Or are they corrupted children of the titans exposed to the curse of flesh?
Where do Draenei fit on that cosmology chart?
They’re a natural race similar to Trolls. They didn’t come from any cosmic force besides maybe Arcane/Order considering planets are made of it.
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Neither. They’re just normal people like most other living things who naturally evolved on their own. There’s no evidence the titans ever found Argus before Sargeras came to it. If they did they would have stuck around for the titan inside. And they aren’t demons or light creatures, the Light is just their religion.
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they were natural normal creatures who ended up worshipping the light until most of them joined the demons. the playable draenei are the ones who left when that split happened
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Draenei are a classification of eredar which is the actual race name. Draenei are the ones who fled when sargeras offered them power and they refused.
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considering argus was a titan, they’re likely the mutation of a natural race through titanic influence, like elves are on azeroth.
or, they could be an evolution of a titan-created race, since argus seemed to have been ordered by the pantheon at some point, due to the titanic infrastructure of the burning throne. similar to how gronn, ogres, and orcs, all degenerated over time into fleshy beings from a titan creation ancestor.
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They are gifts we do not deserve to be honest. At least the women are. The men are ok, but the women are treasures.
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Draenei are just people lol.
Eredar are people from the planet Argus. They are however absurdly good at pretty much anything, including living for so long they might as well be immortal. Because of this, Sargeras decided to recruit and corrupt them this caused them to shift in 3 groups.
2 thirds of Eredar became Man’ari. Man’ari are corrupted Eredar who are now demons, so yeah these are demons.
The other third called themselves Draenei and divided themselves in half. The colonizers and those who fought with the Army of the light.
Colonizers are the normal Draenei.
The AoL Lightforged. So Lightforged became indeed superior creatures of light. To an extent at least. They are still mortal but infused by the light itself.
Draenei are a normal race, but one that is extremely advanced and naturally talented for most stuff. They’ve picked up high spheres of religious endeavors, martial arts, magic and even shamanism.
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the artwork the women have spawned certainly are treasures, that’s for sure.
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Trolls were not a mutation of anything so Eredar/Draenei could likely be the same. Also, Argus was never found by the Pantheon. Only Sargeras found it and all the Titan structures are his considering they’re made of Fel.
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they’re not necessarily made of fel. they seem to just be made in sargeras’ style, like other titan facilities on azeroth are made in each keeper’s different style.
there’s fel coursing through them now, of course, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t there before.
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The “curse of flesh” is not Void origin, it’s just that Titan creations are Stone or Mechanical, by turning them into flesh made it easier for void to influence and corrupt them.
Sure but there’s nothing suggesting the Pantheon was there. Just because Titan tech is there doesn’t point to this conclusion.
Hey, I’m just people, the fact that I’ll put a bullet hole in you from 500 yards if you’re an evil jerkwad notwithstanding.
But it is.
The old god Yogg-Saron created the curse, and the Void lords are responsibile for the old gods existing, who are all physical manifestations of the void
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Eredar are arcane leaning flesh beings beings born of the World Soul of Argus, much like trolls (except we didn’t need to evolve into elves. We just came out great.)
The man’ari eredar were those that accepted the fel of Sargeras and became demons. The eredar that refused and fled with the Naaru became more Light/Arcane leaning beings and renamed themselves draenei.
Lightforged draenei are Light based fleshbeings
Talking goat people are from hell.
Says the undead abomination…
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They are neither demons or beings of light. Slaves to both though.
In a sense they are both. They are not corrupted children of the Titans. They have nothing to do with the Titans.
Eredar (which is the larger class that the Draenei belong to) are highly intelligent, strong, and gifted beings. A large amount of them were corrupted with Kiljaeden and Archimonde by Sargeras. The official lore is that they were lured into a pact with Sargeras by the promise of power. These eredar became known as the man’ari, the fallen ones, and are the subset of eredar that became the pawns of the Burning Legion. The remaining eredar that fled with Velen were rescued when a Naaru came to Velen and taught him the ways of the Light. This Naaru helped Velen and his followers flee the Legion before they could be destroyed, and they took the name Draenei, exiled ones, to commemorate this event.
So the eredar are both demonic and children of the Light. The Draenei did not make the same moral failure that their man’ari brethren did, and so if you are strictly talking about Draenei, they are children of the Light. As with all people, WHO you are is far more important than WHAT you are, and there is nothing intrinsic to eredar that makes them children of the Light or demons. It is a matter of choice, but once the choice was made, the separation occurred. So I think the question can be trickier than it appears and deserves this full treatment.
One side note, The Light is not the Draenei’s religion. The Draenei do not have churches or formal religion. Their connection is shaped by principle rather than doctrine.
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