Then I’d call that a failure of the art direction for not making them distinct enough. But even so, it still sucks to be limited to those. Not to mention, it doesn’t even make sense for those to be options because humans and elves didn’t exist at the time dracthyr were created.
It was purely to sell the race for people who didn’t want to actually look like a dragon.
Drakthyr visage forms were a choice between a large quantity of base forms with weak customization choices, or few base options with deep customization. No matter what they did a group of people was bound to be angry, so they elected to go with depth over width.
Personally, I had hoped it be revealed Neltharion did dealings with the infinites, who had given him people abducted across time who would not be missed in exchange for something.
Being able to choose which race the visage is is much deeper customization than being able to pick underwear.
The visages we got are about as shallow as customization can be. A bunch of small, meaningless choices.
You should steel yourself. The Dracthyr are almost certainly going to fade into obscurity absent any content having to do with the Dragon Isle or the dragons (“maybe”).
Blizzard churns out allied races and struggles to find time to provide content for races that have been around a long time.
Humans are mentioned in War of the Ancients so they were around, but primitive. And we have no idea how long elves had their empire before they lost it.
Weren’t the dracthyr created 20k years before the current day, which would be another 10k before WotA and 4k before the troll-A’qir war? There shouldn’t have even been night elves around yet, let alone humans or high elves.
Yet we know people were living on the dragon isles before those events. It’s how the aspects developed their visage forms and why nethalarion created the dracthyr
Well, yeah. Trolls were. Which is why the human/elf look is at odds with the supposed story about their visage development.
The vyrkrul were also around too I believe. And the dark trolls should have started changing into kaldorei at the time
I don’t know about the vrykul but IIRC, night elves didn’t start appearing until after the troll empire was established and some found the well of eternity. 20k years is before even the troll empire.
The Visages were made with the help of Nozdormu looking inyo the future i think?
It is weird.
But Djaradinn, which seems to be a native race of azeroth is weirdly human shaped.
Also, there weren’t humans in the WOTA, the curse of flesh happened later, but they do reference dwarves there, which i believe at some point was just retconned to be earthen pre curse of flesh.
The Dracthyr visage was hinted to be something more special, but that plotline seems to have been dropped or currently on hold.
I get the feeling that they had plans for the nature of visages which when they changed direction to the worldsoul saga they just quietly dropped. It might just be in a small pile of Danuser ideas that Metzen scrapped.
Pressing X to doubt.
Void Elves were the least populous of the Allied Races. Even knowing they’re increasing their numbers now, they seem to be drawing almost exclusively from Blood Elves who are either into the Void to begin with, or are fed up with the Police State that is Quel’Thalas. We’ve no real lore to suggest how the numbers of the Void Elves have increased. Going by the Telogrus Rift, not much. There’s a couple more tents, but no buildings, no real infrastructure, etc…
Meanwhile the Dracthyr were bred to be a legitimate army for Neltharion. I find it hard to believe there are more Void Elves than Dracthyr.
A small army of elites that he could personally control like robots with his Titan artifact. His main concern was the other dragonflights and he had his Blacks for those.
After losing his artifact and having a bunch of them wiped out by the Primalist drakes, he abandoned them. Locking them away as a failed experiment. They never advanced beyond the pilot project stage.
As it were between the Dragon Soul’s first strikes, and his blacks he didn’t need them to nearly exterminate the other flights.
I think the lowest population of playable race would be neither, but the Mag’har orc. Now, i know there are other mag’har orcs out there in outland, but the playable variant is exclsuviellt the group that escaped from the lightbound trough a closing timegate. Unless they added lore that the outland mag’har are joining, this is the only race that really has a set number of characters from the start.
Unlike other species, it should be possible to just… make more Drakthyr. All the awful unethical research requiring live test subjects got done by Neltharion. The final product should be able to just be mass produced on demand.
So, somewhere in Aberrus, there is surely a drakthyr printer.
Also, If they really want, they can handwave reproduction as well. Dragons already reach adulthood really fast (10 years according to the dragonflight codex?), If Dracthyr were made with capacity for reproduction, they might reach adulthood as fast or even faster than that.
If we want to get REALLY technical like that, the Pandaren are the lowest population playable race, as they came to the Alliance/Horde in a hot air balloon from the Wandering Isle. Meaning… each faction has 2-3 Pandaren: their racial representative, and a single player character.
Unfortunately this is what happens to new races since MoP. Your racial leader will show up for a gag quest once every 3 expansions then get shelved for another 3 yrs unless your a shade of elf or dwarf.
Atleast Dracthyr will show up with other dragons. Mecha-gnomes and Vulpera might as well be extinct in the setting for all they’ve done since becoming playable.
Nope, same way DKs didn’t do anything of note in Cata, monks didn’t do anything in WoD, and DH didn’t do anything in BFA. This is just the way things go, Blizz basically says, “people have seen enough of these in the previous xpac let’s give them a break.”