He already has a great relation with the Haranir. He seem to be more in touch with nature then most elves. Seems like he would be the perfect first blood elf druid/the one that ultimately teach the playable race druidism properly.
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You mean most blood elves. That’s actually a pretty low bar as most of them are fixated on various forms of non natural and nondivine magic.
The Windrunners have been described at times as night elf throwbacks. He might have some of that in his vibe.
I don’t know about Halduron specifically – I wouldn’t mind it, and it would set him apart from the hundred other elf rangers he competes with for representation – but I think they’re building up to it with the Arcanist Taemin character. Here’s a Farstrider with a bit of a class crisis, a mage who’d rather be a hunter but can’t quite cut it, who rediscovers the wild gods nature spirits of Eversong on the cusp of thematically appropriate loa returning a zone over. Really makes you think…
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Personally I would rather Hauldron be a druid because of the fourth blood elven main characters, Lother’mar already represents the Ranger branch as well. As mentioned it would also nake Hauldron more unique.
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It’s my hope that the reason Halduron didn’t get a model update and just got put in questing greens is not because they plan on killing him off, but because they plan on giving him a new model when he becomes a druid.
I will say though, that I’d personally prefer if this was done by having the Haranir help the blood elves “return” to druidic practices that were lost after the fall of Thas’alah, rather than “omg first blood elf druids ever, they have never heard of a plant before, the Haranir have brought druidic magic to them for the first time ever.” I always feel it’s cooler when they introduce new classes by giving us existing lore (like Sunwalkers and troll druids for instance), rather than saying “yeah this never existed until this moment and there’s zero cultural/historical background for you to connect with for this race/class combo.”
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I wonder if a Blood Elf Druid flight form would be a dragon hawk or a Phoenix. I’d prefer a phoenix.
At any rate, his last name of Brightwing would fit.
As long as they tie it to the Amani/Amani Loa and not the Haranir.
I get he’s friends with exactly one of them, but belf druids wouldn’t end up with forms tied to them and it would be stupid to have belf druids with animal forms related to Amani loa and then just pretend the loa don’t exist literally right next door.
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I think if Blood Elf Druids were to be akin to traditional druids, then yeah, Halduron and his ties to the Haranir would be a solid route to take it.
Alternatively, there’s no reason that Blood Elf Druids need necessarily fit the same mold as druids with other races. Consider Orc Priests, for example. They don’t worship the Light at all, but the force of Spirit.
Were Blood Elf Druids to be a revival of Botanists such as we’ve seen with dungeon/raid bosses, I don’t think Halduron quite fits the bill, since it’d be more of a Magister sort of development. Or at least a co-development between Magisters and Farstriders, I suppose.
Either way, it feels like there’s a decent foundation to make the class combination work in a number of ways.
I regret to inform you there’s an entire side quest in Eversong with some Farstriders where you get shown emerald spirits of a beart, a manawyrm, treants, and a unicorn who is revealed to be the lake spirit too
The questline also worldbuilds that the first farstriders engaged with magic spirits of the land
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Why regret though? I thought it was a pretty nicely done quest. Certainly builds up the idea of more traditional Blood Elf Druids, but doesn’t necessarily rule out Botanists either. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if it ended up being a bit of both whenever Blizzard gets around to opening the last classes to all races.
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After some research, I found several mentions of druidism or nature magic in some vanilla quests, as well as in texts from Warcraft II and III.
Not to mention Thas’ala and Taemin’s questline.
I don’t know what will happen to Halduron, but one thing is certain: Taemin will become a druid — a spellcaster who sought to grow closer to nature.
It’s just the perfect introduction.
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Don’t all Hunters engage in some degree of nature magic though?
Like you can warg into your pet, heal both them and yourself with a burst of green magic, take on the aspect of animals, etc.
Like I’m indifferent on Belf Druids but I think the smoking gun would be there was one as a raid boss in TBC.