Seriously wth. There’s a lot of lore implications about this. especially in the plains area in the green dragon flight forests. It’s all Night elves, Tauren and some trolls.
I want to guess and say a lot of these people are former druids. What was discovered that shocking that Elves and Tauren would abandon the druidic ways and fight the dragon flights? Especially night elves. I mean… there entire culture is around nature and the green dragon flight and the dream why is no one pointing this out?
Also where is the cenarion circle and earthen ring in all this???
Of course we also see mainly rustic races with connections to the elements already, like, Dwarfs, vulp, Orcs, Trolls, Draenei. ect. Almost no undead, human or gnome for the most part.
We haven’t discovered this big secret but I hope we figure out what the primalists are fighting for because i’m discovering just how specific the races we fight are.
I wouldn’t call draenei “rustic”. They may have shaman, but their societal outliers. Shamanism is far from the cultural pillar that it normally is for races that can be the class.
The head Primalist is a grim-totem, so I imagine his tribesmen comprise many of the tauren in their ranks.
As for the night elves, they’ve always seem to have had a certain hard-edged elemental extremist element in their number. Druids of the Flame were the main mortal fighting force when the firelands invaded Mount Hyjal.
I think it’s harder to explain the presense of so many Bronzebeard dwarves. Dark Irons obviously have a history with this sort of thing, but the Bronzebeards not so much.
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Supposedly these Primalists are a “modern version” of the ones from the War of the Ancients time, apparently the organization existed back then too. Night elves, Tauren, and Trolls being members makes sense since these are races were around during this time. I really don’t get Draenei and Vulpera being members though, seeing as how the Primalists had no presence prior to DF that means their influence spread to “newer” races fairly quickly. Draenei aren’t even Azeroth natives and Vulpera were never seen outside Zandalar prior to BFA
One thing I found funny was the Draenei Primalist before the last boss in Halls of Infusion. She talked as if she had some personal grudge against Tyr. Like you weren’t even on Azeroth when Tyr was active
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Draenei shaman have always had an interesting place. While yes the race is not “rustic” at the same time it is now a cultural pillar of said race. Or at least draenei shaman get an outsized amount of representation as oppose to other draenei/race combo. Hell, you can probably see more draenei shaman NPC then Paladin ones once you are outside our starting area.
It just comes with the territory of being the first Alliance shaman race.
I definitely agree that they’re over represented when it comes to shaman in The Alliance, and yes that has everything to do with their place in the game as the first shaman on the Alliance. Not sure how accurately that reflects the lore.
In every other race, shaman is the face of tradition. The time-tested wisdom of the elements, speaker for the spirits. They’re clan and tribal leaders, elders, mystics.
In draenei society it’s basically the reverse: They’re the new guard. A new practice; a practice that is closely associated with the Krokul and carries all the stigma that many draenei still feel about the Broken Ones.
Other than Nobundo himself, I don’t think our draenei have any shaman in an actual prominent position. I very well may be wrong on that, though. The Hand of Argus I believe are all paladins, or a mix of warriors and paladins.
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Makes Xal’atath’s statement about the Tauren’s origins more suspicious! As if the Legion infiltrated Azeroth before only for the Mogu to fix all of them to their personal preference!
If indeed the case then the Draenei Primalist is an Eredar that the Mogu missed despite Tyr purging the guy of Fel Magic.
The fact that Tyr was able to deal with a Legion infiltration after the Titans’ demise is embarrassing for the Legion who had to wait past Tyr’s death even do anything!
If a Primalist Draenei is seen ranting about the Legion while also ranting about Tyr sealing him away then this theory is confirmed.
The Titanforged Heretics at Avalon might even be Fel Corrupted. Bonus points if Archimonde is summoned.