Wow has already jumped the shark. Let’s just ride this wave for all it’s worth as Bobby craters this IP.
Mechataurens would be better. And we can call them diapercows.
All Paladins follow the Light. If you’re wanting to argue that a “non-Paladin” Paladin option be made available where they don’t follow the Light, then just say that.
Zandalari Paladins follow the Loa.
Tauren Paladins follow An’she.
Blood elf paladins don’t even follow anything they just use the light like regular magic.
Humans don’t get to decide what everyone else’s paladins are doing.
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Zandalari Paladins get their powers from “The Light of the Loa”.
Tauren Paladins get their powers from “The Light of An’she”, as An’she (the sun) is the Tauren interpretation of the Light.
Blood Elf Paladins get their powers from the Light just like Humans do.
But they ALL get it from the Light.
“This is the call of the paladin: to protect the weak, to bring justice to the unjust, and to vanquish evil from the darkest corners of the world. These holy warriors are equipped with plate armor so they can confront the toughest of foes, and the blessing of the Light allows them to heal wounds and, in some cases, even restore life to the dead.” https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/game/classes/paladin
You can’t just throw “the Light of” in front of whatever they worship and make it a human paladin thing. For one thing, Zandalari Paladins can embrace Bwonsamdi, and he defiantly isn’t the light of anything.
“The Light” isn’t a god. It’s a force of nature like arcane, inertia, and gravity.
Just because other races make use of it doesn’t mean they’re all really the same region, and it certainly doesn’t mean they’re all gonna just drop all their beliefs and follow whatever some overblown windchime wants them to do crap for them just because said windchime says it’s the “will of the light”
The light doesn’t even have a will.
I’ll support only if they get really long flowing hair. Like, male blood elf hair, but on a mecha-orc.
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A mecha-orc is just an Ork-painboy or mekboy who went a little overboard on the cybernetics.
Gnomes are not the only tinkerer’s in WoW. So I don’t see why there couldn’t be various mechanized races on the horde side. Even if they didn’t want to go the route of goblin engineers, there are the Ethereal’s as well and they deal with everyone.
Is your whole defense of a theoretical Mag’har Paladin your “human paladin thing” statement?
You seem to want to claim that if the Mag’har use the Light, it’s okay, because they don’t believe it’s the same Light that everyone else uses, is that correct? Or is it enough that they’re just not aligned with Yrel?
The thing is, in the Mag’har recruitment scenario, Geya’rah talks about “the Light (being) forced upon them”. They call it the “Tyrrany of the Light”, and even refer to it as “The Light’s corruption”. The Mag’har know about the Light, and they certainly don’t hold it in any good esteem. To say that Mag’har would be okay with using the Light, as long as it’s not under Yrel, is quite a stretch.
This isn’t about “being human-like” or anything like that. It is about the Mag’har and their extreme aversion to the Light in general, which if you check the Mag’har recruitment scenario, isn’t about “The Naaru’s Light” or anything so specific like that.
Mag’Har already have priests, which means they’re more than happy to use the light with their own religion. Literally the only thing stopping them from also having paladins is those priests picking up an axe. And since they’re orcs, that won’t take very long at all.
… GOLD ORCS! The true face of the light!
The Orcish Priests we know of were from the Shadowmoon Clan. They were Shadow Priests. Much like the Forsaken playable characters, the options of being Holy or Discipline spec are there for gameplay over lore reasons.
Are there any actual Holy Priest Mag’har in the lore? Or are they all Shadow, like we have seen in the past?
The Orcs don’t really care about the difference, which means technically before the Iron Horde turned them full shadow they were Disc priests.
Do you have a source on that?
I mean I could sift through the quest text of hundreds of quests in WoD to find the one or two times it was mentioned, but honestly that would be time consuming and I don’t care that much about whether or not you believe me.
Besides, you’re a Human Male Paladin. Blizzard, God, and Uther himself could tell you point blank that orcs could be paladins and you still wouldn’t believe them.
Oh, there it is. Sorry, I thought we were having a reasonable conversation here.
I’ve had enough “Reasonable” conversations with human male paladin players to know full well you’re incapable of it.
I’ve had this argument before. Practically word-for-word in fact. Everything has to be exactly like human paladins from the Arthas book with you guys. Not even other sources of human paladins will suffice.
Thank you for showing your true colors. It’s been enlightening.
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