Hello everyone, I wanted to ask a question about lore. Magic in Warcraft is usually categorized as a cosmic force in general, an elemental power, or a mixture of both. The question would be the following: characters like Algalon the Watcher of Ulduar and Rygelon from the last Shadowlands raid belong to the Constellar race. They use cosmic magic. To which force would this magic belong? Originally, I thought it was higher arcane magic. However, currently, characters like the upcoming Demon Hunter Devourer will use spells that do that type of damage, and this would be more related to the void. So, to which force would this type of magic belong in the end? Can someone clarify?
From my understanding cosmic magic is a hybrid school that combines arcane, holy, nature and shadow, and is supposed to be the magic school associated with creation and the cosmos.
There are other hybrid schools like radiant which combines holy and fire, or shadowfrost which combines shadow and frost as just two more examples from a priest players perspective.
Concerning the new demon hunter spec, if the damage is cosmic but more related to the void, then it’s likely the source of magic may lean more heavily into shadow than the other 3 elemental categories (lore wise). In-game mechanics will be different though.
It’s likely you can think about it the same way as dark shamans use decay magic to dominate the other elements (storm, earth, fire, water) when casting their spells; as opposed to a traditional shaman harmonizing the four elements with spirit when calling upon their abilities.
So in the context of the demon hunters cosmic spells they could be using void as the driving force. Although, I’m just speculating here as I don’t know the lore behind the spec other than their intro during the K’aresh raid. We’ll have to wait until they’re released to find out more. There’s probably going to be some introductory quest/story for demon hunters too.
See the wiki links below for more info if you’re interested in some further reading:
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Magic
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Magic_schools
As a further note, I find it kind of interesting that it implicates that demon hunters can now innately use light + nature magic in some capacity if accurate. Would of thought other hybrid schools like shadowfrost or shadowflame would be more appropriate, so there’s likely a lore reason they’re going with cosmic for the devourer spec. Most likely it’s going to be related to the void lords etc… being cosmic/space entities.
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