Nature things can be void and fel corrupted. Fel corrupted and undead (death corrupted?) can be light corrupted. Can things be nature or arcane corrupted? Can light forged be fel corrupted? Void and light corrupted things explode or something. What even are the rules?
Is there a chart somewhere?
Thereâs evidence of Nature corruption on Draenor, with the infested orcs/ogron mobs scattered around that world.
Arcane, I wouldnât really call âcorruptionâ. Arcane can definitely alter things, like plant life. You see Arcane Ancients and pretty much all the plant life in Suramar. Youâve also got folks who do go mad trying to control arcane magic, but that I wouldnât really consider âcorruptionâ either.
Agreed. I know folks think this is Old God related, but when I saw these Moons of Draenor, I immediately thought Nature Corruption.
Tentacles donât exactly branch in the WoW universe, but roots do, and these look like roots.
Additionally, without the Pantheon intervening, Draenor was doomed to also be âconsumedâ by nature.
Nature and arcane can corrupt in a way. Corruption just means something was physically altered by a type of magic, something that isnât natural to them.
Arcane is known for being addictive. We saw that strongly with the elves where they suffered withdrawals from losing it. Life magic can as well. Malfurion was not always half-animal, his body mutated after spending so long sleeping in the Emerald Dream.
Some magics are more harmful than others, but all can have effects if taken too far.
I think thatâs just a straight up Old God. Yâshaarj was described to be around that big before he was plucked off like a bandaid.
Crystalsong Forest is an example of nature that has been corrupted by too much arcane energy.
I donât think thereâs any hard rule on what can be corrupted by other energies.
We donât call lightforging or undeath/blight corruption either, but Iâm using it as a general term.
Corruption and altering are two different things. I wouldnât call Crystalsong Forest âcorruptedâ because it just looks different and is saturated with a type of energy. Same with lightforging. Corruption implies turning something toward evil which fel and void actively do.
I donât know man. Old Gods seem to only target places with Titans.
While true, I think Xera gave a good indication of how corrosive the Light can be on the mind.
I never thought of it that way. Elves are arcane corrupted Trolls.
Yup thatâs their whole goal. xD
Thatâs why I donât think itâs Old God related, I donât think the Draenor system had a Titan slumbering, so why would they corrupt a Draenor Moon?
The Void Lords just fired off a number of Old Gods randomly throughout space hoping to hit a planet that had a Titan in it. Some of the ones they do hit will inevitably end up as duds. xD
This just made me think of a Void Lord just randomly hitting Old Gods out into the universe via bat.
Rofl. Thatâs a pretty accurate analogy, actually.
As far as Xeâra and the Light goes, the more fitting term would be âPurificationâ.
Whether that alone is in itself a good or bad thing is debatable though.
Also OP. Itâs a stretch, but I personally count resurrection as Light corruption because it goes against nature itself. Calia is a good example of this.
Also, the Lightbound off the example of the polar opposite of the Shadow Council. Submit to your Light savior or parish/Submit to your Void savior or parish. etc etc
Corruption of the mind? Xera could have straight up ripped Illidan of his individuality. Itâs why Lothraxion was such an interesting character. Weâve no idea how deeply his persona changed after being âcleansedâ by Xera.
Sure, but âpurifiedâ not purified. Subjects of it donât return to their normal state. They become light things like how fel and void corrupted things become⌠fel and void things.
If we consider things in their natural state as being in balance enough to survive then, just like in reality, any outside force can corrupt them. With magical forces this corruption is just more exponential and visible. I would go so far as to say any force can be hurt even by its own force in the right situation, like how two paladins can hurt one another or we can kill demons with fel magic.
For sure. The folks undergoing that âpurificationâ are irrevocably changed into something else that is not who they are into something more fitting in the image of a power that thrust it upon them. That is why I do not think it a good thing either (and my character would agree having fought such a force before being forced to flee his homeworld by them).