I read there are two tabards, one still having the old mask.
Still feels lousy to see, even if it’s half-expected. Forsaken “moving on” from Sylvanas is still just a reminder of what BFA/SL did to her character and the faction.
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I guess new forsaken can’t produce anything with personality when they removed their entire personality with Sylvanas.
I don’t even know what they could use at this point.
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Who owns it now, AEG? if I recall correctly the different Storyteller games were picked up by different companies.
Both are disgustingly bland designs.
/spit
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Doesn’t Paradox still own it?
I believe Paradox went bankrupt some time ago. I also think that they just bought Mage, different companies bought different pieces of White Wolf’s carcass.
As far as I know Paradox Interactive is still around, and they bought it all up in 2020, because the CEO (or similar) was big into it all and wanted to make video games with it. I know they’ve licensed out the properties to other teams after the person they put in charge ended up being way too edgy and stupid to run a company. I’m not sure what they call themselves now, but the Ink Monkeys at least got Exalted, but they may have picked up more of the WoD in that.
They bought that part of White Wolf had hired the creative team to work on Vampire:The Masquerade computer game and what followed was a 12 year series of announcements and one non-game play demo. In the mean time they were yanked from that project to work on the proposed roleplaying extension for Eve Online which itself was canceled.
After over a decade of going nowhere, the Vampire computer game was canceled and that was the last we heard of that studio.
I think you’re thinking of CCP the Eve online people who had it from like 2006-2015 and were trying to make an MMO.
I think Onyx Path is writing the books now, and they’re old WW people there. But Paradox bought them up in 2015 and made a nu-White Wolf and then had to close that down and roll the IP rights into their main company after some really stupid edgy stunts in books. They license it out to other companies for video games, and you get the vampire battle royale, and the visual novel stuff that has been coming out recently, oh yeah, and the Werewolf action game too.
(admittedly I spent way too much time when they tried to run Nu-WW following along in an RPG forum that was chronicling the questionable actions they took with the line)
Paradox are going to produce all the core games themselves, Renegade Games are going to work on other source materials (like supplements…I think one of the ones they’re working on is a blood magic/thin blood alchemy book). So far we have Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition with several books and Hunter the Reckoning. Next big projects coming are the V5 players guide (with all the clan information into one book) and Werewolf 5th edition.
Really? I think it looks great. Much better looking than the original tabard. As far as I know no other tabard goes all the way up the neck like that, I think it’s neat. I understand why people would feel bitter not seeing the mask of Sylvanas on the tabard, but it totally emphasizes the look and feel of the Forsaken if you ask me.
It just seems like Blizzard has been doing cultural erasure to the playable races over time to fit a more “friendly” vision of the Warcraft IP. Everyone, including alliance races, in comparison to our standards would be seen as horrible and oppressive people and that’s ok, it’s what makes the setting believable. This is a war-torn fantasy world where things that would be “never-forget” atrocities IRL are commonplace, it’s not sunny California, USA. I think some people forget that when taking the characters and their motivations into consideration. The Horde/alliance is not a “melting pot of cultures”, it’s a collective of peoples doing whatever they have to in order to survive and both are full of victims of the world that want to seek vengeance.
Warcraft had always walked the line between cartoony high and dark fantasy, but I ask now would the current development team be able to make something along the lines of the Karazhan crypts or Strathholm? Would they be the type to want to make the Wrathgate incident?
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Stylized Lordaeronian F.
They’re already using it on a sword in this coming patch.
They’re the true scions of Lordaeron and now they have the last known Menethil at their head. If there’s a silver lining to living under Calia’s boot for the foreseeable future, it should be that they get to fly perhapse the most contested, desired and iconic banner in the setting.
Give them the Lordaeron L. The fallout from the human male paladins of the world alone would glorious.
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Until you realize that Stormwind have survivors from Lordaeron. Namely the currently leader of Stormwind, Turaylon.
I would also point she technically gave up her claim to the throne.
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Are you saying that taking up the banner of Lordaeron as their own might lead to some form of conflict?
Best not then, who would want conflict in a story.
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More the Forsaken probably dont even care about the symbol. Hence why their new tabard doesnt even use it.
Hmm.
Well, it might bring in the Kingdom Hearts hyperfans.
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I’m hoping that if/when we get Forsaken Paladins, their mount is a white and blue Skeletal Warhorse with the L of Lordaeron on a banner behind them.
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IS this stuff BOA yet