What if one of those paladins were gay? Would you still care about their deaths?
I’ve met a lot of Christian/Catholic religious people with a persecution complex. I don’t what it is about them that makes them like that
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this stupidity infests people of all religious/political beliefs, across history
note that the site linked itself swings heavily left and nonreligious, but I mean it doesn’t really ever try to hide that
notice for strong language too, mainly in the form of quoting other people using it
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Is Tirion Fordring going to go down as the only Paladin who never never had a heel turn?
Even Uther was briefly a baddie in Shadowlands. (I think. I never played out that storyline.)
Halford Wyrmbane: Do I mean nothing to you?
Again, fallen paladins are part and parcel to scourge death knights which are a big thing in Dragonlance and DND.
Halford is a heel to Horde players.
The entire original post of this thread feels highly subjective and based on quite a selective perspective, with a lot of cherry picking. Every race and class has fall from grace moments. There’s no basis to this claim.
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Halford is a hero to alliance players, leading the most prestigious unit of alliance soldiers.
Halford is pretty cool. I liked his click quotes in BFA, and I’m generally not a fan of that archetype of characters. Probably the voice acting.
“By the Light, the first strike belong to us.”
Chad tbh
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If you’re familiar with the OP’s posting history it’s essentially a continuation of his Christian Persecution Complex. which started with his dismay that the Light has presented isn’t the Goody Goody force of his personal fantasy.
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Idk I’m kinda digging the Silver Scale storyline, it feels like a love note to Paladins.
Paladins as a profession were a dying breed by the time of World of Warcraft. I don’t really see this as a vendetta or something, just the story. A lot of human kingdoms had fallen in the few decades before Classic and Paladins on Azeroth were almost exclusively human. As the kingdoms fell, Paladin orders did too, the most well-known and detrimental being Lordaeron.
In Classic, the last real refuge for Paladins was the Argent Dawn ar Light’s Hope and it was a losing battle. Legends such as Alexandros and Uther had passed and others such as Tirion Fording and Turalyon were either MIA or in hiding. The only other notable organization was the Scarlet Crusade which was under the sway of the Scourge already. Arthas was out of reach and even their only triumph, the elimination of Naxxramas as a threat, was largely pointless due to traitors within the Argent Dawn.
Paladins have gotten pretty big Ws every expansion since in my opinion. Burning Crusade brought the Draenei to the Alliance and the Blood Elves to the Horde and by the end of the expansion, the elves became proper Paladins. Wrath brought the return of Tirion Fording, the unification of the Argent Crusade and massive blows against the Scourge culminating in the defeat of the Lich King. Cataclysm saw the Crusade partially purifying the Plaguelands and the emergence of the Sunwalkers. Legion saw all of Azeroth’s Paladins united under the Crusade, the knighting of a new Highlord and the recovery of several artifacts. BfA brought Zandalari… Paladins are probably the only one of the professions that player classes represent that has had overwhelmingly good fortune since WoW started.
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It was under the sway of a demon so the Legion, not the Scourge.
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Weird, quite a few posts have mysteriously disappeared from this thread, including one of mine. I didn’t think I said anything controversial or incendiary in it.
I think it’s just the mods cleaning up anything that could be taken out of context
Yeah I didn’t get any notification, I just looked and they aren’t there.
I mean, I am fine with it. Usually get some notification if they scrub a post though.
The mods cleaned up a lot of the anti-lgbt garbage. Sometimes when threads are cleaned up innocent posts get caught in the crossfire. Though, I see the culprit still has posting privileges.
I always loved the concept of fallen paladins, even though the trope is an old one. Maybe it’s the fan art drawings that still keeps me interested
For the record (for anyone reading this later who didn’t see the original posts), I didn’t even come NEAR that topic. I was just continuing general observation/speculation about paladins being unpopular in pop culture.
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