help, what stuck with most people (me included) is that the vulpera scream “help” a lot and they like to give alpacas cutesy names and sing songs to them.
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Sadly I think the perception of vulpera is wrong from both people within, outside of, for or against the fandom.
People see small fox people and go ‘awh cute!’ without for a moment considering literally anything else about them. I’m 99% sure that’s where a majority of the “Vulpera don’t belong in the Horde” rhetoric comes from.
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You mean Meerah?
Literally the only Vulpera NPC who fits that description? Because everyone else is portrayed differently.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Nisha (obviously)
- Kiro
- Kenzou, Omi and Tasha
- Ranah
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What I mean is these are the things that stand out, also compounded with the fact that the Vulpera do not fight back in the Alliance incursions and the Alliance seem to pity the Vulpera to such an extreme that they don’t want to kill them, they instead scare them away with totem poles.
I know the other characters exist but they pale in presentation to the other stuff so when people look back at their time in Vol’dun they get understandably confused. The recruitment scenario is also a strange beast which seems to mainly be about the Vulpera doing menial labour.
Edit: For example, imagine in the Valley of Honor there was not just one but two quests in which you had to prepare for and then give peons footrubs. People would probably talk more about that than the other things you were supposed to learn, like communing with the elements or the troll wanting revenge before he dies.
yeah its like people only know Meerah and forget Nisha (the bloodthirsty warrior one who saves us) and Kiro the Caravan leader (and i think Shaman atleast somewhat).
Kinda feels like those people only want to see Vulpera that way and not anyway else, a pity really
weren’t the Alliance Purge Squads changed because they were deemed to “brutal”?
Even the name “Purge Squad” was removed I believe.