🐟 The Ankoan and Jinyu Race Discussion Thread

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

Bumping while fishin for the fishies!

[Fenelon-wyrmrest-accord]

@Vaelian-silver-hand

Also don’t just randomly force stuff in like with Stormsong. The horde invasion felt off, and then you find out early on it was all Quillboar…which makes much more sense.

Yeah they really should have kept the attack as Quillboar. Everything would have made so much more sense.

Horde attacks on the zone were fine with the war campaign.

Horde didn’t need more atrocities.

@Vaelian-silver-hand

Yep, plus there’s been so many characters introduced and then abandoned. Lots of potential with ones introduced back in WoD and such, but they fell by the wayside.

Exactly. Blizzard leaves themselves with plenty of characters but no development for them. They need more world building.

@Zulathra-thrall

I have a theory the jinyu left the alliance after what happened with the jade statue.

I don’t have any evidence besides the absence of these races in future content while the monkey men are still shown to be with the horde.

Then again the horde have ogres and a band of amani trolls allied with them and we never seen them.

I think it’s just blizzard being weird with the Alliance and it’s human obsession.

@Greatbrae-dalaran

I looked at it yeah, but you can only look at the north hemisphere from argus and there is enough cloud coverage to make it vague. Do not forget that at the time of leagion, Azeroth is still covered by titan magic to “protect” it from legion’s detection. Who knows if that magic is also can be said to cover up hidden lands much like how Uldum was covered from detection until cata.

Also earlier maps we’ve seen didn’t include much of the map in the past.

World looks don’t mean much.

@Greatbrae-dalaran

Jinyu shows up in boralus as Vendors and some npcs for alliance.

Along with many other races.

Though I don’t think those races show up in Dazar’alor

Hope to see Jinyu someday.

[Auhgag-wyrmrest-accord]

How am I just discovering this thread? My full support to Jinyu/Ankoan for the Alliance, solid playable race choice.

[Fenelon-wyrmrest-accord]

It went quiet for awhile.

Very good race that deserves to be playable.

[Rorrand-wyrmrest-accord (Rorrand)]

@Fenelon-wyrmrest-accord

It went quiet for awhile.

I’ll try and pump up the volume in a little bit.

As we get closer to the April reveal, I’ll make a few medium-effort speculation posts talking about the likelihood and possibilities of ankoan/jinyu popping up in 10.0. I will then be revisiting that speculation post-announcement to incorporate information that has been revealed.

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

@Rorrand-wyrmrest-accord

ankoan

yes please, we must have our samurai fishies nowz!

[Bagzak-rexxar]

I’ll keep an eye out for anything of interest to report as well. I’m hoping we’ll see the Ankoan and Kelfin again in the near future. Preferably with both becoming playable races for their respective factions.

28 days until the next expansion is announced!

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

@Fenelon-wyrmrest-accord

Also earlier maps we’ve seen didn’t include much of the map in the past.

World looks don’t mean much.

Yeah, the thing that annoys me though is that those were maps.
On Argus you’re seeing the actual planet. There’s not really enough room in the space between the eastern kingdoms (east of) and kalimdor (west of) for a large amount of land. Stuff like the broken shore size, sure.

But they can always just change it. Having fun is more important than a texture.

I just find it interesting how the southern most lands are all very equatorial, so having a massive continent to the south works well. It could be larger than any of the current land masses as well, as long as it’s not bigger than the original Kalimdor…as there’s two past references, one saying it was the only, and another saying it was the largest continent.

Fun takes precedence of course.

@Vaelian-silver-hand

Here in Nazjatar at their encampment, you can ask Blademaster Okani “tell me about the waveblade ankoan”
He just replies saying their story is one of sadness and better saved for later after you and your companions have recovered from your own loss.

Does he EVER answer the question with their background?

