The story also just kinda handwaves what they did to Amani and doesn’t apply much negativity to that either- because -why- would people like the Blood Elves care? They’re upholding the traditions of a ancient caste who believed in racial purity.
Source? Cause every single thing I see mentioning that on google… is actually just a post from you here on the forums with no sources? Which is major revisionism since all other sources say the Highborne tried to make an arcane storm over Ashenvale to compel them with raw might to undo the decision.
Okay yeah I figured because that’s the only real material covering that era. It is a MASSIVE stretch to try to frame their arcane addiction (which is not like what the Nightborne or Belves experienced) as "creating a plague that would have an arcane only cure." That is not at all what is said there.
What is said is that they went ballistic and conjured an arcane storm over Ashenvale. Which, just knowing what an arcane storm is, makes a violent act.
I’d love to see BE druids but it would be bizarre to see them before Pandaren, Vulpera (Probable descendants of Wild Gods) or maybe even Wildhammer Dwarf. (Please, bearded animal forms would be SO CUTE.)
While it would be amazing to see them leverage some interesting lore from the threads of Thas’alah as well as the healing of Eversong and the Ghostlands, I’m not going to kid myself into thinking they won’t just slap the option on with a 5 minute questline and dump them into the same old NE Druid lore treatment that basically every other Druid gets. I don’t have a lot of enthusiasm for the story beats for class introduction after their Priest, Warlock and Man’ari implementations.
That being said though, I think I could forgive a flimsy story if they added things like Lynx form, Dragonhawk or Phoenix flight form and just slick fire/autumnal toned aesthetic.
Actually druids were a different story. In classic WoW it made sense that Horde druids and shaman could heal the undead. Also note the Tauren trying to find a cure for the plague is a alchemist using herbs. Its only the light that seemed to hurt them.
Then Horde got paladins and LORELOL they could heal the Forsaken
Its the new lore I don’t get.
In new lore nature magic is life magic and seems to oppose death or something?
Lide and death are part of a cycle, we now know that elune, part of the life “pantheon” has the winter queen as sister.
Druidism with death magic exists since BFA with the Drusts and Kultiran druids. We have druids using death magic already, Forsaken druids are a possibility
Undead being healable by any type of magic was purely a gameplay thing due to them being classified as ‘humanoid’ within the game for balance purposes.
That’s where you as a roleplayer come up with your own. We’ve always had to go out on a limb because no matter what race/combo you are, you still have to build your own personal f oundation. Some combos simply require more work.
There’s always been a segment of Blood Elf society that’s tied to nature, they were the “Southern Quelthelans” centered on the old Windrunner domains.
“I remember the first time I awoke into the Dream. At first, I assumed it was a waking dream like many spoke of, but it wasn’t I didn’t have control. Confused and fearful I ran and nearly found the Nightmare in my terror.” She paused sipping at her tea and pushing a rebellious lock of deep green hair behind a long slender ear devoid of decoration.
“It only got worse even when I was rescued by the sons and daughters of the dream. They looked like the monstrous Night Elves we’d heard about in the story’s parents tell their children. I awoke drenched in sweat and terrified of falling asleep again. I nearly made it two days before a kind priestess took it upon herself to calm my mind and lull me to sleep.”
“My second trip was no less terrifying than the first. It took a small dragon like creature to lure me out of the hollow tree I had stumbled onto and reveal the wonder of the world I found myself in. When I again found myself before the strange half Night Elf, half deer and elk people I’m not sure who was more shocked them or me. Eventually I learned that experiences like my first weren’t uncommon with many stumbling into the Dream by chance during their sleep, few came back and fewer still were aware and capable of reason.”
“Over the months that followed I found myself looking forward to sleep and the Dream. I didn’t actually think it was real. How could it be? Anyways I learned it was true when out one night enjoying my youth, I witnessed a fool being foolish as they jumped into water that only looked deep and promptly broke their legs and nearly cracked open their skull. I didn’t think of what I was doing I just did it and reached out to that feeling I had come to associate with the dream and felt power flow through me. I watched in amazement as their legs straightened and the broken skin pulled back into place. A priest showed up moments later and finished the healing. They tried to warn me away from what I had done claiming it was evil and inherently wrong that only their light was the path of the healer.”
“I’ll spare you the details, but I was pushed away by friends and family none of whom understood what I was doing only that I was becoming like those they had been taught to hate. I found others like myself living in hidden enclaves in the wilds and found something akin to peace. Even after our people joined the Horde their pride kept them from accepting us and so we remain out here away from them welcoming those like yourself who find yourself waking into the Dream.”
In this video we see a druid of the flame talking crap to Fyrakk then getting killed, but this druid of the flame is not a night elf, but a blood elf, he doesn’t look like a primalist either with the leather clothing. And there is another blood elf NPC there as well.
Considering that recent interview that was controversial, but mentioned how NPC combinations were always intentional, If some of those druids of the flame could be convinced to well, be good guys, they could pave the way for blood elf druids.
Interesting. Makes me wonder what a blood elf’s motivation for signing on with Fyrakk’s tomfoolery would be in the first place. The Primalists share Maiev’s (former?) opinion on arcane-tainted races so they can’t be that popular among their peers.
I’d rather blood elf druids tie back into local culture, maybe through a connection with the lynx and dragonhawk loas, but I guess “fire druid” is as apt a theme as any.
It would definitely be amazing to see some Thalassian Druids tend to this tree as well, with Thalassians having more of a presence throughout the Eastern Kingdoms in general with more outposts and such too.
