Headcanon 2: Electric Boogaloo

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the heady days of my youth - having a woman id never met scream the word 'cube' at me and 23 others at 23:30
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06/01/2018 20:41Posted by Pithkiulo
As for my headcanon, all Zandalari Trolls speak with a Ugandan accent.
But do dey no da wae?
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09/01/2018 12:37Posted by Ishan
06/01/2018 20:41Posted by Pithkiulo
As for my headcanon, all Zandalari Trolls speak with a Ugandan accent.
But do dey no da wae?


I have been seeing that meme crop up everywhere now, and I do not approve of it all that much.
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I remember reading somewhere that Argus' essence, or something, was the reason behind demons being able to reincarnate after being chucked back into the Twisting Nether - or was the reason they made it back to the Nether in the first place.

I've played off of that to form some headcanon wherein demons unbound to the Burning Legion (pretty sure Sargeras builds his army, rather than every single demon ever to automatically belong to BL) don't benefit from this reincarnation thing and can be permanently banished, or outright killed.
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09/01/2018 13:26Posted by Alvarin
I remember reading somewhere that Argus' essence, or something, was the reason behind demons being able to reincarnate after being chucked back into the Twisting Nether - or was the reason they made it back to the Nether in the first place.


My headcanon is that their closest racial graveyard is located way out in the Twisting Nether, and the corpse run just takes ages.
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09/01/2018 13:26Posted by Alvarin
I remember reading somewhere that Argus' essence, or something, was the reason behind demons being able to reincarnate after being chucked back into the Twisting Nether - or was the reason they made it back to the Nether in the first place.


It revived them a helluva lot quicker than would otherwise be the case, but demons have always been "immortal" in that sense. That's why Sargeras imprisoned them on a planet for eons... you know, before he set them all free and made them his personal army.
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09/01/2018 13:26Posted by Alvarin
I remember reading somewhere that Argus' essence, or something, was the reason behind demons being able to reincarnate after being chucked back into the Twisting Nether - or was the reason they made it back to the Nether in the first place.

I've played off of that to form some headcanon wherein demons unbound to the Burning Legion (pretty sure Sargeras builds his army, rather than every single demon ever to automatically belong to BL) don't benefit from this reincarnation thing and can be permanently banished, or outright killed.
I think its that argus is the reason demons are able to reincarnate in a manner that is useful if you're running an infinite army - ie. in a predictable place and at a roughly predictable time rather than scattered across the twisting nether when and wherever magic decides, if it's not that's what I'm going for in my head.
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09/01/2018 13:45Posted by Zulj

My headcanon is that their closest racial graveyard is located way out in the Twisting Nether, and the corpse run just takes ages.

I like this one. Like when you fall out of the world somewhow and it puts you in Westfall graveyard, far, faaaaaar from where you last were.

09/01/2018 13:48Posted by Nathaniel

It revived them a helluva lot quicker than would otherwise be the case, but demons have always been "immortal" in that sense. That's why Sargeras imprisoned them on a planet for eons... you know, before he set them all free and made them his personal army.

I don't even know how I forgot about Mardum.

09/01/2018 13:51Posted by Jenit
I think its that argus is the reason demons are able to reincarnate in a manner that is useful if you're running an infinite army - ie. in a predictable place and at a roughly predictable time rather than scattered across the twisting nether when and wherever magic decides, if it's not that's what I'm going for in my head.

I mean fair enough - using Argus' essence as an anchor point for reincarnation, rather than the be all and end all in terms of bringing them back.

Think I'll adjust the headcanon to say that unbound demons just end up reincarnating somewhere really inconvenient and far off and they don't bother coming back to Azeroth.
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09/01/2018 15:09Posted by Kife
Base-8 system has been widely used in real world too especially in computing, and apparently aviation transponder codes still use it. (Google octal or base-8)Doing math on certain base or another isn't really that different (you can still convert between bases), but some calculations become easier and stuff can fit more nicely. I could believe gnomes or goblins use base-8, though I think gnomes have been using binary in some quests in Gnomeregan?For more weird math, they could be using Clifford algebra or something in their theories.


Valid. Its just my Headcanon that a non-Gnomish or Goblin Engineer needs to seek out one of those races to learn Base-8, given that most Alliance denizens would use Base-10, and good point about Binary, we definitely see Gnomes use that.

As to Legs 'Bending the wrong way', I more mean that in certain races there is a natural back curve to how the leg works at full extension. In most races, the lower leg when kicking, is in line with the upper leg. In Draenei, Tauren, and now you mention it, Worgen, the lower leg is not in line with the upper leg, when extended, although the foot/hoof is. As such the strength dynamic is different, and whilst you theoretically could hook a foot under a Gnome and lift them slightly, you couldn't punt one. It isn't that those races have less strength in their legs, it is that the strength works differently. Think of like, the 'blades' that Paralympians use, that's the closest example I could give from our world. Now consider that the athletes who use those do so for speed, and athletes competing in purely strength based events are much more likely to use a normal prosthetic more similar to an actual leg shape.
I would say try it with a Medicine Ball, which would weigh less than a Gnome, but frankly, don't try it. Really don't. I'm not footing ( heh) your medical bills.
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Fey Dragons - the Draenor kind - and possibly Warp Stalkers are both native to Argus, and related to the other color-changing quasi-reptilian predator, the Panthara. They only came to Draenor with the Draenei, as we already know the Talbuk did.

