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Draenai is a symbolic renaming of the Eredar race that arose on the planet of Argus. Draenai means “exiled ones”. They fled the Legion when their home world succumbed to the mighty Sargeras. The Eredar and the Draenai are literally the same race, but the Draenai chose to flee rather than accept the fel. Fel corrupted the Eredar and many turned into demons. Examples are Kil’Jaeden, Archimonde, those red looking Eredar, and more. They can be any normal shade of the original Eredar race as is evident by Archnimonde retaining his original color while becoming and insanely powerful demonic version of an Eredar. Having said this, Draenai don’t become Eredar if they succumb to fel magic. They are simply fel wielding Draenai, corrupted by the highly seductive magic.
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Anything can be corrupted by fel magic. Do you really think some puny, impudent, insignificant Draenai, or even Light Forged cannot succumb? That’s funny, because titans such as Sargeras have. Naruu have fallen into shadow. Celestial beings can be pulled by other magics, so why not Draenai? Are they super duper immune to everything now because they resisted at one point? I think not…
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The only requirement to become a Warlock is to seek power, especially dark places. Anyone can fall into this power trap. Draenai and Light Forged Draenai lore for turning into Warlocks could simply arise from them being part of battles, witnessing the death of their people, or some other experience that made them desperate to wield the power of demonic energy to control the very thing that has tormented them. They could have a desire to become more powerful than those who wish them dead, by turning their own magic against them. It’s not far fetched or crazy at all… To say it’s taboo in their culture is no argument, as every race seems to have some form of disdain towards Warlocks. The same can be said for Shadow Priests, who are probably looked down upon and considered insane.
A draenei is a survivor of Argus’ invasion of the legion by demons, and the name ‘draenei’ itself means exiled ones. Their whole ethos as a race is opposition to demons and the Burning Legion. If they become corrupted and succumb to the legion’s power they become Eredar. This happened on Draenor in WoD, in the Shadowmoon Valley quests surrounding Karabor, which became the Black Temple in the original timeline via Outland.
One exception to this rule is the presence of the Auchenei, draenei on Draenor who were corrupted by the void energies of the dead Naaru D’ore. Some of them practice the summoning of demons, making them warlocks.
If Draenai become corrupted than they should be given Eredar appearances, red skin and horns. They can still be tied to Alliance but they should show that the have fallen.
Any being can be corrupted. You don’t see humans requiring full makeovers just be be warlocks, or any other lock race for that matter. It’s unreasonable and insane.
only draenei fact is draenei are floozies.
I will say it’s probably the most important fact.
Look at all the new information that doesn’t exist
Isn’t it wonderful?
Lol, more of this. Just embrace the dark side already.
Being a warlock does not mean one is “corrupted”.
STOP GATE KEEPING WARLOCKS! You get a warlock, and you get a warlock. EVERYBODY GETS WARLOCKS
The only requirements are to use Fel magic and summon demons, and those aren’t exclusive to nor restricted from any race.
Sshh… Yes, it does. Now drink your fel juice, and eat your shadow tart.
The only warlock who isn’t at all corrupted by fel magic is either a spectacularly safe and clever caster, or they only just begun their training.
Infusion with fel magic, also called fel corruption, can manifest through physical transformation normally ensues, such as a change to an individual’s eyes or skin color, or heavy genetic mutations such as the growth of demonic traits like spikes, scales, and horns. Negative corruption tends to lead to physical or mental deterioration, as happened with the draenei that turned into Broken and Lost Ones, or as happened with boars turned into enraged hellboars.
Exposure to greater amounts of Fel causes mutations in individuals. Perhaps some are just better at hiding these changes. However, it has been seen that any race that is exposed to fel does become demonized.
Lore wise a Draenei that turned to fel magic became man’ari. Physically similar to their original shape, with a few minor differences (the original eredar shape has been preserved in the draenei). The most obvious difference is their skin color; though several man’ari eredar, such as Archimonde and Lady Sacrolash, retain a blue-gray skin color, most have blood-red skin. Their eyes glow fel-green; much like draenei, the glow in an eredar’s eyes will fade away when they die. Many male man’ari lack cranial hair, and man’ari females have longer tails than their draenei counterparts. Eredar hands are clawed.
A LFD using fel magic is like a fire elemental suddenly casting water spells. That is literally what being a light forged is all about…submitting yourself to the holy light and becoming a living being of holy magic energy.
If Illidan didn’t resist the giant wind chime light forging him, he wouldn’t be a demon hunter anymore and almost certainly would have been either destroyed by the process or the fel magic and transformations it had on his body eliminated and him back to his original night elf self and likely still a powerful mage or at least a mage with an affinity for war glaives. Even in a world where regular draenei warlocks exist, becoming light forged would have purged fel out of them or they would have just been killed by the light for being the demon-allying heretic they are and anyone willing to undergo the process to become light forged would almost certainly be so radicalized and such strong faith in the light that they would never think to stoop to drawing on fel magic.
The other big problem with the argument that “my character is special” is that they canonically aren’t until much later in the story. Canonically, you start off this game as a nobody with massive yet to be realized potential. Warlocks, like death knights, make more sense to be a hero class or a class that one becomes later in their adventure strictly by their canonical impact and how the world sees/treats them. An uppity mage apprentice who decides to consort with demons and draw on fel magic as a shortcut for power would have been ousted from mage school…not just moved to a new track.
But it’s obviously clear Blizzard doesn’t put much stock in the actual RPG elements of the MMORPG they’ve built. Their choice. Anyone whose been playing this game for awhile has seen the writing on the wall long before now. The lobby style players are a higher target demographic than RPG players hence the strong pushes to the game to more and more make this game in that style over a traditional RPG.
After the countless threads about new warlock class/race options for 10.1.5, I think I’m just gonna sit here this time, and have some popcorn
I treat warlocks like “imagine if you get rabies. but instead of you dying. you kick its butt and learn to weaponize it against others”
A corruption is allowing it to change you and take control from you. Warlocks are the ones in control
You left out the rest of the quote. “are a faction of uncorrupted eredar”.
Well then they wouldn’t be “uncorrupted eredar” would they?
Yes, a faction. Not the only group though.
But the player character is part of that faction.
Again, Fel corrupts all. Saying they “submit to the light” is a horrible argument because light beings can be turned. Again, Naaru and titans have fallen to corruption. Simple races who submit to light are nowhere near as immune too fel or shadow as them.