I am currently roleplaying a human that developed the desire to go deeply into druidism. Whilst I myself am a patient being, my character not so much.
There are, at least to me, no known human druids that are not afflicted by the worgen curse.
So I am wondering on options my character would have to develop these skills, in addition to training by experienced druids.
I know that the curse would amplify the inflicted persons attunement to nature (potentialy at least) - but what else would there be possible from a lore perspective.
Could she try to gather support from the wild gods, in return for becoming a guardian and mender of the groves - so a blessing that would give her what is needed, without having to become worgen?
I am of course aware, that the connection to nature also develops by sheer exposure, mediatation and various other things - but as a human, this seems rather impossible to start with in the first place.
No reason to think there’s any inherent racial aspect of humanity that stops them from becoming druids, it’s just that their culture (save for the Harvest Witches/Kul Tirans) isn’t oriented around it, so they’re not prominent at all.
also there’s a human druid in Hyjal who we never see in worgen form, so their infection status remains to be determined.
I’ve left hints that my Forsaken’s family have a latent connection to Druidism, but since they’re muck-shovelling peasants for the most part they have no real way of explaining why they are so capable at growing crops in almost any climate - she tells tall tales of her great-grandfather growing a pumpkin as tall as a house, and how her family have always had lucky farmers in their number, but doesn’t know why
It’s not impossible to happen, and if you can creatively RP out them going along this path to druidism then I’d say go for it!
I like what Sathrynn said but if we haven’t seen it explicitly in game, it makes me wonder if it’s actually possible. Maybe it’s probable but is that enough?
With any kind of RP, no one should decide for you what’s good/bad RP, but don’t always expect open acknowledgment either. Seems very plausible to me–the concept–but I think that would depend on how it’s played out. Curious to see what you come up with, OP!
Back in Cata, the devs stated the Worgen Curse allowed the Humans of Gilneas to take their Druidism from what the Harvest Witches could do ( minor Nature magic ) to full blown Druids like the Tauren and Night Elves. The implication was that humanity wasn’t there, but Goldrinn’s blessing gave them that extra boost.
It seems the Kul Tirans managed to reach the same potential without needing the curse, so I don’t see why you can’t have a Human Druid now.
Thornspeakers are druids to the same extent druids of the flame are imo. They -are- druids but it’s a different aspect of nature. Whether regular humans can do what, e.g, night elves can, idk. I’d wager they can but blizzard is yet to confirm or deny (unless they have somewhere???)
I mean, they’re shown doing p much all of it in the drustvar story except for the stuff Balance druid does, which is instead covered by the lun’alai of zandalar
The harvest witches might as well be, at this point, considered druids with how diluted Blizzard has made everything. In his short story, Lord of the Pack, Genn encounters a few shape-shifted druids and his thoughts immediately goes to the harvest-witches.
Then the massive crows morphed. Genn was still getting used to seeing this transformation. He had heard that druidism was practiced among some of Gilneas’s agrarian folk, but he hadn’t been exposed to it until recently. The bird shapes twisted and jerked, wrenching their anatomies into their more natural forms—those of kaldorei druids, two males and one female.
This might imply some harvest witches were capable of shape-shifting before they were turned into worgen, it might not.
There are the Thornspeakers in Drustvar, though they’re a rather unique sort - even beyond their thoughts on the cycle of life and death. Ulfar states plainly that Kul Tirans who “hear the call of the wild” joins them, which seems to imply only a select, if you would, blessed few are capable of joining / becoming Thornspeakers.
Either way, be it as it may, humans have wielded crude druidic magic for thousands of years now. One actually becoming a druid would hardly be the worst thing to have happened in Blizzard’s lore, nor a bad bit of headcanon for something with justification in the lore.
