With a similar story they came up with (stupid btw but it was the start) to allow Blood Elves to be Paladins I think it could work for void elves, after all the damn Naruu has a void side too.
Besides… to be fair, nothing is more stupid then tauren and trolls lore that allow both races to be paladins.
There, I said it. EVEN FORSAKEN PALADINS MAKES MORE SENSE THEN TAURENS AND TROLLS.
Void Elves would literally explode trying to become a paladin.
And gnomes make good Kebabs…
Its all Fake News.
We got Forsaken Priests so may as well tbh.
Just ask for a void using melee class
This is a troll thread.
No to void elf paladins.
Paladin class cannot and does not support void lore, in fact it goes against paladin lore.
They are more commonly shadow priests, as with any race that don’t worship the light (humans, dwarves, blood elves, dreanei). Actually I think shadow priestdom may be more common then light priestdom now that I think about it.
This!
Void knight/black knights could be a cool class concept on it’s own with all the void lore there is!
If the alliance had to have light skinned elves they should have just added half elves into the game.
The only barrier to any class for a half elf would be cultural and not biological/mechanical.
The NARUU can become void beacons, the damn Naruu.
Troll Paladin is best Paladin
Tusks and three toes > nasty tentacles
It wouldn’t be a paladin then
That’s naaru, not paladins, and also it only happens unnaturally, if they gotten wounded and “leaked” light energy.
Paladinism isn’t directly tied to naaru with the exception of dreanei and indirectly blood elves.
Eh, the Zandalari are one of the oldest, longest running civilizations on Azeroth. The idea that they’d be advanced enough to have holy orders and warrior traditions deep and established and advanced enough to qualify for the paladin is… hardly the most ridiculous thing in terms of class qualification. This is an extremely old, extremely advanced, extremely developed civilization.
Tauren? … This is a society that’s barely one generation past the pre-agricultural, nomadic phase of civilization. To go from wandering hunter-gatherers to Knightly-Orders of advance magical and martial standing is… doable, I’ll grant, but it needs a HELUVA lot more than the absolute nothing Tauren paladins were “excused” with.
Putting it another way, to get Paladins, Humans, a race with an ancient history of faith in the Light, needed to face a demonic driven alien invasion that threatened their existence with exotic unholy magics. The Thalassians, a race who’s so magical they literally cannot live without it, had to vampirize the closest thing the franchise has to an angel to get Paladins, and this is even having members who did it the “old fashioned way” to start with.
This is an extremely advanced class with heavy demands on a civilization. It takes more than the NPC equivalent of “some guy” mouthing some unvoiced dialog lines to make it happen in anything resembling a believable, coherent way. The Tauren absolutely do not deserve paladins if that’s all the explanation, development, and story that complete cultural upheaval is going to result in.
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But… neither of these examples are elementally opposed to the notion. Take a Troll or Tauren with enough legitimate faith and devotion, put them through the training, and then imbue them with the holy energies to make them paladins, and… you’ve got a paladin. It is, if nothing else, magically and metaphysically possible. Even if their backgrounds and upbringing says “no,” the universe isn’t going to stop it from happening.
At that last crucial step (and yes, it is crucial, no paladins are NOT just priests who decided to spring for karate lessons and heavy armor) Void Elves and Forsaken will die, violently explode, spontaneously combust into unquenchable holy fire, or at the very least be rendered into a state of abject suffering such that they could not hope to function. You could no more have a Ren’dorei or Forsaken Paladin than you could have a snow cone flambe. This isn’t a matter of stages of civilization development or cultural tradition - this is the fundamental nature of how these magics work.
It’s one thing to have cultural or societal taboos, lack of development, or opposition to a class. Those can (with sufficient work and story development) be overcome. It’s another when the requirements of that class would be 100% lethal to the race involved. You can more more counter-culture your way to Void Elf Paladins than you could safely ingest uranium by being enough of an anarchist.
The blood knights only exist because of a captive Naaru.
Sure they now changed but still, it was the lame start I wrote about.
I support the idea of void elf paladins. We have a kind’a sort’a example-ish type person in lore.
Zandalari Paladins make zero sense
“She was once a promising Vindicator, but has turned to Shadow”
She’s no longer a Paladin.
Toss a block of sodium into a tank of water. That’s void into light.
Yes the first generation of blood elf paladins “stole” the light of a naaru. New ones gets blessed by the sunwell.
She is not a paladin, nor does she uses void magic. She uses fel magic, the shadow part of her tool tips is for mechanics only.
She is a demon that fought in mockery of paladins.
All her spell animations looks like fel as well.
Ya, Fel, fire, and Shadow, not very Paladin at all.