Remember that first one? That was a good thread. Let’s do that again.
What’s your favorite piece of headcanon that helps build out the world we love RPing in?
Remember that first one? That was a good thread. Let’s do that again.
What’s your favorite piece of headcanon that helps build out the world we love RPing in?
I usually use a magic system from one of my favorite series, since there’s little to no detail in WoW’s own. Makes it a bit awkward when I encounter other people who do the same with a different system. xD
why is there a seemingly massive amount of space after the 2 in the title of this thread
Because Blizzard requires a thread title be at least 15 characters, and Headcanon 2 is four short.
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Night elves eat kimchi.
Living in Stormwind is sort of like living in New York in the Marvel universe. Nothing phases you anymore.
The subtleties of draenei gender would take a hundred-page dissertation to explain.
The Alliance as a whole has a “bill of rights” style document that most members are surprisingly good about respecting. Among other things, it guarantees a right to literacy; learning to read and write is completely free, which is why there are very few if any quests where literacy in Common is an issue.
This is actually canon, there’s a cooking daily in Darnassus about kimchi.
My headcanon is that night elves eat bugs. Kaldorei spider kabobs are a thing and obviously made from the great big giant ones, but it logically follows that they’re not squeamish about the smaller, more abundant, easily-gathered little protein sources squirming around.
Oh, I also headcanoned in a while ago as a running gag that there’s something wrong with the water people drink in the city. Thanks for reminding me about that!
Monogamy is exceptionally puzzling as a concept to most Night Elves, it simply not making much sense with them being as long-lived as they are. Malfurion and Tyrande’s union is considered unusual, exceptionally strong and a little weird.
I hadn’t considered it but I kinda like this one. Add in a pretty gendered society until very recently and a significant chunk of them being comatose at any given time and “till death do us part” starts to look pretty unworkable in their circumstances.
I’ve never liked how bouncy Trolls are when riding raptors, but when I completed the 20 day quest to attain Venomhide Ravasaur in Un’Goro with my Goblin, I decided I “really” like the Goblin/raptor pairing. ALL of my Goblins ride raptors and my Trolls ride something else.
Oh boy, here I go again …
Tauren are a titan-forged race and related to doomguards:
Doomguards were once titan servants of the Titans, serving to police magic. As a result, they would be all over the place not just on Azeroth. There was a tauren-like race on Argus, according to dialogue. I think its possible that the race doomguards belong to might of been there, in an observing function or to police eredar magic, but were hunted actively by the Eredar. They may have been altered on Argus, or not, who can say? Those that were on Azeroth would of been effected by the curse of flesh and fell into decline, in time becoming the Yaungol, then the Tauren and Taunka. Their prior nature as policers of magic may be a reason why we don’t see them delve at all into the Arcane despite theoretical titan origins, favoring magics that depend on a relationship with its source (Shamanism, Druidism, ect.).
This is just an idea of course. Don’t believe it? Look close at a Tauren and a Doomguard, and small details like number of fingers.
The reason that many free-willed undead Forsaken, including Sylvanas, are ‘evil’ is because they no longer have those wonderful little brain chemicals flowing to produce emotion. Happiness? Sadness? Even guilt? Not always there, unless you’re specifically trying to feel them I guess. So if you don’t feel emotion anymore, becoming a genocidal maniac isn’t a hard thing. You really don’t care about it.
I don’t RP that for Sarestha directly… she still feels, in her way. But it’s why I think so many good Lordaeronians suddenly became evil maniacs.
Also AU Draenor is part of our universe now - the Dark Portal crossed time and space to bring it into our reality, which is why it has temporally aligned with us. It’s now a part of our reality, for better or for worse, and is no longer an alternate timeline that’ll just fade away.
My undead rogue doesn’t kneel to Sylvanas. Not on any moral grounds. He just has a problem with authority. And I like to think most rogues are like that in the forsaken. And that she doesn’t order them. She unleashes them.
I think some blood elves remember their time as Highborne. They remember magic changing their bodies into whAt they are now, and when they face night elves look down on them like the poor servant caste trying to feel important. I think Void Elves would be troubled especially cause their new allies used to be beneath them. And now the servants are the unofficial masters of the hierarchy.
There are no ducks in WoW. My headcannon for that though is that there -were- ducks a very long time ago, however they were so viscous, savage, demonic hellspawn that they were purposefully wiped out from existence. Not even the Old Gods or Void Lords could compare with the threat of the ducks!
Oh and that druids/shamans are used as industrial labor, with unions and all that. They keep the cities clean and work in tandem to feed the various factions to keep them from starvation due to the near yearly apocalyptic event. All done in the background of course.
Azerothian corgis were bred by gnomes as hunting companions and guard animals.
I’m getting my Gnome a corgi now. This is perfect.
I am still waiting on my Dire Echidnas for Hunter Pets that don’t look like the mangy, shameful mess that is the porcupine model that WoW uses.
That said, tameable Corgi when? If we’ve got Basset Hounds now, why not Corgi and …
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WEINER DOGS.
War Corgi! We can have Corgi mounts, Corgi Hunter pets. It’s -perfect-.
Since Draenei are ‘goats’ I headcanon that they’re actually exceptional climbers and can perch in highly precarious places that shouldn’t be feasible given their size.
Draenei children are the WORST though. They’ll climb any and everything. Races not prepared for it will sometimes see Draenei Toddlers that have managed to climb into dangerously high places and panic.
Draenei adults however, don’t see what all the fuss is about.