If you’re going to make a AR (or Pandaren) character in the upcoming patch. What backstory are you going with? If I rejoin wow, I’ll probably take the easy way out with Lightforged DK in that she’s just a Draenei, cause I want those dope horns.
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I haven’t leveled a Zandalari yet so I’m thinking some sort of Prelate of Bwonsamdi would be cool.
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Oh, do you have that plate set from the second raid? That’s going to look amazing on Zanda DKs.
I don’t, but I was thinking something like this using the Darkshore warfront stuff
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The inclusion of Allied Race death knights actually gets me excited to play one of the vanilla race death knights! I think there’s a lot of potential for some fun interactions between the older and newer generations of death knights.
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It depends on if it is acceptable to have one of these DKs as one who died before BfA. If so I am thinking of having a Pandaren DK that was either a Monk of Xuen or a member of the Shado-Pan who died during the Zandalari invasion. If not I will figure something else out I suppose.
For a time I considered bringing back one of the characters from my Dreadclaw campaign (more about that can be found in the thread ‘House of Villains’) The idea of Yun Winterclaw getting another chance at protecting her homeland as a DK could make for a decent story base.
To summarize Yun was the eldest surviving heir of a clan of Assassins sworn to protect Pandaria. During the last Legion invasion she became the leader of a clan of felsworn Pandaren with the intent of dismantling the Legion from within. She lost control of this clan and briefly worked to destroy it before willingly dying by her younger sister’s hand in honorable combat.
Of course if I go through with it, it won’t be soon; not until the option no longer requires a pre-order.
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I still haven’t unlocked them so it’s gonna be a while yet but I’m planning to make a Dark Iron DK eventually. And because I don’t have an original bone in my body, she’s going to be not-that-loosely based on an old character of mine from Dragon Age (my casteless Grey Warden, with a bit of Oghren thrown in for laughs). There’s gonna be some maudlin acceptance of how her life was fairly worthless, but hope that her unlife will actually have meaning. ‘We do what the living cannot’, after all.
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The Void Elf Death Knight who meets the Blood Elf death knight, lamenting the loss of Silvermoon and the terrors of the Scourge they were forced into service for:
"Okay Boomer"
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Dao-Yi here is going to get a lead on Sylvanis, go after her and…
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Uh the next bit depends on the scenario really. Either she’ll fight and be pushed to the piint of dying and be offered the chance or will be offered and due to her own insecurities take the chance… or something like that. Still considering.
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zandalari dk wakes up and is like “Huh I’m stronger than Bwonsamdi then? I escaped his grasp”
Spends the rest of his unlife beating the tar out of Bwonsamdi’s guy, with the Loa of Graves just going “I just bought those!”
Probably a VElf DK.
I’m one of those “not a DK” people.
I like the class and lore, but… it’s really hard for me to RP one. I might go with a Battle-Mage. Not 100% sure yet.
Thinking hard on a Zandalari Blood DK that uses less than savory magic.
I’m a terrible person.
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Almost all of the allied races work as Arthas DKs
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Pandaren have always been travelling around from the wandering isle, surely the Lich King wanted some good cooks
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Kul Tirans sail everywhere
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Dark Irons were around
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Void Elves could’ve been Belf DKs who later joined Umbric’s group
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There is a contingent of Zandalari in Northrend opposing the Drakkari
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Highmountain, Vulpera and Mechagnomes… well, they all could have travelled to Northrend at some point, but they don’t really seem like they’d have a reason to.
The only races which couldn’t possibly have been raised by Arthas are Lightforged (because they were in space) and Nightborne (because they were under a bubble). But for the most part it seems like the no allied race DKs was a sort of arbitrary restriction so it could be a bonus later, not a lore restriction.
Vulpera Frost Dk. For a desert fox a class with built in air conditioning is just to die for.
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The player death knight is implied to be a casualty of the Fourth War, but there’s nothing to suggest that Bolvar wasn’t raising other corpses. He seems fairly desperate to raise an army of death knights as quickly as possible, and we see him raising long-dead corpses during the death knight class questline to fight the Legion (such as Thoras Trollbane, who had been dead for over two decades).
