Are trolls fuzzy or not? All the troll threads lately have got me wondering. I know the layer of fur with moss in it for forest trolls is old, canon dubious lore, and obviously Zandalari are scaly, but what about Darkspear?
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Both the moss/ plant-growth for Forest Trolls and the fur for Jungle Trolls are old lore from the Troll Compendium indeed, but afaik this has never been retconned so I guess itâs up to your own taste if you want your trolls fuzzy or not 
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No idea how much longer Iâll be able to post for.
Decided to start the Dragon Age series from game one as Iâd never touched those before. Honestly kinda feel like I slept on it. Nothing really mind blowing but Iâm a sucker for fun party dialogue.
Kinda like how they handle magic though. Itâs a bit 40k esque in that magic is pulled from another realm called the Fade, and this makes you a lightning rod for stuff like demonic possession. So thereâs sanctioned mages lorded over by an ecclesiastical group.
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Youâre in for a treat.
I adore how horrible traditional Dragon Age dwarves are, so brace for that.
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Found this cute video, thought Iâd share it
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Exact same thing happened to me.
And itâs a shame as I was genuinely enjoying leveling through old content that was new for me. Just questing and BGing my way up the ladder.
But eventually you hit max level and it just sucks the fun out of the room like a breach in a commercial jet. I tried to be a good sport. Got my legendary memory, ran Torghast, tried to march through Zereth Mortis.
Because Iâm fairly certain once Iâm geared up and can focus on RP and PvP I would be enjoying myself. But having to trudge through a marsh of boredom for the potential of fun just isnât worth the effort.
The absolute worst thing a MMO can do is feel like a second job you have to pay for and SL is maybe the apotheosis of that.
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Honestly I loved that part of Dragon Age. I think the biggest problem with magic in fantasy is that there is really no superstition of mages.
WoWâs magic kinda bored me in that regard, I can list any type of magic lore off of the top of my head that is better then WoW.
The Gods in WoW are kinda⌠meh. Elune is really the only one I find remotely interesting, until blizzard murdered her.
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It depends on how common magic is in the setting and how it works.
On Azeroth it seems like becoming a mage is not meaningfully different than becoming say an engineer or doctor IRL. Obviously some people have a natural talent for it, but just about anyone can do it if they really knuckle down and hit the books like they owe them money.
Like the lore for Orc Mages isnât deeper than Forsaken taking on some apprentices and letting them use their libraries. (Oh look another bit of lore Before The Storm mucked up with that asinine book burning police state subplot). And imo thatâs all it really needs to be.
I do like the 40k / Dragon Age approach where the arcane is, well, arcane. In WoW itâs paradoxically mundane. But in a world where multiple races are outright powered by magic that just wouldnât make sense.
Honestly I couldnât agree more. WoW lore has great points, but in the end, it just leaves me wantingâŚ
Honestly only the Night Elves and Forsaken are the only races that interest me. Humans are well⌠Humans. Gnomes are just comedy relief which only serve as a break glass in case of emergency button whenever the Horde actually manage to start winning a war, but strangely never use their laser weapons, tanks, and helicopters gunships on masse. Fully mechanizing the alliance military. Never use steam powered ironclad battleships when people are firing explosive cannon shells, instead using wooden ships which would unexist the second a explosive shell lands in the same postcode. Submarines which barely are used. Still marching in massive line formation where aerial threats exist and a dragon could just erase half a army in the open.
Is the alliance dead yet?
Theyâre in a insufferable paradox. To stupid to survive. To stubborn to be destroyed
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The Forsaken are by far my favorite race not just in WoW but in the whole of the fantasy genre precisely because of how mundane most of them are.
Probably owing to being born around Halloween Iâve a particular love of all things spooky. So when avalible I play vampires, necromancers, etc. And 9 out of 10 times the faction is nothing but disagreeable pricks with mindless meat puppets and a leader who wants to destroy the world because he has a skull for a face and no other real reason.
Sometimes if youâre lucky youâll get a Vlad Von Carrstein or Trazyn The Infinite who actually have interesting personalities and goals beyond wholesale slaughter but the rank and file deaders are always just zombies or skeletons or robot zombie skeletons. Not the sort who youd invite to a dinner party unless you want to upset your guests.
The Forsaken on the otherhand are a kingdom of the living dead in the truest sense. Theyâre all clawed predatory creatures of the night, 4-12 corpses stiched together, and/or baleful wailing ghosts. But theyâre also just fairly boring people. Because the reality of running a society means youâre going to need blacksmiths, clerks, dry cleaners, farmers, etc. Thatâs inherently amusing to me.
Your wagon wheel snaps on an overgrown patch of cobblestone road in an accursed land. In the distant fog you notice a pair of haunted eyes observing you. A figure emerges and with preternatural speed he is upon you. An exanimate voice produced without breath sounds with ghostly tenor as he proclaims;
âYa know I got a guy in town who can fix that on the cheap, providing ya give me a finderâs feeâ.
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Of note from the cook book: Nightborne like their buckwheat pancakes with cocoa powder and sweetened and Zandalari give pieces of bundt cake to their favored Loaâs temple.
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Any info on how to make Forsaken Foie Gras?
If you were a true Forsaken fan then you would support Sylvanas.
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No, but they do make savory creampuffs with avocado filling.
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Thatâs actually pretty interesting.
I wouldâve gone with something mushroom based. They always sell those and my head canon is theyâre harvested from corpse fertilizer. Since itâs grown from dead bodies it counts as nourishment for them. Basically their closest equivalent to a vegan option.
I also had a bit about AU arrakora meat being an extraordinarily valuable commodity in Undercity markets. Harpies are gamey and tough, and Outlandâs arrakora like all fel tainted flesh tastes of sulfur. So AY arrakora is your only real option for a chicken esque meal.
Othetwise Tauren and Dwarves taste the best. Good muscle to fat ratio like a nice marbled steak. And Dark Iron in particular have a pleasant spicy, charcoal flavor built in.
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To be fair, theyâre called peppered puffballs, so mushrooms are implied⌠if not present.
But if the idea of an undead laboriously making cream puffs isnât funny to someone, I pity them.
Nomi has apparently went to Shadowlands or at least has a supplier who can get him chiles from Revendreth, and thereâs an easy pun about ghost peppers in there.
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This is exactly why I love the Forsaken as well. I wish they focused more on the mundane Bob Rotsby, 'cause those quests and stories are my favorite. As much as I love the hokey over-the-top horror aspect that they bring most of the time, I wish we got more cream puff makers to help.
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Personally I want to learn more about their body shops. Far as I can tell the Forsaken can heal by consuming the flesh and blood of the living or other undead. But otherwise youâre stuck with whatever your condition was when you were raised - which can run the gambit between monstrous corpse with maggots in the brain to just being a pallid human with spooky eyes. And of course if a limb is outright lost youâll have to get another one.
I really wonder what that marketâs like and to what extent a Forsaken can approach body building extremely literally. Natty Blight got roflstomped by an abomination and apparently was falling apart enough that they had to do that whole Dark Mirror ritual. But on the flipside the Mechagnomes suggest the Forsaken could seriously augment themselves as they could presumably survive even the most traumatic surgery.
So thereâs quite a bit of interesting stuff you could do there.
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