Argus in-game has Panthara, Talbuk and Warp Stalkers still, adapted to survive in its new environment, but Fey Dragons may have been extirpated when they could not adapt, or corrupted into something by the Legion, perhaps even being related to the Felbat. Or perhaps they still roam Argus' skies, just not anywhere the Vindicaar takes us.
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Some more of my headcanon (which directly contradicts actual canon) is that Turalyon and Alleria didn't have to explain to the AotL why "battle elephants" are a good idea, and the AotL managed to suss that out all on their own.

Also that there's a distinct subset of 'broken Lightforged' who couldn't handle the lightforging process and now live out their lives as an oppressed underclass that deals with all the maintenance and care of the spaceships and gear behind the scenes.

They're also used as (sometimes literal) meatshields and testing dummies on new planets to confirm if the air is safe to breathe, food/water is safe, etc. etc.
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09/01/2018 18:32Posted by Elenthas
Also that there's a distinct subset of 'broken Lightforged' who couldn't handle the lightforging process and now live out their lives as an oppressed underclass that deals with all the maintenance and care of the spaceships and gear behind the scenes.


I think you'd just die a blazing death if you couldn't handle the lightforging. It looks pretty serious.
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09/01/2018 19:28Posted by Bramblefur
I think you'd just die a blazing death if you couldn't handle the lightforging. It looks pretty serious.


One of the lines from the unlock quest cutscene is "Many worthy draenei have undergone this trial, only to return broken...or worse."

After the trial concludes, T'Paartos is Lightforged, which indicates you can indeed be 'broken' by it.
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It's never explicitly said in-game, but it makes sense; the large golden arm with the coiled end on the blood elven dockyard building is actually a crane which swings around to the jetty and over the ships to load/unload cargo and other items.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/c/c6/Sunsail_Anchorage.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070121134620
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Come BFA, the Blood Elves activate Ban'dinoriel, shielding Quel'thalas and preventing the Alliance from conquering all of the Eastern Kingdoms after Lordaeron falls(?) and giving a neat explanation for the eternal limbo in which Quel'thalas and the Draenei islands find themselves since TBC.

Also, once Lordaeron is conquered(?) some Forsaken refugees will be allowed to hide in the Ghostlands as a token thank you for them helping to keep the Scourge in check there.

Once the Nightborne, Highmountain and Zandalari join the Horde, it becomes even less "tribal" than before with the inclusion of a confederation of Tauren Tribes, a nightborne city-state and the remnants of a troll Empire.
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Blood elves have developed something akin to the english taunt, after rumors have spread,about captured rangers having their index and middle finger cut off by extremist Alliance groups.
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Blood elven crests and emblems are for the most part, heavy variations of stylised birds.

http://www.scrollsoflore.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=514&stc=1&d=1247482624

On the left is the unobtainable Tranquillien tabard and the right is the Sunreaver. Not to mention the Sunfury and Blood Knights are plays on the Silvermoon Tabard which in itself is the crest of the Sunstriders; a phoenix.
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09/01/2018 10:32Posted by Adorján

I remember when I slayed my first Magtheridon.


Now I can't not picture him waking up in a garishly decorated chamber to the cheers of heavily armed draenei in festive seasonal hats. Grumbling in stoic despair, the great demon braces himself. "Not this again..."
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I like to imagine that Archmage Runeweaver is either awful at conjuration or was having a laugh when he wrote the book on it.
More formidable specialists in conjuration can summon several glasses of water at once, or perhaps even a tankard.

Perhaps a glass is simply the hardest item imaginable as water elementals clearly show that it isn't the water that is hard to make. Mage-lord Urom is clearly capable of conjuring multiple creatures that are combat ready and still have the energy left to fight later. Not only that but Runeweaver also seems to imply that water elementals were first conjured by forgetting to create a cup so either all conjured water is sentient, arcane magic is less than precise or that he made it up.
A couple of NPCs go as far to conjure weapons that may fight for them.

Clearly this so called Archmage is a sham who is backed by big bakery to keep us honest conjurers suppressed and buying real food.
<Penned by the skilled hand of Archmage Ansirem Runeweaver>
Yeah right.
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09/01/2018 22:07Posted by Aerilen
Blood elven crests and emblems are for the most part, heavy variations of stylised birds.

I feel like warcraft elves in general have a thing for birds. Look at ballistae, Black Rook Hold's armour, how often night elves use owls, every thalassian tabard ever made, the sunwell plate sets, the bird-like decorations on a lot of elven bows, and the wings on those blood elven siege engines that we see in the Sunwell and during 5.2.

Actually, speaking of those, can anyone actually tell me how those things fire? The button-like ammo, are they tossed like a catapult, or shot like a ballista? They bother me every time I farm Sunwell stuff D: