First they killed the Sporemounds, now they killed all the Primals. The Mag’har really are dangerous.
However, I reiterate: Where is that stated?
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My arms are too short : (
To be fair, this is your own view on the subject, because WoD and the mag’har quest at large don’t ever acknowledge in any major way a legacy left by the breakers to the orcs.
If anything, I had the impression that orcs were belligerent because they lived in a violent world and thus they learned to be violent; but barely any connection was done to the breakers.
NPC chatter, not quest text which led to the supposed ambiguity. Mag’har boast of having killed the primals, proud of their victory as the land dies in want of vegetation, other lines mention how the land is dying and the final piece of the puzzle comes from more npc lines about how this is due to the ruined balance and the mag’har are to blame.
The other hypothesis of how it’s all the Light’s fault is based on speculation of how writers may want to portray a world overwhelmed by it; see Revendreth’s court of embers while a land under its more benign influence is supposedly one of plenty as Light brings life and restores dying plantlife.
Please provide screenshots
I extrapolate the poetic irony of the orcs fulfilling their Breaker legacy by killing the ancestral enemy the Breakers were created to destroy. It changes nothing about every clue given in the mag’har recruitment blaming the mag’har for the state of the dying world.
If anything, you have more poetic irony as they live up to the continued trend of WoD’s alternate world with known characters falling into similar but different fates to their prime counterparts as though they were destined to the path of, in this case, destroying draenor by careless conquest.
I cannot return to the scenario to take them as it’s a one-shot trip, sadly but I found it very noteworthy and significant enough to commit to memory.
Most of this comes from npc lines mid quest, the “gossip” text of npcs and context. It’s very much pointed out to the player but irrelevant to the larger plot of rescuing the mag’har from the ongoing war; they may have doomed the world, the lightbound may be trying to “save” it by conquest but all you’re there to do is recruit orcs, not solve the crisis.
Let your poetic vein run free then, o thee maiden of irony.
But before the forums become filled with people complaining about Blizzard and orcish determinism, let’s give to Blizzard what is Blizzard’s, and to Levey what is Levey’s.
one truly wonders what Blizzard meant by the Orcs paving a giant road out of the skulls of Draenei civilians whether they join the Legion or furiously reject it
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Ultimately, Blizzard have had a very lop-sided focus on morality and even more lop-sided on what tethers something to the plot going forwards. There’s a lot of double standards in the plot that have happened consistantly over the years.
I honestly don’t think Blizzard thought hard about some stories, or even if they did, there’s been some weird stuff going on in the background (if you can take them saying Afrasiabi + co sabotaging the plot at face value).
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People who claim WoW has gone ‘Full MCU/Marvel’ are right in one respect.
Really wonky writing/power/character consistency…
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Yeah, that particular part of WoD is what really just embodies this to me, in the end! It’s very poorly thought out (or even at all) and I think there’s similar issues abound
They don’t matter much for the casual ‘oh hey, it’s [character] :D!’ enjoyer/player but it’s also not very good and I think it’s a part of the broader issues the writing has had for quite some time now that gets even more casual players to be unhappy with it, overall
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The quote is “We bested the Primals. We can bring down any foe.” which doesn’t really confirm that they exterminated them all like you said. Especially since we still see Botani running around.
Unrelated and no one can stop me doubleposting.
League of Legends has released a $500 (yes, five hundred smackeroos) skin for Ahri. The macro-est of micro transactions.
(yeah it gets you some battle pass stuff at the same time, but the skin in question is locked behind the $500 purchase - it’s the only way to get it)
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genuinely insane, who even pays for this
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Apparently it’s in honour of a player (‘Faker’) who doesn’t even use skins so that’s…I mean, certainly a choice.
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good evening gamers, in honour of the player ‘i dont play pvp game modes’ we have launched a new game mode in tribute, a looter shooter pvp extraction shooter where you need to pay 50 dollars for every game you wish to play
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Gonna buy it to support my favourite indie developer, Riot Games
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Faker is probably the best league of legends player of all time so it makes sense to pay tribute to him
just…not like this
WoD has this, Legion has the Aethas thing and BFA has the drust and Kul Tirans.
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