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    More humans. 10char

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobman View Post
    More humans elves. 10char
    Fixed for you
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    nazi is not the abbreviation of national socialism....
    When googling 4 letters is asking too much fact-checking.

  3. #63
    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    It's just something I'd like to see, you don't have to agree with me
    you're right, I dont.
    I'm just telling you that they're overdesigned and inconsistent in their design. Same with the fey. Just take it back a few notches.
    Last edited by raz98; 2019-05-07 at 03:23 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unholyground View Post
    Well there are very likely more insect humanoids.

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    The forbidding sea is the developer excuse of "we don't have a clue what to do yet" lol.
    haha, yes yes!

    we all know that the back side, like the front.. will just give birth to a dozen new giant islands!!

  5. #65
    Quote Originally Posted by raz98 View Post
    you're right, I dont.
    I'm just telling you that they're overdesigned and inconsistent in their design. Same with the fey. Just take it back a few notches.
    I have a very clear idea of what I'd like to see, I'm just not the best communicator, I just get really into what I'd like to see

  6. #66
    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    First of all ..
    Vast Continent of High Elves.

  7. #67
    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    First of all I could see the backside of Azeroth being the "Wild West" of WoW being full of hostile environments I'd personally like to see the main villains of the expansion being an expy of the East India Trading Company, basically the Venture Co. but with a much larger personal army and a wider array of products (spices, clothes, slaves you know the usual)
    But let me get to the my actual ideas for new races, of which I have 3(one for each faction and one neutral NPC race)
    Kalimdor was the Wild West, with settlers (orcs), hostile natives (night elves, centaurs) and friendly natives (tauren).
    And the goblins have the trade routes in Ratchet and Gadgetzan.

    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    Alliance;Sphinxes: my view for this version of Sphinxes is a human like race but with limbs with claws and covered in fur with patterns with feline like ears(same where ours are) and Tails also would have feathered patches on their shoulders, upper back, hips, just behind their ears, and forehead, as well as eyes akin to a falcon, with their outfits and weapons having a clear cowboy theme, their 3 main clans would be based on military, inventors/steampunk(less robots and motorcycles and more steamboats and tanks), and bandits, separately with the main antagonistic force in their land being a greedy landowner. the land would be divided into a desert similar to in Nevada, a North Dakota like area with Volcanic hotspots and the main hub of the Steampunk clan is near a medium volcano, and a area of sprawling canyons, main mount would be a Bicorn
    We already have sphynx: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Tol%27vir


    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    Horde;Fey: an Elflike race with a blue and white skintones and claw like hands and feet and cow tails that live in a land eternally covered by ice and snow, Their gear and weapons have a Siberian Tundra feel to them being heavy coats covered with furs and made for quality with the main antagonist of the land being a Rasputin expy with an army of criminals he released from the gulags with the 3 areas being in layman's terms snowy wonderland, snowy forest, and icy tundra, main mount would be a mix of yak and crocolisk(I at first considered Yak/Reindeers, then I realized that would just be a moose)
    They sound lik a mix of saberon, elf and taunka. Or like a weird depiction of GW2 Charr.

    Quote Originally Posted by Psykho View Post
    Neutral; Sages: a race of sloth like people who rarely stand up and are serve by the a batch of flea like creatures who serve them in exchange for being allowed to dine on their masters blood, who serve as the Tortollan like faction, usually wear cloth pants and heavy blankets

    Edit: I'd imagine the wildlife of the otherside of Azeroth would have fauna that wouldn't look out of place in Avatar
    I think if we get some now places in Azeroth, it's highly probable that Blizzard takes inspiration in African or Oceanic culture, which are still not represented in WoW.
    We have European (humans, night elves), Asian (night elves, orcs, centaurs, draenei, arakkoa, pandaren), American (tauren, troll, night elves)
    We have a lot of tolkienian (is this a word?) fantasy, which is based on European mythos.
    We also have Nordic mythos influece on Titan installations in Northrend.
    The only african influence we have is Uldum, based in Egypt mythos, but mixed with arabian.

