I haven’t seen it posted anywhere. I know that there were Dark Iron Dwarf Paladins in a few dungeons back in vanilla WoW, but is there any lore pertaining to them now?
Same goes for Zanadalari Troll Paladins. I know that they have something to do with Rezan, but I don’t know very much about it other than that.
Has there been any official lore announced for them? Thank you. =)
Not much is really known about either of them. The Light is powered by faith and devotion. The troll prelates were an elite sect who drew their power from Rezan, who was the praised as the king loa. But after Rezan’s death almost all of them became powerless, not many retained their Light abilities.
Dark Irons are more mysterious. We know paladins are built into their military, but that’s about it. No one knows when or how it started, if they have their own special group or what they get their power from. Totally up in the air.
It might be worth mentioning that before the Prelates there was class among the Zandalari, the Freethinkers, who were somewhat similar to Paladins in description. The Prelates as well were introduced as early as MoP so it’s not as if the concept came out of nowhere.
Addendum:
To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason Dark Iron’s have Paladins is because of the mobs from the Blackrock instances that had Paladin abilities. With no other precedence or explanation the whole thing seems a bit arbitrary; then again it wouldn’t be the first time I thought the inclusion/exclusion of a certain race/class was arbitrary.
You could argue they learned to be paladins from the Ironforge dwarves, the same way the Ironforge dwarves learned to be mages and warlocks from the Dark Iron.
Yet somehow none of the other races get to teach each other spirituality. Sigh.
It really doesn’t make sense to me at this point that some orcs haven’t learned to be druids, some humans haven’t learned to be shaman, some kaldorei haven’t learned to be Paladins. It’s been a mixing pot for 14 years, surely some of the other faiths have attracted devotees from other races.
A fine possibility, certainly. The lack of official establishment remains as my concern however. It bothers me and leaves me to suspect that these things aren’t quite as heavily dictated by lore as they used to be.
The least they could do is make a trainer npc. Leave a document in Shadowforge or…something other than leave a void to filled by player speculation.
In the book before the storm.
When anduin goes to netherlight crucible. There trolls and tauren, pandaren that worship the light
Not really, we just knew they existed. We’ve known about Dark Iron Dwarf Paladins since Classic because they’re all over Blackrock Depths. We got introduced to Zandalari Prelates in Throne of Thunder.
Preach it, brother. Class restrictions are stupid.
Isn’t that the same argument players had for Zandalari Paladins? The mobs in ToT with Pally like abilities?
In the end I think it’s just about money. Pally is the most popular Class and adding a new Pally race for each faction means more money from race change fees.
Short version:
Zandi: Get their power from the Loa.
Dark-Iron: Get their power from the light, or whatever. They were there in Classic.
Trolls are a very old race. They were the first in almost every type of magic in warcraft.
Zandalari have had Paladins for thousands of years. Long before humans stopped being wandering nomads. They were called Freethinkers in the Gurabashi Empire. Prelates in the Zandalari empire.
Most paladins lorewise were either priests that learned warrior combat or warriors that learned how to be a preist. The Zandalari are the priest cast for all trolls. Their main Loa was Rezan who is Light based. So the Prelates of Rezan make sense they pray for his power and he grants them his light.
Iron dwarf paladins blizzard has never made much lore about them. My personal opinion is they are similar to the Sunwalkers. (Who are actually Sun druids). The Dwarves just use the power of Ragnaros to enhance their abilities. (how cool would it be for every race of paladins to have different spell animations!)
That is incorrect information, actually. “Freethinkers”, as all the Trolls (both Gurubashi and Zandalari) called them, were Trolls that were considered “heretics” and “heathens”. In the classic quests, that is why they say Paladins are “Freethinkers” because both groups are heretics, and therefore, if a Paladin is a heretic, he is a Freethinker.
There was nothing ever shown that said the Freethinkers of old (who were all killed off long ago, by the way) were worshipers of the Light or any such thing. Again, the only thing that made the connection is that the Zandalari considered us (Us, being us Paladins) heathens and heretics.
Prelates have only recently made an appearance. Considering there is no hint of them in Kings Rest, where the Kings of Zandalar rest, and considering Rezan is the “Loa of Kings”, suggests that Prelates are, indeed, a very new thing to Zandalar.
I’m probably wrong, but I always assumed they were like “fire paladins” or something, and got their power from the firelands.
other than that, I don’t know enough about them pre ragnaros to really know if they had any connection to the light.
Fair enough.
Come on. Don’t completely ignore the Zandalari Prelates in Throne of Thunder.
That’s what I meant by “only recently”. Sorry if it sounded like I meant sooner than that.
Honestly, it would be really nice if blizzard would change the classes flavor text and spell effects for each race. For tauren call them Sun Paladins and have their spells reflect that, you already kinda do this with glyphs. I personally think flavor like that goes a long way for replayability and encourages people to have more alts and even alts of the same class.
Its small things like this, that I think, go a long with with making the game more enjoyable.
That would be a foolish argument made by a slack-jawed Bronzebeard!
The Dark Iron Clan has had their Bubble Boys long, long before we’ve ever stepped foot into Ironforge again during the Cataclysm.
Dark Irons fit with the ashbringing, vengeful side of the paladin fantasy. A little light in the darkness of BRD was definitely beneficial.
Zandalari paladins would only make sense if we also added Night Elf paladins. I don’t think the playerbase minds that the various warrior/priest societies get paladin, but they should at least keep it consistent. Where are the Kaldorei Moon Knights?
No reason why some races can’t be “taught” new classes, just like in Cataclysm, the Dark Iron’s are now allied with the Ironforge Dwarves so they are teaching them to be Paladin’s.
The Zandalari where amoung the first races in Azeroth so they get everything that is native to the planet, the fel came afterward so they can’t be warlocks.