My headcannon is now that the gravity-related perks of being a lightwielder is why they named it “light” and not “heavy.”
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ad - all scarlet crusaders are just racist
rips off the gattling gun off a spider tank
orcs now have gattling guns.
The MU Burning Blade are how they are because when their clan submitted to the Fel they went from the most disciplined, honourable clan to being the most savage and feral - akin to beasts. The survivors are all about redemption and regaining the honour their clan, honour that was lost when they all devolved into bloodthirsty lunatics. AU Burning Blade didn’t suffer the same fate and thus they are different.
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I mean canonically, they are not racist so much as apocalyptically xenophobic, opposed to literally everyone who is not them. This isn’t their fault, they’re led by one of the most notable paladins in history (or were) who just happens to have been killed and replaced by a dreadlord. But they are determined to murderconvert everyone who is not them.
Some of my Headcanons:
- The Shattered Hand have always been a symbolic sort of clan (what with self-mutilation being a fairly routine for them, scarring themselves up for victories and that). As a result, the Horde’s spy organisation resembles the Dark Brotherhood in its organisation - with five high-ranking members making up the finges of the ‘Hand’.
- Elvish artwork is very similar in traditional patterns to Zandalari artwork, but rather than the blocky Aztec-inspired designs the Zandalari use they take those frames and make everything curvy and floral.
- Elves get very annoyed if anyone points out the above headcanon.
- Tauren are incredibly heavy to the point of being largely immoveable by other races. The reason that Tauren began the custom of burning their dead is because burying one another is such a pain given the size of the hole and the weight of the body.
- The reason the Ebon Blade have not yet been punished by their shenanigans is because of the protection of the Factions. Sylvanas does not greatly care about the lives and sanctity of a few paladins, the Alliance cannot alienate their EB soldiers and thereby be totally without Death Knights, so there is an uneasy agreement to let the crazy beggars off this time.
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They’re convinced that outsiders aren’t just infidels, they’re damned, possibly plagued agents of the undead scourge in need of purifying by a fiery death. The surviving scarlets in northrend are a fanatical cult that cannot grow due to its reflexive impulse to destroy all around them while culling themselves whenever dissent arises. They’re a bubble that suffocates everyone inside while they scream off the top of their lungs that it is the only fresh air left in the world.
Seems about right to me. Elves love their celtic spirals. Furthermore, the titan designs of facilities and constructs in Zandalar serve as the foundation of their artwork and clothing just as the wider Kalimdor designs of titan structures gave the elves their roman columns. Woodworking traditions from the pandaren to the south gave the later kaldorei their vaugely japanese buildings to go with their domed stonework, though some of it was simply an adjustment of old designs from stone to wood as their culture changed from classical high to wood elves.
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You’re describing the SI:7 here, buddy.
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…Oh so I am! Huh.
Neato.
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The infamous orc blood rage is a hardwired safety protocol inherent in all children of Grond, causing them to go into a destructive frenzy when things are dire. Perfect for culling the Primals, less so for a stable society. Orcs as the last form of Grondspawn are particularly vulnerable to the rage kicking in and only the Frostwolves saw the need to temper it.
It’s still there and manifests as an enormous pathos against slights and injustices, serving as the foundation of orc notions of personal honour, blood vengeance and warrior codes.
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Love you though #NoHomo
Also, I like Levey’s headcanon, I accept it for my orc warrior.
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My headcanon:
Due to various examples of HM NPCs, I believe that the HM Tauren are -on average- taller than the Kalimdor Tauren. Another reasoning from me is that in the WotA scenario, Jarod Shadowsong commented how Huln had apparently gotten bigger since he obtained the blessing of Cenarius.
While I could understand the guards being made so for gameplay reasons (better visibility), I see no reason why the common NPCs and even vendors are often taller than the PC HM. Their size seems to fluctuate between normal size, darkmoon firewater size and giant growth size in no particular order, although the firewater size NPCs seem to be the most common sort.
Seeing as such NPCs are seen even in BfA in various outposts in Kul Tiras, I believe that there is something more to this than just a random gameplay reason, seeing as almost all Kalimdor Tauren NPCs in the world are of the normal size.
I’d interpreted that as Jarod not quite having figured out what changed about Huln rather than an actual size thing (Big antlers instead of (relatively) small horns).
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That is also plausible. But until we get a concrete answer, it can be interpreted in various ways, and the presence of tall HM NPCs on such a large scale makes me believe that Huln really did grow taller with the blessing (which had actually happened as his model did get bigger after getting the antlers, but I am not sure if it was done purely for gameplay reasons or not).
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I thought the “normal” tauren where downsized dramatically ingame, and Highmountain tauren are just as tall and big as their Kalimdor cousins.
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That’s what I had understood as well.
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But then that begs the question: Why is almost every tauren NPC in the game normal sized while many of the HM NPCs are taller? Even in BfA this holds true, so it cannot be blamed on Blizzard being too lazy to make some of the older tauren models in Kalimdor taller. Also, the HM do have some members who are as big as the Kalimdor tauren, so again it makes no sense that there is such a large number of taller HM models if both HM and Kalimdor tauren are of the same size on average.
Probably because they couldn’t revert those changes.
I mean many people only know the tauren as the current-sized bovine warriors they are, instead of the Highmountain-sized mass of muscle they should be, with highmountain they could do it because many people see them as a dinstinct subrace anyway (and let’s not forget that many doorways finally allow entry to taller Tauren too!)
What I mean to say is, look at what kind of spasm many people go into for even minor changes, would it be worth it to change tauren models at this point? I’m pretty confident Blizzard doesn’t want to risk it.
i recall somewhere in lore that female humans could turn into steel, but this power waned over the ages. (this as obscure as bearded female dwarves being considered pretty among dwarves)
That’s RPG lore and not canon.
While I agree with that, I still see see it as an unlikely reason not to give the Kalimdor tauren at least -some- taller models in BfA if they were fine with making the HM ones taller. Again, they are both tauren, there is no ‘‘sub-race here’’. HM are just tauren with antlers, so why would they have bigger models on average? What is the lore reason for it?
If the real reason is really that they are scared to give the tauren bigger models because of the possible backlash (lol), then the least they could do is go forth and give a concrete answer to this, as so far they gave none on twitter.
I mean, you cannot just simply make most of the HM models bigger on average and give no reasoning for it in my opinion.