I mean its not like I don’t like my sudodinosaur/pterosaur bird-man its just that they look like an arakkoa (an alien species ),how did that happen?
They don’t look like arakkoa. Arakkoa look like avians, a common thing on multiple worlds that also intersects with dinosaurs.
Arakkoa don’t have a monopoly on being birdmen.
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so they can reuse the skeleton
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They’re just pterodactyls-people, maybe Elune was like “hmm whats the closest thing the trolls have to an owl… ah this works!”
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They are the missing link, like dark trolls were the missing link to night elves.
en. wikipedia. org / wiki /Archaeopteryx
P.S. this ‘link’ ban is garbage
ah so there Is some sort of dinosaur-troll harpy (kind-of sorta not really)
They share a skeleton. So they look a bit like them.
That’d be my guess.
I meant more that they don’t look like arakkoa in the sense that they don’t in-universe have a connection to the arakkoa, because the arakkoa share a pretty common theme of being birds.
Oh, sure. In-universe there’s no connection. But I think it is still fair to say they look similar in-so-far as that’s literally their skeleton. And I think the first use of that skeleton specifically that was made in Warlords? Which is now shared by some Shadowlands NPC’s.
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I think it’s actually a variation of the Mantid skeleton, with more accentuated head movement.
Mantid skeleton = Apexis non-fallen original Arrakoa skeleton = Zandalari Druid skeleton yes
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We don’t even see that model anywhere else in the game, so its hard to find out what the purpose was.
We see wild moonkins, and have lore that they/re tied to Elune. We don’t even know what animal of the zandalari moonkin form is called, let alone the lore around it. The best assumption we can make is thats the form the Lun’alai priests took when powered by their loa, like the high priests in Zul’gurub/Aman