Like for reals, what is that skull from? It’s not a boar, boar tusks don’t point backwards.
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/532018.jpg
Skull of a quillboar?
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I dunno I just assume it was made to go with the tusks of mannoroth
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Looks like a mammoth to be honest.
In Azeroth they can point wherever the art dude wants them to point.
So lemmie get this straight OP…
We can summon meteors from the sky even whilst indoors down upon enemies that look so top heavy they’d drag their heads on the ground like Lanky Kong’s arms…
We can stab a dragon the size of the Chrysler Building, who has armor made out of basically alloys that can deflect anything and we can kill him TO DEATH mind you, with the equivalent size weapon of a toothpick.
A gnome as big as an obese chihuahua can carry a sword the size of Dallas as easily and as acrobatically as if it was made out of wet cardboard and balsa wood…
A Pandaren with stubby legs can outrun a Night Elf, who has a gymnasts body and endurance.
And the one thing that bothers you is what the skull looks like on a shield?
are those… tusks? coming out of it’s nose?
How do you even know it’s a skull? What kind of skull is it?
I think it’s a shoveltusk from northrend. Maybe one that grew extra horns on the sides?
The main part looks like a shoveltusk tho
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And I state my question, you’re looking for realism in a game where a goblin can jump like Michael Jordan in half-inch thick metal armor?
If you don’t want to discuss the subject no one’s forcing you to.
My assumption is that the design for that set was inspired by Agamaggan, the boar god who died fighting the Legion in the War of the Ancients. Ergo, the flail is covered in tusks, and the shield is adorned with a sort of stylized boar skull.
https://i.imgur.com/gQBxl0v.jpg
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It also has a sort of Grinning Reaver meets Krolusk meets Dragon aesthetic.
This seems the most legit answer actually
OP, what does the lore say about the shield in turn anyway?
Beyond the lore for the base artifacts, I believe the only appearances with any lore behind them are a handful of the hidden appearances (like prot warriors finding one of Deathwing’s scales). The Mage Tower appearances were kinda dropped on you with a “cool job handling that boss, have some power” scene.
That said, I’m pretty sure that Blizz designed most of the extra appearances before considering how to justify their implementation lore-wise, which would explain why some of them don’t make a lot of sense, like shaman randomly finding a zandalari mace in Dalaran’s sewers.
maybe its just a pair of big bone spikes AND a xenomorph skull
Does look a bit Warlords-y, what was the pack animal in Frostfire?