The Orcs wear operatic Viking helmets and Bloodaxe and Blacktooth are names of Danish Viking Kings.
I don’t think that was intentional. Because I think the Orcs were designed by computer dorks using their vague memory of historical tough guys. Not anthropologists or historians. Hence why also some guys have giant katanas and others are pirates.
But yeah I’m much more reminded of the Battle of Teutoberg than I am say the Siege of Baghdad in regards to the Orcs. Guess it’s cringe to read about more than one culture.
Imagine me wondering how you could completely miss the point I was making in response to the post I was responding to…you daft or you just doing this to pick a fight?
Pretty sure the Narrator in question is sort of portraying a “Biased Telling” from the perspective of the Race in question, but also from a 3rd person PoV.
So, everything he says IS Right but also extremely Biased, both from a particular Point of View. And that View is suppose to be the Player’s, whom the story is being told.
At the start of the story she did almost break a fight out between the leaders atop Icecrown.
Calia- “The kaldorei need you if they are to have any hope of finding peace, High Priestess.”
Tyrande- “You dare speak to me of peace? After the atrocities your kind inflicted?!”
She doesn’t exactly sound interested in peace and nearly started another war but was talked down by Bolvar.
Edit: I’d also like to point out that the “your kind” comment is racist. Calia isn’t the same as the Forsaken. She is as much their “kind” as Bolvar.
I agree and never claimed that the Alliance should be villainized. As a primarily Horde player I know it sucks to be the villain (again and again) when your faction’s identity was built on redemption and perseverance in a hostile world. I don’t want any other players to have to deal with that.
All of the races and cultures in WoW are like someone took a bunch of Anthropology books, put them through a paper shredder and then tried to piece together a workable facsimile from the scraps… with their eyes closed.
Any ACTUAL similarities between races of Races in Wow and Peoples in RL is mostly coincidental.
I mean…I don’t know if I’d call them coincidental. They’re clearly intended to be based on RL cultures for the purposes of world-building—things like Celtic/nature worship influencing the Kaldorei or the dwarves being based off of Scots is pretty clear evidence of that.
You can certainly approve/disapprove of that, but the influences do seem pretty deliberate.
I misworded that. I meant to say any similaries between actual CULTURES, in the sense that it’s meant to represent a particular culture or group is not meant to be interpreted as them being from any particular group.
What are you even on about? The horned helmets were worn in operas about Viking myths. Common misconception is they actually wore them but obviously didn’t in reality. As a nice hat handle to yank your head around isn’t a good thing to thing to wear to battle.
