Character Concepts you never got to make

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We all have them, and some are good, some are bad, some are cringe incarnate and some are just plain damn goofy.

For me, mostly because A) I work horrendous hours and B) I lack the enthusiasm for the game I once had, these are the character concepts I never got to make.

  1. Shal’dorei Priest of Elune:

We know that the Nightborn revere Elune, albeit not as fanatically as the Kaldorei, since the Nightwell cut them off from the rest of creation and they could not see the sky, eventually they came to believe Elune had ‘abandoned’ them, leaving only a few small shrines within Suramar itself and the once-great temple an abandoned ruin.

I desperately wanted to make a Shal’dorei Priest of Elune who was crestfallen to know the Kaldorei would have nothing to do with him and instead was stuck bumming around with the Horde, only for all the nonsense of Battle for Azeroth and then Shadowlands to hit, and have them kind of look up at Elune’s moon and go “…You alright up there, boss?”.

  1. Goblin Chef:

I wanted to make a Goblin who had created a fantastical backpack that allowed her to produce a variety of foods quickly and dispense them immediately to the paying customer. Just imagine the profits, no need to set up a stall or pay property taxes, just head out to the frontlines, dispense food, get the moolah, go home and laugh in Gallywix’s fat, stupid, greasy face.

Except it is Goblin technology and thus it never quite works as intended.

I intended her to be a Shaman, specifically an Elemental Shaman, and theme her spells around foods and drinks. Lightning bolt? The equipment malfunctioning. Lava? Hot soup, on the way! Frost Shock? ice cream! Healing rain? Whoops, looks like the drink dispenser is on the fritz.

Ultimately I decided I’d rather have Gen come back to his roots as a Shaman rather than keep him as a Beast Mastery Hunter (W/spirit beast pets) and the poor Goblin got relegated to the mountain of abandoned character concepts in the back of my head.

  1. Gnomish Technomancer:

Much like the Goblin, but rather play off of his professions rather than his class. A Gnome obsessed with the idea that with the right technology, everyone could have access to the utility of magic. Frozen foods would keep for longer, magical fire didn’t create pollution and wouldn’t require mass deforestation to sustain, arcane power could provide light, heat and comfort to the masses.

So he went out to test his prototypes and gain evidence to back up his thesis, get credible sources for his arguments and eventually create a utopia for the Alliance people that would end hunger, homelessness and poverty en-mass.

Except I suck at Mage-ery and Male Gnomes are firmly dead-center in Uncanny Valley territory for me and, at the time, when I rolled a Female Gnome, I immediately got targeted by a certain individual who really, really liked Gnome Feets and noped the heck outta the character entirely, when I realized no matter how many times I blocked them, they’d just keep coming back on level 1’s to pester me.

That’s all I am willing to admit to that I can remember off of the top of my head. What’s your Character Concepts that never made it to a fully realized character?

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Let me tell you, Gentarn. When Kul Tirans were added as a race, I had the perfect idea for a creepy character. He was going to be a grizzled sailor, but something would be just slightly off about him. A strange glaze in his eye as if he weren’t quite all there, humming a melody to himself every once in a while. He’d have gone to markets rps and browsed all the wares, looking for things to bring back to his ‘mistress.’ A poor sod under the thrall of a Siren back in Tiragarde Sound, collecting odds and ends for the nefarious machinations of his master.

…And then the name Thornman was available and I ended up making a doofy Thornspeaker instead.

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I always wanted to make a Forsaken priest (paladin would be even better but you know) who used holy magic to heal things, because even though it was slowly destroying him and painful, he felt it was his penance to suffer through it and help people.

But I can’t do anything but kill things in video games and I definitely can’t play a caster.

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A Draenei Restaurant Owner.

This is one I had during Burning Crusade when Draenei were brand new. Remember the gaudy purple tunic you got in the first area? Wearing that, speaking in broken Common, running a Restaurant in Stormwind.

A Botani

Had this concept since WoD. Basically a Druid who was infected by the Botani.

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I have a lot of character concepts that I have made, just never played them much or had the opportunity to RP with them… but one i never made?

I had a whole backstory for my Tauren Hunter, Calco, and his Wolf, Swiftpaw, that involved the Venture Co. in Mulgore. Calco found out they were poaching local wildlife and killed the rest of a pack of wolves save one, and in the end had to kill a Dark Iron Dwarf to save her. Many years later Dark Iron Dwarves were announced and I thought “Yo…what if… off to the side that guy Calco killed to save Swiftpaw had a little girl and now she’s a badass rogue on a quest for revenge??” Thought it would make a great villain for my Horde characters in BFA… but I barely played BFA and I’ve yet to unlock DI Dwarves, and now I have two rogues already that I’m more interested in at the moment…

So, yeah, never got to have my revenge quest against my own main.

