I believe that the Vulpera race has no Lore or history in the game.
There is a brief mention of them in Warcraft 3, i believe.
The intro that happens when you make one says something about the Horde helping them and now it it time to return the favor. Nothing about what happened or how the Horde helped them. Nothing!
I asked my Guild Leader what I should do about a backstory for my Vulperas and he said just “make something up.” Really?
Is this the only Race in the game that was launched without a story behind it?
I think it is and that is frustrating.
Now you can post about how Vulpera are bad for the game.
I mean, they have the entire zone storyline in Vol’dun behind them. We know that they’re nomadic, scrappy desert rats with a history of being used as slave labor and/or food by the Sethrak. It’s not much but not every race has some fallen empire or ancient history. Sometimes the desert rat is just a desert rat.
The Horde saved them from the Faithless sethrak who had been oppressing and enslaving the vulpera for generations. That was Vol’dun’s whole story. The Horde also defended them from Alliance incursions. The vulpera are free now because of the Horde and zandalari.
What’s lacking in their lore is just more details on their society. Such as their class options, which most are not explained. That’s where you kind of have to do whatever you want for RP.
I mean they did just come in last expansion. Lore wise you can build on Voldun themes, alongside the wit that brought about their acceptance into the Horde.
I feel the like the Vulpera should have been angry at the Horde along with the Alliance by the end. I mean, maybe they’d still like the Horde player specifically, but the rest of the faction… I picture an exchange kind of like this:
Horde diplomat: “Hey, could you guys transport a bunch of these supplies between our bases in Voldun for us?”
Vulpera: “Okay. Just curious, is there any reason you’re not using your own supply runners?”
Horde diplomat: “What? No, no, no, of course not. It’s totally safe. It’s not like we’re in some kind of global war at the moment, running out of men, and expect attacks by an organized army who we hope won’t notice tiny weird foxes. We would totally disclose that to you if that were the case, and would definitely not risk dragging you into this massive war against the Alliance where we need all the allies we can get… er, hypothetical war. Hypothetically speaking.”
Vulpera: “Well, don’t know what “the Alliance” is, but that seems like a trustworthy answer to me! Let’s get that stuff on our wagons!”
There are conflicting opinions on whether the quests that take place during faction assaults are actually canon or not. I read somewhere that Blizzard says they are not…so if that is true, the attack on the Vulperan caravan by the 7th Legion technically never occurred. We as players that witnessed it simply presume it did.
I’m sure it’s considered canon. What changed I think was that on the PTR way back then before that patch came out, I guess they had the Alliance killing the Vulpera, but then they changed it to the Alliance just burning their wagons and “scaring” the Vulpera. (Like they would give Alliance players something to do the fear effect on Vulpera as part of a quest requirement).
There is an unreliable narrator though in that patch. For Battle of Dazar’alor, the narrator on the Horde side falsely presents the confrontation between Rastakhan and the Alliance starting out with Greymane demanding he kneel to Anduin and hand over his daughter as a hostage.
The Alliance see the true version, since they aren’t relying on a narrator, where Greymane just formally asks for his surrender in the siege, but doesn’t make any brutal demands beyond that.
Right? The players on both sides saw it, so it must be true. Unfortunately, this scenario isn’t the only one Blizzard has had us participate in that they claim isn’t factually correct, lore-wise.
Right again! The other thing that bugs me about the whole thing is, the Horde had to have known a caravan carrying supplies for them would be considered a valid target by the enemy. So why weren’t there any actual Horde soldiers there to protect it? Horde heroes (player characters) came to save them AFTER the fact. Things that make you go “Hmmm”.
well, all we got is some hint at a fox loa in war of ancients, but… there’s been no in-game confirmation it has anything to do with vulpera, so… we really do got nothin for our lore.