A warlock’s power comes from dangerous meddling with Fel, Fire, and Shadow magic as well as dominating demons to serve them. Warlocks are all about gaining power through dangerous methods that others rejected.
How would an individual that has done this come to side with the Night Fae (or Kyrian) who are all about the balance that death brings, when the other two covenants offer the power that Warlocks crave?
Warlocks are about ‘realizing’ that arcane magic is corruptive. Fel magic is corruptive. All magic is corruptive. It’s all dangerous and warps the soul.
Fel and Void can corrupt easier but if you can control yourself the benefits are worth it
It’s not about being edgelord for the sake of edgelord and because it’s magic
In canon we don’t have to dominate demons to get power. We can and often enough make deals and form bonds. The point is getting the power itself not how and that’s sorts the key. Warlocks don’t have to use fel because ‘zomg fel is so cool’ the thought process is 'arcane corrupts me at a 3/10 and fel at 5/10 but fel gives up its power easier. Magic easier and stronger but controlling myself is harder? That’s a trade-off I can work with"
So if the night fae or kyrian offered power that appealed to a given warlock they’d have exactly zero problems dipping their toes in.bjo justification required. Warlocks aren’t locked into edgy magic. They just the ones not locked out.
Play a troll that wants to help out Bwonsamdi.
IIRC Fel Magic kills the nature around it, so I’m not sure how they’d fit with the Night Fae. It’s possible that a Warlock could find the power offered by the Night Fae appealing and join with them because of that, but it makes some of the quests a pretty weird experience if you envision your character to be acting for that reason. In the end you’re probably going to have to create that justification for yourself.
The entire point of being a Warlock is that you have an intense will of your own. Otherwise you’d be some nameless npc that got eaten by fel hounds or drained of life by succubi or just imploded because they thought they could absorb a whole ton of power and handle it or even worse, convinced to join the Legion and then you would of been demon #1942895 in Antorus when we killed everything.
Just cause you wield the forces of evil doesn’t MAKE you evil. “You are bad guy, but this does not mean you are bad guy!”
Yep, this is true. Warlocks come from all walks of life. Guldan is obviously the most infamous warlock, very evil, but he is not the industry standard.
The Black Harvest is a better way to see the various different warlock types. They come from all over, and each have different personalities. One enjoys inflicting pain on others, another is dutiful to her comrades as well as being wary of corruption, etc.
They’re also a good way of seeing how and why warlocks do the things they do. All warlocks have background experience in magic, usually as a mage, but some were shaman, or even priests. They just, for their own personal reasons, decided to persue the dark arts. This typically involves fel and void magic, but can include any type of magic. The Black Harvest sought power from their enemies, Fel, Void, Firelands, Twilight Hammer, etc, because they believe a firm understanding of and willingness to use the tools of their enemies is an important requirement in defeating any threat to Azeroth.
That being said, it is very easy to justify Night Fae or Kyrians by considering the power they give you. In a way, Warlock is the only class where choosing your BiS ability is truly lore friendly.
I’m still gonna go Necrolord or Venthyr though.
Warlocks are about making deals with other beings for power. In Dungeons and Dragons, for example, you can make your pact with an Archfey: http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/warlock:archfey
The Night Fae in general aren’t all fluttery butterflies. They can be pretty brutal, and it looks like they’ve got a pretty significant connection to the Drust, so the idea of tapping into that kind of power is well within WoW lore as well.
Yes, we have edgy shadow and flame and fel magic - but don’t forget we also resurrect our allies with soulstones, create healthstones to keep everyone alive, health funnel our demons to keep them alive, and drain life to heal ourselves. Warlocks are not only about corruption, death, and destruction; we’re also about healing, life, and rebirth. Masters of both life and death magic.
In that sense I don’t see any dissonance for a Warlock to choose Night Fae when they’re the purveyors of the cycle of rebirth, both life and death, and rejuvenating souls. We don’t shy away from learning the power that death and corruption has, and the flip side of that is we don’t shy away from the power that life and healing can have as well. It seems very fitting for a Warlock to learn all aspects of the cycle between life and death equally.
From an RP perspective you can look at it using courts, just like in the Changeling tabletop rpg. There was an Unseelie court and a Seelie court.
Also, as Qwaai said, if you are looking to nature (or fae), nature is brutal. In the real world nature is constantly trying to kill us and we are constantly trying to survive, so while nature can be pretty it can also be destructive and it has a lot of things to use to be destructive. Two things nature uses to try to keep things in balance are fire and pestilence, both of which Warlocks are masters of. A Warlock could act as an agent of the Night Fae trying to maintain a balance.