That’s actually a pretty good idea!
Chronomancy: time-based spells, Aman’thul’s sphere of power and the magical domain of the Bronze Dragonflight
Arcane: space-based spells, Norgannon’s sphere of power and the magical domain of the Blue Dragonflight
Thank you Falionna, very based headcanon, it has some proper precedent, I’ll be sure to relay it to the good folks at Blizzard Entertainment!
There’s no inherent reason time should be based around arcane anyway. If anything, with arcane being Order and fel being Chaos, chronomancy (messing with the natural order…of time) could/should be fel, right?
Anyway I’m using death magic to kill time itself as a form of chronomancy.
dude… that’s deep…
My headcanon is that the remaining nightmare is exactly enough to be conveniently useable to provide some variety in RP events but without having any other effect.
Yeah.
Light and Shadow/Void magic are opposites, but also similar in many ways. Specifically, Light magic can also ‘corrupt’, much the same as Shadow can; except it tends to corrupt beings into extreme Order mentality, instead of extreme Chaos. In many ways it’s just as dangerous, but since most races are somewhat Order-inclined anyway, they mind less.
Other forms of magic don’t really have this kind of effect. This includes Fel magic: it’s incredibly dangerous, and has a good chance to backfire on you, but in itself it’s not corruptive. Most Fel users instead get corrupted by Shadow magic and/or by the demons they associate with… many Warlocks are just insane or seduced the old-fashioned way, without magical interference; doesn’t help the kind of person who would mess with Fel magic is probably not all that stable to begin with.
Not really a headcanon.
isnt that estabilished lore
Sadly yes. Thanks to mOrAlLy GrEy modern blizzard everything has to be made the same.
The Light not being a good guy anime power is based
On Chronomancy being ‘solely’ arcane (and also the Light being evil), I’d forgotten that the Lightbound naaru uses the questionably doublespeak named “Blessing of Eternity” (https://www.wowhead.com/spell=278285/blessing-of-eternity) which freezes the mag’har in time, apparently forever.
All Lightbound Draenei now have access to chronomancy. Fill your boots people.
I miss the 2000-2014 times. :C
Good point! Crystallization both in space and time. It fits the post-Chronicles concept of the Light well.
Not sure if it means something, but I bothered pointing the same thing out in a tweet to a Blizz dev and they gave it a like (which is pretty rare!?), so I assume they actually gave it some thought, which would suggest it’s not a meaningless case. Very cool!
It’s eerily similar to a vision of the Void that Alleria saw when she was training with the Locus-Walker.
She saw war. She saw the forces of the Light striking back against the Void. She saw darkened worlds burning in holy fire. She saw millions of creatures encased in luminous crystals the size of mountains, sustained by the Light and unable to die. Warriors of the Light were monsters, corrupting and consuming everything they touched.
TLDR: Void is the redpill, light is the bluepill.
Such a grim name, I liked it a lot. Need more of that good ol’ Lightbound stuff tbh
Both are external forces trying to puppet you for their own benefit. Trust no power but that which you own yourself.
Headcanon: The concept of Kiho (loosely translated as ‘Horizon Walkers’) Vulpera existed long before their joining the Horde. These were vulpera that chose to leave their caravans, usually on their own, to seek out new sights. They were generally viewed as oddities but not negatively, since a large part of the culture for nomads is striking a path.
This has changed in recent months, with the new cultural connections more and more vulpera have become kiho leaving some caravans underpopulated, meaning they’ve had to either abandon their ways or join up with another caravan - losing their unique culture. Among caravaners, Kiho has turned into a slur, akin to calling someone a traitor or someone who’s unfaithful to their family.
If WoW was an anime, every priest would be bad guy. And fat, for some reason.
This is the greatest argument for USA’s second amendment.
Like you, yah?
I wish. I’ve always wanted to play a fat elf. Bald, too, and with a long beard.