New customization options for blood elves and void elves
So blue, I’m ashmed to stand next to it
Well that’ll make some people very happy and others will keep screaming that it’s a personal attack on all who wanted real high elves as a subrace with every bell and whistle the hardliners cooked up in photoshop and fanart for several years now.
Neat.
So this ship is now officially canon https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story/short-story/a-moment-in-verse
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Goodnes gracious me…
Cool, now give us the canon Baine x Mayla ship.
Isn’t that a fact? Not just hinted here and there in game?
I’m pretty sure it was only hinted so far.
Cute. These things aren’t subtle so expect the good regent lord becoming king in all but name with a shal’dorei queen in the shadowlands novel. The fancy elves shall be united.
Void elves don’t need a king, though. Umbric is comrade. Freedom blooms, its vanguard advancing on purple wings.
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See, personally, with Blizzard’s fondness of reusing plot points, I expect a “THALYSSRA? WHERE ARE YOU???” about 2 expansions from now, when we revisit the Nightmare.
We all know what Thalyssra’s reaction would be
And she simply would walk away (explosion in the background is optional)
There’s a void elf NPC playing with puppies next to the embassy. Animals are just fine with them.
Also;
One of us! One of uuuussss…
What does that mean? I’ve no clue what that word means and it looks scary.
I think it means mentally differentiating. Haven’t looked it up though.
Compartmentalization is a subconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person’s having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves. Compartmentalization allows these conflicting ideas to co-exist by inhibiting direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self-states
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Technically, it’s more useful than it is a virtue but Marinya’s psyche has been a whole solar system of coping mechanisms revolving around the Scourge since the fall of Quel’Thalas and her personal failures.
Confronting the full gravity of it all would shatter her and she filters reality through a whole bunch of things. The virtue is that she’s actually good at doing so, keeping healthy.
Dream Diary stardate 76 - 33146,5
The Black Whale.
Far into the future we’ve grown more advanced and more aware. There is Light, there is Dark, there is the Force. Even so, no tradition of jedi and sith has risen and man tries to understand this fact through a filter of science.
On one of humanity’s colony worlds across the vastness of the stars lies a desert; A world that was dead, drained of life by an unknown power but enterprising spirits are rebuilding. Soon signs show that this desert once teemed with marine life; it once was an ocean planet!
Struggling to make sense of this, the expedition is drawn to a deep cave at the darkest reaches of this dead ocean. A vast cavern chamber with an impossibly large skeleton. It appears to be a gigantic alien whale, its bones somehow turned obsidian black and shimmering in the glow of the expedition’s lamps.
A surface level analysis soon proves this Black Whale had a brain capacity of a highly advanced, intelligent mammal and was clearly sapient. A feeling of dread grows in the cave. Something isn’t right.
The colonists are ware of the powers of Light and Darkness, some even on a barely understood intuitive level that lets them perform inexplicable feats. These adepts of the Force are called Wizards and many are drawn or brought to the Black Whale for study.
The sheer gravity of the Black Whale’s oppressive darkness torments many who cannot handle its malevolent presence but those strongest in the Light resist enough to gain clarity; The cetatean monstrosity was once part of this ocean’s most intelligent lifeforms, powerful in the Force and wise to the Darkness. Seeking ever more power to dominate the sea in its ambition, it sought the darkest places from which to draw stength, an unnatural lifespan and the power to absorb the Force of others. In time, it consumed the ocean with its parasitic energy, draining life to sustain itself until the ocean dried out and its body gave out.
The Black Whale still lives in this crippled state, its body dead but its mind alive. Its power endures and it hates its bipedal invaders. The darkness and madness of this place will never allow habitation, the Black Whale’s inscrutable will driving them to violence and hatred. The choice is made to abandon this dead world to the evil that consumed it with but a skeleton crew of Wizards to monitor its consciousness, making sure that this planet consuming monster never rises to threaten mankind.
Writing new characters is hard but I know that I overcomplicate the process too. Sometimes its best to start very simple and build on it even if the basic character should be more complex.
New transmog, I guess.
I think the most ideal is mostly figuring out their personality, just enough backstory to be able to give a vague biography and the essential details you can’t start without, then make everything else up as your character would reveal them?
There’s a problem with that in constantly walking around as an empty vessel waiting to be filled by the next prodding question, improvising something on the spot while others are rich and heavy with story already. I become an outsider who can’t meaningfully contribute, hovering around established, proper characters.
At least most races start with recent, shared experiences to build upon. It’s harder building from scratch in a different setting but with WoW I can reliably ask myself how my character reacted to and dealt with subjects A, B, C and D, all hugely formative.