Maybe I need more friends

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Quite a bit!

Lightforged Draenei baker! With the defeat of the Legion! Iraedimar can finally focus on his one true love, baking tiny delicate confectioneries!! Basically he’s like Arnold in the Terminator Dark Fate movie but a holy murder machine making cute pastries.

Forsaken Inquisitor which would have been a great character to RP during BfA. Essentially a holy priest who’s control over the light came from their faith and devotion to Sylvannas. They instead hunted dissidence amongst the Forsaken and used the Light to torture any would be rebels. An ironic character that hurts themselves to hurt others for a leader that probably has no idea they exist. However it would have been a villainous character which I find difficult to stick with.

Another idea was Undead Tauren Deathknight, they were a cocky druid that thought they could heal the plaguelands but instead only found death. Raised by the Lich King, they found delight in destroying and corrupting nature. So essentially unholy death knight that likes to murder trees more so than people. If there was a park that had a sign that said do not walk on grass they would in fact walk on that grass and probably stomp all over your flower bed.

Draenei Astromancer - essentially when the Draenei traveled among the stars they along with others would map their destination by reading the stars. This Astromancer though, spent a little bit too much time peering into the dark places between the stars and may have heard a few too many whispers.

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Had a more elaborate one but a Clayton Bigsby type character who is a non-human that believes he is a Scarlet Crusader could be pretty funny

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There are a bunch of characters of mine that may fall under this criterion, or similarly that of characters I made but never got to use. I’d like to go over both, as I think most, I can recall many technically fall more under the latter.

Kul Tiran Steam Warrior,

Early in the days after unlocking Kul Tiran Humans I sought to make a character who was a mech engineer who used a peculiar power system that utilized enchanted water. I made a warrior to represent her but for one reason or another (likely a combination of space and wanting to focus on other characters) I ended up deleting her somewhat early in the leveling process.

Rival Engineers,

In keeping with the mech engineer theme I had an idea to have multiple characters of the sort who would be canonical rivals in the field. I think one was a Gnome and the other a Goblin, but I can’t remember clearly enough to be sure. I remember making a Gnome, and later a Goblin, who were both magical engineers, but I can’t quite recall if they were written with any connection to each other.

Illidari Turned Demon,

In my first/main Demon Hunter’s backstory she had a sister who joined her in membership and was later lost during the siege on Black Temple, only to be later rediscovered as a full-fledged demon. The ongoing pursuit of this demon is something of a reoccurring point for that DH, and I often wanted to do something with that character but never found an opportunity. I recall making a profile for her, as well as writing out her backstory; how she escaped Black Temple and later sought to become a demon to protect herself from Varedis.

Orc Blademaster/Monk,

At one point I wanted to make an Orc Monk and I got an idea for a Blademaster who pursues the way after a Monk broke their warblade barehanded in a duel. She carries the broken weapon as a reminder of that moment and motivation obtain a comparable measure of prowess. I did actually make the character, but I can’t remember what happened to her. I figure it was likely the usual culprit, deleted for space.

Runemasters & Sisters of Steel,

I’ve tried numerous times to make characters who were interpretations of these classes. Most were eventually deleted for the usual reason or waning enthusiasm. Some lasted longer but were never portrayed.

Shal’dorei Fruit Vendor,

I’ve had a few ideas for civilian characters of various races, and this was one of them. I was going to use the character for a mage I made to unlock the heritage armor, as my first Nightbourne was boosted. This somewhat late into my last days with the game, so it may be needless to say that I didn’t get far in either endeavor. I didn’t have much in mind for the character. To an extent she’d serve as an analog of another civilian character I made; a Kaldorei Vinter concerned for the state of her livelihood during the Fourth War.

Naga in Disguise,

Many years ago, I had an idea to roleplay a Naga disguised as a Night Elf. I dropped it pretty quickly as I found the idea to be too convoluted to be practical. In retrospect it could still work under the right circumstances, but I won’t be the one to do it.

Elune Worshipping Pandaren Monk,

So, the main character portrayed on this Monk, Zhaoyang Cloudpaw, reveres Elune. In an unfinished AU story I was working on some years ago, there was a version of her as full-fledged Monk and Priestess of Elune. I had occasionally considered making a character like that, though I suspect the thought never stuck long enough for me to want to act on it.

Addendum:

I remembered another concept, this one for a Kul Tiran Shaman. At the time I had something of an obsession with religiously devoted Shaman. This one was to be a former soldier who got involved in a horrific incident at sea and, due to the circumstances of their survival, became a deranged servant of an elemental lord of water. I made a character for it but she ended up just being used to hold the ooc name I had for her, which I really liked.

