Maybe she's half orc/WHAT IS LORE/she ate too much tomatoes/she's half tomato/she was conceived by a potion her mother took to turn into a tomato and implant her seeds into her lesbian lover.
SHE IS ALSO IMBUED WITH TABASCO SAUCE AND HAS A LOVECHILD WITH A CARROT, BUT THEIR LOVE IS FORBIDDEN SO ANGSTANGSTANGST SO SHE CAN HAVE MORE LOVERS WITHOUT JUST SAYING 'y'know wat I'll be promiscuous/polyamorous' AND SHE WEARS THE SKIN OF AN ONION THAT SHE HAD SLAIN.
'Why would they let in Death knights? Isn't that kinda the antithesis of their culture?'
On Moon Guard, one of the major draenei guilds makes a HUGE deal out of how the guild is lore-correct and you can look to them to know ALL ABOUT how to RP as a draenei.
They allow DKs.
In fact, their guild leader is married to one. To a necromancy-powered corpse. And they're all cool with this and expect everyone else to be.
This is apparently not uncommon. And it makes Lurky hate Blizzard for allowing DKs.
Sigh. See I'm all for atypical characters (In certain amounts) but if you're leading a guild that's presumably traditionalist then have the characters act like it. Death knights are just not gonna be accepted by the majority of the population ic.
"When you look upon the ebon blade clad in dark armor, you think of only one thing: fear."
Did I mention that religious-extremist paladin I play? When he sees death knights, the first thing HE thinks of is: "I hope that thing isn't going to make a smear on the wall like the last one did. I'm tired of the graffiti convictions," as he reaches for his mace.
When you look upon the ebon blade clad in dark armor, you think of only one thing: How many times you've seen the same, crappy "OMG I am a super evul Scourgelord" RSP before.
My night elf warrior, being a proud warrior allied with the Cenarion Circle (hey, those Moonglade guards gotta come from somewhere), takes a special sort of glee in ruthlessly executing any Alliance death knight who even looks like they might be working with the Scourge or seeking to create their own Scourge. It's very easy for her to justify it because they're already walking sins against the natural order, all the better if they lose Fordring and Chynn's backing.
After three years in the ground, I'm thinking Mr. Death Lord of Blood would be more than a little decayed.
Also, it makes me a little sad that draenei guild leader doesn't understand ic and ooc. I've seen draenei death knights played well, but they weren't exactly paragons of the light.
This is why my DK has major trauma. She was a paladin and now she is CUT OFF FROM THE GORRAM LIGHT and she CAN'T go home again because NO DRAENEI IN HER RIGHT MIND WANTS DEATH KNIGHTS HANGING ABOUT. So she lives in apathetic merchood with no cause and acts all lethargic and bland because she has no purpose anymore and that's the best she can do.
She doesn't angst. She doesn't act a' cheery. She doesn't pretend to be a paladin. She doesn't hang about with her old friends. She just does what she can and tries to act alive.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. DKS ARE DKS PEOPLE.
Also, I'm seriously tempted to have a character with a scar across one eye. AND IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN OUT THE DAMN EYE. Cos, y'know, that's what happens when someone CUTS YOUR FRAKKING EYE. THERE WILL BE VISION LOSS. And she wouldn't have a cool eye patch. She'd just have this gross ugly empty socket. ...and then she'd run around falling down stairs because she wouldn't have depth perception.
I'm not saying that there's only one way to play a DK (one of my favorite DK players is cheerful enough-- with a very scary bad side), but you're absolutely right, there are some things they just can't feasibly do any more. Especially in such a light-driven culture as the draenei have
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By "cheery" I was referring more to the sun-lollipops-and-puppies "Everything is totally fine and nothing in the world could possibly be wrong" DKs that act in a way so's you'd never think they'd been KILLED or FUCKING ENSLAVED AS UNDEAD or, y'know, any of those things that really shape the DK experience.
Also, I have this awesome mental image now of a birdie-druid bonking his head against a wall like normal birds run into windows.
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On Moon Guard, one of the major draenei guilds makes a HUGE deal out of how the guild is lore-correct and you can look to them to know ALL ABOUT how to RP as a draenei.
They allow DKs.
In fact, their guild leader is married to one. To a necromancy-powered corpse. And they're all cool with this and expect everyone else to be.
This is apparently not uncommon. And it makes Lurky hate Blizzard for allowing DKs.
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"When you look upon the ebon blade clad in dark armor, you think of only one thing: fear."
Did I mention that religious-extremist paladin I play? When he sees death knights, the first thing HE thinks of is: "I hope that thing isn't going to make a smear on the wall like the last one did. I'm tired of the graffiti convictions," as he reaches for his mace.
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Also, it makes me a little sad that draenei guild leader doesn't understand ic and ooc. I've seen draenei death knights played well, but they weren't exactly paragons of the light.
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This is why my DK has major trauma. She was a paladin and now she is CUT OFF FROM THE GORRAM LIGHT and she CAN'T go home again because NO DRAENEI IN HER RIGHT MIND WANTS DEATH KNIGHTS HANGING ABOUT. So she lives in apathetic merchood with no cause and acts all lethargic and bland because she has no purpose anymore and that's the best she can do.
She doesn't angst. She doesn't act a' cheery. She doesn't pretend to be a paladin. She doesn't hang about with her old friends. She just does what she can and tries to act alive.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. DKS ARE DKS PEOPLE.
Also, I'm seriously tempted to have a character with a scar across one eye. AND IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN OUT THE DAMN EYE. Cos, y'know, that's what happens when someone CUTS YOUR FRAKKING EYE. THERE WILL BE VISION LOSS.
And she wouldn't have a cool eye patch. She'd just have this gross ugly empty socket.
...and then she'd run around falling down stairs because she wouldn't have depth perception.
Or something.
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Also, I have this awesome mental image now of a birdie-druid bonking his head against a wall like normal birds run into windows.
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