I swear if we’re complaining about the tree being on the isles and not on Kalimdor then I’m giving you nerds swirlies.
why isn’t the tree on the moon? is elune stupid?
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Yes, make the nelves have to deal with the loporrits.
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Oh my god what monster merged the bunny race with the potato race?
…please tell me that’s not how they came to be.
No, somebody created them and the rest of us have to suffer.
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In other news, got my troll back item and shield.
Fuming the ones that match the OG witch doctor outfit are 160k
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I don’t get the warden armour until March.
To tack on the gnoll quest, its true, the mage is definetly loopy but… well I think the only gnolls I found that were somewhat friendly were Sayge from the Darkmoon Faire and the gnoll pup we save in Azure Span. Aswell as maybe that king of theirs?
But as a whole, Blizzard keeps portraying them as just never really getting better. They’re still the cannibals they were since Vanilla, even if you don’t see tents with human faces on them anymore, and now they even went and gone to use Death Magic ( And I really wonder where that Decantriarch went off to).
So, even if the mage is definetly crazy and weird… as a whole they just don’t seem trustworthy, to put it mildly after seeing what they do to the Tuskarr.
There’s an entire tribe of ‘friendly’ gnolls in the Traveler book that trades with the protag’s ship.
Meatball is likewise friendly, serving as the Champion’s soldier across multiple expansions.
They also show up as mercenaries in WC3, and aiding other factions - they show up alongside the Zandalari in Kun-Lai, Hogger’s Riverpaws ally with the Defias, and they’re frequently seen in the Venture Company.
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Hello Telaryn
I sadly never read that book, never got my hands on it.
Somehow I keep forgetting this guy and I really shouldn’t.
Apart from the mercenaries… that still doesn’t make them friendly to us, right? Even if they’re not always dumb brutes.
There’s also Mon-ark.
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Gnoll_Mon-Ark
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Dont think to much about it.
A bit to the west in the same zone you lay waste to a gnoll camp because a gnoll was angry they didnt acknowledged his burgerking crown.
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Ah, that was his name! I mentioned him as 'Maybe that king of theirs?" but I couldn’t remember his name.
I do not, but clearly others on here do. Sometimes to the point I feel things are being over-analyzed a bit.
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They don’t need to be friendly to us, just display a capacity for working alongside others peacefully - which they do, on numerous occasions.
Killing a bunch of gnolls because they’re doing bad things is ‘fine’ (in the context of WoW morality). Killing a bunch of gnolls because they’re gnolls, knowing what we know about them throughout the fiction, isn’t - at least, not in the sense of it being a morally justifiable act.
Which in and of itself is also ‘fine’ - quests do ask you to do bad stuff, but the gnoll chain in Azure Span feels distinctly out of place in both Dragonflight and specifically coming from the Kirin Tor, who are framed in modern days as more ‘enlightened’.
If they want to return Dalaran to being a morally grey faction full of weirdo racists, then like, okay, I guess, but that’s not really what they seem to be aiming for.
Literally all the complaints would’ve been put to bed if there was a follow up where you - as a player - could choose to report back to Khadgar or someone else, and how you report it.
Imagine if you would the gnolls are replaced by a playable race. Non-feral worgen, or even humans. Humans show a distinct propensity for destruction and whatnot throughout the fiction, so it’s not exactly ‘unreasonable’ for someone to want to put a bunch of them down just for being human…right?
But no, that’d be weird, especially coming from a ‘good guy’ faction.
Grand scheme it doesn’t really matter all that much. It’s like five quests in one zone, but I want playable gnolls so…there, I guess.
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It will be forgotten about in a month tops.
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I’m months off getting the Warden set 
Which is fine, my Nelf Warrior mog actually looks pretty neat now, tbh.
Speaking of… what is the most flexible class, and why is it Warrior? Not enjoying my Goblin as an MM Hunter (doesn’t fit having a pet; feels WAY too squishy without one) ? Considering re-rolling her as a Prot Warrior.
Want to use the Nelf glaive and recoloured Warfront shield? Made a Nelf Prot Warrior.
Thinking of making a Dark Iron again? Warrior.
Why do I have such chronic Altitis? ._.
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they are the mon-ark of the gnolls, neither king nor queen
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And they are an accurate depiction of the anarcho-monarchist political viewpoint that dictates there are no rules (except for someone elected to oversee that there are no rules and that no rules are enforced)
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