Why, and how, a dwarf visage? It has been established that the visage form a dragon chooses has some deep meaning and is extremely personal to that dragon I.e Visage Day. Dwarfs didn’t exist until after the WotA, before then they were still earthen. Veritistrasz talks about living on the isles even before the WotA, given this he should be a fairly old dragon. His Visage Day would have surely been before dwarves existed
Same reason why dragons picked High Elves and Humans. Rule Of Cool.
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Nozdormu looked ahead in time and showed the Dragons what races would come to populate Azeroth. It’s in the Dawn of the Aspects book.
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For the same reason that Neltharion looks human, whatever that may be.
My current thought is that “Titantic lifeform, but flesh instead of rock” was a pretty normal form for Dragons to take. The fact that such life forms eventually came to exist in reality is a kind of cosmic coincidence.
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I read that book and definitely don’t remember it talking about that
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The Dwarven form may not be his original Visage. We’ve known that Dragons that have crated more than one, Korialstrasz had at least three. And I’m sure the average Bronze Dragon Watcher has as many Visages as The Doctor. (or do you really think that that many chose the form of the crocolisk?) But most likely he wound up creating a Visage that represented the weight of his self-assigned guilt and sorrow.
One can even say that Lore encompasses the ability of th Dracthyr to alter their own Visages given work which covers the players’ access to the Barber shops. The gender choice of the Visage form is sompletely independent of the A/B body choice of the dracthyr form.
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Personally I have always found Visage Day to be a bit weird. Like we have had dragons in the past have different visages based on what they are doing at the time. Kairoz was a high / blood elf on the timeless isle, then he changed to a Mag’har Orc upon arriving in AU Draenor, only to be killed by Garrosh soon after. Then we have Acidostrasz. Who uses a human form in the cata era burning steppes storyline, then a Blackrock orc to hand out the ‘LBRS’ quests. Replacing Vaelestrasz from vanilla. Who originally handed out some of the BRS quests. Which then led into his boss encounter in BWL.
Even Wrathion has changed his visage form, aging it up from BFA onwards to reflect his transition from whelp (late cata to late BFA) to drake (late BFA onwards). No doubt he might change it again once he becomes a fully mature dragon.
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It’s simple.
The first visage day is a special occasion… like when parents take out Junior to have him fitted for his first suit. For most dragons that take a visage and not all do, that’s it.
Other dragons take on multiple visages for various reasons.
The Bronze dragons that function as Watchers will take on a whole variety of visages from people to the crocolisks that monitor the Swamp of Sorrows timeways Korialstraz took on a High Elven visage named Krausus to infiltrate the Kirin Tor. He later created a more humble Human visage that he named Borel to go incognito among that race. This one was introduced in the Sunwell manga and I think even had a brief appearance in the game itself.
Nelthrarion and his brook took on Visagecrafting as a high art of infiltration… creating an entire Alteraacc noble family, so no doubt many of them had multiple Visages as well.
The first Visage is special… the other ones… no more than trying on a new suit.
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What I don’t understand is why Blizz names their characters like a player on their fourth try at a name on a RP server.
How many vowels do you need? Save some for the rest of us.
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I thought the fables had some canon parts but the stories weren’t completely canon?
That actually makes sense. The Dragon lore is one of my favs aside from the Sundering and the Lich King. I hadn’t ever heard about the dwarves with this but it makes sense. Thank you!