Priests, Paladins, and the Light-theme of wow seems to be very christocentric with christian symbolism, crusaders/templars, etc.
I think, if you hold diversity as an actual value, and you’re not just virtue signaling to look good, you should either change the symbols to something neutral.
Edit: TLDR is that I think blizzard should reevaluate their priorities and remove real life direct culture references and religion from their game, or have real diversity without painting dehumanizing caricatures of other cultures
While I agree that the whole Light worship definitely has a somewhat christian vibe to it, the only mainstream christian symbol I can think of would be a cross, and I don’t think there’s any decorations, sculptures or spells that has it?
The people in the cathedral have been called arch-bishop etc. since vanilla. Paladins as templars have very clear christian crusader symbolism. The Light theme in wow is definitely focused around christianity, there’s no doubt I’d say.
Argent Dawn is basically the spanish inquisition symbolically, and it’s obvious. Google “jesuites”, etc.
Why does it bother you that a game designed in the west, promoted and run by a west company, has west symbolism and representation as major factor in their west game?
It is a game coming from the USA and as you can see on the wikipedia (wikimedia) image, Christian religion is still the most populated Religion worldwide.
The “Church of Holy Light” is a fictional religion inspired by Christianity. Not even the so proclaimed “Cross” is the same. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/2/2e/Scarlet_Crusade_flag.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20180806013916
Because not only christian americans should be included in wow. It’s also very questionnable, that the people in the cathedral of wow are all white npcs.
but its true the sw cathedral is a gothic cathedral (spain\france). Its weird they never give to any class a different religious representation (ok orc\tauren ahve a shamanistic vibe but other not.
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