Skyriding is a terribly bland rename for dragonriding that has little to nothing to tie us into the lore of the game. What I propose is that we call it wind riding, like the knighted dwarves who fought with dragons on the backs of gryphons, or the orcs who rode on wyverns during the war with the alliance. One of the characters who is a notable wind rider, was around as recently as dragonflight, and has been with us in game on the alliance side for most of the games history.
Falstad Wildhammer
This guy went with us in the dragonscale expedition, has a huge backstory involving using his gryphon to not only assist us in combat but has saved us as a character multiple times. With the flight trainers going to the dragon isles to learn about dragonriding they should come back, and we should have a small but impactful questline about learning to ride dynamic flying mounts, earning the honorary title of windrider.
To the people who think windriders are only horde, you should do a quick google search to find the wowpedia page that cites notable windriders throughout wows history.
There is plenty of precedent to call us wind riders, and to call the act of flying wind riding. It would tie in nicely with the lore and be a nice way to introduce players to some grounded classic npcs that while relevant in modern wow, aren’t as prevalent as other characters.
This is a faction neutral term, meaning you can have an equally notable character on the horde side have a very similar questline. You could also have some kind of wind riders summit, where the trainers from around azeroth gather to share information with each other about techniques, while teaching new riders “players” how to ride.
Where and when that would take place is obviously up to the devs. Any neutral area could work, maybe even contested areas like the hinterlands with its troll and dwarven history.
My take on who the horde should have teach them is one of the notable blood elf dragonhawk riders, given their upcoming relevancy in midnight.
Skymaster Sunwing
Skymaster sunwing is a good pick, he’s the flight master in ghostlands, and an NPC who helped defend silvermoon against the scourge. Not only are they a blood elf, but the specific type of scourge he helped face included nerubian undead.
Wikis for old NPCs don’t really tell us anything.
I just didn’t make a new post and edited my old one.