They may go horde and Mogu alliance. Jaina has the Thunderking essence in her staff? That may come into play then n the story. I do like both races I would be happy with either on horde.
Saberon would also work. They were teased in the maghar recruitment via Kameo. I can guess the tol’vir faction may somehow involve them both cat like races. Mogu seem dog like in comparison. 2 opposite themes. A great contrast.
Then we get ankoan. And jinyu.
Post edit: Mogu are more lion like then dog like I love the foo dog/shishi theme of them. The lion thene would go well with alliance but it doesn’t have to just like the wolf theme for worgen didnt go to horde.
Mogu being Alliance because they are pissed at the Zandalari and/or view the Alliance as the stronger faction (not to start a fight, but it’d give the Alliance some actual morale boosting instead of the current situation). It’d definitely be interesting to see them get another “beastly” race.
Still going to wish for Ethereal or Arrakoa though. Definitely Ogre for Horde with one head/two head instead of genders.
I love the botani too. The orcs had made them extinct in our universe. So having them join the alliance with jight elves as allies would be interesting. I just don’t see it now maybe for a life based expansion.
They were frenemies with the zandalari. They were planning to betray each other but they sort of were cool with there alliance. Until now that Zul betrayed the Zandalari. Now they are leaning more towards enemies but that can easily change within a patch. The new mogu made by keeper Ral are the new faction and they use dranei skeleton so it would be easy to make them an allied race. They also tie heavily with undead and titan soul magic. If you saw the leak to how the jailer may look you may find titan constructs to be relevant for shadowlands.
Might mean the mogu is helping Sylvannas and the jailer, the mogu race is too big to be playable. They have the same issues as ogres and naga…their models are beyond weird to equip gear on or too tall and bug out. Doors wouldn’t let them in.
I mean zandalari are supposed to be like 10 feet tall. The ingame models are around the same size. So i would expect them to be the same size as dranei ingame. Lorewise its different.
Most mogu are shorter then zandalari men. Some are taller.
Actually I was talking the Horde.
Technically the Horde DID save them from Yrel and give them a new home, even if it wasn’t on Purpose.
Besides, I can see the Tauren, Highmountain, and Darkspear Trolls wanting to bring them into the fold and in turn the Cenarion Circle.
Could see the Huojin, Vulpera, and Zandalari taking an Interest in them.
Goblins would see their ability to grow plants as potential profits and Alchemy ingredients.
If the Unshackled Eventually join, I can see them comparing their situation with the Naga and them with Yrel as similar and be sympathetic.
And finally, and this is the big one, The Orcs might see their ability to grow trees as their solution to Lumber Shortages.
Rala, the possibly Druid Orc in Ashran, would make a great ambassador to them, and potential student in Druidism.
Soul Traders which I think might be Ethereals were mentioned for shadowlands which would be a good expansion to introduce more shadow oriented races like Ethereals.
No, not centaurs. Horses. Just the spacebar and directions. No classes. You wait around until someone without a proper collection summons you to ride you around.
…gooooodbyeeee hooooorseeeees, I’m ruuning back to youuuuuu…
I always wanted like a laughing skull venomancer sort of druid after questing in Draenor. It was sad seeing the shamaness lose her family to the botani. But I felt it would be cool to learn there magic somehow to learn how to abuse them. Being on horde would be interesting story wise. Like a united draenor. But I guess some conflict would be good in my eyes to keep things interesting.
Well at Blizzcon it was said that Allied Races would be added when they fit in the story.
I’m sorry but I don’t know how snake men and fish people would fit into this story of a breach between life and death threatening the balance of the cosmos.
If we get Allied Races, they’ll most likely be from the Shadowlands (Kyrian, Venthyr, etc…)