Looking for some out of the box thinking on what player class works well as a close ally or agent of the Bronze Dragonflight. There are some easy ones like Greens for Druid and Blues for Mage, but I haven’t found a great fit for which character picks the Bronze mount. So I’m looking for people to call in to their expansive lore knowledge and look for “ins” for how to make a good match. We’ll have to go beyond the ability to use time magic to make connections here so we need to find other ways to find common ground. One example would be looking for similarities in the domains or abilities of the titans that empowered the Bronze (Ra-Den/Aman’thul).
Some initial thoughts:
Mages - Obviously they are the only class that has time magic spells and might seem to have the most direct comparison in terms of abilities, but I prefer blue as an overall better fit for mages so I’d like to keep looking.
Priest - Leaning in on the “prophetic” side of the light as we’ve seen in Velen, priests might share in the ability to sense the future and be inclined to work with the Bronze to bring about positive outcomes. Also Aman’thul was made as a priest card in Hearthstone- perhaps there are threads for a specific interest in the Allfather.
Monk - I imagine that when investigating the Timeless isles, working with the Celestials and Emperor that there would be the opportunity to bring monks into the fledgling Timewalker Organization. There might be similarities in temperment and interests (stoic, patient, interested in lore keeping). Ability wise, the reflex oriented fighting style and movement like Fists of Fury could imply a small amount of time slowing/bending is at play. Would like to flesh this out more if possible!
Hunter, Rogue, Druid - In a fairly open sense, the Bronze might value classes that are skilled at operating independently and precisely, should the player be called on to help resolve specific issues in a time period they would need to be able to operate on minimal resources and cause minimal disruption.
(If it’s of interest, I put the priests on reds and warriors on black)
Thanks!
It’s literally any class. When Time itself is the playing field, every skill becomes neccessary, needed at one point or another. Maybe they need a blasty mage, a cunnign rogue, a ruthless Warrior, etc. There’s literally no class that’s any less a potential ally than any other for a Bronze. Heck they even take crocolisk visages!
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Isn’t mage’s bloodlust a time thing??
Arcane Mage was the class/spec most heavily themed on Time magic before Evoker blundered onto the scene.
my headcannon is that every dragon is bronze in the fetal/egg stage and that its a progression away from being bronze before they hatch.
Mages use time magic but I wouldn’t say that makes them a fit for the bronze flight, the bronze flight would probably heavily criticize their misuse of time magic.
I think paladins have the closest ideals to that of the bronze flight, they did after all have enough foresight to keep bolvar being the LK a secret from mortals. Divine shield is also very interesting as an aspect of time, becoming invulnerable is almost like shifting in and out of time. Shifting between planes of existence is more of a shaman thing and could actually be a blue/green dragon thing.
I think Rouge fits their aesthetic best. Bronze dragons and rouges must remain invisible and leave no traces behind in job. Many rouge’s transmogs also fit the lone desert wanderer fantasy
Except that we’ve seen eggs corresponding to the colors of the flight that lays them.
Hey that’s a pretty good take. I hadn’t made a connection before between the bronze and wastewander types sharing the remote desert.
I pretty much agree with this. Just looking for the hidden gems that can personalize the connections a little bit more.
Interesting, what made you headcanon that bronze is the default dragon?
Dominant genes are expressed after birth, which keeps little about the genes which are “filtered” out during incubation. It would be like saying humans in the wow universe have vrykul geneology but none of them express it post birth because its not dominant. In the case of dragons I’m saying bronze is the least dominant but it would be the closest to being the “first” dragon, meaning every flight evolved in tangent to the original dragons while the bronze remained closest to the original bloodline.
This would be pre nozdormu being blessed by Amanthul, Talonixa and Zorix were both labelled as “golden” proto dragons.
I could be off base and maybe the father of time blessed the most deviated dragon, but I’d think he’d choose the purist bloodline of the original aspects.
I don’t think that scientific mechanics play a major role in Wow’s biology.
If anything scientific principles are magnified in wow biology. Otherwise somebody like rexxar would be less half and half and more like just a dark skinned ogre, the equivalent of somebody with black skin having a child with somebody who has white.
In the case of night elves and the naga they are a mutated species and their gene expression is depicted as a whole new race humanoid. You could claim that the naga have absolutely no connection to the night elves but the semantics in that claim would rely on the ignorance of history or scientific definition. Of course in wow I don’t think there is the scientific definition to be ignorant towards, but the principle of evolution is intact with the history of the naga being a known and recorded thing.
In the case of dragons however it almost purely is a skin colour deviation. That separated the original flights. Prior to their gifts from the pantheon they were sort of just different colours without any meaning. The meaning was something either brought on or enhanced by the titans and what they saw in the dragons themselves, and then the further reproduction and selective breeding practices by those dragons shaped their flights further. So retracting a bit from my original response, maybe the bronze gene that is intact in all dragons is from a pre amanthul gifted nozdormu gene pool, but whatever was specifically chosen by him to enhance within nozdormu remains (in my headcanon) in the blood line of all dragons.