Excellently written guide, Desolaari. Eredar roleplay especially could really benefit from a guide like this, given how challenging a concept it can be to tackle.
As for Illidari-aligned Eredar, it’s a possibility to go with that angle, but being a long-time Illidari RPer myself, I honestly think one would be better off going as either penitent or evil. Being an Illidari demon is far from a free pass to being in public, as they’re never seen where other mortals are around. At best one might be let out to fight alongside their demon hunter handlers during times of war.
The demon hunters would be highly unlikely to be your buddies either, but rather a parole officer who, rather than waiting for an excuse to send you back to prison, is waiting for an excuse to kill and devour the demon’s soul. Unlike most mortals, these guys are more than capable of delivering true death.
So while possible to go with the angle of Illidari-aligned Eredar, I’d personally take my chances with the Vindicator escorts myself. Or go full mustache-twirling evil. Who needs redemption when you can have more power?
Contextually determined is a good point tbh, considering people will either honestly engage with Man’ari RPers making a genuine effort to try and RP one well, or they won’t.
As for the greater scope of using various ideas to be out in the world as a Man’ari, I’m going to 4th wall this a little and straight up say that I’ll never really judge a Man’ari for going to Stormwind, because that’s simply where the RP is.
I whole heartedly agree with Hartuum here, in that Man’ari shouldn’t really be seen outside of Draenei held lands, but there’s no RP there and unless you arrange for RP to be had there, you’re not going to find it.
Maybe there can be an effort to allow for this RP to be explored with a permissive element?
On the subject of Vindicator escort? Yeah, tried that. Both with a friend and with a TRP skinned pet using various buffs to simulate an NPC escort .
People either ignored the escort, whether they were a player or not, or they RP’d with the escort and ignored the Man’ari, again, player or not.
Frankly, I’ve not touched Man’ari RP outside of close friends since, hopefully that can change because it’s a really interesting character to play ^^
I nearly cracked my head over trying to remember which one it was, for I distinctly recall atleast one Man’ari that worked for the Illidari, and I finally found him.
His title even was Illidari Lord, so that does not sound like he was small-fry within the organisation either. Granted, so far this is the only named Eredar in the service of Illidan that I can find.