There doesn’t seem to be an upper limit on how old a corpse can be to be risen by necromancy, as Sindragosa had died 10,000 years before being turned into a frost wyrm. It probably needs to be in a somewhat decent shape, but Thoras’ corpse was probably nearly skeletonized due to being laid to rest in a humid, temperate area like Arathi for such a long period of time, and he appears fully intact as a death knight. It seems the ritual to turn people into a death knight might not just be able to prevent decay, it might undo it to some extent.
I think it depends solely on execution and the chosen race. Pandaren DKs could totally have been a thing in WotLK because they’re wanderers. See WC3.
Kul Tiran, Zandalari, Dark Iron and Maghar imo can easily be common preBFA raising. Nightborne, Void Elves, and Lightforged don’t really get a pass… unless you do what I’m doing and cheese it by not being that specific race.
I’ve got a nightborne death knight in the works. Even wrote a short story that I should be posting in the “Write a Thing” thread so if you’re interested in a recounting of her experience of being raised from her point of view, that’ll be there once I get on my computer to post it.
I’ll be introducing Maeva Luneaux in a more historical perspective here, though. Since she’s an elf… expect a lot here haha.
In life, she was a simple girl from the inner city of Zin-Azshari. She was always fascinated by magic, so her family, unwealthy lowborne, scraped together everything they could to get her into a school in Suramar. When the Well of Eternity sundered and the magisters sealed the city off to save it, Maeva was cut off from her family who were all presumably killed in the destruction.
During this time, the soon-to-be Nightborne found they needed less sorcerors, since they had to take care of all production themselves. So the sorcerors in training who didn’t have a say in things (those without affluence) were forced to give up their studies and pick up a new job in either farming or craftsmanship.
Maeva was stuck tending to their vineyard for several centuries until she could finally get out. The city was settling by then, and while she still was not permitted to become a sorceress, she managed to find a position in the military. For the next few millennia, she mastered the art of combat. She’d eventually become recognized by her leaders, who placed her in the very prestigious position of keeping nobles from killing each other in the Nighthold.
This granted her a break, at least, because it’s here where she met her future husband, Farnois Luneaux, a kind noble who saw her trying to study an arcane tome. He taught her magic, they got married, and eventually he helped her realize her dream of becoming an official arcanist.
Almost, that is. Her application unfortunately coincided with the Legion occupation. Her husband was an idealist and his sympathy for the rebels resulted in a denial of her application. She was devastated. And then, kicking her while she was down, Elisande’s Duskwatch tried to arrest them. Maeva died protecting her husband at the hands of Altielle.
Fast forward two years, Bolvar rounds up heroes of legend, Maeva included. After a week of being trained, she heads off to Suramar to find what happened to her husband. Turns out after she died, they exiled him. He wandered for a bit before withering and found his own untimely demise in the depths of the Nighthold as the rebels raided it.
Unable to give him up, she develops an unnatural obsession with him and raises his withered corpse as a ghoul. So from now on, she never seen without him. She fawns over him all the time like he’s a living being. It’s going to be a little silly to see her kiss her “handsome noble” while his eye falls out, but there is a lot of tragic depth to it deep down. It’s what I think makes a death knight, after all.
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i already have plans for my eel death knight. his blood spec turns him into a leech like creature. unholy a sea snake. very venomous.
I like death knights. I like their gameplay, I like their story…
I got all stroppy about the “No new dead skins” for allied races, so my planned Dark Iron Death knight is now a regular dwarf.
…And I’m also cantankerous about them potentially snagging the “Army of the Black Moon” eyes from my night elf death knight, who looks GREAT with them.
But my orc death knight is still fine and my horde main as much as I have a main this pack.
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On the PTR right now Night Elf DKs can still use the black eyes normally.
It is a shame about the lack of new skins though. I saw a really neat fan mockup of an alternate DK Lightforged skin back when they were first announced
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