05-10-2006, 10:39 PM
Monkey,May 10 2006, 03:19 PM Wrote:Yeah, it's not about the Draenei losing an 8-year war, it's how they got in that situation. The Eredar were supposed to be a pure evil race bent on enslaving worlds upon worlds. Sargaras becomes the 'destroyer of worlds' because he goes mad, unable to comprehend the depth of the Evil within the Nazthreim and Eredar.
I understand you there. This definitely seems to be a lore problem.
Quote:And, there's the question of the Shamanistic Heritage of The Broken. Where did that come from if they were originally of The Light and after their corruption, despised the shamanistic Orcs? Or is Blizzard going to tell us that Paladins are really just Shaman with light spells instead of nature spells?
Here, I think you're not allowing for variety within races. We haven't heard the full story of The Broken, but one idea off the top of my head is that while most of the Dreanei and orcs remained seperate on their world, some of the Draenei chose to associate more with the orcs than others and learned and adopted a shamanistic tradition from them. In effect, some of them "went native."
Quote:Finally, the ship. Since fighting orcs corrupts you, these guys left at the start of the war...and have been looking for a home for 40 years? Then they just happened to crash into Azeroth, which (what luck!) has other people of The Light?
Why couldn't the Naaru scoop some up, clean them of the corruption (a rollback if you will), and set them on Azeroth instead? I mean, Azeroth is a pretty good place to prep a counter-attack on the Legion--the planet has repelled 3 invasions. And the Draenei you scoop up would be highly motivated. In any case, that's going to make for some awkward moments in the Swamp of Sorrows and with any Draenei in Outland:[right][snapback]109544[/snapback][/right]
We don't know enough recent history of this particular group of Dreanei or their ship, so we can't say. Heck, it's possible that the Naaru arranged for them to crash land on Azeroth precisely for the reason you describe. *shrug*
I still don't see how a dimensional ship is any less believable than the Dark Portal.