For those who don’t play Warcraft, we got enough movies and common sense to get tribes like " undead", “totem”, “beast”, “mech”, “dragon” etc.
Now this new expansion added “Draenei”, which is a new word to my vocabulary.
Even worse, I have nothing to relate it to.
By looking at Draenei cards, I cannot even identify the similarity or features of this tribe as to "WHAT Does A Draenei Creature Look Like? "
Please help me. I am not happy about this new tribe thing without any proper introduction. It feels forced and not relatable .
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The draenei [ˈdɹænɑɪ] are a faction of uncorrupted eredar who fled their homeworld of Argus to escape the corruption of the demonic Burning Legion.
They’re basically aliens. Pretty distinctive looking.
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I mean I can understand not being able to relate if you haven’t played Warcraft but… forced? Haha
Are murlocs forced? Troggs, Naga, etc? Don’t really get why this is any different.
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It’s just another fantasy race, large-ish humanoids with horns and hooves. If you want real background you can look at wowpedia https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Draenei
That said, there have been Draenei in game forever. If you want to know what they look like - check Yrel, Velen, Xyrella, or Luna for examples.
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Exactly this.
Not to mention there have been Draenei cards throughout all of Hearthstones life cycle such as the original Velen, or the iconic Aldor Peacekeeper.
Draenei can be traced back as early as Warcraft 3 (not entirely sure when they were first introduced).
Needless to say, if you pull up the wowpedia wiki on Draenei they are pretty extensive race with alot of lore tied to them. One of my favorite races in WoW on the Alliance side.
Edit: didn’t realize that Lobotomized provided the link. I would check it out if you are interested.
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For someone who played WoW, basically the biggest development when both the Draenei and Blood Elfs came into WoW was actually both factions gaining a class possibility that was locked from each other.
Horde could now play Paladins.
Alliance could now be Shamans.
As far as the tribe goes? I think they’re pretty lame, uninspiring mechanics. But that’s typical Alliance for ya lol.
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I think you just look for things to complain about … like a lot of others here.
This is one of those things I spend zero time thinking about; like whether, or not, I’m playing a bot, or if my opponent is cheating.
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This is unprecedented, but the climber is actually right for once.
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Seriously?
You’re unable to look at all the cards with the Draenei tag and unable to see the common theme?
So you see these 3 images:
And you see zero resemblance and if someone asks you to describe a Draenei you’d say something like “Well, they’re definitely not blue and don’t have horns”?
All the while, Murlocs make perfect sense to you despite never knowing what a Murloc is outside of Warcraft?
I don’t believe you.
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You don’t see what you’re not looking for? I don’t know. 
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H. G. Wells - Time Machine
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Those were Morlocks
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Thanks for the share.
By the way, they completely ‘retconned’ the whole Draenei lore at some point.
They used to be native denizens of Draenor, the world where orcs came from and all…
PS Obviously, hence the name, by the way. Then they retconned the lore of Eredar and Draenei, and it stopped making much sense. 
If you’re gonna provide a link to what wiki, you could at least use the ‘proper’ one, not the historic one: https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Draenei .
Haven’t they been there since that expansion, TBK, if I’m not mistaken (not a WoW player)?
Yep. Even the accent has been there.
Truly?
Humanoid, with hooves (and this kind of legs to match, you know). Males have squiddy things on their faces, and women have horns, like she-goats. Speak with a fake Russian accent. The original uncorrupted ones are blue, most demonic ones (Manari, with apostrophes in whatever places) are RED (ugh), although Archimonde and Malchezaar are notable exceptions, and more… well… demonically looking. There are also ‘Broken’ and ‘Lost’, which are deformed and devolved draenei… don’t remember which is which, and some of them look like draenei from Warcraft 3, but you can check the wiki. I think it’s the ‘Lost’ ones, and they retconned the looks of ‘Broken’ like Akama (also Nobundo in WOW). As said, you could check the wiki for more details.
It’s not entirely your fault, if you ask me.
They’ve loosely based some races on real-world cultures, or at least took inspirations from them (e.g. Trolls and all this Afro-Caribbean stuff, language or accent, voodoo, loa; pandas etc, obviously, related to mostly Chinese culture and lore etc), and these aliens essentially, who looked like original Eredar (Archimonde from WC3), had a bunch of hillbilly or Hollywood stereotypes about Russians attached to them. Check it out: the first ones to do space travel; originally very pious (faithface in ze Light and all that), but the evil ones have turned RED (ugh, only a total redneck could come up with such a dull cliche, really); speaking, as said, in a stereotypical, Hollywoodish fake Russian accent; last, but not the least, their girls are passionate and loveable she-goats. It all seems to add up, but is kinda forced and artificial anyway, so, unlike those pandas, for instance, few seem to have even got those references — and even the stupid accent got lost in translation, as far as I know, and Russian players would probably be surprised if you told them all that or just laugh at it, not really relating it to anything from their culture.
So yeah, in short, you could say that they are essentially WoW’s alien fake (like, really fake, cartoonish) Russians from space (well, ‘the GDB’), but that’s not saying much.
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Ugh… Those ‘elfs’, mon…
Well, technically, there have been cow paladins. Don’t remember in which expansion they were introduced, though. The Horde was imba, I think, since they had everything the Alliance had plus those exclusive Shamans.
Ooh, faction pride? Lol.
Well, anyway, here’s some for you, then: Zug zug! Put jah face in da light, mon!
Sounds better?
PS
(Of course, she is the most ridiculous of them all , but kinda has a point there, if you ask me, about all this faction pride)
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they were in world of warcraft since day 1 of the games release as the broken
blood elves were first for the horde
Ah!
I meant as a playable ‘core’ (or whatever they call it) race.
So they added Moo-Moo-dins later, then, just like most of the classes for most races? Okay, thanks.
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time has come for you to admit …you need glasses
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And you need refinement — that was quite rude… even for these forums, unless you’re one of those resident ‘trolls’.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Draenei
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It’s a huge faction on the first expansion of WoW, so it’s pretty old right now.
I guess you have a point the movie stayed on the original Warcraft 1 stuff.
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