So, our characters can be flattened, exploded, eaten, and none of that leaves a mark. Why would scars via character customization last on our characters through death, or exist at all?
I want to understand people who use scars on their characters, would you have many more scars if the game let you, including full-body scars? Do you ignore character death to think of your character living as one continuous being, that accumulates scars, or do they accumulate scars through death and rebirth? Is it mostly for RP, and if so, do you base it on specific characters that have scars in lore or real life? Did you add the scar to start with or did you add it after having an in-game encounter with a mob or other player? Do you think of the scars more as birth marks?
Because our body doesn’t change when the spirit is revived in it.
Absolutely. As it stands, so few races can have scars right now and it’s pretty ridiculous, given the catastrophes, wars and skirmishes we’ve seen.
Every race should have scars. Facial and body. Same with tattoos and and jewelry— including males being able to have jewelry.
So, the spirit of the character has the scars? If the spirit can die snd be revived and the body is unchanged, I still wonder how the scars started existing. I mean it seems logical that the insane things we go through would leave scars so yes that makes sense that all should have scars. However I wonder when specifically people thought their characters got scars (and if they add them as their character does certain things in the game).
If you read the Illidian novel, there is a druid with scars. A person in the group asks them about it, since he could heal without any scars. He thinks scars are cool so he let himself heal naturally than use healing magic so he can get scars. He says chicks dig the scars.
I guess that is the part I don’t understand - permanence. Scars are permanent, but they work like a Heaviside function where they don’t exist until suddenly they do. I wonder what is the rationale for giving characters scars, when do they start, and do they have to be part of some backstory? And I wonder how people justify to themselves just one scar, on the eye or something, when their character has been burned and slashed by thousands of swords.
They heal what they want and let scars go over where they want it.
Forgot what movie it was but this dude lived in a world with healing technology and he could heal everything but he asks the doctors or tech to leave one scar behind as a reminded. Only one that he kept from his child’s death.
Its a world with magical healing/regeneration and fairly widespread access to the ability to reshape and transmogrify the body. In that context scars in Azeroth are about as meaningful as press on tattoos. But some people really like press on tattoos.
I wonder if I could heal other people’s scars, I suppose I am one of those stinky little druids. Seeing scars makes me wonder if I am a sucky healer and the answer is yes but is my character also bad at it?
Because that character isn’t actually surviving getting hit by Disintegration Beam. It took two hits to entirely disable Varian Wrynn at the Broken Shore. Not spells or attacks from a major demon, just two clean thrusts from a pair of Felguards who got lucky. HP is an abstraction of stamina, dodging, and luck.
So I wonder, do players who use scars think of character death as alternate timelines, what could have happened, but didn’t and they go back in time to before they die when they revive? And that is why a single scar makes sense for them even though they could theoretically go through so much worse?