I am wanting to know how priests work so I can make a dracthyr priest
I had thought you could be a priest of alexstrasa like the rpg but the rpg is not canon unfortunately
Everywhere I look trying to find out how priests work, I can’t find answers
Priests of various races have specific angles on how they approach faith and/or the Light. Different cultures do different things. Seeing as how dracthyr were given priests without any explanation it could just be, “Someone taught them how Light/Shadow magic works” and that’s kinda it.
The Light is literally just driven by faith. Believe hard enough and can call on it.
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Light
“Holy magic is the manifestation of the Light in the physical realm. Summoned by emotions, willpower or faith in one’s ability to do so,”
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If you can be bothered, play through each of the starting areas for priests in classic classic (vanilla), particularly Forsaken and Night Elf, to see how priests were meant to “work” when they were introduced. Racial culture strongly underpinned priest lore.
They don’t work like anything now. The closest they are to is the human idea.
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faith in anything or in specifically the light?
Faith in the Light specifically.
It also means one cannot also draw on other powers besides arcane. For example, Lightforged Draenei can only be priests, paladins or mages while Void Elves can’t be paladins but can be warlocks.
I guess my main question is that the game lets you switch willy-nilly between holy and shadow. Seems to a priest would be one or the other.
My night elf priest played this as aspects of Elune’s power. Shadow doesn’t exist in itself; it is created by the influence of Light.
Good point.
iirc Discipline priests can tap into both, but not at the same time lorewise.
Light works like a Green Lantern ring. Your faith and willpower influences it.
Troll priests use the Light from their faith in the loa. There’s no church or naaru to be seen but it’s still the Light.
The Scarlet Crusade can use the Light despite being evil because they believe they’re right and that willpower is enough for the Light to work.
If I remember the Rise of the Lich King book right (I may not be) the Light left Arthas after Andorhal because he was doubting his decision. There was no higher power that took it from him, it was all self-doubt.
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If all this is true then:
- How do priests and paladins of the loa work? As we see with zandalar
- How do priests of Elune work? Like we see with night elves
- Void elves can be discipline and holy priests
- Hero talents let you wield both shadow and light?
- NPCs like Moira are seen wielding shadow and light
Why? Priests are essentially about calling on power from beyond. Back in the day, my Night Elf priest even useda bit of arcane before Blizzard got rid of racial spells.
This is actually a really helpful analogy
To continue the lantern analogy, would shadow priests be like yellow lanterns or ultraviolet lanterns?
Ngl I wish they kept at least some racial spells, or at least one racial spell.
Imagine if later on dracthyr priests got a healing breath similair to emerald breath or a void breath, or kul tiran paladins got a special variation of their fist attack that is basically a fist smite, or if light forged Draenei rogues got the option to replace their poison damage with holy
Speaking as a dracthyr main, I would love if dracthyrs had a different breath ability depending on the class they were playing as with one of their racials.
Swapping damage types, like they did with night elves, is an easy way to differentiate class by race while maintaining the same balance. Night elf priests with arcane, dracthyr priests could be connected to alexstrasa and deal fire instead of holy, etc etc
Okay disclaimer that I am only passingly familiar with the Lantern Corps stuff. But I would think they’re more like Yellow Lanterns, based on the following:
Over a decade ago, there was a thing on the forums called Ask CDev. People could contribute questions that the lore team would choose to answer. One of the questions was about how some shadow priest spells are named thinks like “Mind Spike” and “Psychic Horror”, and this was the answer:
The Light is often said to bring about feelings of positive emotion— hope, courage, comfort— and the like. Shadow abilities are just the opposite, able to impart feelings like despair, doubt, and panic. In a poetic sense, it can be said that the emotions which the Light brings about come from the “heart,” whereas the emotions manipulated by shadow are often based on survival logic, and therefore affect the “mind.” That said, priests and their abilities are not necessarily always psychic or telepathic in nature.
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Elune’s Light comes from the Moon. Lunar magic is Arcane magic in this game, just ask Balance druids. But I agree, the statement you were responding to has lots of holes in it. Every class can be a warlock - including lightforged draenei. It’s not significant that a class can be a warlock and not a paladin.
Unlike Arcane, they aren’t just different, they are opposed.
And that would mean that mortals don’t have to do anything to support their sphere, they just take what they want. (In which case why do you have classes at all?) It doesn’t fit the view point that I’ve gotten from the game.
Further more, I feel like certain races lack classes due to things like having to make custom class mounts and the like
There’s no reason dracthyr can’t be paladins, especially with tyr’s guard being right there in the dragon isles. There was also a night elf paladin NPC.
I’d forgotten Lightforged Draenei can be warlocks.
Side note, that also means it makes less sense for Illidan to have made such a stink about Xe’ra’s attempt to Lightforge him if he’d still keep his Fel (or at least be able to tap into it) and makes his decision to kill her back then even stupider.
Ain’t retcons grand!?
preists use light and void because they are two halfs of the same
the light lords are out there
Mortals are different from divine beings in that they have flexibility and a vastly expanded scope of view, the Powers are very narrowly focused in their fields being virtually blind outside them.
The real answer to your question is no, no one has any idea how it works at this point other than maybe the light is based on conviction.