Why Kul Tiran's need Paladins

[Oshus-darkspear]

First, of the 5 races that can be paladins for alliance, 2 are draenei and 2 are dwarves. The human paladin is an iconic warcraft class, and denying the only other human race is tantamount to blasphemy.

Next, Kul Tiran’s have one of the best tanking racials with ‘brush it off.’ In reality, they should be one of the defacto tanks, alliance side, given their huge size and bulk. The fantasy of the bulky giant crusader is all there in the kul tiran.

Then there is just the simple fact that the race needs a boost in numbers to feel more relevant. Allowing them to be paladins would be a big step in making this happen.

The lore isn’t hard to piece together. Drustvar has many holy sites, churches, and the order of embers. Plus being side by side paladins since the early days of warcraft.

[Vaeana-area-52 (Vaeana)]

The Light has a strict “No fatties” policy.

[Sarallesta-moon-guard]

Because they would crush the light.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

Kul Tiran’s have one of the best tanking racials with ‘brush it off.’

Brush it off is mediocre. The dwarf racial outperforms it by quite a bit.

Then there is just the simple fact that the race needs a boost in numbers to feel more relevant.

People will continue to roll human male paladins and LF female ones while begging for night elf paladins

The lore isn’t hard to piece together. Drustvar has many holy sites, churches, and the order of embers.

Drust are a shamanistic type culture. They did not worship the light, nor do kul’tirans.

It doesn’t work on any front without some retcons or hamfisted lore.

Hard pass.

[Asana-moon-guard (Asana)]

They’re too heavy, need to be lighter to be a paladin.

[Steabrus-illidan]

Nobody plays them anyway…

[Sarallesta-moon-guard]

night elf paladins

I think Night Elves should become Paladins. In Legion, it makes sense since it isn’t going against the lore or anything.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

Traditional paladins clash with their culture and I doubt that Blizzard would reskin abilities.

Night elves are in the same boat (ha) as Kul’tirans.

[Riverdown-wyrmrest-accord]

How do you figure? Similar to tauren, their deity would be different is all. They are already a race of warrior priests, now royally pissed off and righteous, and imbued with raw power from said deity.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

I doubt that Blizzard would reskin abilities.

Qouting myself, since you missed a bit. Tauren work because their “paladins” use abilities powered by the sun. Blizzard didn’t need to reskin them.

Night elves would require a reskin for it to aesthetically make sense.

I will eat my words if they ever do, but I am almost positive that they will never reskin the abilities and that night elves will never get paladins. Same deal with Kul’tirans.

I suppose they could hamfist some lore to make it work but I don’t see it happening.

I joke about not liking them but I’m not necessarily opposed to them, just sharing the reasons why I doubt they’ll ever happen.

[Grymauch-zangarmarsh (Grymauch)]

night elves will never get paladins.

This thought makes me so sad.
I want my Night Elf Paladin so that I can scream Elune Vult less awkwardly than I do now.

[Averax-staghelm (Averax)]

I think it’s nice that the Kul Tirans faith isn’t exactly the same as the stormwind humans and the lordaeron humans and the gilnean humans.

[Divium-archimonde (Divium)]

Not really there has been multiple times we’ve seen them worship the light exactly the same as Humans from stormwind do it, they even have clerics.

[Zei-moon-guard]

I always thought they would eventually get paladins since there already is one in the paladin class hall.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

As far as I am aware that is outright false in the lore.

They have shown up ingame a handful of times but overall, as a culture, that is false.

If I am wrong, please drop a link to something that corrects me. I just don’t recall anything that backs that up.

[Rizzlix-bleeding-hollow]

There are generic Kul’Tiran paladin NPCs in some invasions. Kul’Tiras could make paladins in Warcraft 2.

Unless there’s something in the lore that outright says they reject the light, no retcons are required whatsoever.

[Divium-archimonde (Divium)]

Kul Tiran Paladins

This information was taken from a dear forum poster from the PTR forums Nearo The lore is ultimately what Blizzard decides it to be, and to date they have not spoken once about there being any Kul’Tirans who followed the Light or undertook training with the Silver Hand. They might of worked heavily with Lordaeron in the Second and Third War, but that does not make them any more a Paladin using nation than Alterac, or Gilneas. [/quote] I don’t suppose this meets your criteria for Light worship…

I cannot take credit, from a dear Poster nearo

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

I misunderstood you. I thought that you were talking about night elves.

No, you’re absolutely right that Kul’tirans DID have paladins, but Blizzard chose to retcon them and as of right now, the Kul’tirans do not seem to worship the light at all.

Why this change was made? Who knows.

[Grymauch-zangarmarsh (Grymauch)]

Also, keep in mind that much of the fighting in Warcraft 2 was as a united Allied Army. Think WWII Allies.

Sure there were Army groups commanded by Montgomery, or Du Gaulle, but overall Command was Eisenhower. And both Monty and Du Gaulle had support elements from the US Army intermixed with their forces at various times.

Paladins in use by Kul Tiran forces in the Second War could simply have been Silver Hand Knights on loan or assigned to that force for that mission/battle/campaign.

[Rhielle-sentinels (Rhielle)]

denying the only other human race is tantamount to blasphemy

Why? Because these humans that haven’t lived Stormwind or Arathi culture in over a thousand years need to be exactly like the others? Not to mention the fact that they’re actually Gilneans, who also didn’t have much of a culture as far as paladins go.

They got druids and shamans. That’s the niche for them.