Non Troll Loa worship?

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Do you think it would be possible for a non Troll to worship a Loa? Has it been done before?

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If you wanna count it as a loa, we see captain conrad worshipping G’huun.

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Certainly possible, question is if there is similar payoff for a non troll as there is for Trolls.

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I mean a soul is a soul, right? The Loa also seem to have no problems with Trolls from another place worshiping them, Zandalari worshiping the Drakkari loa for example.

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The Sethrak worshipped Sethraliss, who certainly aren’t trolls.

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As does the Quillboars with Agamaggan, A Loa(Wild God) in his own right.

But specificly Troll Loa, like Gonk and Pa’ku, I imagine its followers, already competitors would be hesitant and downright hostile towards any “lesser” races beginning to ask for their patron Spirit’s favour.

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Tortollens worship Kimbul in Vol’dun so it is not a Troll only thing.

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Oh, I’m sure the Zandalari would have an issue with it! I was more wondering about the Loa themselves being open to it. Thought up a pretty interesting idea for an old school green skin orc turning to the Loa from all the troll exposure.

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except for maybe a select few Loa, I think the general amount don’t really care who or what their followers are, but rather the tribute that is brought to them.

I imagine its all about getting the Loa’s attention really.

The great many Beast Loa we know of, are mainly Wild Gods from the Titan’s many test centers; Un’goro, Sholazar basin, Vale of Eternal Blossoms and others we haven’t stumbled across yet, likely destroyed during the great Sundering.

Loa is simply the title given to them by the Trolls, the word for “Spirit” or “Great Spirit” in their native tongue.

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From the list here: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Loa

Torga is worshipped by both the Tortollans and Zandalari, and Sethraliss is worshipped by both the Sethrak and Zandalari.

It also kind of depends on where you draw the line between Loa and a regular Wild God. If we take the broadest possible definition of Loa, druids that have an alignment towards a particular demigod also follow a Loa.

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Everyone should let Jani into their lives.

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One of the gilblin bodyguards in 8.2 has a buff called Gral’s Blessing, indicating that the gilblin in question worships Gral.

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Completely plausible: the Horde Player can bargain with them all. Even if those are unusual circumstances, it says it’s not impossible. Just take care with how you do it; a lot of roleplay that’s perfectly ‘plausible’ comes off odd in practice and makes people leery.

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It’s one of those things that kinda make sense?

I mean our characters know Loa are real and powerful, so why wouldn’t they worship them, if only for the ‘benifits’?

People whom act OOC like ‘Only trolls should’ aren’t looking at the bigger picture to be honest.

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Should work, I don’t think the loa really cares much, unless you work with the Old Gods or Blood trolls. Basically, as long as you aren’t seen as an enemy to them, they won’t care.

The Zandalari might, but who are they really to question whom the Loa gives their blessing? :smile:

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Weirdly this is something that has cropped up for us recently, in two ways, there was a recurring npc the Sun Hawks used to interact with in Stranglethorn, Jon’jin, or as he was formerly known, Lieutenant Jonathan Parker. A human, one of Kurzen’s commando’s, who literally in his case, ‘went native’, and managed to actually achieve status with a small Gurubashi subtribe, he revered Shirvallah. (Yes he was totally based on Colonel Kurtz from ‘Apocalypse Now’, but then, all of the Kurzen NPC’s in Stranglethorn kind of are anyway, so
I mean
they have -shamans-). More recently, as in the last mission/few days, the Sun Hawks ended up in a situation where they found themselves beholden to Jan’Alai, the Dragonhawk Loa of the Amani, which was
awkward
to say the least, Jan’Alai recognised them, and their respect for ‘his children’ but still was pretty peeved at the fact that they had slain many of his Troll followers. (despite setting this up, I didn’t actually play it through, as my PC had died, well, actually, is permanently dead, I’m on a Laptop now, which ironically gives better performance for WoW than my PC did!) The Sun Hawks had to seek the aid of several Troll Guilds to Intercede on their behalf in trying to make amends with Jan’ Alai, in a mini event I am gutted I missed due to techy probs, but apparently was awesome.

Point is, it doesn’t matter if -you- believe in the Loa. The Loa are there, it’s like saying you don’t believe in tables. Good for you, the tables are still there. Now you might not believe with a capital ‘B’ in Loa, and unless a Troll, usually will not, but that doesn’t matter, they’re there anyway, as we see with Bwonsamdi; the Loa are not fussy


They are, as pointed out, Wild Gods, they don’t -need- you, they -like- you to worship and follow them, but there are plenty of other mortals out there. They are not, with the possible exception of Bwonsamdi, actually Troll Spirits. They are Tigers, Panthers, Bats, Bears, Dragonhawks, Mammoths, Snakes, They’re all sorts of things, but not actually Trolls. Apart from the revered teachings of ‘Conan the Barbarian’ when do we ever see a Human Priest go wrong from worshipping a Snake God?

If you want to get pseudo-serious about it, then the Loa are of course related to our ‘Real Life’ Loa, as part of the religion that goes by various names, but most will recognise as ‘voodoo’.I mean goodness, the Loa of Death is Baron Samedi, whereas in WoW he is Bwonsamdi. Legba was one of the Loa described in the (now not canon) RPG books, and the corresponding Loa in our world is
Legba. Loa of crossroads, or to put that in context, the Loa of those moments in life when you have choices, and have to choose your path.

As we see in game, Loa frankly don’t care. Being respected, being given tribute, these are the important things to them, however, It is entirely possible that the Trolls, may regard them as a set of ‘state religions’ and so get really annoyed if others ‘appropriate’ them, or, alternatively, they might not, That’s very dependent on the Troll NPC or the Troll character that is being interacted with.

Now assuming that Loa in Azeroth are similar to 
uh, Loa in our world, then your race does not matter at all, they don’t care. They just do not care, their worship may be more prevalent in certain cultures or ethnicities, but, they’re pretty groovy with anyone who follows them. Loa are pretty darned interesting.

Besides, and I mean this with all due respect to people of faith, and the comfort it brings them, People do that. People worship something they cannot see, cannot hear, cannot touch, allows evil to happen, does not intercede on the behalf of the faithful but allows their mass slaughter
That’s
not something to worship? That’s your freeloading mate. They’re getting more out of it than you are
 At least with Loa, its a Bargain


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Putting it simply, there is a whole quest arc in Zuldazar where you pick a loa to worship, who then gives you booms, I get ingame process and so they can’t make something different for one set of races and something else for someone else. But as the previous post comments, plenty of cases just stating that you can have a worship a loa by any race. Because they ain’t racist.

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The Loa are wild gods, and of such it can be said that even Druids could (not necessarily would) seek guidance under them, depending on the Loa. Such as Gonk and Pa’ku being the most basic and easiest on such.

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As pointed out it might be possible. But I honestly doubt it would be common or anything.

From what I have seen those that do it just slap a thing that has defined the trolls onto something entirely else, like say a human. Only to then instantly claim X boons from said Loa. Which feels rather cheap I find.

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I agree with what a few others have said. Absolutely plausable, but you need to think through how you RP it.

Does the Loa speak to you, or are you more like a warrior class.
Do they help you and if so why.

How do you show in RP that you worship a loa, are you more like a crazy eccentric that people might believe is just playing at it? Or is it a subtle part of you, going to make offerings, praying, and so on.

It’s really interesting and I’d love to see/hear what you’re considering!

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