Because it makes no gd dmn sense why they’re siding with an old god on top fighting us after all they’ve been through.
I could believe an offshoot vying for power or something - but I can’t wrap my head around the queen of the hive siding with an old god after they rose up and began opposing Yogg Saron and the other gods.
They were our ticket to a possible bug race or some kool non humanoid lore.
Now we get more dwarves. But stone this time
omega sigh
“if you don’t want the murder hobos to steal all your gold and gear, side with me”
Knaifu offered them power, they need power, end of. It’s called realpolitik.
I want to know…HOW they are even there in the first place, werent the only under northrend?
Reminds me of that lore for the frostbrood mount you could get doing the wrath classic implying the frostbrood was its own thing, when im 99% sure the frostbrood was just…normal raised dragons, just goes to show that these devs dont play or read anything in their own game.
(unless im wrong here and Im just a dumbarse)
Having part of their society splinter for power is fine. But not the entire race who hated the old gods enough to openly oppose them and kick them out of their cities.
A massive part of their history and cultural development was literally fighting them. And now they’re all kool again? Makes 0 sense
From what was said, not everyone is happy that the Queen has partnered with the void. So it’s likely that we will end up working with a group of rebels and with the new humanoid Nerubian variant… they might be the path in making it playable.
These are not Northrend Nerubians - this is a separate old Nerubian empire. Nerubians traditionally served the Black Empire, like the Klaxxi.
Prior to The Sundering, the trolls fought the aqir for thousands of years. What we know as the nerubians fled north to the area that became Northrend while the rest fled to the south. The first confirmation that the nerubians still existed outside of Northrend came in BfA during island expeditions. The race as a whole were originally part of the Black Empire and served the Old Gods, and as we know the Black Empire stretched across ALL of pre-Sundering Azeroth.
It’s one of those things that Blizzard actually had in their back pocket for some time. It was just more or less a matter of having a setup/excuse to introduce a tribe/group of nerubians that weren’t from Northrend.
man people take the most obscure parts of the story so seriously.
Well… like everybody else who was around at the time, their old empire was broken up by the Sundering. Most of them ended up in Northrend but who knows where else these underground caverns might lead?
Plus, ancestrally, they descend from the same stock as the aqir and mantid, so a few small pockets that weren’t driven so far north hardly seems implausible.
It’s like how no matter where you go, there’s little pockets of trolls and tauren and whatever, living in whatever forgotten bit of the world they’ve inhabited for millennia.
France hated the royals enough to oppose them, kick them out of their cities, and cut the heads off anyone unwise enough to make noises supporting them. How long did that last? Not even decades.
Cultures change, you know. People decide that the ideas that meant so much to the previous generation aren’t that important. Maybe they even decide the old generation was wrong.
Ah ok, I never played BFA so I didnt know the island expedition stuff, and I forgot about the sundering stuff xD
blizzard stopped caring about their lore when they dropped the ending cinematic of cata and the dragons just suddenly gave up their power cause reasons.
Nerubians are an offshoot of the Aqir - the Aqir were to put in plainly, grunts and peons for the old gods. After the war between trolls and aqir which was led by a yogg’saron C’thraxxi servant, the race was leaderless and splintered and one of them created a colony in the north. These guys are the nerubians. For thousands of years after, the nerubians sort of just did there own thing, free of the old gods until the spider wars prior to the 3rd war where they basically did a Moria and dug too deep and got sandwiched between old god forces they released and the undead.
So with that out of the way, I would like to inform you that there is in fact, no separate old nerubian empire and everything you just typed is wrong.
The only Aqir offshoots that worshipped the old gods were the mantids and the qiraji
Then it’s a retcon because the nerubians we are encountering aren’t in Northrend. I guess another empire of nerubians was founded.
Nerubians are defined in lore as Aqir who splintered off and created a new colony in the north “Azjol-Nerub”. We know where the underground caverns and tunnels in northrend lead too (yogg saron).
Those small pockets wouldn’t be nerubian then.
Would you call a zandalari troll a blood troll then? Yes they’re still trolls but they’re VERY distinct from each other.
The only plausible explanation I can think of is that they created a new colony after the spider wars and they’re in desperate need of new power - and even that is a stretch to convince an entire race who hated the old gods to go enslave themselves to one again
Unless stated otherwise, the nerubians we’re encountering are survivors of the spider wars - where they got sandwiched between old gods and undead
Same reason the Mantid flipped.
The mantid were pretty open about betraying you if their old god masters came back lol
Right, and we haven’t exactly partied with the Nerubians much so how would we know what they want?
Considering the got royally screwed over by yogg saron, twice, I’d argue they arent exactly fond of them