Ach sorry, they’re elves, they all look the same to me.
The lot of them are badly written and need getting gone. Alleria -was- interesting, but has ceased to be so now with her new super duper Void Powers (Who knew, turns out Sargeras actually -did- have a point), Sylvanas -was- interesting, but ceased to be so after WotLK in my opinion. -That- would have been her perfect completion of her story arc, and a bolder move than many games make. Last game I remember doing that (I didn’t play the Mass Effect franchise apart from the first one) was an old game called Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Similar story, Nobleman gets turned into a vampire, goes out for revenge on the people who did. At the very end of the game you get two options as to how it ends. There were two sequels, which applied if you took the other option, the first in which you played Raziel wraith/vampire created by Kain if you chose the ‘bad’ option, and then a third part where you played both Raziel and Kain in alternate chapters of the story, oddly going against Cthulu Elder Gods, but the Option at the end of the first one is that Kain can continue his existance as the prime Vampire in the world (Which ultimately leads to the misery of the second and third games) or that having destroyed the last Vampire, you can choose to end your existance. I think the moment is where he realises that he is the last pillar of creation left, and the ending voice acting says something like…
“I am the last Pillar. The only survivor of the Circle of Nine.
At my whim the world will be healed or damned. At my whim.”
―Kain
And you get the choice to end it all, by ending yourself, if you do, you get a view of a world in balance, in peace, with a spirit simply saying, talking about a distant past…
“In his life he was unknown. A petty noble.
In death he was unknown. Yet by choosing oblivion he restored Balance to the land.
Shades cast no shadows.”
That’s how Sylvanas should have gone out. Being who -Sylvanas- was, not the Banshee Queen.
Vereesa however is just a wet drip that Knaak self inserted to give Rhonin an elven waifu, and doing a direct retread of Alleria and Turalyon, hence making the Windrunners a subject of scorn and mockery, only compounded when Sylvanas turned out to fancy Nathanos.
All three need getting rid of.
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But people want this game to be overflowing with elves!
Pfft, mainly it seems to be elves not people. I think they’re trying to make us extinct.
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Enough Elves. Enough Trolls and Dwarves for that matter as well.
You know what race needs some love?
Jinyu.
Blizzard, we’re waiting. You have one expansion until we go full high elf.
Borbarsa bro, bro, lets make this deal, Jinyu for Alliance, Gnolls for Horde, Come on, we can make this happen…
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Gnolls would make me betray the Alliance.
I mean I play both Factions anyway, but I would play a Gnoll whichever faction they are on. I have a whole actual ‘thing’/mental ticklist/set of ideas for Gnolls I could actually post here if you want to see it.
Yes!
But please keep jogger neutral! We do not need a PvP flag in that fight.
Also wouldn’t hozen be more thematic, considering they are actually Horde members since MoP?
Hozen would be the natural counterpart for Jinyu, true, given their origin, but I’m looking at this as an RP’er. Can you imagine, given how the Hozen are depicted, people would play them? I mean, whilst I would prefer them to Ogres, even so they’re so kind of based on young teenage boy mentality it wouldn’t be great. I mean that is how Blizzard themselves described them! “14 Year old boys running through the jungle with Horde supplied munitions”
I will try and dig out the Gnoll stuff though…
I didn’t make this post because they are elves. Technically Sylvanas counts as a forsaken anyway
Fair point. Though as a 15-year old I am offended (joking). Gnolls would suit the Horde, plus it would give an excuse for a model update.
Gnolls for Horde.
No really, Playable Gnolls. The model skeleton exists, it is the Tauren one, just scale it down. They have -reason- to hate the Alliance, lets remember, The Kingdom of Stormwind is built on Gnoll Bones, Gnoll soil. Gnolls are clearly smart enough to work with others, we see them in many pirate crews, smart enough to band together with a clear hierarchy, and smart enough to if they wish, speak with perfect diction and clarity (Sayge)
If a RL culture was needed as a hook, in the way that we have for Dwarves, Gilneans, Tauren, Trolls etc, then why not that culture that has so many legends about Hyena’s anyway? Zulu and Masai culture.
Have three main social groupings of Gnolls,
Rainmakers. The Warriors and hunters of the Impi (Warband), (Rainmaker is an African nickname for Hyena’s, because of the tears they cause to fall, kinda the same as the western name ‘Widowmaker’)
Bonespeakers. The priests and Shamans, those of a more magical persuasion.
Marrow-Walkers. Those who crack to the centre of things, Rogues, Monks,
Their Religion? A Death Cult with a difference. They believe -everything- has value. What humans hear as horrible ululating laughter, and perceive as mockery as Gnolls charge them, is in fact a pre-emptive Prayer of Thanks to the soon to be dead human, for their bones will make weapons for the tribe, their sinew will make bowstrings for the tribe, their Skin will be tanned and make leather for the tribe, and yes, their flesh will be food for the tribe. Young Gnoll Cubs are cuffed around the ear if they do not utter thanks to the dead person whose skin makes the tent they live in, and famous enemies live on. “Listen cub, this is the Tent of Lieutenant Jonathan Parker, it is his skin that is the leather, look, here is his face! You will give thanks to Lieutenant Jonathan Parker, he died so that you are covered from the wind and rain!”
Basically, everything has value, living or dead, not in a financial way, but -value-, real material worth to the tribe.
Of course, humans will look at a Gnollish tent and recoil at the savagery of a tent with someone’s face in it, without realising this is an act of reverence, only to those who died well.
Racial Mounts could be those horrible old Desert Scavenger Lions, the ones that will eat anything, Less like Musafa, more like Skar!
Racial skills, hmm, I’d like it if they got the ability to skin humanoids the way Skinning works on animals. Gives a mats bonus which can be sold for cash.
Perhaps some sort of interrupt or even very brief fear effect by their ‘Laughter’, obviously with a cooldown.
But yeah, Playable Gnolls, thats where its at. Tell me they don’t sound cool.
I haven’t looked at a certain megathread, but that is the best thought out racial proposal I’ve seen.
You always know just what to say to get my geekdom fired up, Brigante.
Eh, more than thirty years an RP’er, I write plots and backgrounds for systems involving thousands of people, I may not have many skills, but this kind of shiz I can do 
We’re not worthy!
We’re not worthy!
@Sinaaki or someone please help out here. I need a Wayne’s world GIF.
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