With the new expansion coming out soon, im curious on how your characters are going to react to the new race!
As for my characters, theyd be mostly curious (and on why dwarf looking people are in horde cities)
I will mrgl at them.
Nothing gets left unmrgl’d.
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My characters will be generally either rather curious. Or in case I play a dwarf they might be very interested into them or see them as “long lost siblings”. Because technically they are.
OOCly… its very different. At least I can already think of 100 different ways this could go wrong and that Stormwind will be turned somewhat into Khaz’Algar for a little while with many people hopping on the bandwagon until it gets boring for the majority. It maybe wont be as big as the Dracthyr, DK or DH, but surely a sizeable fraction of people will hop on them.
I, for myself, will just sit on the backseats and cringe myself into oblivion whenever I see an Earthen who eats, drinks, reproduces biologically or who has dwarven traits pulled out of warhammer instead of warcraft
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Dracthyr 2.0. An asexual construct race whose unique ethics, culture, history and issues we learn of and deal with during the start of the expansion and who then are let loose upon Azeroth to find their place in the world instead of a secluded smaller region.
Great potential, my characters will go to Khaz Algar and learn what the Earthen are capable of and who they are as a race, then realize that the Algarian clans are using Stormwind City and Orgrimmar as the dumping ground for every faulty Earthen that has been printed since we help them reboot their origin machine.
It’s the only way my characters can reconcile what they experienced in Khaz Algar with what they will see in Stormwind once the Earthen Roleplayers pop up.
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my monk loves to train by punching rocks
you do the math
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“Huh, there’s another colony of earthen besides the Storm Peaks? Interesting. Anyway, as I was saying…”
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I’m gonna kiss em.
Earthern are superior to normal dwarves because unlike normal dwarves the women can actually have beards, as they deserve.
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I’m going to RP one.
I’ll tend to the natural places of the world as Freya would demand! The gardens shall grow, the treants shall rise and… I’m going to be made of stone.
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From a Pandaren point of view the Earthen, at least at first, aren’t too different from the mogu. Both are Titan-forged races that somehow broke free from their code and gained free will, and it won’t take long for at least some of the Earthen to come to understanding of the weakness of the flesh and their supreme right to rule the Titan-crafted world. So if anything, the reaction would be wary and fully expecting trouble.
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Confused acceptance. Dwarves are Allies, but these stone dwarves are not Allies, despite everything that they have in common with their kin? Okay. If they’re willing to fight alongside the Horde, he’ll accept them as comrades.
Though I personally wonder how many people will try to use the new allied race to represent earthen who are explicitly not from Khaz Algar.
I wish they hadn’t removed downvotes.
They hated Obahar because he spoke the truth.
#GiveMoiraABeard
I expect Ronjo will find himself quite curious when it comes to the new Allied Race. He’s heard of Earthen, sure, but he’s unlikely to have met one.
He’ll have some questions for them to do with some basic things such as whether or not they feel pain, if they need to eat, sleep, etc., as well as obvious questions regarding how their natural waste works (if it’s crystal and some form of energised liquid, for example).
I think that, on the whole, he’d be quite quickly accepting of them - the Vulpera are a relatively recent addition to the Horde, after all, so who would he be to turn away newcomers?
Probably a combination of fascination and mistrust. He’d have a hard time not being interested in animated and sentient rock - something he’d instinctively assume to be related to the element of Earth. Even with their origins being Titanic and not spiritual, I don’t think he’d easily let go of that notion.
On the other hand, they have a more than passing resemblance to the Alliance’s dwarves. Dwarves on the one hand being warriors worthy of respect, but on the other hand a once-hated enemy of the Horde. Earthen also join both factions, making it all the harder to simply view them as members of the Horde in truth.
Should be fun to contend with preconceived notions IC - it usually is!
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A species created through magical means as a tool to follow the orders of their creators without question, with fear of punishment hanging over their heads should they do otherwise? Well, that just sounds too familiar to him not to at least sympathise and offer them a drink to go along the way, even if the finer details of their culture and their existence are a little lost on him.
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The big question I would only have in regards to the Earthen:
How will Blizz deal with the complications coming from the Curse of Flesh?
Wasnt it described that the curse of flesh could not only be contracted by new constructs but also be spread on pre-existing ones?
That would open up a big can of worms - Are the earthen bound to fail as people by contracting the curse when they live among humans, gnomes and dwarves?
They will most likely not touch upon it at all.
Except for the two entire zones out of four from next expansion, all with main storyline questlines, as well as side-quests, exploring every intricracy of Earthen culture and their relations to the rest of Azeroth.
Other than that? Yeah, not at all.
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In honest reaction.
Primary: Options for trade of goods, or skills - more labour.
Secondary: Can Lochton pry wealth from the body of a fallen Earthern? Can he claim and resell the gems that might be lodged in their stone-form?
Tertiary: What are the possibilities of including their facilities for production and resources.