Humans have always been, and always will be, top of the food chain. Indeed.
Now, myself I trust a dog or a parrot, even a cat (WHAT?!) more than I do a human… but I am a rare gem. ANd by gem, I mean like a fake, unpolished diamond copy you find at yard sales for 5 euros.
What I’m getting at is… I just wish we could eat each other
Because it’s a taboo in western culture? Most people think about savage hunters when thinking about cannibalism, but most cannibalistic tribes don’t hunt humans, they only eat their dead as a post death ritual (kind of like how we bury or cremate our corpses).
You only get Kuru if you eat the brain. Don’t eat the brain silly.
Have you ever died to a female gnome rogue in bg going ‘‘Nyyyyyeeeaah!’’ Kicking your marbles to jupiter before? Or a Male one for that matter ‘‘Huh! Hiyah!’’ That is why, the only reason why!
For some reason I found this response to be comedy genius, I just couldn’t help but see that meme from the Simpsons, the kid on his own in the back of a bus “Hah hah…I’m in Danger”
I mean if you look at it objectively, there are vastly more anthropomorphic races on Azeroth than there are ‘Humanoid’ ones.
I mean you’ve got what, Orcs, Humans, All Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, lets be generous and say Trolls (Though some are furry) Goblins and Ogres.
That’s your Humanoids.
Then look at the ones that are anthropomorphic. Tauren, Highmountain Tauren. Some Trolls, Draenei, Lightforged Draenei, Worgen, Vulpera, Arrakoa (Though they technically don’t live on Azeroth) Harpies, Gnolls, Kobolds, Tortollans, Pandaren, Tuskarr, Centaur, Quillboar, Naga, Murlocs, Gilgoblins, Hozen, Jinyu, Ankoan, Makrura…The list goes on.
So really it is the humanoid races that are ‘weird’ on Azeroth.
Most but not all, there was that tribe who recently apologised to the descendants of a British explorer who they had killed and eaten, and the Sentinelese Andaman will kill people for meat but largely yeah, as you say, Funerary Cannibalism was vastly more common. Weirdly one of my current LARP characters is a wild elf in a tribe that practice funerary cannibalism, which is seen as an honourable way of keeping certain traits within the tribe. It is always hilarious when we see the looks on peoples faces who we genuinely esteem and admire and say with all seriousness “When you die, I will eat part of you” and how grave an insult it is when we say “I wouldn’t eat you if you were dead!” (Kinda like ‘I wouldn’t widdle on you if you were on fire!’ )
I think you’ve told me that before! For some reason I keep forgetting
It doesn’t go down well in Europe, there was that case in Germany (Pretty sure it was Germany) where a cannibal asked for volunteers to be eaten in media (Because that’s not going to look weird at all!) and there was one crazy madman who actually agreed! Documents were signed saying it was consensual, and the person to be consumed agreed to it.
Didn’t do the Cannibal any good when the Police arrested him though, he still got sent down for a stretch…
It’s all a matter of perspective really. You could see burying someone as “leaving them for the worms”.
It’s part of how western culture evolved. I believe in Egypt they mummified their dead because they believed they still needed their bodies and burning the body meant the destruction of the soul.
In Judaism they bury the dead because of the belief that when the messiah arrives the dead would come back to life. So tampering with the bodies of the dead is a no no, and I believe at the very least that notion also carried on to christianity.
When you put it like that, it does sound rather grim, yes. I’ve always morbidly wondered, given that Cremation is kind of the usual in the UK now (Only so many graveyards around now!) what will happen in the event of my death. I have a Titanium Elbow joint, and Titanium lower leg bones in my left leg. They obviously aren’t going to burn in a Crematorium, so do they do Post Mortem surgery?
Then I looked it up…
Apparently they don’t remove them, they just use magnets to remove them. Problem there is that Titanium is -very- weakly magnetic, so that means some poor soul is likely to have to rummage through my ashes to get them out!
On the plus side, what happens is that it is then smelted and repurposed (It would be no use to the medical profession in it’s original capacity, because they have to be tailored to the person needing it ).
Then I saw the awesome thing, one of the things they repurpose it for is Space Vessels!
So basically part of me gets to Reincarnate as the USS Enterprise! I can take that
I believe it is the same for Islam also I seem to remember a Muslim friend telling me, and that the body should be prepared and buried as swiftly as possible. Post Mortem autopsies are allowed if there are suspicious circumstances, and Organ donation is permissible in Arabic Islam, but not the Indian subcontinent branch of that faith.
I don’t dislike gnomes. I hope those sneaky little punks regain their capital one day. Now to be fair the only time I really interacted with them was during the BFA questline on Mechagon and I just couldn’t take them seriously when they were all going like “FOR THE RESISTANCE”