Greetings Argent Dawn!
So now that we have all been busy with the expansion for a while, I started to wonder something.
As most of us know by now, the Ember Ward is a stroke of land in Revendreth that is being scorched by the Light, and has turned into a wasteland as a result. Venthyr that are exiled here have to hide well in the shade or risk slowly being burnt to cinders.
Now my question is, what would be the effect on say, death knights, demon hunters, warlocks etc? As we are not talking about the Cathedral of Light ,but a place where the land has actually become a desert under it’s searing heat. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
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You know I thought the same thing myself.
My first immediate conclusion was that it wouldn’t be very pleasant. I mean, if those shadowy venthyr are being so twisted by it, then it must not be far off from ash-tier for actual undead. Probably not as bad as being healed by the Light at least, but, it’s no walk in the park.
Heading to Sinfall would be a real pain in the behind as an undead. Best to take one of the blood mirrors.
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I suspect most non-forsaken warlocks would be fine. Most warlocks are just a regular mortal who uses evil magic and not a demon or reanimated corpse.
Any demons they summon there probably arent having a great time though.
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The Light burns all. It just hurts some worse than others.
I’m still trying to get over the full horsehoe fact that the Light has created ghouls.
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Playing a Forsaken DK during that part was kind of immersion breaking but very funny at the same time. I put it down to the foppish weakness of those soft Venthyr while us mortals have to put up with this all the time!
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Clearly this Light is engineered to only harm ANIMA-based unlife-forms.
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Holy Necromancy, because why not?
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ghouls only in name, innit
could as well just call them lunatics or maniacs etcetera.
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Yeah the ash ghouls are closer to wretched/withered - degenerated individuals due to the influence of magic.
And Venthyr are basically blood (actual liquid blood not like figurative blood) elves…
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except… that they make no use of actual blood and it’s all just ambiguous red energy instead so they’re somehow just as figurative as blood elves
1 day we’ll get real blood elves (san’layn)
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That’s Anima, though. Anima in Revendreth looks like a red liquid. They don’t actually use blood magic, like… the Nazmir trolls.
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nah they have actual blood stuff too, bunch of them use blood spells, denathrius eats people’s blood in his fight, they’ve got a Council of Blood raid boss encounter
“yum I love blood, it’s so delicious and bloody” is an actual quote from an actual venthyr
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How do we know he’s not just draining their anima instead
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Maybe blood magic on Azeroth is a kinda facsimile/perversion of Venthyr anima magic (similar with how Scourge’s whole style and structure seems to be a bad bootleg of Maldraxxus)?
p.s. lore nerds please don’t beat me up if it ain’t so
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I wouldn’t worry, most things cycle in and out of being canon so rapidly these days that eventually you will be correct, and then incorrect two years later.
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I feel like pointing out… wasn’t it the light of a Naaru being shined through mirrors to quite literally turn half the zone in cinders?
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Well, if you’re in the Ember Ward, you’ll notice the sky is very different from the rest of the zone. I do not think you could manage that with just shining Naaru-light through a mirror.
Potential storyspoiler
During questing you learn that apparently Denathrius did something horrible, and the Naaru felt the need to invade and scorch the land. During this attack one Naaru got caught and tossed into the Sanguine Depths to be experimented upon.
Anima is like, the essence of life itself, so it is very different.
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My interpretation is that it’s more explicitly a danger to venthyr due to their very nature (Because vampires hurrdurr). You’ll notice most of the zone has zero direct sunlight of any sort.
It wouldn’t be pleasant for undead etc either, but it wouldn’t literally burn them right away. It’d be like standing in holy ground.