Origins of the Nightwarrior and his Husband (Spoilers)

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And Elune and the Moon. It’s bad enough males can become priests.

Of course.

No it dosen’t.
You’re doing it again. Ignoring the Balace Druid and the fact the Moon-light abilities are given direct from Elune to them, like it’s with the Moonpriest.

If you want a Night Elv Paladin for some horrible reason and a stylistic nightmare in my view, ok. Just say it.
This has nothing to do with Moonpriestes. Especially not if you’re going: “Balance abilities are totally not fitting”. I mean what?

But that’s what you’re doing. You’re giving Moonpriests a weird out of theme thing they never were.

It really seems you want a Paladin, for whatever horrible reason, ok. Fine. Moonpriests are something very different.

And yes they are closer to Balance Druids, especially with their abilities, no matter how much you hate it.

I see you did not.
Calling their moon abilities from the Druid spec “holy”, right.

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Go learn some basic NE lore before giving outlandish opinions.

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They are priests right?

Faith magic is holy magic as per
Chronicles.

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I know their lore. Mr “Paladins are closer to the moonpriest, because moon abilties which moonpriets used in WC 3 are not given from Elune”.

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No point arguing with someone oblivious to Elven Lore so let him say what he wants.

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You know your wrong. That’s simply it.
If you want to argue for paladin go for it.
That’s something else.

If you’re saying Balance Durid abilities, the same things Moonpriets are using are either not the same, or at least closer than the light, sorry you have to take a look at the lore.

But nice try for pinioning the well.

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Priestessses of Elune CAN become Paladins, but they are not Paladins by default. I think you’re mistaking the hero class from Warcraft 3 with what the actual faction of them were in the canon. Tyrande essentially acts like a Paladin (Kind of) but the other Priestesses do not.

I think they could easily distinguish this by the Night Warrior aesthetic. Night Elf Paladins would have the more shadowy parts of Elune/The Night Warrior incorporated into their look and story rather than just the holiness of Elune.

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Thank you.

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I think you guys are talking at cross purposes here:

Moonpriests are thematically very similar to the Paladins, they are fighting clerics who in times of peace appear more as healing spiritual leaders, but in times of war they become fearless generals and powerful leaders who are not too fine, with weapons like gleve or bow in the name of Elune, riding their sabers into battle.

Similar to the paladins of men :wink:

This is not about magic per se, I suppose.

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Of course. But saying their moon abilities don’t fit them and the light is a closer alternative…is strange.

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I said that already.
The Sisterhood of Elune has Priestesses and within them the Highest Members more trained just like Tyrande become the Hero Class known as Priestess of the Moon which essentially acts as Paladins for Night Elves.
And again I’m not saying I want NE Paladins. What I’m saying is that we already have our own version so getting Paladins would screw up our lore.

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hooow? The moon Abilitties fit them perfectly :wink: i hated that quest from legion.

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That’s what I’m asking and what Nightlighter was talking about.

I can agree with that, for sure. They are fighting in a very different way though (also the “honor system” should be different). But by function, yes.

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I dont see how it would screw up the lore considering there literally are Night Elf Paladins in Legion and already thus established in the canon.

There is not a single other Priestess of Elune in the story like Tyrande. One who wears armor and fights from back a Nightsaber with a melee weapon as well as a bow. Not a one.

Literally the only NPC you can point to besides Tyrande who is technically considered a Priestess of Elune who acts like this is that one NPC on Nightsaber outside of Dolanaar who they originally called a Sentinel until Cataclysm lol.

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That is the very description we’ve had of PotM since WC3.
They all wear plate armor. It just wasn’t shown in game. Even Tyrande who we know for fact uses plate armor has always been stuck with a robe.
By now we have to know that lore doesn’t always translate to live game. Otherwise Ashenvale should be changing from expansion to expansion.

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…every single one of them wears robes lol but Tyrande. Even after the Dark Moon storyline, all the previous NPCs who were Priestesses of Elune and transformed still wear Robes except Tyrande. Even TYRANDE is described as wearing a Robe for almost her entire lore.

You’re literally just using the description of the HERO UNIT that only is used for TYRANDE in the official lore to try and complain here. Its crazy that you somehow think that Warcraft 3’s 20 year old description of a hero unit overrides 15 years of actual developed story.

That’s absurd. You’re literally using the “lore doesn’t always translate to the live game” in a backward way here rather than just admit that Blizzard has decided, long ago, that the Priestesses of Elune were not plate-wearing mounted warriors but instead just normal Priestesses.

Not even all the High Priestesses were like Tyrande. She’s an outlier even among her own title.

I swear nobody is allowed to like something anymore without SOMEBODY finding some ridiculous, pretzel-logiced nonsensical reason to complain about it.

Nothing in the lore backs up your claims about the Priesthood. Nothing. I can see this is a lost cause so I’m out.

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Go read WotA. The sisters are all in plate armor including Tyrande and Maiev. They wilde Elune’s light in a similar fashion to paladins in addition to ranged weapons and lunar magics.

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Definition of paladin
1: a trusted military leader (as for a medieval prince)
2: a leading champion of a cause

Synonyms & Antonyms for paladin
Synonyms

advocate, advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler (or gospeller), herald, hierophant, HIGH PRIEST, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight
Antonyms

adversary, antagonist, opponent

Definition of high priest
1: a chief priest especially of the ancient Jewish Levitical priesthood traditionally traced from Aaron
2: a priest of the Melchizedek priesthood in the Mormon Church
3: the head of a movement or chief exponent of a doctrine or an art

Synonyms & Antonyms for high priest
Synonyms

advocate, advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler (or gospeller), herald, hierophant, PALADIN, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight
Antonyms

adversary, antagonist, opponent

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From Wowpedia: Priestess of the Moon.-
The elite, night elf clergy are made up of these worthy women. The priestesses of the moon epitomize the power and grace of their race’s ancient moon goddess, Elune. The priestesses of the moon, equipped with silvery, glowing armor, ride the fearless Sabers into battle. Charged with the safekeeping of the night elf lands and armed with magical energy bows — the priestesses of the moon will stop at nothing to rid their ancient land of evil.

They are not talking about Tyrande but a whole group of elite warrior women. So she is not alone in that category.

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I mean how much longer do you want to keep being wrong?

Holy cow I can see why most people ignore this forum.