So I was thinking to make a Night Elf Monk, but It’s so damn difficult to see a lore reason for one to be one. I was thinking to go along with this idea and work myself up from it.
My Night Elf is a former Druid but after the Burning of Teldrassil he couldn’t bring himself to team up with the members of the Horde at the Emerald Dream. On his journey at Darkshore he met a Pandaren that began talking to him to find a path to find his inner-self. So here is my lore question.
Let us say my Night Elf decides to go to Pandaria to become a Monk to work on himself can he still be a worhshipper of the Elune?
I think its simple, but believable. Trauma and war can really make one struggle; lose their faith, their ways. And when its someone who lives for as long as a Kal’Dorei… it has been no time at all.
I think it makes sense that someone could go through something like the Burning of Teldrassil and need to get far, far away.
The monk ways could be a good way to roleplay your character dealing with the trauma of what happened.
Yes. If the Scarlet Crusade can field monks as fanatically pious in their belief in the Light as the rest of the Crusade, then a night elf could still worship Elune.
Good thing about monks is they don’t force anyone to worship anything, so you can still be a follower/believer of Elune while training as a monk. The Celestials are not really worshipped like some of the other gods in WoW, they are more guides/teachers that are highly respected, especially within Pandaren culture.
Things you can think about is what kind of monk do you want to be and which Celestial fits best with it, perhaps you travelled to that zone and spend the last couple of years training there. It is not unlikely for a nelf to have had combat training, so you don’t have to start from scratch when it comes to combat experience.
Maybe you spend the last years in Kun-Lai training as a pupil of Xuen, which means you might have had to deal with some remaining Mogu in the area, you probably met some Grummles.
Something i do myself is visit the zones my character is from or has spent a long time there and see what the zone has going on that i can add to my chars story.
Great advise! I assume picking a Celestial is not like picking a new religion? Picking a celestial is like picking a path for your training to which I assume?
The scarlet monks are not chi controlling monks. They are very different! But yes you do not have to set aside your faith to become a monk. You cannot even compare to the Light because Elune is an actual Goddess. It is perfectly possible to roleplay a traditional Kaldorei monk.
No? They are exactly the same as Chi controlling monks, they were even taught the ways of the monk by a pandaren in one of MoP’s more questionable moments.
Brother Korloff first learned of the monk’s deadly arts from pandaren ambassadors as they journeyed through Azeroth. When the crusader demonstrated this martial style to his superiors, they unanimously ordered Korloff to train an entire generation of initiates in the ways of the monk.
Pretty much this. I suggest checking out their temples in Pandaria to take in the vibes of it. Personally i like the Jade Serpent and the White Tiger allot.
That would be the Argent Monk, who to this day remain Light-using warrior monks.
As for monk styles, there’s more than just the 4 Celestials. In Shadow of the Horde we’re told a tale by Taran Zhu about the 12 Masters who each solo defended the Kun-Lai Pass, devicing a new martial art style and laying the foundation for modern kung fu (for a lack of better term). All Pandaren martial art styles are descended from those 12 styles one way or another, with new ones being birthed as people innovate. But if you trace that style’s lineage back long enough, you will arrive at one of the 12 main styles.
