I always assumed the lifespan of a lot of races is potentially far higher than what’s given since they traditionally lived with constant war or were just on the brink for the entire time they’ve had focus in-setting.
Cairne was said to have been near the far end of the Tauren life expectancy and he wasn’t even white haired at 107, and lived an extremely rough and stressful life.
That the Horde has been so completely devastated from the past several wars that the reason you don’t see them very much is because there really aren’t that many left.
Ships like the Exodar, Genedar, Xenedar require a Naaru pilot to operate. O’ros was the pilot of the Exodar and with it’s destruction the hope of the ship ever being properly repaired vanished.
Vindicaar is a revolutionary design that does not require a Naaru.
My biggest headcanon is that Night Elves were in fact created by Elune in her image. So Elune does look like a female Night Elf.
Also despite all the nonsense Shadowland gave us there is an Afterlife for Night Elves in a realm led by Elune herself.
Exodar has a naaru.
Or did before Legion anyway.
Illidan didn’t explain his actual plan which is why half his army abandoned him.
That is what actually happened.
Didn’t pay attention to the Legion Story. Sorry.
It’s cool. It’s just something that the Illidan novel really helped established. Like we see how he keeps everything close to the chest and how that can backfire.
For example, the novel explained how Illidan had promised to return the Black Temple to Akama. However when it was first seized, Illidan retained the BT and basically said “You’ll get it when I’m done,” while being slightly mocking as he did it. Which wasn’t helped by Illidan’s further actions that saw the Temple further corrupted, using Magtheridon’s blood to create more Fel Orcs and the creation of the Demon Hunters just solidified in Akama’s mind that Illidan had no intention of giving him the temple as promised.
To Akama, Illidan betrayed him first. To Illidan, he was enraged that Akama refused to take him at his word.
Over all when you look like Illidan’s story, it becomes clear that he this expectation that people should just take him at his word and accept every action he takes as the valid one. When they object, he decides that they simply don’t or won’t understand.
Also doesn’t help that Kael’thas felt betrayed by Illidan by not honoring his end of their agreement. So Akama does have an example of Illidan not living up to his word.
A shame we lost Kael’thas over this. The worst lore decision ever.
That would actually be somewhat supported by Shadowlands. Elune said she sent the souls to help Ardeanweald. So, she had some control over where they went. It may be that only select Night Elves ever go to the Shadowlands and most either stay with Elune or return to Azeroth as wisps.
Made sadder by the fact that from the novel Illidan actually did intend to follow through with his promise to both Akama and Kael’thas.
But he didn’t. As usually his arrogance was his Doom.
Did you miss the word “intend?”
Based on the novel, he intended to turn the temple over to Akama and did intend to help the Blood elves at large. He just needed both of them and the temple to accomplish his primary goals first. He was defeated before that could happen.
Which is why it was sad. Had Akama known what Illidan was doing and the time table, he may have helped Illidan accomplish it instead of turning on him. Illidan would likely have succeeded and Akama would have gotten the temple with far less pain.
It wasn’t just arrogance. Sure, there was a part of that. He did have the ‘only I can save them’ attitude. But there was also a high level of paranoia involved as well. He didn’t share any of his plans for fear of it getting back to the Legion and he really didn’t trust anyone. Some of that fear was justified, but Illidan took it to an extreme.
Illidan took Kael’s best soldiers and told him nothing about his real plans. if you want to people having trust in you you need to act like a leader.
And? That doesn’t counter anything I said. Yes, Illidan let pride and paranoia keep him from communicating his plans. Yes, that made people distrust him. Illidan screwed up, for sure.
But the sad part is, his actions make him appear like he was not planning on fulfilling his promises despite the fact that he was actually planning on fulfilling his word.
Death knights still require self-care, extensive self care in fact. It varies depending on where they draw their power from, with Frost death knights generally having it the easiest. DKs who neglect their bodies tend to suffer from bloating, necrosis, bone withering, etc., with some particularly neglectful DKs resembling Ghouls more than their original race. While this doesn’t affect their combat aptitude, it can take a toll on whatever sanity they have left, and definitely doesn’t make them all too popular in mortal cities.
actions speak louder than words. If you barricade yourself in your fortress while not caring what your servants keep doing in the meantime is the opposite of leadership qualities. He did this back with the moonguard too.
Yeah it sucks that such an interesting race has been reduced to furbait in the eyes of the players.
In fact it just sucks in general the furries have basically claimed dominion over all anthropomorphic fantasy creatures.
I can always tell when someone never met an actual furry in their life. The weirdos who play vulpera definetly aren’t furries. Most of us are sick of people like them giving the rest of us a bad name and everyone else thinking that’s normal behavior when it’s clearly not