Just watched this on YouTube. I found it interesting
Hang on. Dragons taking humanoid forms was an ability they got from the Titans. Why, and how, are the Primalists doing it too? Especially since they donât have Titan powers and HATE the Titans.
I love the elemental humanoid look to be honest. I might bring my dracthyr to the Isles now and actually level him
I agree with you that they look cool. I just think itâs inconsistent with the lore.
Their proto-visage is pretty cool, I donât think it needs to be inconsistent with the lore.
They evolved? Learned to harness their elemental energies to create a visage?
Iâll make a thread on this.
It does answer why they donât attack the Aspects or Tyrhold as they weigh the champions to be dangerous.
Possibly at a disadvantage with the Primalist ranks culled and Aspects outnumbering them? 
Blizzard realized that making them more human-like makes them more relatable and makes things easier for the cinematics team. Same reason why they have a heavy focus on humans and human-like models even when they have no skin in the story on hand.
Also good luck fitting in some of the architecture as a Dragon.
True, but not always. Look how many people in Legion loved Xalâatath⌠and she was a talking dagger in that expac.
Thatâs the one aspect I find so preposterous about all this.
Like thereâs a bit in the Waking Shore were youâre rescuing historical texts the Primalists are destroying because bad guys. And it struck me as just so odd giant flying reptillian monstrosities would document things exactly how humanoids would.
Like in say Skyrim the dragons 100% have ancient written records. But carved into stone surfaces with flame and claw on like the top of mountains. Not written in something as fragile as a book like some weak mortal might do.
But in general Blizz has difficulty making itâs races distinctly inhuman. Take the QuelâDorei. Why would the Windrunner family have 4 children in such rapid fire succession? That makes sense for humans as we live 80-100ish years, and humans take about 20 to mature, so you have a limited window for that sort of thing you want to take advantage of. But elves live for millenia. Whatâs the hurry?
Yes, but there wasnât any cinematics focused on her.
Lack of BC right after pregnancy?
But yes, thereâs some real confusion with non-human races. Sadly they donât even bother to try explaining it.
Xalatath became an elf after popping out of the dagger so I think that kinda proves Anyaâs point, haha.
That happened AFTER Legion, the expansion where Xalâatath gained her fanbase.
Being able to change shape probably isnât all that difficult for beings of enough power, especially ones that are infused with magic in some form. Magic, regardless of the variants, is magic in the end.
Is anyone else disappointed that the primalist visage forms donât have tiny arms?
I thought the cinematic was pretty cool to be honest, but I like a lot of the WoW cinematics so thatâs not totally surprising.
Iâm really digging the ascendant style âvisagesâ they opted to give the primal dragons and kinda bummed we didnât get to see Raszagethâs. I donât really think they need to spin up some new, interesting lore since their visages are more elemental ascendants rather than mortals like the Aspects present as. This gives me hope that MAYBE someday weâll get an update to the Shaman ascendant model⌠maybe⌠please?
The cinematic has sort of piqued my interest in actually playing DF content a bit more, Iâve been hob-nobbinâ around in old expacs because it hasnât really been giving me the immersive feels but this gives a bit more oomph at least.
I wonder if there will be a reason for why they have humanoid forms, when Ras did not, other than of course they just didnât want more tiny arm proto-drakes as bosses and humanoid form are just easier to relate to for some players. Like the visage forms are picked to blend in with the humanoid races so they can talk with them, there is no reason for the primalists to have them, especially when loudly revealing their plan in private so anyone sneaking around can hear. The forms look neat though.
This makes no sense, why would the primals know of Neltharionâs âSecret Labâ when they were enemies but his own allies had no clue.
Kinda feels like the keep making the aspects more and more incompetent by making them simply just bury anything they didnât want to deal with like the primals and neltharion.
Honestly at this point I donât know why we want to help them when it feels like all these issues we are now having are because of theyâre stupidity.