So… I found some lines from Shadows Rising that describe Bwonsamdi’s face as a ‘bony mask’ and even going as far as to saying he has eyelashes. Now, is this just creative writing, Bwonsamdi shapeshifting or something else?
Since I saw him for the first time I’ve always thought that Bwonsamdi’s visible ‘skull’ was his face, since he has no nose (you can see the bone inside it), and his hair is growing out of it. The color of it also matches the rest of the exposed bone on him too. In the cutscenes with him in them, you can kind of see his brow bones move a little, like there’s still skin on his face, or its strangely flexible. Am I just overthinking it?
Christie Golden has been writing WoW novels for decades, and she wrote that Worgen have tails (they don’t) and also that Forsaken are made weaker and falling appart by being undead (where the lore previously was always that they were stronger physically in undeath than in life). And that Sylvanas banned all mentions of Forsaken Lordaeron heritage (she literally mentions Lordaeron every year on Hallow’s Eve).
Suffice it to say Blizzard’s fact checking team misses things here and there.
I think it’s simply just creative writing here. It very well could be a mask, but I think it’s pretty likely that it’s just features drummed up for comedic effect.
If nothing else we could very easily just chalk it up to Bwon shapeshifting, something we know is possible with Muah’zala’s main identifiable trait: Being shapeless.
Well, they did forget he existed in WoD. Who exactly is Samedi? Also, he says he was ‘here before the trolls’ and now he’s apparently a former mortal lol
I didn’t say she did? The mistake about Worgen was from Before the Storm.
My point is that the historians and C-Dev folks don’t catch everything.
I’ve been praising Madeleine for weeks now, that doesn’t mean that she knows every little detail of the lore, same way Christie messed up with the tails.
In real world Vodou, Baron Samedi of real world is often depicted (among other things) as having a skull face or skull face paint, and he’s the most commonly referenced Lwa, so you see it a lot. White face paint resembling a skull has been a troll cosmetic feature for a while. Vol’jin has it. The old model for Bwonsamdi had it. The wooden “mojo mask” is evocative of it too.
The new Bwonsamdi model decided to go with an actual skull face instead. And it’s flexible so that such an emotive character can more effectively emote.
