The Arathi Tonal Disconnect

Ok thank you, awww so Darkfallen skin IS only cosmetic! :sob:

Maybe it just slip, since they did the Man’ari too… Hopefully the remember that Darkfallen skin should be added since they suppose to be a type of undead… heck you can’t have the red eyes without the pale undead skin… you can’t even use the black eyes that even the Night Elves DK can… so they probably MORE undead than them! (joking)

Thank you again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qG8ui0vk0

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I must’ve missed it on my man’ari hunter. What quest or NPC had the flavor text?

This is the equivalent of pulling scans from the WoW RPG.

Not interested in decanonized fan-fiction. :wave:

For a small brigade that has been sort of isolated for 15 years where their only neighbours were stone people or spider people, and they only really had trades with earthen, I sort of get why they’re so receptive to outsiders despite their teachings being more strict.

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Yeah, its made pretty explicitly clear that the only reason the Hallowfall Arathi are so open to outsiders is because their situation demands it; the Priory dungeon is the biggest “This is what they’re REALLY like back home” dungeon I’ve ever seen.

I’m surprised they’re not outright calling the Arathi Emperor a ‘God-Emperor’, considering the Arathi are mostly a 40k Warhammer rip without the supremely advanced technology and hatred of all xenos (some at least), and also because ‘God-Emperor’ would actually be fitting in Warcraft, as we’ve had God-Kings in the past.

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Its a quest in Dunelles kindess in hallowfal, where “creatures of the night” have to prove they shouldn’t be killed on the spot

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Pretty good quest, almost makes one remember that WoW is meant to be an MMORPG, not just an MMO. Hopefully we get more quests & interactions like that down the line., such as getting to see Paladins and Holy Priests getting to skip a few quests or having dialogue from random NPCS that indicate the Hallowfall trust them better then dark magic wielders.

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Thanks. I must’ve skipped over the quest text when I did it. :rofl:

The disconnect is that Blizzard hasn’t been doing a lot recently to paint the Light in a good manner, and most people were expecting the worst from the Arathi: a different take on the Scarlet Crusade.

Once you recall what the teachings of the Light are, the friendliness and warmth makes sense. What the Arathi show us is a society of the Light, complete with it’s zealots and, more important, the people whom simply follow the teachings of the Holy Light without them being twisted to suit a political agenda.

They’re quite literally showing us both the best and the worst of the Light in a single society, which is rather refreshing to be honest. Never made sense why it’d all be one or the other, such as with the Draenei or the Scarlets.

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I just chalked their openess to outsiders as a biproduct of their desperate isolation. Fighting nerubians and eating bat-steaks with a side of shoe leather for a few decades has a way of humbling people, I guess.

Also, I mean. Look at me. I shine like Beledar itself, it would be strange for them not to welcome me.

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Well they’re basically unaware of millenia of Azerothian history so I imagine the sheer sudden surge of strange visitors probably overrides the xenophobia.

Like they went from only sparsely interacting with robot Dwarves to having Orcs, Draenei, Tauren, Dracthyr, Worgen, Undead, Mechagnomes, Vulpera and more turn up overnight. Like where would you even start with the racism? Just when you think you’ve got a good hatred for these small fox people brewing, giant wolf people turn up and somehow have nothing to do with eachother.

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I don’t know when they indicate they’re xenophobic.

Let alone when they do get a beat on a worgen and suddenly feel safe around another human* to spew their disgust just to find out the hard way how they actually function.

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Nowhere. People are just shallow and think “Empire = Xenophobic” just because they grew up with Star Wars, as if “empire” and “xenophobic” wasn’t a contradiction in itself (because how can you presume to rule over a multitude of different cultures/ethnicities if you think only your own culture is superior?)

Well the Galactic Empire did it with slavery and oppression.

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It’s how most empires in general do it

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I mean, it makes sense to me. They’ve been disconnected from what is likely a very authoritarian regime saturated with propaganda and have to face very real threats vs whatever scapegoats the Arathi mainland focuses on.

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And it also lasted for only 20 years before collapsing permanently, while the Roman Empire lasted for 1,000 years and influenced Western civilization as we know it.

There has never been an empire in history that did not survive for centuries without accepting other cultures. The Arathi are not xenophobic, case-closed. If they were, their society would have collapsed after a few weeks like Garrosh’s True Horde. :rofl:

Stories don’t have to follow logic or be realistic.
So that’s not much of a point.
I mean The Imperium of Warhammer has a long history. But it, like Warcraft, isn’t an especially realistic setting.

Also the Roman Empire did engage in slavery and oppression so…

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