I’ve been familiar with BfA for some time now, but only recently(due to it being free, I’d never pay money for this) started Shadowlands. However, in the year or so I took time off from WoW I played the hell out of the Vampire factions in Total War: Warhammer 2.
With all these things now become familiar to me, I’ve started fantasizing about what it would be like to have the Vampire Counts/Coast vampires translocated into Azeroth. I’ve never been a fan of zombies, as I don’t like my crew/troops to have rotting flesh, but am ok with skeletons and constructs. So I found myself admiring the varieties of undead and magical constructs and skeleton type troops in WoW.
It was only after encountering the Jailer’s forces, the Mawsworn, that I really started to have a clear visualization of the kind of troops I’d want a Vampire faction in WoW to have. Before that it was various arcane constructs and the Drust Rune Golems that I was most interested in.
If, once translocated, there was a fairly seamless change from the Winds of Magic and Dhar to WarCraft magics, I think the Warhammer vampires would have a hell of a great time. I think playing/being one would be fantastic! Without the corrupting influence of Dhar(Dark Magic) ruining everything around you, and the ability to not only manipulate Undead but also create magical constructs, they’d be a extreme power on Azeroth and beyond.
I imagine being of the Vampire Coast and taking places like Freeport, Kul’Tiras, as my own. Creating constructs and Undead forces similar to the Mawsworn style(their aesthetic pleases me, and their heavily armored forms would be far more durable than many other forms of Undead) and raising up sunken ships with magic seems very much like something the likes of Luthor Harkon and Count Noctilus might do.
For the Vampire Counts, I imagine a place like Drustvar or Darkshire would make for wonderful bases of operation towards gaining control of the mortal kingdoms. Especially if you could pull off being more like the Mourkhain vampires, with a more open symbiotic relationship with the people. Your constructs patrol the forests stamping out threats to your people/food, and people offer their blood willingly for keeping them safe and allowing economic prosperity. Oooh, the possibilities! Having the Midnight Aristocracy infiltrating and manipulating/replacing the effete Nobles of Stormwind would make for some interesting tales.
Just felt like sharing my silly fantasies.