Erazmin not understanding the light doesn’t mean that others don’t. We have priests.
Further our current leader is King Mekkatorque putting us in contact with the rest of our people in the Gnomes of Gnomeregan who also have priests and have worked alongside the light for ages.
There is no information indicating that Mechagnomes cannot utilize or understand the light.
As far as nature, that is why I suggested a group of ecologically minded Mechagnomes would be likely to study nature magic and could be druids. The absence of them just means they weren’t pertinent to the story. Their addition wouldn’t change a whole lot nor would there be any lore issues.
And a class skin could go all sorts of ways making any of those points moot to begin with.
Shaman can easily be accomplished by a Mechagnome making a deal with the elements. Not unlike the goblins.
Nothing you have brought suggests to me that these things are impossible for a race that can easily study and learn all kinds of magics.
So there is a quest in Zereth Mortis that links natural automa with nature and life magics. It honestly feels like blizzard hints at mechanical druidism. The automa evolved to have plants on them and in them.
I’m not sure I’d classify the Automa as robots particularly.
More like constructed anima/death power. Zereth Mortis (And supposedly all Zereth’s, for their realms) create the realms of death using that realms particular power sources. They’re just early prototyping.
While they operate and function similarly to robots, I don’t think they exactly count. Their innards are probably more akin to living things than to mechanical ones.
I mean heck we can eat them it seems.
Not that I’m against the druidism part of your words… Just Automa seem far more interesting than mere mechanical robots.
Yea the quest has some of that stuff you mention included. Like some of them are filled with that “special water”. And the protflesh judging from mount crafting can have metals in them and stone. Protoflesh can be like metallic or not.
The automa being robots is something like how mechagnomes we would associate and wanted are robots. In the lore they are there own metallic biological beings. We see titan constructs using druidic magics such as on Elunaria. This means machine like beings using nature magics is already part of the lore. That automa quest with the overgrowth shows them evolving using and becoming one with nature which I found nice.
It is also probably we see the automa on the other zereths and first one sites/structures.
I want to see the fel one. I am interested where demons come into play. The burning legion seems more titan based. I would love to see an actually chaotic pantheon. Sargeras seems more like he joined the fel side then representing it.
I have noticed the demonhunters have like similar magics to devourers. They steal magics and warp themselves to be like the magic they steal. So I was wondering if more magics would be explored like that. The natural demons. Demonhunters stole knowledge from warlocks to learn how to be demons. Stuff like that would be nice to explore. And it seems since mechs are natural then fel mechs probably exist too. Fel automa maybe?
Oh boy there is a lot they could explore with demonic magic in a whole realm devoted to them.
As far as fel automa and fel mechs…
Fel has been used to power mechanical things for a long time…
Though I wouldn’t think of Automa as robots or mechanical in nature.
They appear mechanical but we can eat them. They’re clearly not quite the same. They’re blueprints for living things (or dead in SLs case). Not really robots.
