New Loa NPCs on PTR

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So it turns out that there are two new Loa NPCs on the PTR in the files.

Shango, the Darkspear loa of storm and lightning that we’ve never seen outside of a single blessing.

Lokou, a shadowhunter loa, the only canon mention is a spell for a shadowhunter unit from the mission table. In the RPG Lokou is a Loa of healing.

also this spell was datamined.

Will we see some Loa interactions/quests in the near future?

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Maybe they are laying the ground work for Troll stuff down the line, so people don’t act like it came out of no where. Seeding the story/game for their turn at Heritage/Racial type stuff.

Blizzard has been pretty open to giving Players a bit more racial focus and appearances and lore, as well as cosmetics.

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There’s also the possibility blizz is using these new loa to set up Loa’jins return as Loa of Kings down the road.

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I have two theories.

  • Elements of the Darkspear heritage armor was put in the files ahead of time.
  • There’s going to be a loa quest chain, like how we had the Baine and the upcoming Velen one.
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I doubt Loa’jin will become the Loa of Kings and replace Bwonsamdi. I bet he will rather get his own title like “Loa of the Horde” or something like that due to him being a past warchief and how he several times stated that he considers the Horde as his brothers and sisters.

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Yeah. I totally forgot Bwom took over Rezans title. But you’re right, I can see Loa’jin becoming a really important loa to the horde :heart:

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I’m cautiously optimistic about future story advancements for the Darkspear Trolls, but this looks interesting.

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More and more RPG stuff making it to the canon lore

That’s a W

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Well, 10.2 is all about Fyrrak trying to destroy the new World Tree, which is connected to Ardenweald. Seems like a good time for Vol’jin to finally make his return. Not sure how the playerbase will feel about this though.

Either Vol’jin plays a bit role and people get angry that he’s slighted, again, or he takes the main stage and Night Elves get ticked off at playing second fiddle to a troll in what is supposed to be THEIR storyline.

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I like that train of thought!

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Just gonna casually point out that

  1. These Loa are from the RPG
  2. These are two Loa that are verbatim from IRL African Traditional Religion, Loko/Lokou the Lwa from Voodoo and Shango the Orisha from Lukumi
  3. I am cautiously happy they are borrowing more from IRL ATRs in the spirit of Dambala and I hope one of the many rants those of us who were upset by villian batting/seemingly killing Dambala, who is not only based on an IRL Lwa but was also one of the primary Darkspear Loa for Shadowhunters, got through
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Do we know what forms or animals these loa use? Like what are the models or have the names just been data mined. Im curious about the shadowhunter loa.

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I hope blizzard realizes that not all loa need to be animals. Voljin and bwonsamdi are great examples.

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Agreed. Hoping for a really badass shadowhunter loa

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IRL Lokou is a harvest lwa, and it looks like they’re using a Draenor Sporeling model for him on Azeroth

Shango IRL is A Dude with Axes and was an ancestral king, so I hope they do a Troll King that ascended like Zanza and Bwon

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This is why he’s my IC patron loa; lightning and axes makes him THE god of enhancement shaman.

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I imagine this will have something to do with the Troll heritage.

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Shango shows up with a Podling model too on the Wowhead database though, so I’m guessing it’s just a placeholder model ? Idk

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yeah I hope/expect/demand they change the model lmao

Prolly did Lokou first and just copied for now

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That’s cool, I felt the same about Lukou/ Lokou because I was a healer during my active raiding time and loved the idea that she literally rains positive energy on her allies :slight_smile:
Super excited to see her being implemented in the game at last!