The Arathi Faction reminded me of Diablo Vibes from Sanctuary atleast with the Wolf Kingdom, and of course the Holy Roman Empire too. Thing about the Arathi is that how did this sub nation of Arathi ended up in Earthern Isle underground battling against Nerubians for a long time to advance to the Holy Light Medieval Kingdom?
They were once Barbarian Vikings and now they advanced to the Holy Light Kingdom.
I thought they gave me Warhammer vives like the imperium of man type vibes with the Earthen also playing into those themes.
I do like fire worshipping underground crusaders. Seems rad as hell.
The Arathi showing up was not in any of my crystal balls. Still seems pretty fun and a nice way to add new human lore.
This expansion is pretty Alliance favored.
I generally don’t like humans but I do like humans when they go imperium of man.
As soon as I saw the screenshot of that, I instantly thought of the Diablo 2 World Stone.
That caught me off guard but i’m pleasantly surprised. They look cool and it’s going to be refreshing to see development for a human group that isn’t just from Stormwind. They have a refreshing aesthetic from the looks of it. I’m interested to see how and when they got there.
The Arathi is a wildcard I DID NOT see coming but I can see how the leak misconstrued the Hallowfall design as being a Gilnean city. From the concept so far, they look like a mix between Gilnean and KT aesthetic with a dash of subterranean steampunk which is honestly cool as hell. I’m really excited to see more from them.
reminds me of dark souls in a good way. fightin nasties underground.
hopefully nerubs for horde and arathi for ally and a new bg cause where is the pvp content
Around 1:28 in the new features video, they display what looks to be on of the Arathi guys as a dungeon boss. When I first saw it I tripped out for a sec because he uses the Kul Tiran model, I thought it was implying the Tyr’s Guard were gonna get villain-batted.
I assume the Arathi are just going to use Kul Tiran, normal, and skinny human models for appearance variety, same as Kul Tiras itself did.
However I do expect the Tyr’s Guard to get the villain bat since they made it clear the third expansion is evil titan crap (“a grand conspiracy, the true goals of the titans”).
I always thought light worship would have been cooler with more fire/sun flavor.
Their aesthetic is cool. Seem to be the spiritual successors to the scarlets. Shame we won’t be able to work with em but.
If they were proto-humans they could be another allied race
Where did you get the impression they are an enemy faction? I must’ve missed something…?
Trailer showed players going against an arathi Paladin. Guessing it’s either the whole faction or just the extremists
I’m pretty sure that will just be some enemy group, not that the entire Arathi will be hostile.
That was my impression as well, seemed like a part from a dungeon. I guess we’ll probably get more in today’s deep dive!
So what did we learn? Even when humans are trapped underground they still find something to fight.
May I introduce you to Tauren Paladins/Sunwalkers?
As an alteraci scarlet I am so pissed why can’t we have underground Alteraci and give Alteraci people something to be proud about other than Vandaar Stormpike keeping frostwolf scumbags outta Alterac valley damn you blizzard