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Something that does make me wonder, what exactly were the Sirens after?

They seemed to just collect sailors to be their servants and, in the case of the men, fathers of the next generation of Sirens. They didn’t seem to have any other goals beyond reproduction, protection and personal comfort.

It would be interesting to have a Siren NPC in the background that wised up and began using her ensorcelled servants as agents instead, gathering information on shipping routes and the cargo being loaded onto specific ships that might benefit her, her servants, or be useful for trade with someone else.

That would be a fun threat, a ship crewed by slightly ‘odd’ merchants and sailors that are under the thrall of a Siren, and she uses the vessel as both a mobile home and a base of operations for her mercantile efforts, or a lonely port where everyone leaves offerings at the Shrine to the local deity … who just happens to be a Siren who has used her abilities to set up a tidy little life for herself without needing to risk her own fins fighting the land-walkers directly.

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This. I love all of this. By all means if anyone wants to expand on my idea and use it for their own, have at it! Thomas keeps me way too busy to explore most of my alt characters, and the thought of one of my idea babies out there growing up and leaving the nest is delightful. Proud parent.

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Oh geeze, I have alot of these.
Some of these are characters I scrapped, but still.
The Blue Child
The plan was simple-get a troll druid, raised by the Luna’lai. astral form them up, and have them be the undercover Blue Child Exploring Azeroth. They would be friendly, have a general lack of knowledge on alot of stuff in azeroth, and essentially not be able to use magic because if they try to cast a spell(say, moonfire) it’d just explode everything in a mile radius. I could never figure out how to make it work, though, and it always felt a bit too much to use a semi-deity.
Forsaken Death Knight.
This one seemed fun, because they’d been resurrected so many times that its debatable if they’d have any morals or even sanity. That said, I couldn’t figure out exactly how much sanity they should have, or what their allegiances, having changed so many times, would even be. Ideas tend to float around in my head, and some of these chars I deleted as soon as I made them, but this one I just never used.
Magical HearthStone Card
Since Hearthstone has characters that only exist there, the idea was a character either from a parallel universe or a literal living hearthstone card(brought to life by an enchantment of some kind.) Problem was, once again, trying to figure out the personality.
It seems like thats what usually stops me with these
So-yeah
Edit: My spelling is atrocious. Fixed that.

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There are two characters that I never got around to actually using before I uninstalled — both of which were Death Knights, and they still eat me up inside a little.

#1. Definitely the more controversial one: a reanimated red dragon allied with the Ebon Blade. Taking some inspiration from Kyranastrasz (the Death Knight mount from Legion) and a bit of Sindragosa thrown into the mix, I just fell in love with the idea of her very existence being an abomination to what she once represented. The life-giving fire of the Red Dragonflight being stifled by the unforgiving cold of undeath. That, and it seemed like a convenient way to play as one of the unconventional NPCs that you see around Acherus: (banshees, constructs, ghouls, and even a lich) without going full-on TRP headcanon with her appearance.

#2. An unholy/shadow-based Dark Rider, in the same vein as Salanar the Horseman who you meet during the DK intro. I was super into the idea of her being defined by her armor, presenting herself as this faceless entity where no one is even sure if there’s anything underneath or if she is just some kind of spirit that is inhabiting an empty suit.

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I mean, Runeblades were quasi-sentient. I do love the idea of a Death Knight that’s more a meat-puppet for the sentience within the sword, and what the motives for a magical sword would be?

Is it jealous of more powerful weapons and drives its vessel to gather resources and magical powers to enhance itself, in a never-ending game of brinkmanship with inanimate weapons, or even other sentient weapons and items that all have a running feud over who is the greatest and most worthy magical item of them all?

Is it entranced with the pleasures of mortal flesh, a thing an entity of unfeeling metal and necrotic sorcery could never even conceive of, and will make the mortal vessel sit and eat, drink and explore until it expires, then try to bind a new vessel to its will?

Or does it just crave violence? To feel living flesh and hot, rich blood part before it’s ever-thirsting blade, to gloat as it feels the soul of it’s victim fragment and splinter, sucked into the blade to fuel even further acts of gratuitous violence and carnage. Does the blade merely lay quiet and calm until the opportunity to cause slaughter present itself, and then move the meat-puppet to action? Does it prefer specific targets, glorified warriors who cannot resist the lure of a duel, ‘cowardly’ mages whose vaunted arcane defences are but paper-thin to the blade’s powers, or does it hunger with dark delight for the blood and souls of the innocent, to hear the screams of parents as the cursed blade drinks its fill of their children, to be serenaded by the torment of lovers as it forces them to choose which of them lives, and which of them dies?

