New Tribe "Draenei" is Difficult for Me to Accept

Don’t forget the hooves… and tails — for some?

See below.

Yep.

By the way, Eredar were originally a demonic race (the warlocks out there, essentially), who, together with the Nathrezim (yeah, yeah, I know), caused Sargeras to become mad in the first place — or so I remember from the WC3 manual.

Oh, wait till you see the deal with antlers in Night Elves. :grinning:

Don’t you say it.

Some have even their looks retconned (see re Broken/Lost).

:rofl: You ain’t seen nothing yet.

(In Gul’dan’s voice) Everything.

No offence intended, but that looks more like your problem to me. :grinning:

More like ‘completely rewritten’, or, in other words, retconned. :grinning: See above why.

Ha! That’s quite a lark in its own right. As I wrote above, Akama, just like all other ‘Draenei in WC3’, looked exactly like what was retconned to be the ‘Lost’, while they were supposed to be the ‘Broken’. Even their generic appearance was retconned.

You know, if, for example, you realise that the Spider-Man wasn’t even a man called Peter Parker, it was a blonde woman named Balinda Stonehearth, who was just an ordinary mage and had nothing to do with spiders or their stuff, but then she started playing Hearthstone and picked a random BattleTag like ‘(Some_Colour)Spider#(some_numbers)’, then somebody wrote in a chat, ‘Hey, spider man or whatever you’re called, well played’, and thus appeared the dreaded Spider-Man — that, too, would be a ‘story addition/augmentation’, perhaps even less so than what happened with Eredar, Draenei and so on. :grinning:

PS

Yeah, that totally makes sense. :smirk:

Just like, for example, Irish people after their mass exodus to America would drop the name ‘Irish (Americans)’ and adopt a new one — ‘Native Americans’, right? Oh, wait…

This is just an illustration of how… contrived some of their ‘retcons’ are, including this one.

Ha, that doesn’t always help, with ‘tropes’ like ‘Our elves/trolls/… are different’ and so on.

By the way, I would have hardly guessed that the hulking mammoth called the Gurubashi Berserker is of the same race as those slender axe- or spear-throwing trolls from Warcraft. Looked more like some ‘mammoth-man’ to me. So I wouldn’t judge this poster for failing to capture the visual identity of those Draenei.

Wait, no ‘twenty characters’? :grinning: How’d you do that?

Another one with an irresitible urge to tell everybody how you’ve got nothing to say on the topic?

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