Also still wondering if anyone knows more about this part…

[Bagzak-rexxar]

I don’t think that storyline ever got added in the game. I recall some previous discussions in here about it and not finding a followup to it. Likely has to do with us leaving Nazjatar suddenly and BfA’s ending getting rushed. A shame really, since I really find it frustrating that we left the Ankoan and Kelfin suddenly without much word to them.

Maybe we’ll learn more if we run into the Ankoan again sometime. And hopefully, we will. As I said before, Azshara is still out there somewhere, and I think the Ankoan joining the Alliance and the Unshackled joining the Horde just makes a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things. They both get a home and protection from Azshara and the Horde/Alliance get aquatic members that can help boost the defenses of Orgrimmar/Stormwind, along with being valuable members on ship voyagers and underwater missions.

Also with today being my birthday, I’m sure you can imagine what will be part of my birthday wish!

23 days until the next expansion is announced!

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@Vaelian-silver-hand

Yeah, the thing that annoys me though is that those were maps.
On Argus you’re seeing the actual planet. There’s not really enough room in the space between the eastern kingdoms (east of) and kalimdor (west of) for a large amount of land. Stuff like the broken shore size, sure.

But they can always just change it. Having fun is more important than a texture.

Blizzard doesn’t have the foresight to design a world with all the continents they might use later.

So I’d take that with a grain of salt.

Azeroth will have as much room as it needs to.

@Bagzak-rexxar

I don’t think that storyline ever got added in the game. I recall some previous discussions in here about it and not finding a followup to it. Likely has to do with us leaving Nazjatar suddenly and BfA’s ending getting rushed. A shame really, since I really find it frustrating that we left the Ankoan and Kelfin suddenly without much word to them.

Probably because that expansion obviously had its tail end cut off… a trend for Blizzard at this point.

@Bagzak-rexxar

Maybe we’ll learn more if we run into the Ankoan again sometime. And hopefully, we will. As I said before, Azshara is still out there somewhere, and I think the Ankoan joining the Alliance and the Unshackled joining the Horde just makes a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things. They both get a home and protection from Azshara and the Horde/Alliance get aquatic members that can help boost the defenses of Orgrimmar/Stormwind, along with being valuable members on ship voyagers and underwater missions.

I’d like to learn more of em.

I thought they might show up in the new hearthstone expansion but nothing I’ve seen so far for em.

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

@Fenelon-wyrmrest-accord

Blizzard doesn’t have the foresight to design a world with all the continents they might use later.

Yeah, of course. I like the idea of a massive continent in the southern hemisphere.

I bet that’ll be where the japanese based tanooki race will be in the expansion after this upcoming one. Since that one will be a redo of the asian themed anthro race expansion Probably introduce blademasters then too

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

I dunno if they can use tanooki’s for a race. The real world dethta might try to sue them for that if history is correct (it’s the same organization that tried to sue Nintendo on Mario bros 3 for the tanooki power-up)

[Drednaut-illidan]

Live out your shape of water fantasies in the world of warcraft! Pass.

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

Wha? Why would some group try to sue nintendo for using an animal as a game character?

I keep cracking jokes since it seems we’re just on round two of the same expansion themes.
TBC/Legion, Wrath/Shadowlands, Cataclysm, Dragonflight, MoP/Asianthemed anthrorace warrior expansion

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

@Drednaut-illidan

Live out your shape of water fantasies in the world of warcraft! Pass.

If we’re going that route, give me a naga siren

I do wanna play a naga.

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

They used the excuse that Mario is using the skin of a rare species or something like that. They tried to pin that it encourages poaching.

It was dumb but I can see companies trying to avoid that in the future.

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

If we’re talking about the company that the in-game dehta group is based of, that doesn’t surprise me, they’re a bunch of idiots, and that’s putting it nicely.

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

Yup them.

/10char.

[Vaelian-silver-hand (Vaelian)]

Makes sense. shakes head

[Greatbrae-dalaran]

Also we don’t need a Japanese continent, the ankoan is already basically samari’s