"Worgen tails aren't lore friendly"

More cannon than high elves with gold eyes. Especially one playing with fel magic. :wink:

Blizzard also gave the skeleton a tail
 for some reason. Really the argument against it has more to do with people equating an absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

There are also these 2 concept arts. You could argue one is a cloak, but it is awkward placement in both cases.

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The thing about worgen tails is that you can make them lore friendly with a single line. That’s it, all you need, one line.

The worgen heritage armor quests already have us interact with Goldrinn, the wild god who is the source of the original pack form, so just have him whisper at the end of that quest that “You have proven yourself a champion among your people. Accept my blessing as you go forth into the world.” Wild God blessing = tail, done.

It’d be the same as night elf black eyes at that point, unlocked for your account as an option

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Hey now, let’s not be heretics here mate. The vulpera tail is like the most adorable little thing ever added to this game and even suggesting that it shouldn’t exist could end up being punishable by death under vulper law.

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it’s plenty lore friendly, people are just grumpy with the idea of worgen having tails, despite people wanting it to be a optional customization.

Worgens should get tails though.

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Priests and shamans should be allowed to use guns as weapons.

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You know I think it’s funny to this day people using the lore friendly argument when Blizzard itself clearly doesn’t care about it anymore, like, BFA and even most importantly, SL, are proof that Blizzard will change DECADES of lore to fit anything new they make up as they go.

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Good! I’m tired of people trying to bully Blizzard into something that doesn’t exist in the lore.

Also: you have a megathread for this.

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The “lore” was retconned in Cataclysm.

Before Cataclysm:

Cursed beings from another dimension, worgen only appear in Azeroth as the result of magical mishaps. True aberrations, they are accidentally drawn through temporary rift tunnels and deposited in this world with no apparent way of returning. Nothing is known about the worgen’s home realm, or even precisely how to spawn the rift tunnels through which they come. Worgen are usually encountered in small packs near sites of recent intense magical activity.

After Cataclysm:

Actually cursed night elf druids from Azeroth’s ancient past, the worgen were released from their prison in the Blackwald by several tamperers over the recent years. Unfortunately, the methods of removing them from their prison do not appear to be reversible, leaving the insane druids unfettered and unrestrained.[3]

The original Worgen were upright humanoids who didn’t need a tail, which is probably whey they never had any in game. There’s no historical reason PC Worgen can’t have them, it’s just the traditional werewolf archetype didn’t have a tail and is a carryover.

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We got vulpera, we demand tails for worgen!

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they wouldn’t be cute as you tho meezah.

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Hawkens!
Long time no see :smiley:

Hows it going?

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Eh, going well, i popped off the forums for a bit, and only appear in here now an then.

change realms for rp purposes, and i’m survivin well, how about you?

Okayish I guess, recently lost someone to covid unfortunately, so I decided to go back to wow to help distract me from it. But getting better!

Hey, that discord server for the people from the forums still exists?
I left all wow related servers I was on when I quit and I kind of forgot I didn’t have anyone from there added to ask for a reinvite later haha

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ya sure, my discord name is Hawkens#9647
i’ll send you an invite.

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why would lore enter into it? wolves have tails. why wouldn’t werewolves have tails? put a tail option on the customization screen. Docked tail, wolf tail, pug tail LOL.

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I do. I’m not wearing any helmet because the eyebrows clipping was annoying me.

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I don’t think that it’s a lore problem. I think the main thing is that it would take a lot of work and Blizz doesn’t really do that anymore. Unless it’s required or almost everyone wants it, then it might happen.

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What if they gave Worgen tails

But it was ONLY little curly pug tails

Or like a little nub, like pandas.

Just gonna pop this on here for anyone else who might be interested. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Knowing Blizzard everyone wanting something makes it less likely for them to add it to the game lol

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