Drak’thyr lore

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When would the Drak’thyr race have been created chronologically?

Blizzard specifies Neltharion created the Drak’thyr. The fact that they used the name “Neltharion” instead of “Deathwing” made me think that the Drak’thyr may have been created prior to the sundering 10,000 years ago and had just gone dormant along with the Dragon Isles.

But if that were the case, why would they have human forms over something like a nightborne or a troll? Wouldn’t those races have been much more prevalent at the time? I’m not sure how many humans were running around the singular continent prior to the sundering; if anything I’d imagine they’d still be getting hunted down by the Vry’kul.

So would that mean Drak’thyr were created by Neltharion sometime after the sundering? Maybe I’m wrong and they just migrate to the Dragon Isles along with the rest of us when the Dragon Isles become active, again. Maybe other races will be added before the expansion is released. Maybe new human lore will be created.

When do y’all think the Drak’thyr race would have been created?

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I am sure in the start zone for them, all that lore will be explained.

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Yeah, I’m sure it will be. I think it’s fun to speculate until then though.

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Because the Dragon’s “ideal” humanoid form was almost definitely derived from the Titans, which translates to, yes, Humans.

And yes Humans were a thing at this point - their “devolution” from the Vrykul goes back to about 5k years before the Sundering so it isn’t like the Dragons wouldn’t have known about them or had access to them.

Why, then, were they spliced with Elven traits? … Elves were the #1 mortal race at that point, the only competition the Dragons really had for their kingdom and empire. So there was likely some amount of perhaps begrudging respect for them.

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They were created juuuuust in time for you to poke holes in the lore and rage about how it doesn’t make sense. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Pre-Sundering, humans existed but high elves/blood elves did not.

Around 15,000 years ago, the vrykul of the Dragonflayer clan believed that their gods had “abandoned” them, and a certain time after that, some of their children were born “weak and ugly.”
Re: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Human

The Great Sundering was a cataclysmic event that shattered the continent of Kalimdor approximately 10,000 years ago, at the end of the War of the Ancients.
Re: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Sundering

When the night elves adopted druidism, they outlawed the practice of arcane magic. The use of its dangerous powers was punishable by death. However, many Highborne loyalists of Queen Azshara survived the Sundering and grew restless. They suffered from magical withdrawal, and 7,300 years before the invasion of the Horde through the Dark Portal, they spoke against Malfurion Stormrage and the Druids

Dath’Remar Sunstrider, the leader of this movement, declared the druids cowards for refusing to wield the arcane. Malfurion and the druids warned the Highborne that any use of magic would be punishable by death. Yet, in an attempt to protest the druid’s law, Dath’Remar and his followers unleashed a terrible magical storm upon Ashenvale

The druids could not bring themselves to put so many of their kin to death, so they decided to exile the reckless Highborne from their lands. Sunstrider and his followers boarded a number of specially crafted ships and set sail upon the seas. By now the Highborne were glad to be rid of their conservative cousins and free to practice the arcane with impunity.

None knew what lay beyond the Maelstrom, but they eventually found the Eastern Kingdoms and formed their own magical realm. They abandoned the concepts of Elune and nocturnal activity, embracing the sun instead. They would soon become known as the high elves.
Re: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/High_elf

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The Isles possess Watchers, which means that the Dragons had humanoid inspiration in the style of humans due to them being there.

The Aspects just happened to like the other forms better later on and probably changed them since they can.

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I really hope that we can have something other than an elf as a choice, would love they could be orcs in humanoid form