any real lore non memes for the new race/class combos?
if not post ideas.
maybe Gamon can be a tauren rogue since he was connected to rogue quests.
even if its just “some tauren wandered over to silvermoon to learn magic and became mages” I think there should be some lore.
Tbh I don’t know what the problem would be with Tauren rogues.
We have orc rogues who aren’t exactly stealthy and draenei rogues with they clippity cloppity hooves. Yeah a Tauren is bigger, but size never seemed to be the issue for other races.
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You don’t really need lore to say this person likes wielding daggers and ambushing from the shadows.
Rogues use magic for stealth anyway, if they were actually being stealthy like half the races wouldn’t be able to do it. Look at pandaren.
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Pandaren don’t have hooves, and if they can train to be monks, training to move silently really isn’t that far fetched for them in my opinion.
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Grimtotem seem to have already had them.
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Aren’t Grimtotem a thing in Dragonflight anyway?
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I know nothing about df but I hope so, grimtotem stuff was kino
The Grimtotem have rogues. And the Grimtotem are split with some serving Magatha and others under Jevan, and thus the Horde.
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There’s at least one working for the elemental cult. I wouldn’t be shocked if Magatha turns up later too, but I don’t think there’s any sign of her yet.
She, along with Cor and Gorm, were datamined but have yet to be seen.
The Grimtotem clan has employed thugs and bruisers to engage in acts of skulduggery, and characters like Smite existed, so there’s some credence behind the idea.
As for being stealthy, it’s been revealed that Rogues use magic to become completely invisible, they don’t ‘hide in the shadows’ like movie thieves and ninjas.
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I always liked the standing vague lore of new race class combos of “their friends showed them how to do it”. Orcs learned how to Mage from the Forsaken who learned how to Hunter from the Belves and so on.
Maybe they picked it up from the Zandalari. Who aren’t as clip cloppy but are typically wearing jingle jangle gold jewerly but manage stealth anyway. So they let them in on whatever technique they use.
Alternatively maybe the Tauren learned how to make sneakers. Just a big ole hoof with a Nike swoosh.
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Yeah, here’s some lore. So, it all started after the events of Shadowlands, taurens were sick of being sad little cows and having limited access to things, they wanted the same classes as everyone else, because you know Taurens are cool. So, they decided to march down to Blizzard HQ and demand for other classes. This didn’t work at first because Blizzard was too busy wanting to add 100+ customization options to barbie dolls, but anywho, the rest is history.
Tauren rogues are so good at their job that no one who has ever witnessed one has ever lived to tell the tale
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Rogue is kind of a catch all in terms of lore, it encompasses a lot of different themes, much like Warrior, and those themes are sort of roped together via gameplay mechanics. Especially these days, most of the player classes are just generic jack of all trades versions of classes that appear in the lore or were shown in the RTS.
So for Rogues, you have under the same gameplay umbrella: Swashbucklers, Duelists, Pirates, Assassins, Shadowblades, Enforcers, and Spies. Not all of these variants need to be sneaky, so for a lore justification, you’re pretty much good.
Outlaw is/was pretty pirate themed for example and there’s… a weird amount of canon Tauren pirates.
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