And it should be. Let Lorderon go back to being Lorderon.
Just don’t be upset when they have to look like Calia
In the end, most race restrictions aren’t based on what is physically possible or not… the majority of magical and martial arts can be taught to anyone willing to learn. In the past race restrictions have been mostly about that particular culture’s tendency to learn any given class. Nothing stops Stormwind humans from learning to channel elemental magic as Shamans, but virtually no Stormwind humans choose that path since they predominantly worship the Light and not the elements. That’s the main reasons why the 10.0 classes are opening up. Rogue, Priest, Mage, Hunter, and Warrior all have very loose lore surrounding their power source and aside from Night Elves with Mages (which changed in Cata) there haven’t really been any cultures that felt strongly one way or the other about them in a broad sense. That’s why they were easy to open up.
It’s really only a few specific classes where the lore is a lot stricter. Mostly in terms of Druids and Paladins. In terms of cultural barriers, Warlocks are still the last class for whom certain cultures outright reject the practice. (Mainly Draenai) If you were to open up classes to be based on individual heroes rather than the culture they come from writ large then you’d probably have an excuse for every race/class combo besides those three.
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I think they’re just justifying Calia as a Horde leader, still. As well they should be. Or rather, as they should have done years ago, as this still feels like a last minute addition to the lore that functionally places an out-of-touch (by her own admission) Alliance-adjacent representative in a position of Horde leadership. She wouldn’t be the first, and I’m sure she won’t be the last, but I do wish we could get some representation from the “core” Horde developed.
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I would love to make an undead paladin!
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I’m actually surprised that Zekhan seems to have been largely forgotten about after Saurfang died. He was a universally loved new Horde character with lots of room to develop his own story. I can understand not wanting to thrust him into a leadership position so quickly since he is fairly young. But they should have been able to do more with him than they have by now.
I think they ran into some White Man’s Burden controversy with him and, instead of addressing that misstep, just backburnered him entirely.
Worgen Paladin or riot.
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You can make UD pallys all day. Dont care. All I want is Worgen Monks!
They don’t have to. Forsaken Priests were already given lore reason to be using the Light. If the Light listens to Calia and blesses the Forsaken, then they can be Paladins.
She’s part of the Council now.
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I never thought i’d be able to actually say “based” when talking about a WoW dev
Mmm. I agree with that. I don’t think we have any lore that outright says that Forsaken CAN’T be Paladins… we just have a lot of lore that says it really really sucks.
Sir Zelik was an exceptional case that proves the rule in this instance. No ordinary undead would be able to replicate what he did with their sanity intact.
However I’m of the mindset that player characters are by definition exceptional. I mean, Legion order halls outright state as much. Canonically, Reshyk is one of the most powerful Druids in the world. Many of the Legion artifact weapons required exceptional individuals to wield them lest they suffer a whole variety of nasty side effects. I personally think that player Undead Paladins would work just fine. They’d be in constant agony, but it can be done.
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Did they retcon Forsaken priests being hurt when using the light?
Not to my knowledge. But until we force the players at the screen to get zapped every time their Priest casts a Holy spell I’m not sure it’s that significant.
Forsaken Priests have been enduring that pain since the start of WoW. So finding individuals capable of doing so isn’t really that surprising. Commendable sure, but not surprising.
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It wasn’t just pain though. At least one WoW-sanctioned website said that the reason there’s pain is that the Light restores their flesh and they feel pain because it restores their nervous system. Furthermore, it would regrow their sense of smell and they’d smell their own rotting flesh.
No it still hurts. It just doesn’t kill them. That was the retcon.
This I’ve honestly never heard.
She is. And Horde players are still rightfully raising an eyebrow about that, to the point that Blizzard is lampshading the issue.
For my part… I don’t even want the Undead in the Horde. Let alone an Undead population led by a functionally Alliance leader.
Honestly, I just don’t see the point of her character. Why did she need to exist? An Arthas continuation? A Sylvanas replacement? I don’t see the narrative necessity.
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I’ve never heard this what does this mean
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I’m not sure why. She’s dead, she wants to be with them and not the Alliance. She took Derek with her and said, “see ya, this is where I’m going to be now.”
Sad to see the game world become more bland as time progresses but oh well. Undead Paladins it is lol
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