    Quote Originally Posted by A Chozo View Post
    I want to see whatever race that bred the Arcadian War Turtle. What kind of creature needs warm seats? And what's the meaning of "Arcadian"? Maybe there is a hidden continent called Arcadia on the other side of Azeroth, or maybe it's just some reference...

    Maybe it's a reference to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(genus)
    Yeah, they're not turtles, but maybe the "arcadian" is to reference a "prehistoric" type of turtle.

    Or maybe a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(utopia)
    Maybe Arcadia is a yet-uncharted island, and this turtle is bred there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blazindragon1737 View Post
    Well there is still two races from WC3 that haven't shown up in WoW yet. The Bannits which are a humanoid bunny race and the Arachnathids which are a scorpion like humanoid bug race similar to the Nerubians or Mantid.

    As for what i'd like to see is maybe a Shark type humanoid race
    What??? Source? Because I don't remember any "bunny race" in Warcraft universe other than Virmen, and those are native from Pandaria.
    Arachnathids seem to be retconned, but seems to me they like they are just another type of aqir.

    I like the idea of a shark humanoid race, it could have Oceanic inspiration. Something like the Aumaua from Pillars of Eternity, although I'ld like better if they are more animal-like

  8. #68
    Quote Originally Posted by pacotaco View Post
    What??? Source? Because I don't remember any "bunny race" in Warcraft universe other than Virmen
    They were a throwaway 'joke' race in one of the Blizzard-made custom maps.


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    I think it would be easier to think of what real life cultures/countries or fictional societies/legends Wow hasn't portrayed yet and then work on an adequate race to fit it. For instance:

    They could get away with taking inspiration from Mexico with a desert dwelling, fiesta, brightly colored and food loving race that is very superstitious with a dose of necromancy (day of the dead style).

    An imperial organized society (think Rome/Early Byzantium), with one strict authoritarian figure, highly organized focused on maintaining itself and its superiority, distrustful of outsiders and looking down on them as inferior while also employing gladiators (think a mix what the Ogre Empire in WoD was but with a more Alliance/Zandalari style vibe and less Clumsy/Savagery or other Ogres stereotypes)

    On the already seen side you have inspiration from the Ancient Middle East (Egypt, Nubia, Phoenicia) which have some sort of representation with the Tolvir. I would like it if somehow the Tolvir would become playable (reshaped and become a hybrid between Saberon and regular Tolvir) and they expand a bit more on it with the relation with death/after death (Shadowlands) worshiping the sun (the Light/Naaru) with a caste like system and strictly organized religiously.

    Arabic inspired race (the Ethereals are loosely based on them but will most likely never be playable unless they get reshaped, maybe we somehow manage to find survivors from they lost world). Heavily based on trade, high focus on merchants, seeking rare goods and thirst for knowledge (I'm thinking pre-crusade era middle east and spain)

    I would say that an Indian/South Asian inspired race could be made, highly spiritual, caste system and very colorful but I don't know that much about the region to kind of imagine what could be used from there and differ from what already appears in WoW.

    I will say this about the OP's idea: It would be quite interesting to get an expansion themed around the age of discovery, balancing between establishing trade posts to get access to new resources and wealth for your faction, exploring in search of advantages and potential game changers for the faction war, trying to recruit the natives and maybe even trying to settle displaced races from the faction war.

    It will definitely be a filler/setting the stage type expansion (mix between MOP and BFA) but could be a welcome break to allow the story to build up after killing of so many big world ending threats.

  10. #70
    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    I think it would be easier to think of what real life cultures/countries or fictional societies/legends Wow hasn't portrayed yet and then work on an adequate race to fit it.
    I completely agree, and seems like it's how Blizzard works when creating new races.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    They could get away with taking inspiration from Mexico with a desert dwelling, fiesta, brightly colored and food loving race that is very superstitious with a dose of necromancy (day of the dead style).
    I know that it's not exactly the same but Vulpera seem to cover that niche to a certain point (although they're inspired on gypsies).

