This is not a lore backseat, though.
The Ebon Blade and Scourge just are not picky on who they raise into undeath, unless you’re suggesting someone imbued by the Light stays so after death, which would open up the can of worms on how Arthas and Paladins could be turned into death knights.
What’s next? Gnome warriors and hunters make no sense because they’re “too small” and “would be eaten by their pets” even if we have tauren warriors tanking dragons the size of cities or tauren hunters running around wil devilsaurs twice their size?
This bothers me more then most other races becoming monks, honestly.
Why would they changed the Light monks 
Yup, they should all have been Pandaren.
Admittedly, for some races I could accept masters being present.
Chen Stormstout was a close ally to the New Horde and some orcs, trolls and tauren could have tried to emulate him and be succesful.
The draenei have been training in Ammen Vale since TBC to become Pandaren-style monks.
And the night elves, while possible, are tricky. Since the Pandaren Empire and Kaldorei Empire were ancient allies, some might’ve been trained before the Sundering, it’s how I RP Mithralles anyway, but we also know a majority of night elves were (or still are) xenophobic…ish.
Headcanon:
Pandaren weren’t actually the first monks, nor did they make the style they use. The non-pandaren grandmasters are in-fact decendants of the ones that taught the pandarens in secret.
They simply asked the Pandaren not to mention them in their scrolls.
Change my mind.
Yeah, it really bugged me at MoP launch to see a high elf named Cheng inexplicably being a monk master and hanging out at the Peak of Serenity. I just preferred to pretend these masters didn’t exist.
There are small populations of Zandalari and Kaldorei who were living in Pandaria before the Sundering, training as monks. The modern masters are their descendants.
The gnome actually found his way to Pandaria through the mists sometime during the Second War. He actually has a really interesting backstory Blizzard is planning a comic book series around.
Dreadscar Rift remains a clandestine hub for all walks of warlocks to meet at and perform rituals/research.
This might very well be the case, but I don’t think we’ve been shown their status after Legion.
I think it’s safe to say that the class orders haven’t been affected much by the events of BfA bar the Knights of the Silver Hand, who seem to have broken up. Think the many members of the different orders would value the neutrality and resources their organizations provide over participation in another “senseless conflict” (here I quote a noble night elf druid of the Cenarion Circle who made this statement most nobly and with great gravitas knowing only a short while ago his home was torched with his family in it, dying one of the most agonizing and excruciating deaths in existence - but as we all know, “peace is the noblest aspiration of all”, so it didn’t really matter all that much, of course).
Anyway, I like to think that Turalyon is (indirectly) responsible for the end of the neutral incarnation of the Silver Hand. He rejoined the Alliance immediately upon his return to Azeroth, wanting nothing to do with an organization that accepted Horde paladins. The return of one of the greatest legends of paladin tradition, with an army of draenei even more powerful and devout than the draenei they knew by his side on top of that, prompted many of the Alliance Knights to follow his lead. The time of neutrality was over before the war had even started!
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You should let go of that place and visit us in Telogrus instead.
I will need a massive satin sheet bed, demonic handmaidens, and the ever-beating heart of my slain nemesis chained in a place of honor.
Then it’ll be homey!
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Telogrus suck in comparison.
Coldy, I’d love to visit your Rift, alas I am not a void elf and thus not welcome.
Other elves are welcome too, from what I have seen.
I’m not an elf…I mean I am a gnome elf! a gnelf!
There I thought you’re not a gnelf, and not a gnoblin either.
You’re right, I am a proud gnome, that is superior to elven kind!
Now let me in that Telogrus Rift of you silly elves!
Warlocks can totally summon you there. Non-elves have visited from time to time!
Damn, really?
Wait, that means Mechagnome warlocks can summon dwarves and normal gnomes to Mechagon too!
I LIVE!
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Jump into a volcano and die, you filthy wretch. >:|
GNOMISH TRAITOR!
Is there some love story hidden here between you two?
A story where love has triumphed over the faction war and the previous misdeeds ! Oh what a tale!
What happens during Goblin/Gnome love, stays during Gnome/Goblin love.
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In the years since Dalaran’s fall (and still after its return) Venetia has drawn more and more spellcasters to its walls that might otherwise have ended up in the Kirin Tor’s grip.
The city itself is lead by a number of major familial bloodlines vying for control, presided over by a Grand Duke, a position that rotates every two years focused on foreign policy outside the walls, while the rest of the Dukes* direct domestic endeavours, mostly dealing with building up their power base, attracting new talent and exploring magical secrets. Many see the Grand Duke position as a distraction and don’t wish to take it on themselves.
However, as Venetia has stayed absent from all the major conflicts of the last few decades, their power has grown and now a number of opposing viewpoints regarding interaction with other nations, especially Dalaran, are threatening to tear the city apart, though the current Grand Duke has kept it from boiling over…for now.
*female Dukes are still called Dukes. Their partners, if married, are merely Lords/Ladies.
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