Unofficial Sethrak Discussion Thread 🐍

Fezzy-draenor · May 22, 2020, 10:04pm

Almost garunteed racial. Every Sethrak you fight will do this to you.

Nadezhdha-proudmoore · May 24, 2020, 1:07am

Sooo…

I passed 2 of my exams! Thanks to those who wished me luck!

I’m stuck taking the third one next week so not quite past all the stress. >.<

Good to see the continued discussion.

I’m also on board with neutral Sethrak, like Fezzy said as long as they’re playable I ultimately don’t care how they’re added or what faction they go.

Also agree that a spit venom racial would be nearly guaranteed.

Zayelaa-runetotem · May 24, 2020, 1:07am

Can I have my Sneks yet?

Dimpishly-scarlet-crusade · May 24, 2020, 3:14am

I’m reminded that the Vulpera and the Sethrak don’t seem to like each other much, another reason to have them join the Alliance.

Genoslash-dalaran · May 25, 2020, 1:06am

BLIZZARD PLEASE I WILL GIVE YOU MONEY FOR SETHRAKS! I DON’T CARE WHAT FACTION JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN! Seriously though I don’t care what faction make it both factions if you want have an Alliance Sethrakies and Horde Sethrallians. Like make it an in store purchasable faction if you want just give us snek bois.

Fezzy-draenor · May 25, 2020, 1:12am

Congratulations! I hope your next one is just as successful!

Literally every Sethrak you fight does it.

Sssooon, I hope.

Aye, I can see that a bit. Though the Vulpera helped the Sethrak leader regain control of the whole. You could still have some remnant Faithless who might not be thrilled, even if they’ve returned to worship of Sethraliss.

I think most of us fall into this category these days. Alliance, Horde, Neutral. We don’t care as long as they’re playable.

Sethrak for the Alliance! (But playable is fine blizz seriously please.)

Genoslash-dalaran · May 25, 2020, 1:26am

Sethrak
Racial: Sand Storm three min. c.d. (kind of like an all class version of rogue ability smoke bomb)
Racial Passive 1: Mastery (ancient race with mastery over many things)
Racial Passive 2: Quickness (They’re quick we’ve seen it)
Racial Passive 3: Elusiveness (Of course they’re elusive they’re sneaky snakes)
Racial Passive 4: Nature Resistance (If you live in a lightening filled desert that used to be jungle and survied for fifthteen thousands of years you have probably built up a Nature Resistance.)
Racial Passive 5: Languages (They speak snake)

Genoslash-dalaran · May 25, 2020, 1:40am

Names for the Racials Passives:

Blessing of Sethraliss
Akunda’s Kiss
Sneaking Snake
Desert Wanderer
Languages: Sethrak (ssseriousssly)

Fezzy-draenor · May 25, 2020, 2:17am

I like where you’re going with this, but I’d imagine their main active racial would be the poison spit. Does a bit of minor nature damage over time.

I also wonder whether they have a tie to Akunda? We don’t see the Sethrak interact with any Loa aside from Sethraliss, even though both Kimbul and Akunda live within Vol’dun.

What exactly would racial passives 1-3 do?

Genoslash-dalaran · May 25, 2020, 2:56am

Racial Passives 1-3 are basic racial passives that several races share, see Tauren/Night Elves and a few others.

As far as on use racial I’ve seen all Sethraks use the sand storm.
Only creature that uses poison spit is the snake boss (boss #2) in ToS which is an expirement gone wrong of the bad Sethrak faction which is technically not even a Sethrak.

Fezzy-draenor · May 25, 2020, 3:04am

I’ve only seen the sandcallers use the sandstorm. Just played through Vol’dun a few days ago and every single sethrak even the sandcallers/stormcallers used poison spit.

I meant specifically what do you see those passive as being? The mastery one is I assume mastery?

What about the others?

Genoslash-dalaran · May 25, 2020, 3:14am

Oh the post above it define the abilities of the passive racials.

Blessing of Sethraliss (Mastery increased by 2%)
Lightning Charged (Quickness - Increases your chance to dodge, melee and ranged attacks 2%, and movement speed by 2%)
Sneaky Snake (Elusiveness - Increases your speed while stealth is active by 5%,)
Desert Wanderer (Nature Resistance - Reduces nature damage taken by 1%)

Ptealadax-thrall · May 26, 2020, 1:15am

Still waiting on those sneks. All of you have very good ideas for it to be playable. For Shadowlands i don’t think any of the covenant races would fit to be playable, They should pair Sethrak and some other race first.

Nadezhdha-proudmoore · May 26, 2020, 5:30am

They should. And I’ve been parroting my idea that Ardenweald could tie into Sethrak because of Sethraliss.

Maybe there is more to why it took her so long to be reborn, and that she was not returned to Azeroth at full strength (The anima shortage).

Bwomsambi-ragnaros · May 26, 2020, 7:53am

I will surrender the snakes to the alliance if they give me tortollen with T rex and direhorn druid forms for horde <3

Fezzy-draenor · May 26, 2020, 8:08am

Deal.

Also that would be amusing to see a tortollan turn into.

Zurogrusel-darrowmere · May 26, 2020, 9:45am

Well, snakes don’t have lips, so p/b/m/v/f wouldn’t be useable, or any other sound that uses your lips. Snakes don’t have vocal chords either, so any voiced sound wouldn’t work either.

I know we see sethrak making all of those sounds just fine but we can come up with some reason like “they’re using magic to create those sounds so they can speak other languages”, where as their language abides all the snake anatomy rules.

I know nothing about snake anatomy so there’s probably more than just those two things that restricts their sound capability but those are the only two things I know about. It does leave room for some more unique sounds though, be they rarely used IRL or completely made up.

I know Blizzard’s “language” policy is a bunch of mumbo jumbo translations, but if they ever put more than 0 effort into them they could kepp that ^ in mind for whenever/if ever they do sethrak.

Now I’m going to take off my aspiring linguist nerd glasses and go hide in the corner while watching this thread.

Ptealadax-thrall · May 26, 2020, 5:54pm

Ohhh i didn’t think of that. I really hope to see them expand on that more!

Nadezhdha-proudmoore · May 26, 2020, 6:06pm

Snakes also do not have external ears and the anatomy of their ear and how they hear is a lot different than say a mammal. And hearing affects the ability to speak.

If Sethrak were to have a language based off real snakes, their ability to speak would have to come through their glottis. Not all snakes hiss, but those that can do so by forcefully exhaling or inhaling air through their glottis. Which causes structures within to rattle, which makes the hissing sound we know of. -Insert the more you know meme here since she lost TL3-

YES. I need answers! Why was she chosen by The Winter Queen to be able to return?

Snakes also symbolise rebirth, change, fertility and healing and that all screams Ardenweald as well. Snakes were only demonized relatively recently through Christian mythology. Long before that they were creatures that symbolized good things.

Zurogrusel-darrowmere · May 26, 2020, 6:07pm

Do they have a pharynx?

I guess no but not sure. Pharyngeal sounds sound super stereotypically “snake”.