So I love magic loving societies like the highborne , nightborne and blood elves but do dracthyr’s also use the magic of the aspects or dragons right? Can they also create fonts of magic? Magical items like elves and can they be stronger than elves? Like who would win, a seasoned dracthyr mage or blood elf mage? Any thoughts would be appreciated it!
Well the difference between Dracthyr and Blood elves or any elves is that Dracthyr just know magic by instinct. There is an NPC while playing as an evoker that acts confused about the “mortals studying magic”. For the dracthyr, it is just like breathing for them, just a fact of life like seeing.
They also do Tinker with magical items. We see a Dracthyr with a broken wing trying to fix a titan machinary orb. She was kinda scared because she never interacted with the mortal races before and didn’t know if she was doing a good job so she asks you to go ask the gnome and blood elf if her notes are good.
Her notes are much better than their own and she gets the titan orb working. She joins the dragon expedition to study more.
So right now? Is is between experience mostly. The dracthyr were kinda shelved very quickly into stasis so their culture is almost non-existent. They never really had to develop anything because they were mostly just tools to be used by Deathwing.
But all in all, if they were in equal footings with the other races, they probably would be vastly better at magic and tinkering than the others. But they are mostly like new borns.
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I see! Interesting thank you! So they are a newly awakened race but they are highly attuned to magic… is this a hold over from dragon physiology? So would dragons be stronger in terms of magic than elves?
Oh yeah, dragons are 100% much stronger in magic, especially the blue flight. But yes, since the dracthyr are a combination of all aspects and mortal in a DNA type thing, they would be just highly attuned to magic
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Drakthyr are bioweapons engineered specifically to use (arcane) magic nearly as competently as a dragon, who are pretty much the top tier of caster with very few exceptions. It is just… what they are.
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No. their advantages are overtaken by the fact that They don’t have the training and experience to take advantage of their gifts as opposed to the elves having 5 digits of years in practise.
Quite the opposite.
They’re inferior.
90% of skill is derived from style.
They look like Jar Jar Binks with wings and can’t t-mog to hide it, so it’s a -30% mali.
Furthermore, dragons are weak and useless. They are only powerful on paper, but any Steve with a pickaxe can kill one.
They don’t need training at all, that is their advantage but you are 100% correct that they don’t have the experience. They know how to use magic and better than mortals on a fundamental level but they don’t know all about the magical technology out there that was developed over the thousands of years.
They just need more experience and a culture of their own.
Dracthyr: Filthy Casuals of the Arcane
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I would contest that. Illidan failed as a Druid despite the inner talent indicated by his golden eyes. A surprising number of people in real life fail at what they are talented for.
Mortals have been using magic in battle for millennia. From what I’ve seen of their history and that of dragons in general, their “talent” has limitations that can be taken advantage of.
Yeah, but he isn’t a dragon. Dracktyr being kinda dragons were super confused in why the elves and humans were studying magic when it is just natural to them. Well, that is because they are dragons. Not every Dracktyr is an evoker but each one of them understands magic like they understand breathing.
Mortals have been using magic in battle for millennia. From what I’ve seen of their history and that of dragons in general, their “talent” has limitations that can be taken advantage of.
And that is why I stated the experience is needed more than just natural talent. Mortals do experiment more than immortal type characters so they do get buck wild with what they do with magic.
They are less likely to, let’s say, rip souls out of people and use it as fuel…just something some of us “superior” races are known to do.
Upsides and downsides of dare I say it? … Mortal Potential!
lol the mortal potential is literally why Drackthr are a thing. Let’s combine dragon aspect magic all into one thing and add the coveted…MORTAL POTENTIAL!
Mortal potential just means curiosity really lol.
No it means drive. It means an acute awareneess that the time you have to accomplish anything is limited so you have that incentive put the petal to the metal.
Or let’s explain this in Trekspeak.
> Klingons: okay we don’t get it
> Vulcan science academy: what what?
> Klingons: You Vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you’re also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way. Why do you let them run your Federation?
> VSA: Look. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they don’t do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they’re offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby star into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn’t want to waste a trip.
> VSA: They did that last week, we have the write-up righthere. It’s getting published in about six hundred scientific journals across two hundred different disciplines because of how many established theories their ridiculous little experiment has just called into question. Also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actually knows how.
> VSA: This is why we let them do whatever the hell they wnat.
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That could bring a goblin to tears in how beautiful that all is.
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did anyone notice the dragonflight buildings look like the blood elf ones
I thought this was interesting
maybe highborne elves copied dragons or something
I did wonder about that as well.
There is some resemblance to old Kaldorei imperial architecture as well, just without all the jaggedness that was part of the draconic motif.
It would not surprise me given the Draconic empire was one that was old even when the Troll empire of Zul was freshly minted. They were arguably the first major power to emerge after the Titanforged splintered due to old god shenanigans. They would have to be influential.
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Would make sense, seems the elves were very much into arcane wells and eventually an aspect made the Night elves immortal, so there were dealings with dragons before. Would make sense the elves took some inspiration from them.
I kinda strongly suspect the reason Azshara stopped conquering to the east and left the trolls alone was never because she was tired of dealing with the trolls. That was just a front.
She actually wanted what was left of the Troll territories as a buffer from her only actual rival, the Draconic Empire.
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