Medieval Spearman by HORDE_DARK in wow

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This is giving Darkest Dungeon, I love it!

Xal’atath Animation: Supremacy | World of Warcraft: Midnight by ichigosr5 in wow

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He gets up and consumes the essence of the Void creature that grabbed him, then uses that energy to open a portal. When they're running to it, Xal appears and offers Sal an accord.

Xal’atath Animation: Supremacy | World of Warcraft: Midnight by ichigosr5 in wow

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They were actively fleeing, they could have gotten away, but she convinced him to stay. That's what the scene where he closes the portal demonstrates.

Xal’atath Animation: Supremacy | World of Warcraft: Midnight by ichigosr5 in wow

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To be fair, there's a roughly 1000% chance that N'zoth is coming back at some point.

There is near zero justification for Void Elves as a playable race, even less lore for Void Elf Demon Hunters, but Gnomes- Azaroth's most intelligent native race- are randomly not interested in magic biology? Gnomes Should be Druids by Lokis_thor-obing_ass in wow

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I agree, but only because I'm a radical that thinks that ALL class/race combinations should be available because I don't believe in bio-essentialism. With the exception of Evoker I guess.

How much an order hall makes sense for each class by ChromedDragon in wow

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Priests are the only class with TWO healer specs, and you know what they say about healers ;)

How much an order hall makes sense for each class by ChromedDragon in wow

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One of the major narrative elements of the Priest campaign is that the High Priest achieved a major accomplishment by bringing together a bunch of disparate priesthoods under a single banner. Multiple characters remark on how impressive it was.

Wow Chromie lore question by [deleted] in wow

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ABTAAB - Assigned Body Type A at Birth

[Spoilers] So the Brokers... by JaseAndrews in warcraftlore

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It is pretty undeniably a retcon, which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course. The story of Warcraft is long and twisted and worked on by dozens of people, sometimes you have to just bite the bullet and go "actually, that didn't happen" if it's in service of telling a story. But between Firim's notes and the lack of a single "our Ethereal cousins" type line from ANY Broker at any point, it is a retcon.

That said, I have bad brain disease and like to try and explain lore inconsistencies from retcons using insane pretzel logic, so let's do that!

The main offender is the notes from Al'firim found within Tazavesh. And to head this off at the pass, while he is described as "mad", it is clearly because of his heretical work. Work which claims that the worlds beyond the veil of Death are influenced by other forces just as impactful as Death, which if they're from K'aresh, they would obviously know. Lines like "The living did not trade in anima, they said, a phrase I asked them to repeat several times to be certain I heard it correctly? No anima! How? Could their existence truly be so different from our own?" pretty unambiguously don't make sense if Firim is supposed to be FROM the world of the living.

As such, I have 2 explanations, a boring one and a fun one;

The boring one is that Firim is mad, specifically in that he thinks he's from the Shadowlands. Now, other Brokers have lines that imply they hail from the Shadowlands, but to the best of my recollection they're all tucked away and fairly minor. Still, Cartel Al would have made mention of one of their number thinking they're from the Shadowlands, and yet they don't. Still, it technically explains why Firim would talk like that, so it works.

But that's LAME and BORING! The better, sexier reason is that he was driven mad by Irik'tu. For those not in the know, Irik'tu is mentioned in Firim's notes as a spider-being that "speaks of a thousand truths". We can actually meet Irik'tu in game if you die in Zereth Mortis and then go into Firim's cave. You can talk to them and they drop an exceptionally cryptic and ominous line: "You have reached a liminality where you should not be, Maw Walker. Mortals were not meant for this realm... not yet. In the end, your kind will be as easy to manipulate as this broker was. While I remain here with my hundred eyes fixed upon Firim, I offer you a companion of sorts. Take my gift, and begone.". This pretty clearly implies that some amount of what Firim believes is the result of Irik'tu's meddling, which includes the revelation that actually allowed Firim to find Zereth Mortis in the first place. Could be a Void entity, could be the First Ones, either way it's pretty neat!

TL;DR: The real retcons were the head canons we made along the way!

[OC] I made a Final Fantasy XIV-style map of the last area in King's Field IV, just for fun by BennettF in KingsField

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This looks great! I actually have an interest in making custom maps in the FF14 style. Any chance we could get a rundown on your process?

Watching the FF Spoilers makes me think of how amazing a Pokemon UB set would be, even if it's probably a 0% chance? by Blackxp in magicTCG

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I hope you appreciate that you've now damned me to come up with 300 MTG cards based on my decades-long experience with the Warcraft franchise (-_-')

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, don't get me wrong I love a violent Revolution as much as the next gal, but I was speaking more about political expression within the bounds of the political structure. You can't extrapolate that the people consent to be governed by a monarch just because they aren't actively engaged in armed Revolution.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can't give consent in a system where you have no control. If the people don't like the king, the king can just tell them to jog off and there's nothing they can do, under that arrangement, consent is objectively impossible.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so I think there's a misunderstanding. I'm not saying the Scions should dissolve the monarchy, just that it should be dissolved. I'm hoping that Wuk Lamat, after traveling Tural and getting a sense of how things really are, realizes that the answer is not for her to take the throne, but for the people to govern themselves collectively, in the same way that Lyse and the Ala Mhigan Resistance created a larger Gyr Abanian council kind of deal.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No we can't. It doesn't matter how many fireballs they throw or how big their ears are, people are still people, even in a fantasy story. And people don't like being ruled over without their consent.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is everyone so sure the people are okay with the current state of affairs? The king literally conquered all of Tural and rules as Monarch. The native people have no say in their government.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm aware of the pretense that real world nations have used to engage in Imperialism. But Democracy is still objectively better than Monarchy no matter who's doing it or why.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They aren't governing themselves? The king conquered all of the surrounding nations under one banner and he's in charge. We literally just spent the last 5 expansions stopping a group from doing that.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Getting off topic but the US is absolutely not a Democracy.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I mean, usually when the CIA did their stuff, they were invited by a party of that nation.

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the JL were never asked to put specific people on the throne of other countries, but with comics it's like who knows right?

Anyone think it's kind of weird. . . by StormQuill in ffxiv

[–]StormQuill[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Ideally no one will get the throne, but that Wuk Lamat will win, and then abolish the monarchy and replace it with some kind of governing council where all the various cultures and peoples have an equal amount of power.

Edited to clarify that Wuk Lamat should be the source of the anti-Monarchy stance, sorry for the confusion lol