It’s awkward and nonsensical. This underground kobold has no idea what a Void Elf is. “Friend,” “Stranger,” even using my name since I just did 20 quests with him would make more sense.
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It’s too bad that you can’t create your own mixed-race ancestral lineage in WoW but there’s always hope for the future
I myself will want to see the dogcow
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I find it funny that in doing Draenor the Frostwolves call me Earthen and yet my own race call me outlander.
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I just had myself a hilarious mental image of a foxcow.
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How do you know this? Kobolds have been around since Vanilla, as such, there probably aren’t too many races they haven’t come across (especially if they try to take their candle!).
I agree. When I noticed this I thought it was very, very strange. You don’t treat people like this. No one is just their race. “Traveler” and “Adventurer” are totally fine.
Clarus the dogcow has a storied history.
Panda Elf…wait isn’t that just a Racoon?
I still get a giggle when I remember people in Maldraxxus calling me a living mortal 
Must be even funnier for Forsaken players. 
Nah, but make it more interesting. Make it something dumb one of those freaky rat hippos might say. Like “sad elf” or something.
I mean the forsaken technically are “Living” as they are not in the realm of the dead. It’s kinda a weird thing. Although I’m not sure if mortal applies or not maybe it could. Do they still decay over time cause if decay still exists then eventually they’ll wither into nothing and face a true death.
They are undead. Not alive. Instead animated by necro magic. But yeah, you can call them mortal since they can die (again).
I mean lets break the word down Undead, There is two parts of this word Un, and Dead if you un dead a thing you make it no longer of the dead, If something is not dead then it is living is it not?
We can break down the word all day. These guys are dead. They are ambulatory skeletons with dead bits still attached. They are exactly what the Walking Dead zombies would be. Right?
Weird to adress some by: “Hey there, Kultiran”, “Lightforged”.
Kind of are in the Warcraft Universe. Been a thing since the RTS.
See that is where some interesting thought experiments come into play. There is 2 different types of living dead in the world of warcraft. There is the mindless zombies that use to be controlled by the lich king with the crown, and then there is the Forsaken. This conversation becomes different when you compare the two, this is revelent to your response because the Walking Dead zombies are more like the ones that used to be controlled by Arthas, they have no free will, no consciencess, no ability to possess memories or act on emotion. Where as the Forsaken have all these things, so it asks the question about sentience, what is it where do we draw the line and does something have to be living to possess sentience?
This has always been wows weak point, class and race identity rarely matter. There are a few instances like if youre a Pandaren they say “we’re all pandaren from the wandering isle”
Or huln highmountain in shadowlanes will recognize youre a highmountain tauren.
Its what Baldurs gate did right. Your class and your race matter in the story. New options and dialogues open up to you throughout the entire story.
A druid may be able to convince the aggressive snake to calm down peacefully, but a Bard may be able to dispel a Harpy’s luring song.
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They are the same thing. The Forsaken were lucky enough to have Sylvanas snap them back to reality. But they were also mindless zombies shuffling around until Sylvanas found them. Look, make a Forsaken, read the text and you’ll see there’s nothing really special about the Forsaken other than their will to snap out of the mindless condition. Otherwise they are just as zombie as the next zombie.
It was very hurtful when LiLi said my panda looked weird… we were from the same land, we are the same people!!