People on WoWHead have been suggesting it due to his lack of legs and the similarities between Djinn and Trolls(only the nose and ears). Looking at the Djinn I notice the lack of tusks and realize now that these WoWHead Fan Posts in the Comment Section are grasping at straws…
Meanwhile the only four races with actual ties to the Shadowlands
- Orcs, who are Shamanistic and have always engaged with the dead
- Trolls, who have been engaging with Bwonsamdi and the dead for thousands of years
- Tauren, who are Shamanistic and travel into the Shadowlands for rituals
- Forsaken, who are former Scourge, who have been research necromancy and death and shadowlands for their entire existence
Get nothing so far.
Maybe, MAYBE Forsaken will get a plotline in Maldraxxus so the House of Plagues can restore Undercity, but that’s still an if.
?!?!?! I mean sure the aesthetic similarities are there in terms of how Western audiences imagine Genies to be (they do not, in fact, have floating torsos in almost all actual folklore traditionally), but I certainly hope they don’t slap on a MENA Folklore Race of Beings (Djinn) onto an otherwise firmly Caribbean, Latin American, and West African derived body of WoW beings (Loa)
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I can’t wait to see the Night Elf zone in the Lightlands Expansion.
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every zone needs a dungeon and it’s a natural spot for it concerning it’s role in the story.
that’s the vuljin zone, troll stuff being there makes sense. i’m assuming the final quest lines lead you up to the tree in some way and you get that quest as a cap stone to the zone, with the dungeon portal not too distant away because this is a video game after all.
sometimes video game things are video games
It’s not a zone. It’s a covered up troll door partly falling apart at the bottom of a hole inside a tree past a tree bridge past the Drust Tree at the edge of the map.
It’s crap. This is the “nature” afterlife, so why the hell isn’t half of it jungle?
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Only Night Elves and the Alliance matter.
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Made a thread lol
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Well… actually… Loa seem to be treated like any other type of nature spirit. you go around and check pods of some Azerothian Loa.
Of them two are missing, which Bwonsamdi comments on:
So… there is no bias here, really. Nature spirits are nature spirits as far as the forces of Ardenweald are concerned, even if they are wicked in nature.
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Disgruntled unreasonable Horde fans are the new Elesana
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get back to me when you see winter queen fish talking night elf gods like she does loa/bwonsamdi.
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Don’t think it’s unreasonable to be frustrated that the entire Troll Afterlife is an instance at the edge of the map in a tree, whereas Tyrande’s being saved is central to the Covenant Campaign for the rest of the expansion and her power, given to her by Elune, is tied to Ardenweald, after Ysera, who has always been partial to Night Elves, gets personally resurrected by the Winter Queen.
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I would love to accept for the minor detail there has not been a single one presented to us thus far. It has all been Troll Loa so far… And before we go there calling Ysera a night elf god is super disingenuous.
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as an actual troll, it’s probably a bit too much twilight forest-y for me but
maldrax is the real home anyway
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She seems awful chummy with the avatar of night elf gods – ysera – whose realm they previously reincarnated in until night elves needed another valsharrah in the shadowlands.
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When has Ysera ONCE interacted with a Troll Loa or Tauren Wild God or Pandaren August Celestial?
I’ll wait.
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i think the biggest thing is that if this place is so closely tied to elune, and its super natural look, we at least get insight into what elune powers/realm is like
idk what an afterlife for all types of natural spirits should look like frankly. immediate guess is just quartered off sections, with a “troll” section and a whatever, whatever whatever, here’s a giant glowly bear, here’s a wolf.
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Elune’s worshipers go to Ardenweald. That’s proof enough, if the aesthetics and characterizations weren’t.
Honestly could’ve been easy
one third savanna/plains, one third jungle, one third as is
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it’s an afterlife of all planets tho
you can cover all bases with weird twilight forest nonsense, because that’s probably pretty universal for people with druid stuff
So ask yourself this: Why does it look like an afterlife of Ashenvale?
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