There’s a lot of ways Intelligent Weapon with a non-sentient corpse to puppet could play out.

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i always wanted to make a bombastic male human paladin because going unga bunga into the undead back in wrath sounded like just a blast
but the thought of actually leveling a paladin back in wrath really turned me off to the idea so i never did it :frowning:

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Gnome Warrior (Or Death Knight, or maybe even Warrior played as a Paladin.) Based sort of on Reepicheep from Narnia. He would be this sort of extremely quixotic character who would speak really formally, with vast overexaggerations. Stuff like, “My dear and truest friends, I shall not return until I have completed this quest to the utmost perfection!” “Dude, we just asked you to see if the barmaid can bring us another round…” Gnomish enthusiasm combined with pompous knightly valor.

I half attempted it one time, with a Worgen. A little less over the top than the Gnome would have been, the idea was he was a very old knight, like 70+ years old, who had retired but upon being turned to a Worgen, came out of retirement because the curse gave him more juice to keep soldiering on. I RPed this one a bit but gave up on leveling it and eventually shelved it.

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…Holy-thats
Actually an excellent idea
I am so using that
I do still have the character
Thx!
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I’m not sure it’d actually end up being malicious, though
It might just want to learn about life-since most runeblades only have enough sentience to follow their masters commands-I think
It might love murder, it might find it distasteful, finding life so fascinating that it feels wrong to end it-it might see its puppet as a tool, or more like a pet(You have to walk it, feed it, take care of it, groom it…) and be attached to it-any combination, really. I don’t think it’d be that against murder, both because it kinda does feed off life energy-thats sort of death knights…thing-and because undeath is a thing so from its basic knowledge of how life works, death probably wouldn’t seem like the biggest deal.

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Random low-ish/mid level arcane mage blood elf. Who works on mid-level local stuffs, so I could OOCly get to learn more about RP, comfortably, when I began RPing for roughly 2 weeks. In other word, what Anar’theril (and his alt) meant to be.

I typically did stuffs like these with other RPer >>

  • Concocting general anti-venom solution, or initial field first-aid, for travelers.
  • Investigating local invasion (like centaur raids), and natural disasters (like earthquake), at Durothar and other Horde territories. Report intel back to Silvermoon magistrate “superiors”, so the city can assess whether the incident will later affect its people’s profits. Or join local Horde to intercept, if it is clearly significant threat or inter-city relationship benefit. And not beyond capacity of him, and available local force.
  • Learn of local people’s businesses, to keep track of local area’s state, by open inquiry. Infiltration as unsuspecting merchant, etc. Exchange arcane service, aids, or golds, for the information. And report intel back at Silvermoon.

About 4 months later, till 2 years later, I learned, the arcanist I tried RP’ing had never happened. Because every single RP acquaintance, from Orc warrior on continent’s furthest edge, to Taurent on highest Thunderbluff peak, to my closest belf mage friend, and at least 2 dozens more – everyone told me, they had always thought my char was “some kind of magister”.

So, after having to oocly clarify my intention, with many groups, I gave up. And therefore Anar’theril (and all his alts) was magister, since.

As of right now, I had my char joined Sunreavers, where only one magister, is the GM. And my char take role of assisting mage/alchemist.

I joined because the group looked fun. But the guild structure should also help my char being viewed as alchemist/mage, for real, this time. Right?

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:banana: TEL’ABIM BANANADIN
This is a long-running joke from my days on Argent Dawn, but once upon a time I genuinely wanted to make this character concept a reality - if only to be a storyline NPC.

The Premise
This novice paladin was shipwrecked on a remote island off the coast of Tel’Abim, where isolation slowly began to addle their wits. They didn’t go mad, but the extreme loneliness caused them to develop some unique attachments to the local fruit, specifically the native bananas. As time passed, they slowly began to believe the bananas were intelligent living beings, suffused with the Holy Light.

The concept comes from the gossip text attached to the diary pages associated with a miscellaneous [Message in a Bottle].

The character lived on this remote island, Castaway Style, for about 4 years before they were inevitably rescued by explorers. When they returned to Stormwind, they began the process of healing and managed to return to life as normal, more or less. They became focused on humanitarian efforts, and strove to do as much good in society as humanly possible. But the experience addled them so much that they genuinely would try to persuade people against eating bananas, would protest against Tel’Abim imported goods, and eventually commissioned a very expensive and ridiculous looking bit of plate armor, designed in the likeness of bananas.

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You know what? Despite looking like an orc Glenn Danzig, you’re a pretty cool guy.

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Speaking of Sirens, there’s a new animator out there doing some amazing work.

Go check them out, the machinima this creator is making tight and puts a lot of Blizzard’s latest work to absolute shame.

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