Do we know if all green Orcs will eventually evolve to become Mag’har? (unless there’s more fel shenanigans)
We have Thrall & Aggra’s children as an example, but can 2 green Orcs birth Mag’har?
Or is it similar to 2 Worgen having human babies?
2 green orcs would not produce a mag’har, also the worgen curse for some reason cannot be passed to infants in the womb even thought that makes zero sense
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Metzen has openly stated that eventually the green orcs would revert to brown.
Which sucks cause green orcs are cool.
But cest la vie.
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So what I’m hearing is … We need to spike the punch bowl? 
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Presumably it doesn’t transfer for the same reason that druids wouldn’t give birth to children innately capable of shape shifting without having to learn it and commune with the associated spirits like anyone else.
While called a curse, the worgen are in effect a druid form, so like the other forms with their respective animal spirits, it’s caused by the individual being affected by a particular “pact” imposed between them and Goldrinn via the Scythe of Elune.
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But the curse is spread through blood and bodily fluids, you really can’t get around it.
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One thing to note, we’ll still have green orcs for 2 or 3 generations, as Fel scarred them to the point of it remaining in their bodies for a bit.
It’s a combination of both. That’s why when worgen bite non-Gilnean humanoids, they don’t spread the curse to them.
Most likely they won’t produce much green orcs anymore. Remember, green orcs just happened because of all the fel magic in the previous horde that was happening. It not only affected those that used it, drank the demon blood, but also affected those that didn’t because Fel magic is like radiation. The closer you are, the more likely you will get corrupted.
That is why Thrall is green,even though his parents aren’t. They stayed too close to those with fel magic and it affected his mothers pregnancy.
So it is more likely now, that fel magic isn’t used as much, that future generations will not have green skin.
No, it makes perfect sense. The curse doesn’t affect the body but the soul of the person. Goldrinn’s “gift” only affects the persons soul. The soul itself gets the “gift”.
No, just through a bite. And it affects the soul. The bite affects the soul. Yeah, weird druid magic stuff from the wild gods.
Want to ask why? Ask goldrinn why, he probably bite you but you’re a forsaken, the bite doesn’t affect the undead and vice versa.
A magical curse transfered via bite means the method of passing is bodily fluids specifically blood stream and saliva
Thus babies should, by all reason, get the worgen curse
Blizzard are just anti furry cowards
A magical curse transfered via bite means the method of passing is bodily fluids specifically blood stream and saliva
Nope, the bite literally ONLY affects the soul. Just the bite. I don’t get it either but this is druid magic. Druid magic never made sense.
Durotan and Draka had been green for around a decade by the time Thrall was born.
I’m telling you it’s bad writing. I am critiquing the writers. Because that is genuinely stupid.
There is nothing to get. It’s just dumb.
Oh, not saying it isn’t dumb but a lot of the druid lore is kinda dumb. Like the moonkin form and having it with elune and blah blah blah, so many twist and turning with it it just boggles the mind.
So strange because Diablo 4 druid is how I thought it should have been and how it was like in the RTS games.
WoW shoved the Elune Priestess theme into the druid class and now we got this…bad story telling.
Elunes always been involved with Druidism though
I actually prefer the movie explanation.
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Movie version is vastly cooler and very Warlock. Draining the soul/health from a living creature and literally breathing fel magic into Thrall’s corpse to revive him, via proto-soulstoning him to bringing him back and corrupting him with fel corruption.
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Since magic’s involved, it’s also debatable whether the worgen curse is literally transferred by the physical medium of saliva/blood, or if the biting/ingesting constitutes a sort of “ritual” of druidic transference driven by the intent of the worgen who bites or provides the blood.