Yes because, snakes are normally known for their slender legless bodies. Anthro cows aren’t really that much of a stretch, but snakes with legs. To me its just about as uncanny as the way mechagnome legs are attached to their bodies.
If be “off” you mean “awesome” then yes.
I wouldn’t worry about odd proportions/bodies considering you’re a goblin though. lol
Nothing wrong with goblins. We don’t look out of the ordinary from what you would expect as a goblin. Plus we are easily the hottest horde race.
The most bizarre thing is that Vulpera vs. Sethrak was already established and since the Alliance actively helped the Sethrak, you’d think they would garner some respect from the scaly nope-ropes and their apatite for the furry little rodents.
Sethrak would sooner be horde.
People expecting this were setting themselves up for disappointment. There was only ever going to be a gnome AR of some kind for this.
The Sethrak that are vs the Vulpera are the evil ones aligned to the old gods. The good ones we help are allied with the Vulpera.
And the Horde helped them more. The Horde and Alliance quest lines with the Sethrak are almost identical, but the Hordes has an additional section that happens after the Alliance’s ends. In Lore the Horde’s side is cannon, and the Alliance’s isn’t. It’s like all the raids, both sides kill the last boss but in lore cannon only one side gets credit.
So? That doesn’t prevent the Sethrak from gravitating towards the Alliance, since they have suffered enormously from their civil war as much as the Vulpera.
It would make sense for the Sethrak to entreat the Alliance since they are the stronger faction and thus would have resources the Sethrak would need to recover their numbers in exchange for joining their causes and lending their experienced Warriors, Teachers, and Scholars for the Alliance.
‘But this faction did more!’ is such a excuse to deny an allied race.
But no, Saurok are worse. The Orcs considered the Saurok to have no sense of honour and even the Forsaken when at the Isle of Thunder considered their voracious cannibalisms & lack of order to be extreme.
With regards to honor, Saurok are actually capable of having it. In fact, it states in-game that the Glintrok Tribe has honor. It’s in the dungeon journal for the Mogu’Shan Palace for Gekkan, a Saurok boss there:
“As the mogu clans battle for supremacy, the cunning Gekkan leads his fearsome saurok raiding party into the palace’s fabled treasure caches. Loyalty is not usually ascribed to these ruthless reptilian beings, but Gekkan’s courage and tactical brilliance inspire a sense of honor in his soldiers.”
As for cannibalism, I don’t think the Forsaken are one to talk since they typically eat humans when they’re former humans.
Anyway, it isn’t like Saurok can’t be worked with to make them playable. Dark Iron Dwarves and Zandalari were once evil mooks and were fleshed out to make them playable. Even Gilblins, once all male mooks who were dimwitted and cared only about treasure were reworked with the Kelfin, part of the Unshackled, to be more than that with completely different personalities. Not all Saurok tribes are equal, and they’re certainly not all like the Skumblade Tribe in several ways.
I support Saurok for the Horde because they fit the theme very well. They were a race created by tyrants to be slave soldiers who then broke free as a shamanistic tribal race and struggle in a world that is against them. Seems very fitting to me.
I don’t see why they couldn’t be fleshed out and not have the Horde be accepting of them in the right situation. They have a lot going for them, granted it would need some creativity, but it would bring some much needed flavor in the character creation department.
I could go on, but I’ve covered this and much more in my Saurok megathread many times.
There are a few flavor differences but each step of the questline is the same and tells the same story. And yes we both help the same leader, he has the same name, the same title, the same story, the same model, everything.
The fact that the Sethrak ally themselves with the Vulpera and the Horde in the final attack on the Faithless, the fact that the Leader we both help ends up as an honored guest at Talanji’s coronation and the fact that after the Alliance quest line abruptly ends they have no further contact with the Sethrak suggests that the Horde’s interactions are the cannon as far as the lore goes.
Face it, the Alliance’s story with the Sethrak was a quick copy paste job of the Horde’s zone quest line because they were lazy and didn’t want to come up with anything unique for the Alliance. Vol’dun is an odd zone when compared to all the others, it really doesn’t have any real story to it that would bring the Alliance there beyond the fact it’s on the same island as the Zandalari.
It isn’t controlled by the Zandalari and it’s inhospitable enough that it makes a poor target for the faction war and there isn’t a big bad there that needs to be put down like Nazmir has. There just wasn’t anything there for the Alliance to do so Blizz shortchanged them by just giving them a half baked knock off of the Horde’s story.
Feel free to play it again, because you are wrong.
The Alliance helps Vorrik, the Horde helps Serrik. They are different questlines and there is nothing that remotely suggests the Alliance version is “non-canon”.
For the intro quests. Once the Horde hits the temple they start dealing with Vorrik. Serrik dies in the attack where the Faithless and Jakrezet steal the stone. After getting to the temple the two quest lines are functionally identical with the exception that in the Alliance’s quests it’s Private James that gets taken in the attack and we have to save, where in the Horde’s it’s Vorrik. Like I said, flavor differences.
excuse to deny an allied race.
