TLDR: Thoughts and ideas on roleplaying with dead personal story characters in Shadowlands.
Hello AD, unfortunately I have been thinking again, which means I’m going to ask you a bunch of questions and I want to have them answered immediately!
Not really, but I hope you’ll all indulge me with your viewpoints:
Now that Shadowlands is almost here, a lot of things are going to happen in the lore and our interactions with it. Dead lore characters will make a reappearance and one can hope Blizzard is going to take this towards a meaningful direction. But what about you guys?
The rarest roleplaying character has a story without death and loss in it and while we will only be able to traverse the few covenant landscapes, as well as the Maw, there is potential that those dead roleplaying figures could also make an (re)introduction.
It is not something I will personally roleplay around, but it made me wonder how many of you have considered opening a story arc that involves your characters finding their lost loved (or hated) ones again?
Would you roleplay along with someone who is running such an arc publicly?
Just really, what are your thoughts on the potential Shadowlands has in terms of roleplay and have you already made plans?
I’m all for folks wanting to role play how folks want to role play.
If we start limiting what folks can do or who can go to the Shadowlands/what they can do there, before long we’ll have another Warlords of Draenor were everyone will just sit in Stormwind and only role play there for fear of being seen as silly for going to the new content.
I try to run with the assumption that I might not be right or someone else might be ‘more right’ with how we are supposed to role play in Wow. That way if I see someone who wants to role play a realistic military themed guild, I can say “Okay, that’s fine” and if I see someone who wants to play more along the lines of an adventurer closer to the ‘main character’ I can also say “Okay that’s fine”.
You do you boo.
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Oh, I don’t want it to be misunderstood, I stand by people being allowed to roleplay whatever they want and I hope for them they will have players to roleplay with when doing so! I just want to hear people’s thoughts and ideas and whether or not they themselves would do it/join someone in doing it.
I’m not trying to start any sort of rule discussion, I just want to hear what awesome plans people have.
I wont be heading to the shadowlands IC on any of my characters, as far as i gather its the heroes of the alliance and all that jazz that has the ability to enter, none of my characters are that important, and i’ve always advocated not trying to RP those characters. None of my characters participated in killing any of the major bosses either, its up to the individual though, i much prefer being just another guy trying to survive i the world.
tbh there were some great campaigns set on Azeroth in WoD because a lot of people felt excluded from being able to go to Draenor
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Patiently waiting for the common folk, bartenders, criminals that escape the Maw. What tales they will tell.
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For me, it’s re-creating entire plot points from the least popular Star Wars movie
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It looks like pretty much anyone can enter the Shadowlands and the Oribos portal is canon. Ol’ Emma from Stormwind can be seen in Oribos, so I imagine anyone can go - probably by paying the Brokers or something.
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I don’t think going is the problem, its coming back.
I’m sure it was stated that lore wise, we wouldn’t be leaving the Shadowlands until the end of the expansion, similar to WoD.
Saying that, I have to admit though that I find it odd that such a fuss is made on top of Icecrown Citadel to get the player to the Shadowlands, using what power is left in the helm, yet a random commoner (Ol’Emma) just stumbles across the veil looking for relatives.
I wouldn’t base the entire premise of RPing there and returning a week later on this.
Once the portal is open, it’s open. The fuss is about the first passage.
As for the thread’s question, I have not particularly planned for my mains to meet their dead people. Narmë’s enemy is likely in the Maw, but I doubt she’d go anywhere near that. Family and Friends are probably in the other afterlives we do not see.
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You kidding me? I can torture/kill all my loved ones again?!
Count me in!
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None of my characters have died yet, but…
My DK may certainly go and pay a visit to her dead family in Whereveraxxus so she can finish off her dramatic monologue as she betrayed them all to the Lich King (the ghouls got to them first).
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There’s a character I used to play that died but most of the characters who knew her never found out why or whodunnit and in theory I could bring her back to do some ‘It was bob’ sort of reveal. I don’t like that character though so I don’t intend to.
Nope.
There’s straight up a publicly accessible 2way portal to Oribos set up.
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I’m going on an IC holiday to Hades and NOBODY CAN STOP ME!!!
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I’ll have some of my chars pass through, and each having good reasoning beforehand. Additionally I won’t just have them go through the portal but making a progressive story of how they pass through. E.G: Acquiring an item.
And when they return to realm of life, they’ll keep silence about what they seen there in the realm of death; cause of both IC and OOC reasons, such as these matters being too sensitive for commoners to hear for IC, and not everyone wanting to be spoiled OOC.
So basically hush hush.
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I find it interesting to think about what orcish honour culture will do when faced with the fact that there is no more honour in death. All you get is torment for failing, suffering far from the sight of your ancestors.
But then, they didn’t react too strongly at all to entire generations being swallowed by a Void black hole, instead treating the area as sacred.
Orcs have been pretty consistently hypocrites for many expansions now.
Hypocrisy, thy name is lok’tar ogar.
That’s largely just a huge failure of worldbuiding, though. Make vaugely shamanistic viking samurai green men by tracing warhammer art and let the player stuff the gaps.