I respect the heck out of this. Small flavor aspects of character ought to have a bit of story behind them.
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The rise of the Primalists as an organised force has become a political burden to the Earthen Ring. Already seen as horde biased by the alliance members, the reverence of the big E Elements created a wider rift with outsiders.
Many remember the madness of the Twilightâs Hammer and the superficial similarity is enough to put many ill at ease before they learn of the cultâs talk of a purified world of wild elements. This naturally puts regular shamans in the crosshairs and raises suspicion of their âprimitive religionâ among outsiders.
To many, Primalists are the extreme end result of rampant pagan belief encouraged by orcish invaders and spurs the Lightâs faithful to action, promoting fervent agitating evangelism and calls to arms for the true faith.
Night elves are especially unsettled, seeing their own in primalist ranks as a great apostasy. True respect for nature among druids has them defending their practices but the weight of tradition makes it less necessary to prove their worth. If anything, itâs even more personal to stop these heretics. Eluneâs faithful must end this cult as a threat to their faith, spiritual existence and social cohesion as the faithless split and splinter their already frayed numbers.
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Gimlia Moonshadow declared âAnd the male Wardens are so alike in voice and appearance that theyâre often mistaken for female Wardens.â
Aragonil Greengrove, making a cupping gesture around his upper chest, whispered âItâs the boob armor.â
I am assuming theyâll have male and female versions of the armor once it arrives.
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I hope not.
I want everyone regardless of gender to wear the female version.
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I would wear it 100%,
Now if they only added an Umbra-Crescent as weaponâŚ
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Sandwich storage space.
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The black harvest and its council remains a dark reflection of dalaranâs council of six. Inherently adverse to being governed but eager for knowledge and power, many fresh warlocks join the ranks for access to the largest pool of profane lore in the hands of mortals.
With time, the organisation has become less centralised to accomodate this but the council maintains a vast spy network to clean up incidents and launder the general image of their profession.
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The political situation within QuelâThalas remains a deceptively stable mess as the magocrat nobility appease both Liadrinâs light fanatics and keep their profane allies out of trouble. A fourth faction seems to be gaining strength, however; royalists.
Emboldened by the wedding of the regent lord to the first arcanist, the nobility wishing to reassert their aristocratic privileges are getting more and more vocal about the benefits of a more entrenched hierarchy with a dynasty to bind all in their shadow. There are also commoners who consider the idea as a uniting symbol of the future of the realm.
This has of course been a much maligned opinion, with any notion of establishing a new dynasty tantamount to treason due to how it evokes the spirit of the mad throng of the Sun King but Lorâthemar marrying an outsider has taken the edge off the subject to an extent.
The most vocal opponents to all this are those magisters not of noble birth who feel as though they will be robbed of their station once the old blood start appointing their own awkward cousins for having the proper pedigree.
In addition, the most pious fall into two camps; those of supreme devotion to Light, Nation and Lady(Liadrin) and those less welcoming of change. While the latter appreciate a more defined and stratified system as the Light-willed Order of the realm, they simply cannot abide the regentâs opinions being swayed by elune worshipers and former demon collaborators from Suramar!
The situation is prone to produce a few incidents here and there and heated arguments in gardens and squares but no signs of concerning instability have cropped up quite yet. Time will tell if these factions will fade in want of further developments, be defused by the new kingâs decree or boil over into the streets but few actually want things to turn violent, biding their time.
âŚexcept the renâdorei.
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Another headcanon: a group of fanatic Nightborne do not like the idea of their first arcanist marrying into a society of demon collaborators from Silvermoon.
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The gnomish tendency, some say inability, when it comes to information retention, always looking forward and working to improve is what led them to inventing basic computing in the first place.
Thinking machines so to speak are primarily used for information capture and storage for future reference, based on the fundamentals of titan archives. True AI is still far off, most coding involved in the autonomous robotics being simple tasks on a loop to automate processes.
The draenei crystal computers and archiving is useless to this process, being too alien and arcane to most that arenât draenei or naaru to comprehend even if itâs remarkably user friendly.
Titan stone beings are of sufficiently advanced AI that they are indisinguishable from biological beings unless/until they start breaking down, actively conscious and resilient to the ageless monotony of their tasks. Like any truly sapient being, they are however vulnerable to insanity as manifested by the Void though their artificial minds somewhat insulate them from the degenerative effects, making some painfully aware of their own corruption in ways no biological being could endure.
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Headcanon time. Spoken Common does not sound as english IC, but rather the faux Latin heard in Stormwindâs theme and Invincible.
Thatâs just legit canon. Utherâs Memorialâs plaque in a non-Common speaking character reads exactly like that.
God Iâm good.
No, I genuinely didnât know that was a confirmed thing.
Faux Latin is also invoked by Khadgarâs incantations in WoD, further solidifying it.
Continuing on the subject of automation and machinery, humanity has developed harvesters for large scale agriculture and they see widespread use across the human lands from westfall to kul tiras. The rudimentary programming of these relatively advanced machines make harvests easier and where they falter, some models can be piloted as needed.
Their superficial resemblance to a traditional scarecrow is an active design choice, dressing the machine up to serve a dual purpose when idle.
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The elven pituitary gland is enlarged and infused with ambient magic, soaking up anything theyâre exposed to in small amounts and helping them adapt. Massive exposure floods the elven body with excess magic and the adaption misfires amidst a rush of hormones and they start to physically change, be it over generations or even minutes!
This is the biological reason for their tendency to transform into new subraces thoroughly adapted to their new circumstances and the root cause of things like green blood elf eyes, high elves shrinking and night elves growing antlers, going all the way back to the first of the kaldorei turning titan-shaped by the well of eternity.
This same process within their ancestors and modern trolls is what activates their infamous ability to regenerate, the elves having traded one thing for another.
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Thanks for overloading me with body horror with six words.
AAAAAAAAA
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(I forget If I ever posted this into these threads before)
Among all the perceived peasent/lesser Loa the lower tribes worship, Hirâeek is by far the least respected amongst Zandalari (Jani is an urban rumour propagated by inebriated, casteless beggars, of course.)
The Lord of the Midnight Sky protects his followers from the predators that lurk in the night, when the tribes either sleep in huts or underneath the open sky.
The Zandalari, being city-dwellers with houses of stone and the warmth of braziers, have absolutely no need to bargain with such a Loa.
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With the news of Velen permitting penitent eredar to rejoin their people, the ranks of the Lightforged swell as disaffected hardliners seek the certainty of the Light after seeing their âprophetâ fail them so grotesquely after millennia of trust.
Related to my previous post about subfactions in draenei society, the fundamentalists are now much louder, more visible and sometimes make a scene. The peacekeepers struggle to control these malcontents and when theyâre not busy agitating, theyâre huddled in dark places plotting radical change.
The Lightforged for their part observe, grateful to the Light for fresh blood, both in terms of recruits and demons to destroy. Their own hardliners may or may not be arming and training their exodar allies for the great realignment. If so, SI-7 is either ignorant or feigns ignorace to permit it.
The actual penitents are keeping their heads down, largely in hiding as nobody needs a prophet to know that a storm is coming and they all burned their umbrellas along with Eredath ages ago.
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