With the Taurens being clearly inspired by Native Americans… And then you look at conflict between them and the Alliance… you know… An Empire… that sailed over from the east… And that disrespected their holy sites and invaded their land.
I’m not saying the Alliance are literally colonial and I doubt this is intentional but its interesting with you know… Alliance burning down Tauren settlements, Dwarves profaning their holy sites.
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Not to mention how good they taste covered in mustard.
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Just humans. Drustvar’s history and the way they wiped out the Drusts and stole their land prove it.
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I noticed Alliance is more European inspired in terms of culture.
Human: Medieval Europe/ Humans
Dwarves: Scottish/ Dwarven
Night elf: Elvish, Native American, but mostly ancient Greek.
Gnomes: Engineers / Tinkers
Draenei: Eastern Europe, Greek mythology, and a bit of Indian.
Worgen: Victorian England
Now the Horde
Orc: Native American/ African American/ African/ Orcish
Undead: Medieval/ Dark/ Punk
Tauren: Native American
Zandalari: Aztec, Incan, Mayan
Trolls: Caribbean, African
Blood elf: French, and mostly Middle Eastern and elvish cultures.
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Trolls and Tauren are the only natives
Orcs are invaders, Draenei are invaders, Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes are titan invaders too.
Conclusion is we should send everyone home.
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Some east Asian in there two in the architecture.
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If that means in space, I’m all for it!
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Yeah i was gonna mention the Drust thing too, but I feel like that would have made the post feel like me accusing the Alliance of being colonial which wasn’t the point here.
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It’s mostly Middle Eastern and elvish. But I think it has a bit of French too. Someone In the forums mentioned that France had a “Sun King”
How is that a race?
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If they don’t do things cause someone somewhere might get offended about something, we wouldn’t have a game at all.
Maybe just accept that they took cool themes from every culture and applied them to their games and leave it at that.
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i can see how blood elves are connected to Elvish cultures
but the rest of the 3 are wishful thinking at best
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I see this a lot. What parts of orcs culture align with African-Americans?
I’d say, in wows iteration, orcs are closer to Celts or the Suebi people than blacks.
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Isn’t the same happened when the Highborne sailed over and took the native spiritual Troll’s lands, defiled their sacred ground and built an empire on it…?
Or when the humans and the Drust met…
“Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can.”
– G’Kar in Babylon 5:“And Now For a Word”
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coz when the robots win we’ll have to listen to techno
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indeed, or some nordic pagans vibes:
shamanism, brutality, warrior society and die-in-battle for the tribe honorable destiny
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Sometimes I get the feeling the Alliance is everything the US dreamed to be but they are not …
The Horde ?
The way they portray their enemies.
- Savages as in the case of the Orcs.
- Primitives as in the case of the Trolls and Tauren.
- Monsters as in the case of the Forsaken.
- Double-crossers as in the case of the Blood Elves.
- Mercenaries as in the case of the Goblins.
- Ungrateful as in the case of the Highmountain Tauren and Nightborne.
- Hostile as in the case of the Zandalari.
- Nomadic as in the case of the Vulpera.
Cheers.
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The dances lol. I know that’s a horrible example to use, but looking at the dances along with the African styled huts and clans, it kinda makes sense. But there could be Celtic too. Usually there isn’t one culture being used for inspiration, but many.