What is the lore justification for KT Druids and Z-Dins?

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really… can you please justify how these two combinations make sense at all?

Druids are the kind of people that commune with nature and derive spiritual force from it. Makes perfect sense for trolls, taurens, and NEs. sort of makes sense for worgens. how are the KT the nature-communing type? nothing about their society makes me think of them as the hippie tree-hugging kind.

same with paladins… all the truth-seeking, power of the light types… it makes more sense to have undead paladins than it does zandalari paladins.

I am not a big lore fan… and I could care less… and even to me this is blatantly inconsistent.

what next. we are slowly getting closer to every race can play every class kind of situation.

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If you don’t know lore why would you get what makes sense.

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if you know better, why don’t you explain?

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It made the unseen gods richer.

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I could or you could play the game and look up the lore xD. As you unlock them.

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yea, I know they are going to do some mental gymnastics and verbal jiu jitsu to pretend like there is a justification. I will find out. but I am suspect because I am still not convinced about tauren paladins. this is just a repeat of the same stuff in new skin.

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The justification is that KT druids arent real druids.

They are gameplay druids, that aren’t actually connected to druid lore. They are KT nature magic users, that for the sake of gameplay, are designated as druids from a player character pov.

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Did you not quest through Drustvar?

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Kul Tirans druids are from the Thornspeakers in Drustvar. Long ago the Thornspeakers were part of the Drust vrykul as druids, but they defected from Gorak Tul and joined the Kul Tirans. Since then they’ve continued teaching the trade to humans, though only one Drust druid is left now.

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The Zandalari Paladins likely originate from the Prelates; holy warriors of the Loa of Kings, Rezan. While Rezan is dead and many of the Prelates lost their powers some still retained them. It is also likely that Prelates that lost their powers after Rezan’s demise could seek the favor of other, similar Loa later and be restored.

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One could also speculate a variety of things regarding the few Prelates who did retain their powers after Rezan’s death, but I suppose that is a bit extraneous so I’ll refrain from elaborating. As another aside prior to the introduction of Prelates in MoP the Zandalari had a class called Freethinker whose description was rather close to that of a Paladin. The Prelate might be an adaptation of the Freethinker, but that’s still speculation.

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Why, that’s quite a handsome mog you’ve got there, sir.

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Y…your avatar.

Are you ok? Do you need some milk?

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Paladins draw power from the loa, and the druids use a kind of drust magic

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Transitioning into a z------- hey mon

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A z—ul Tiran? :stuck_out_tongue:

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"hey everyone, i don’t know and don’t care about the lore, so i will just say that things don’t make sense

this is totally the game and blizzard fault and not my lack of knowledge about those things"

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If you don’t care about lore then don’t question it and make a complete fool of yourself. :roll_eyes: Do your own research before making yourself look bad.