Jakiel00
join:2007-12-12
Mckinney, TX
| reply to ErikVKing
Re: LORE-LOVERS - UNITE!
From the 3 part series that I read on WOW history (don't remember the names of the books but it was the series written by Richard A. Knaack) the Tauren were actually allies of the Elves when the elves let the burning legion into azeroth long before the time we currently play in today. That is how the barrens became such a desolate place, the burning legion destroyed all the land that it crossed.
I haven't read any of the other books yet, but I am hoping to find out when the tauren became allied with the Horde of the today. Now that I think about it, I guess that makes sense that the Tauren and Night Elves share similar classes. |
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Dunm
@saic.com
| The Tauren became allies to the Horde when Thrall saved them from the marauding centaurs during the events covered in Warcraft 3 and allowed them to establish their homeland in Mulgore. However, the night elves have welcomed the Tauren as a nature-loving race into the Cenarion Circle and taught (re-taught?) them about druidism, and hence why there are druids of both races.
Speaking of druids, one thing that has never made sense to me is why there are female night elven druids... in the original lore as first presented in Warcraft 3, all druids were males who were hibernating in Barrows walking the Emerald Dream, while the Sentinels were a group of female warriors who watched over the moonwells and the world tree and were charged with awakening the druids should the need arise. This is the basis of the night elf campaign in Warcraft 3, as the Sentinels awaken the Druids to help protect the world tree from the Burning Legion. Suddenly, when WoW comes along just 4 years later in the timeline, there are now all of these female druids running around! Never made sense to me how a 10,000 year old caste system could be changed so quickly, although I suppose when the Night Elves lost their immortality with the destruction of the world tree they may have become more open to drastic changes. |
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Hazmat
join:2007-07-10
Laveen, AZ
| said by Dunm :
... although I suppose when the Night Elves lost their immortality with the destruction of the world tree they may have become more open to drastic changes.
No immortality = pressing need to keep race alive = need to have both male and female elves around for procreation purposes!
Besides, NE females are hot, and Blizz never wasted an opportunity to keep young males...involved  |
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beatsnpieces
join:2007-12-17
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June 24th, @03:57PM
| reply to Jakiel00
said by Jakiel00  :I am hoping to find out when the tauren became allied with the Horde of the today. After escaping from the Humans who raised him, Thrall was visited by Medivh (the jackass who brought the Horde to Azeroth from Draenor [now Outland] in the first place) under the guise of The Prophet. Medivh warned him of the impending Legion invasion and told him that the only hope the races of Azeroth had was to unite together against the Legion on the continent of Kalimdor. Thrall gathered as much of the Horde as he could and travelled across the ocean to Kalimdor. While exploring the new land the Horde came across Cairn Bloodhoof and some of his Tauren under furious attack from raiding Centaur. Thrall and his Horde forces saved Cairn from certain death and went on to take the Tauren people from their dangerous home in the Barrens to a new safe home in Mulgore. For doing this Cairn swore a blood oath to Thrall and the Horde and founded Thunder Bluff as a Horde capital shortly after Thrall founded Orgrimar (named for Thralls father Orgrim Doomhammer) |
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