At the very least, can DK’s get their own race or something?
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With player DKs becoming the new highlords of archerus and buddies with the new Lich King I don’t see any lore reason they can’t convert new soldiers into DKs
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I would personally love for my DK to be void elf. Unfortunately there are a lot of people (many of them work at Blizzard) who will just cry about it breaking the asinine lore in this game.
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It’s so strange to me though, it would be trivial for them to create lore for it to be possible, they do it all the time.
Would be kinda cool to be a Void Elf Death Knight.
They’d just retcon it somehow, like they do a lot of things.
Nah. We’re fine the way we are.
Not all DK mains want to be allied races. You should really limit your posts to speaking only for yourself.
Hero classes - DKs, DHs - are different than normal classes. They’re inherently tied to the time in which they were released. They should be left alone, IMHO.
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Pretty sure they don’t give a hoot about lore anymore… If they did… well, I have reasons.
Which is why some of the ARs being DKs would be sense.
Kul Tiran/Mag’har/Zandalari/Dark Iron make perfect sense to be apart of the original DK scenario. At least, in my opinion.
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The only reason AR cannot be DKs is because Blizzard is too lazy to redo the starting zone experience to incorporate them. Nothing more, nothing less.
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While I respect your opinion, I disagree. Arthas didn’t touch Kul Tiras, Zandalar, or AU Draenor. I mean, his story is pretty well documented, he was active in the Eastern Kingdoms and Northrend. Dark Irons… maybe. At least they were in those areas at the time. While those other races existed at the time Arthas was doing his thing, they were… far afield.
And you know, I see lots of people saying things like, “well, the lore’s all messed up anyway”; just because they can mess up the lore, doesn’t mean they should. Some lore should not be changed; I believe that “hero class” lore is some of that.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, and all that.
Granted my memory is hella fuzzy and I’ve not actually quested through the zones in a longtime, but aren’t there Zandalari in…uh…Zul’Drak? Think that’s what it’s called. Kul Tiran were essentially part of the old Lorderon Alliance so I don’t think they’re at all an unrealistic stretch.
On Zandalari in general, their empire is massive. Like it spans across Azeroth large.
The only I think out of my list that is a large leap is Mag’har because they were such a small number to begin with in the Horde. I’m just assuming that Garrosh wouldn’t be the only one to leave Outland behind.
I’m not an advocate of shoehorning lore. But the ones I’m for really don’t seem unrealistic from my point of view with regards to the timeline.
Hmm. I don’t recall there being Zandalari there, but my memory is also somewhat Swiss Cheesy. So if I’m wrong on that, I’m wrong. 
My current list of picks for DK-possible allied races is
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Dark Iron Dwarves
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Kul Tiran Humans
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Mechagnomes
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Zandalari Trolls
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Highmountain Tauren
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Vulpera
Basically my rule is that if the race does not originate from present-day homeworld Azeroth, it shouldnt be possible for them to have an origin as a Death Knight, which is an entity/threat unique to modern Azeroth.
Void Elves, Lightforge Dranei, and Mag’har Orcs come from space or alternate universes, excluded. Nightborne originate from a time far back from the time the scourge originated, excluded.
Its interesting, as there is a Dark Iron DK NPC in BFA.
Shes on one of the Alliance island squads that attack Horde.
Also for my fellow DKs out there who are a bit more elitist than me…
What would you think if they allowed DK’s to be of those races I listed…
…but required you to earn them on a Death Knight toon.
Then after you earn them and make the toon, and choose DK, its origin story could literally be your main DK toon raising them as a Death Knight.
I’m not sure if the infrastructure is there for them to be able to cross-reference your other toon to determine what to show, but I think it would be so amazing if they were able to actually show your character as the NPC that personally raises your character from the dead as the origin story and the starting zone of your allied race character.
Speaking of lore, I’ve always wondered how Worgen and Goblins were able to be DKs. Both of them didn’t join the factions until the start of Cataclysm, after Arthas died.
Well the Worgen are the Sons of Arugal. They’re the more feral version of Worgen that were rampant in Silverpine. I guess Arthas made a trip down that way or they spread out across northern EK. Don’t know the specifics other than that. Death Knight Worgen are not the Worgen from Gilneas.
Goblins, well goblins are literally everywhere. They really weren’t a stretch due to how commonly they were hired as mercenaries and such. But I don’t really know their starting text in the DK starting area. Maybe someone could clarify.
Agreed. I think it’d be awesome if the new races could be dks too. With all this stuff about death and such, youd think they could just throw in a small story line of the lich King visiting the new races and at least hinting that they’d make good death knights. He could literally fly to mechagon and go "wow look at all these dead mechanized gnomes…formidable. " Rinse and repeat for the others. Done.