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    An imperial organized society (think Rome/Early Byzantium), with one strict authoritarian figure, highly organized focused on maintaining itself and its superiority, distrustful of outsiders and looking down on them as inferior while also employing gladiators (think a mix what the Ogre Empire in WoD was but with a more Alliance/Zandalari style vibe and less Clumsy/Savagery or other Ogres stereotypes)
    Actually, what we see of the Ogre Empire in WoD are the outskirts of the Empire. It's supposed to be more civilized on their main continent.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    On the already seen side you have inspiration from the Ancient Middle East (Egypt, Nubia, Phoenicia) which have some sort of representation with the Tolvir. I would like it if somehow the Tolvir would become playable (reshaped and become a hybrid between Saberon and regular Tolvir) and they expand a bit more on it with the relation with death/after death (Shadowlands) worshiping the sun (the Light/Naaru) with a caste like system and strictly organized religiously.
    It wouldn't be a hard stretch to bring up with another type of tol'vir (they are titan constructs).

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    Arabic inspired race (the Ethereals are loosely based on them but will most likely never be playable unless they get reshaped, maybe we somehow manage to find survivors from they lost world). Heavily based on trade, high focus on merchants, seeking rare goods and thirst for knowledge (I'm thinking pre-crusade era middle east and spain)
    Yep, that's totally the influence for Ethereals.


    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    I would say that an Indian/South Asian inspired race could be made, highly spiritual, caste system and very colorful but I don't know that much about the region to kind of imagine what could be used from there and differ from what already appears in WoW.
    That's Draenei.

  11. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by pacotaco View Post
    Kalimdor was the Wild West, with settlers (orcs), hostile natives (night elves, centaurs) and friendly natives (tauren).
    And the goblins have the trade routes in Ratchet and Gadgetzan.


    We already have sphynx: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Tol%27vir



    They sound lik a mix of saberon, elf and taunka. Or like a weird depiction of GW2 Charr.



    I think if we get some now places in Azeroth, it's highly probable that Blizzard takes inspiration in African or Oceanic culture, which are still not represented in WoW.
    We have European (humans, night elves), Asian (night elves, orcs, centaurs, draenei, arakkoa, pandaren), American (tauren, troll, night elves)
    We have a lot of tolkienian (is this a word?) fantasy, which is based on European mythos.
    We also have Nordic mythos influece on Titan installations in Northrend.
    The only african influence we have is Uldum, based in Egypt mythos, but mixed with arabian.



    Maybe it's a reference to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(genus)
    Yeah, they're not turtles, but maybe the "arcadian" is to reference a "prehistoric" type of turtle.

    Or maybe a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(utopia)
    Maybe Arcadia is a yet-uncharted island, and this turtle is bred there.

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    What??? Source? Because I don't remember any "bunny race" in Warcraft universe other than Virmen, and those are native from Pandaria.
    Arachnathids seem to be retconned, but seems to me they like they are just another type of aqir.

    I like the idea of a shark humanoid race, it could have Oceanic inspiration. Something like the Aumaua from Pillars of Eternity, although I'ld like better if they are more animal-like
    Yeah but I said Hostile ENVIRONMENTS, and Kalimdor is relatively tame at least in the upper regions, and the Goblins mostly deal in ores, potions and machines, while the East India Trading Company dealt with a large array of products

    the Tol'vir are sphinxes but my Sphinx idea is for the most part human, with elements of the basic and hiercosphinx which is similar to a gryphon

    The Fey are mostly meant to depict the more morally grey aspects and appearences of fey creatures of Europe, and the hilarious thing is before I started this thread my Sphinx idea was basically a Warcraft version of the Charr culturally

    My Sage idea basically takes from the basic guru trope, and could potentially take from Himalayan or Indian(East), and I should also note that Draenei have Romanian accents while the Lightforged have been identified as a Transylvanian accent

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    Didn’t read through all the posts, but I would like to see the Jalgar bear humanoids. I hope there model would be fierce, tall, strong and not fat. The furblog are a disappointing bear humanoid. The panda are ok bear humanoid.

    Since they warred with the Vrykul they would have to be at least similar in height and strength.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxrokur View Post
    I only want to explore K'areesh and the Aldrachi people
    Aldrachi sounds cool.. but I hope its not an argus type of thing tbh.. That space vibe was realy.. I mean reaky bad. Seen the 2d cardbords in the backround. That shit didnt even feel like a real planet.

