WoW Canon Player Class

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Hey all, looking for your help coming to a conclusion. I have one of each class, sure, with what I think are appropriate race combos, but I’m struggling to really come down to who the main player character would actually be – even if it’s just head canon obviously since in-game there are multiple heroes. I’ve whittled my list down to Orc Warrior, Orc Shaman, Human Paladin, Human Mage. Some thoughts on each:

Orc Warrior: easiest to explain as a mercenary/wanderer/cross-faction fighter, wielder of Strom’kar (Arcanite Axe version of course lol) so wields a magic weapon similar to Broxigar and Grommash and Doomhammer-ish so can fight greater enemies and if Strom’kar is drained there is the possibility in lore that the warrior could have obtained the actual Gorehowl from alternate Draenor or the Infinite dungeon, not really a leader according to Legion compared to other Order Halls but a supreme fighter not to be underestimated by magic powers

Orc Shaman: master of the elements of Azeroth whom do not take his power away thus far, demonstrated ability to master elements of other planets, wielder of Doomhammer (successor to the World Shaman and Orc heritage and still powerful after being drained I’m sure), central player in Cataclysm and Legion, natural leader type role in the Horde as a Farseer and very high ranking/consequential in Legion compared to others, could fit into a wanderer lifestyle

Human Paladin: the elite solider of the Alliance forces, natural leader type role in the Alliance and very high ranking/consequential leader in Legion compared to others, perfect mix of supreme fighter and magic wielder, could fit in a wanderer lifestyle or a guided one, wielder of the Ashbringer which I’m sure is still powerful after being drained because of the way the Light works (but also I’m sure another powerful artifact could be forged like it with all the Naaru lore/tech and Lightbound)

Human Mage: master of the Arcane and thus power not bound to cosmic or mortal beings like the Shaman and other magics, I’d say high ranking not very high ranking but still consequential leader in Legion compared to others, easily fits into the wanderer lifestyle, all the Guardians of Tirisfal (i.e of Azeroth) were mages whom have a strong track record of capability, Arcane magic seemingly could manipulate all other magics, universal nature of Arcane (and ‘higher intelligence’) could lead to easy explanations of cross-faction events and cooperation like Khadgar

Anyways, some quick thoughts. What do you think is THE player character class?

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Human Paladin. Horde are the villains that need the civilized golden holy humans to show them the way.

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The game pretty much always treats you as if you’re a warrior. A dumb warrior at that.

And then it treats you as a human in Alliance or neutral content and as an orc in Horde content.

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Death Knight is a skellington and I will beat you in chess if you disagree.

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The game a lot of times show that there is a lot of “player characters”.

Legion class halls points towards the existence of at least one “PC” per class, while BFA has at least one wielder of the heart of Azeroth per faction, Shadowlands always talk about multiple maw walkers.

It is the messy nature of MMOs, but the plausible answer is that there is probably at least one hero of each class and one of each race, to account for every starting zone.

My personal belief is that there is at least one “hero” for each race and class combination possible.

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I’m not sure I see the point of any of this. You’re inventing constraints on the story that have no reason to be there.

There is no canonical player character. There’s an amorphous blob of “heroes” who help the canon characters defeat threats. The faces and names that make up that blob is deliberately left vague to allow players freedom and authorship over their own characters.

Replacing that deliberate, intentional vagueness with imagined canon inverts the entire purpose of having a character creator in this game. It sucks.

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There is no canon player, there are canon players, plural. At least 80 of them, 40 Alliance adventurers and 40 Horde adventurers(they are mentioned in some of the lore books). So there is likely multiples of every class.

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If there were such a thing it would probably be:

Or maybe Human Warrior.

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All of them. If you can make it… it’s canon. Don’t be misled by how things were done in the RTS, that was a very different game written in more primitive times.