Are the DKs like Chaotic neutral sith, that use the dark side for selfish (rather than good or bad) reasons?
How does a DK operate in the world, and why?
Jedi might be self righteous, but are they really male human paladin level of self righteous?
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jedi arent just self righteous. they brainwashed babies and turned them into jedi
idt paladins are equal to brainwashing
turalyon however…
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Watch a different movie.
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DKs are pretty much forced into their position and use their power to fight to ensure the safety for everyone, even using means that other people would consider unsavory
I dunno enough about star trek if the sith guys do that
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Ive only see the original star treks. And ive seen people make this argument, i guess death grip is the klingon tractor beam or something
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It’s not Star Trek, it’s Battlestar Galactica.
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arthas / lich king is 1000% inspired by anakin skywalker/darth vader
and the DKs are inspired by sith too, they got the choke, and the force pull. and they tend to wear black a lot
What
Is that related to beats or bears by any chance?
It’s over, Arthas. I have the higher ground.
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DKs aren’t really much like Sith philosophically.
DKs do what they do because they more or less have no way forward. The process of becoming a DK means becoming a weapon created for the express purpose of war and suffering. DKs suffer, constantly. And need to cause pain in order to quench that suffering or else they go insane. It requires an iron will to subdue this constant state of pain and the vital necessity to cause pain in order to sate their dark thirst.
Death Knights thus operate as sellswords for causes they deem fit. I don’t imagine that DKs have a rigid hierarchy when it comes to what they do when they’re seeking out work, but likely have a code of conduct which a DK is like to follow at their discretion. Mograine isn’t handing out marching orders to DKs, probably, and they’re left to their own devices for the most part unless DK forces need to be marshaled against a greater threat like in Legion or Shadowlands.
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Funnily enough, Arthas actually predates Anakin Skywalker’s descent into the Dark Side, afaik. Reign of Chaos came out slightly after Attack of the Clones and Frozen Throne came out a couple years before Revenge of the Sith.
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its a tale as old as time
the hero wants to do right, his masters dont want him to, he takes matters into his own hands. and then does the unthinkable, thus becoming a villain. in arthas case there is no redemption though. thats the bluzzard twist
ive made the comparison before in a different thread. warcraft is this frankenstein monster like creation of different nerdoms converging.
theres a little piece of anakin in arthas, and a little piece of sauron in the lich king, lots of fun stuff.
Lawful evil.
To be fair it’s also brought up in the original trilogy and the comparison isn’t much more than a surface level “they’re both light sided warriors who fell to the dark side and killed their mentor”.
So the details of the prequels weren’t really needed for Arthas to be inspired by Anakin.
dang, was it that far back? im getting old heck.
i think the stories evoke such a sense of universal plight in both cases, they’re almost biblical.
I’ve never really been much into Star Wars, so I might be incorrect here. But my understanding is that Vader becoming what he was, was largely a mystery until the prequels.
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It was a major reveal in the original trilogy that Vader was Luke’s father after Obi-wan told him that “Darth Vader betrayed and murdered your father”.
The specifics weren’t known but we knew that he was a Jedi who fell to the dark side.
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Oh please…DKs would /spit on Sith and laugh as the DK tears the Sith apart…limb from limb.