Remember those tv shows back in the day(or still currently, I don’t watch tv anymore) that had gangs of ethnically diverse people bully or attack the main character? No real reason for them to be together or do what they do, just show up to bully?
That’s the Primalists. Well, that is how it feels now with so little information.
What’s more, why are they basically made up of most every race? What draws these people to being a part of the Primalist movement? How did they get to the Dragon Isles before us? How are they organized, equipped, and indoctrinated?
We’ve already killed them in droves, but we hardly know anything about them. So far it seems similar to the many cults that just pop up out of nowhere are typically aren’t given a proper explanation for why they exist or how they are so numerous.
Agreed. Right now they seem to be essentially, the Twilight’s Hammer but proto-dragons/elementals rather than void and old gods.
How did the modern-day incarnation of the Primalists come to be in the first place? Sure, Raszageth and the other Incarnates had their own army way back when, but they got imprisoned and no one knew the Incarnates even existed.
I really wish Blizzard would focus on the already established factions for antagonists rather than inventing these factions out of the blue that we somehow haven’t heard of over the past 20+ years.
Syndicate, Burning Blade (and other Shadow Council branches), Scarlet Crusade, Defias Brotherhood, etc. would all make more sense and have more impact than these one-off factions we have no investment in.
When we first saw Koroleth I noticed the burn marks on her face and wondered if there was some interesting backstory for her connecting to the burning of Teldrassil. Perhaps, I thought, that event led her down a path to joining the Primalists. But no, we (SPOILERS) kill her by the end of the questline and that’s the end of it. No explanation to her motivations, no hints as to her reasoning for joining the Primalists.
We see Grimtotem in the Primalist forces, but aside from that I haven’t pinpointed a motivation or reason for ANYONE to side with them.
Growing up in the early 90s I lived in a suburb of LA. The school was actually pretty ethnically split. I did not think much about it back then, but looking back, it is remarkable. You would see these things going on in some parts of the city. Where race was not so much a factor as just a bunch of roustabouts with no where to go and nothing to do.
I was watching Deathwish 3 the other day (not something I would watch on my own, a friend was watching it while I was there…). It has one of those gangs.
I kind of like that vibe about the primalists. It takes me back. Especially in the context the OP put it in. It peels away the veneer of previous connections that people might assume - like Race. When some people see a bunch of no good thugs hanging on the street, seeing those thugs practice diversity and inclusion is shocking to some. But Race is not always the factor that unites people. Especially the criminal element - they can put aside a lot of baggage to get stuff done.