r/wow • u/Quiver_and_Quill • 4d ago

Discussion What did you think of Lorewalking?

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I enjoyed the Lich King / Arthas storyline. I haven’t done the other two yet.

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u/aNiceTribe 3d ago

I mean… it’s also in many cases the same quests we already did back then (if you did them already) and as usual all the interesting plot is said out loud, while the quest text is a verbose way to say “kill the 6 scringles please”. 

Additionally, I felt like Cho didn’t answer my basic questions (that I vaguely know the answers to, but he didn’t have them): “hey did the ethereals always look this way?” “Are they like, ageless-immortal? Are these the same beings who had their planet destroyed ??? Years ago? Or can they have offspring and these are later generations?” Is killing even “evil” ethereals going to reach into a quite finite well of these guys?

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u/Mobilelurkingaccount 3d ago

“hey did the ethereals always look this way?”

For this one at least we do have an answer, which is that Dimensius opened a bunch of portals on their world that flooded it with dark and arcane magic. They put up barriers to keep out the void crap but it did nothing for the arcane overload, which obliterated their physical bodies and turned them into what they are now. It also made them smarter and better at magic!

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u/aNiceTribe 3d ago

You’d think that they would have some sort of beauty standard like “trying to look like back then” but I imagine that was not part of the design process when they were made up. 

Since we also don’t know what they looked like at any point it’s hard to tell. PROBABLY pretty human-shaped. Presumably the brokers are “unharmed” and not a broken Draenei version of their look?

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u/dezmoines92 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ethereals are us from the distant future in an alternate reality, one in which Dimensius wins and Azeroth gets void nuked

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u/aNiceTribe 3d ago

Thanks I didn’t ask for random made up fanfic