Earthen Warlock (Destruction) Background for RP. (Help)

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OBS: May contain spoilers ahead

I’m trying to create a background for an Earthen Warlock, but I’m having difficulty finding the “reason” behind their existence.

Since the Earthen feed on gems/crystals, I tried to use this characteristic to create a Warlock background, and here’s what I came up with:

When Sargeras plunged his sword into Silithus, the impact was so great that it was strongly felt in Khaz Algar. The day this happened became known as “The Day the World Shook” among the Earthen of the Isle of Dorn. (Canon)

Before the sword was cleansed by the adventurers’ artifacts, it was emanating fel energy into the ground, corrupting it like poison (info from the Warcraft wiki).

With this in mind, I found it plausible that this fel corruption could have reached Khaz Algar through the earth (due to the proximity to Silithus), naturally corrupting some of the soil and crystals in the region. Some Earthen, including mine, who came into contact with this corrupted soil and consumed these crystals without knowing of the corruption, gradually began feeling some changes in their minds and bodies, feeling “different,” a confusing mix of power and pain. Additionally, due to the influence of Disorder, they started to distance themselves from their connection to the Titans/Order and their edicts.

Most of these Earthen didn’t become evil, they understood that the Fel opened their eyes, making them realize that the Titans were not the benevolent beings they once thought. Many joined the Unbound, while others chose to live in isolation.

A few of these Earthen realized that this “fel corruption” granted them a power that allowed them to develop a form of magic, which involves channeling their “inner fel” for combat.

My Earthen Warlock would be one of these Earthen changed by Fel.
(All of this applies only to Destruction Warlocks; I’m not sure if this narrative fits well in the context of a Demonologist or Affliction.)

Does this background make sense? Or is it too forced?

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i don’t think any background is too ‘forced,’ personally, but i honestly found the warlock background to basically be either like you’re a scholar of magic and happen to study the fel in one of their places of learning, or you’re a machine speaker, one of whose edicts is to ‘generate energy.’ like the fel and demons were at one time literally utilized by the titans themselves, so it’s not impossible to suppose that some extreme minority of titanforged at least knew of the fel or shadow magic, both of which fit into warlock class fantasy

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Not all warlocks canonically have to use fel

The lore is not limited by gameplay specs and gameplay mechanics

A “warlock” is anyone using culturally forbidden magics

Canonically, Ritssyn’s fire comes from the Firelands for example.

My Earthen Warlock is a Machine Speaker who had always dealt with Fire Elemental energies of the Stonevault but now that they’re “unbound” are researching Nerubian society as their neighbors and want to speak to Legion machines to see what they say compared to Titan machines, going so far as to summon a Mo’arg engineer to learn Legion engineering

Any story is fine, and your timeline is fine.

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I rather think that the Earthen Warlocks, Priests, Paladins and Monks learn their stuff from the Horde/Alliance.

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The paladins are most likely from lamplighters. But seeing how the world soul seems like a mix of arcane and light magic and they are infused, the players earthen that is, with the world soul, they are using the energy inside themselves mostly for paladin abilities.

Especially how Azerite gives the feelings of the light according to Anduin back in bfa. Also Azerite heals and damages and how their racial, quiet contemplation, also uses the energy inside themselves to heal.

So player character earthen are using the light infused in them, my own theory, and the earthen already running around learned it from the lamplighters.

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Warlocks can also do Shadow Death and Fire. Fel Magic currently is bit rare now in days due to the legion’s defeat on argus.

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Aye, my goblin warlock mostly uses shadowflame attacks. I still use some fel but it is mostly shadow

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A bit of a cop out explanation but the only one that makes sense sadly.
Maybe priests I could see. But the rest you listed don’t really make sense.

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i mean paladins at the very least don’t make sense to you?? a significant portion of their class fantasy is ‘i swear oaths and it makes my fingertips sparkle’ and the earthen have a prominent faction called the oathsworn.

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There was a literal quest where an Earthen learns about the light from a lamplighter.

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You seem to be mistaking WoW paladins for DnD paladins.

Yes. A single Earthen became a Lamplighter. Now how does that apply to bunch of Earthen freshly coming out of stasis?

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i mean not really, swearing oaths is part of joining the silver hand. my point is that paladins and a wide swath of earthen are both all about adherence to principle and virtue

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Yes. A single Earthen became a Lamplighter. Now how does that apply to bunch of Earthen freshly coming out of stasis?

What do you think the world soul affecting the machine did to them? It literally gave them inner light and arcane juices.

The whole intro of the earthen is them being special and filled with unknown power. It literally heals and damages things, this energy.

Azerite is very much seems to be order magic and order magic seems to be a mix of arcane and light. Like the sunwell or the scared flame.

That is what makes the new awakened earthen different from the ones already running around. New earthen are filled with Azerite

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That doesn’t make every single Earthen Paladin lamplighters which are a specific Hollowfall cultural thing.

My Earthen is a Paladin because the edicts patterned into her while she was still in her slab. Lamplighters had nothing to do with her.

You want to make yours into a Lamplighter… Fine, you do you. But don’t take your conception as universal.

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Read the other parts of my posts. I already explained why the playable earthen are different.

But I was explaining how paladins are in the earthen community as a whole, not just with the playable characters. Playable characters ara always a special case.

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The player characters are literally part of a whole new generation of Earthen, the first in thousands of years. Most likely this generation hs the first Paladins in the race.

You exhibit your powers literally in the testing of the Hall of Awakening before contacting any other race.

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Exactly, they are special because of the Azerite flowing in them. Paladin earthen, since I made one, are from a group call Ordiants or something. Basically, they acted like paladins before paladins were a thing and without the light magic.

Now with the flow of new power in them, guess they can just be like Tyr and call upon the light. Earthen are titaforged and filled with Azerite super juice.

You can rp with it as you will.

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azerite has nothing to do with the light lol

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The Titans programmed you with a blasphemy directive. Something about stress-testing societal norms.

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Whatever you say.