  14. #74
    I'd like a duck race like Uncle Scrooge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alanar View Post
    Aldrachi sounds cool.. but I hope its not an argus type of thing tbh.. That space vibe was realy.. I mean reaky bad. Seen the 2d cardbords in the backround. That shit didnt even feel like a real planet.
    Yeah the whole thing felt so fake that for a moment I though the whole thing was a b class movie in-universe. Such a dissapointment because they did a wonderful world with Draenor which should be the standar everytime we leave the planet. If they are incapable of doing that currently, then some small moon habitable like Endor or Nal Hutta could work too.
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    Voted Baine because... Well, Baine. Total nonsensical character, looks like World War II Italy, nobody really understands what role he's supposed to fill, not even himself

  16. #76
    Quote Originally Posted by Sylar Hao View Post
    I'd like a duck race like Uncle Scrooge.
    Not impossible, but not something one simply takes seriously

  17. #77
    I mean for real is there any lore left to create something? Trolls were natives with curse of flesh, titan constructs created other society. Maybe some underground race like nerubians could be a thing, nothing on the ground seems possible unless other ass pulls like tortollans or void elves.

  18. #78
    Quote Originally Posted by Unholyground View Post
    Well there are very likely more insect humanoids.

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    The forbidding sea is the developer excuse of "we don't have a clue what to do yet" lol.
    This frankly excites me. I would love warcraft 4 to take place on the other side of the globe... then warcraft 5 could be the major powers from 3 and 4 encountering each other.

    Maybe the other side is more modern, low magic? That'd be a neat dichotomy.
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  19. #79
    Drakonid.

    No furry, pervy pedo shit like vulpera. Just badass edgy dragon people with horns and big dicks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    I think it would be easier to think of what real life cultures/countries or fictional societies/legends Wow hasn't portrayed yet and then work on an adequate race to fit it. For instance:

    They could get away with taking inspiration from Mexico with a desert dwelling, fiesta, brightly colored and food loving race that is very superstitious with a dose of necromancy (day of the dead style).

    An imperial organized society (think Rome/Early Byzantium), with one strict authoritarian figure, highly organized focused on maintaining itself and its superiority, distrustful of outsiders and looking down on them as inferior while also employing gladiators (think a mix what the Ogre Empire in WoD was but with a more Alliance/Zandalari style vibe and less Clumsy/Savagery or other Ogres stereotypes)

    On the already seen side you have inspiration from the Ancient Middle East (Egypt, Nubia, Phoenicia) which have some sort of representation with the Tolvir. I would like it if somehow the Tolvir would become playable (reshaped and become a hybrid between Saberon and regular Tolvir) and they expand a bit more on it with the relation with death/after death (Shadowlands) worshiping the sun (the Light/Naaru) with a caste like system and strictly organized religiously.

    Arabic inspired race (the Ethereals are loosely based on them but will most likely never be playable unless they get reshaped, maybe we somehow manage to find survivors from they lost world). Heavily based on trade, high focus on merchants, seeking rare goods and thirst for knowledge (I'm thinking pre-crusade era middle east and spain)

    I would say that an Indian/South Asian inspired race could be made, highly spiritual, caste system and very colorful but I don't know that much about the region to kind of imagine what could be used from there and differ from what already appears in WoW.

    I will say this about the OP's idea: It would be quite interesting to get an expansion themed around the age of discovery, balancing between establishing trade posts to get access to new resources and wealth for your faction, exploring in search of advantages and potential game changers for the faction war, trying to recruit the natives and maybe even trying to settle displaced races from the faction war.

    It will definitely be a filler/setting the stage type expansion (mix between MOP and BFA) but could be a welcome break to allow the story to build up after killing of so many big world ending threats.
    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    They could get away with taking inspiration from Mexico with a desert dwelling, fiesta, brightly colored and food loving race that is very superstitious with a dose of necromancy (day of the dead style).
    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    a desert dwelling, fiesta, brightly colored and food loving race that is very superstitious with a dose of necromancy (day of the dead style).

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhovanir View Post
    fiesta
    I'm glad I caught this, I haven't fiesta'd yet today! How shameful would that have been?

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