Will the Saberons get a place and Gorens repopulate?

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There were some other races that followed the Mag’har and orges into modern Azeroth. Sabers are the cat or lion like versions of worgen doggies, along with tiger or panther variants. Are the quilboars and centaurs gonna be slaughtered in the Barrens for their new home? Also the hard gorens are literally going to smash the soft murlocs?

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I don’t think any of those races, one, either have interesting enough lore, or two, could be written to be interesting enough by the current dev team.

Certainly the Saberon were NOT an interesting race when I was trying to gain faction with them to FLY, something they themselves, COULD.NOT.DO.

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you didn’t gain rep with them to fly but with the people killing them :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s most likely to allow the use of them at a later date either as a quest or story line or as a new race to gain player support and keep subbing. Basically it allows them to write them in without any “hey where did that come from” lore issues.

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saberon and botani will likely be shown to have started up populations in the barrens once we get the barrens warfront.

goren,ogron, and gronn is up in the air. It seems those 3 are fully tamed by the iron horde and are used as pseudo siege equipment.

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Well, the Saberon are mostly a blank slate when it comes to lore, so the writers could go wild and come up with something interesting. Plus, they’re cats, so they would repopulate quickly due to having large litters. Throw in something about them maturing quickly and you’ve got an entire society that could be quickly introduced.

Goren are more animal-like and less intelligent, so they would probably breed quickly and we’d have some sort of storyline with them throwing the ecosystem into disarray or something.

Botani would be interesting. They’re plant people, so they could just… plant themselves to grow more botani and increase their numbers. We could potentially have some sort of storyline of them trying to spread malignant plant growth over Azeroth like they did on Draenor.

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Cat base races are very popular in any game systems, so I can see it as a player grab at some point the question is what side.

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Gimmeh horde cat shaman. :cat:

The alliance already has dogs. Let the tree elves have the plant people.

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If anything is done about Saberon in the future, it will be for a horde!
And alliance must catch some race of centipedes!
Or more horses! Obviously

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I am sure Magni is looking forward to a rock-eating race to come to Azeroth…

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To be fair I liked Leorajh’s story a lot as a Garrison Follower and I think there is a strong potential for him to have united his race and attempted to share with other Saberon the same enlightenment he himself underwent.

From that point of view the Saberon who follow Leorajh could’ve developed in any number of ways in the various years that passed between the end of WoD and the start of BFA where we recruit the Mag’har.

Personally I’m in favor of the, ‘Enlightened Saberon,’ having attempted to become more civilized and that the struggle to be less of a beast and more of a sentient being is what they feel gives dignity to their lives.

Saberon who learned the Light and Arcane Magic from the Draenei.
Saberon who learned Shamanism from the Orcs.
We saw some Saberon who had a grasp of basic Druidism in WoD.

There’s a lot that Saberon as a potential Allied Race could be, particularly since they were so under-developed in WoD.

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THAT is an understatement.

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Well in WoD they mostly existed to be minor antagonists of no note. Which is not really unlike how Worgen existed back in Vanilla WoW.

I’d like to see the Saberon as an Alliance Allied Race. The Alliance could use some more bestial races, and if the Horde are getting Vulpera, they may as well give the Alliance Saberon. Goblin/Worgen model variants that don’t have anything to do with the actual base races they were designed off of.

Aside from that I could see Anduin feeling the Saberon goal of growing more civilized is something noble, and that he’d like to help them. I could also see Leorajh seeing the Alliance as the more civilized of the two factions, with just enough of a savage/bestial selection of allies within it for his people to not feel completely out of place.

I could just picture a pair of Saberon outside an Inn.
“These, ‘beds,’ are too soft. I miss sleeping on rock.”
“I like them, but apparently they don’t like it when I claw them.”

“I don’t understand the Human need to cook everything they eat.”
“I think it grows on you. It’s a different flavor is all.”

“The other day I was hunting in the woods, and killed a Tauren! Unfortunately the Human who’s… Farm do they call them? Anyways, he was not happy.”
“Oh! That wasn’t a Tauren. It was a Cow.”
“Ah, that explains why it was on four legs instead of two…”

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I think Saberon will be the Allied Race that pairs with Worgen.

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