Given today is the day we Americans praise the fact we’re not British by detonating dubiously sourced explosives and eating just truckloads of beef, I’ve to ask;
Who invented fireworks in Azeroth?
My first thought was of course the Pandaren. But come to think of it - they existed in WoW when the Pandaren were a joke, and not a desperate if successful attempt to put the panda in pander.
So who invented them?
The Dwarves perhaps? The Goblins? Both appear to be the pioneers of gunpowder on Azeroth.
Was it a case of parallel development and multiple races figured out whoosh boom sparkles are fun independently?
Is this the dumbest topic I’ve ever written?
Let me know your thoughts!
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Goblins. They are sold in large quantities, and explode.
It fits them to a T.
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And in-game parallel would be Pandaren invented, Night Elves and Trolls adopted them, but Goblins and Gnomes developed their military use
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Dwarves or goblins seem most likely.
Pandaren invented them separately though, given the 10,000 years they were away from everyone else.
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See though the Pandaren monk was invented expressly to wage war with just hands or farming tools to break from Mogu slavery.
I’m not entirely sure what the time frame is there. But it seems odd they’d not be allowed pointy metal but gunpowder, something vastly more threatening to rock people, would be freely given.
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But I vaguely recall fireworks in some of the official Pandaren vs Zandalari art 
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Damn shame we never got to see that war. T-rexs fighting Asian dragons. Ish, that’s a movie or video game on its own right there.
It seems relatively likely that the pandaren derived their fireworks from having inherited knowledge of gunpowder weapons when they overthrew the mogu, who we know made use of small gunpowder artillery pieces and rockets in defense of the Serpent’s Spine.
One supposes the mogu might have had outright fireworks as we know them, but they don’t exactly strike me as the sort to indulge in something as frivolous as celebratory pyrotechnics, unless it included strapping disobedient slaves to the rockets.
Globally speaking with flesh-cursed races all over, it’s hard to say for sure who would have invented them first, since theoretically any of those races would have understood how to make such a thing when they were still titan-forged and possessed of expansive technological knowledge. Meaning any one of them might have retained or still had access to such knowledge when they became flesh.
Theoretically one might even suggest the tol’vir could know such a thing, since they’re the only former titan-forged race whose uninterrupted access to their assigned facility has allowed them to remain fully aware of their original purpose and understand the science enough to utilize titan machinery, while the other flesh-cursed races have generally lost touch with much about their origins over the millennia and had to relearn a lot of science and technology stuff from scratch.
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The dwarven racial bonus to guns leads me to think they maybe invented gunpowder but that’s admittedly really flimsy evidence, and even if so doesn’t necessarily mean they invented fireworks.
I think they did invent gunpowder in the RPG at least.
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Did Goblins invent gun powder on their own during their revolution or what technology did they exactly use?
Mogu seem so far the most likley on Azeroth and perhaps another race, like hm Gnomes or Dwarves perhaps. Fire Works I would assume not so much on dwarves. Gnomes and Pandaren more likley, perhaps Mogu.
The first recorded firearms on Azeroth were crafted by Mimiron, with the beast mastery hunter artifact, Titanstrike, being chief among them. In the earliest design phase, before Titanstrike was redesigned as a storm based weapon for Thorim, Mimiron inadvertently set his workshop on fire and damaged several mechagnomes in the process. Given this information, it’s likely Mimiron was the one to discover niter’s practical applications as an explosive.
In the real world, the development of early firearms was preceded by bamboo rockets around the 10th century, which were developed relatively conterminous with fireworks. If I had to make a wager, I’d say the most likely candidate for the inventors of fireworks would be the mechagnomes, if for nothing more than the sheer novelty of their creation.
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Was invented by Tom Firework in which he gave his invention his name.
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Yeah I second Goblins. They probably just downsized their normal exploding rockets lol.
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