True, but our arrival is what caused the larger ones to manifest. I don't recall who said it (I think it was Lorewalker Cho during the Jade Forest questline), but he said that such large Sha were always considered myth to be used to scare children into behaving, or something similar.
Were.
Were an April Fools Joke.
They really haven't been for nearly a decade - yes, the initial traction was due to positive fan reaction, but that is well in the past, and Pandaren are, and have been, a legitimate part of the lore for a while.
At some point you just have to let it go that it started as an April Fool's joke and move on.
People fear what they dont understand, and since being afraid of something is considered weak, they hate it instead to make themselves feel better about not understanding it.
Its a very neanderthal way of living your life, basic and doesnt involve much thought.
Each to their own, let them hate. As long as there are people that seek knowledge and understanding the human race will not devolve into Troglodytes.
I never said pandaren were a joke, not in this thread anyway, I mainly pointed out how they are too far out there to appreciate the blood feud that exists between the alliance and the horde. How unrelated they are to our heroes and our specific hardships.
Where were they during the First War?
Where were they during the Second War?
Where were they during the 2nd invasion of the Legion?
Where were they during the re-opening of the Dark Portal?
Where were they during Icecrown, when Azeroth's men and women held back Arthas' hand? Where would they be if we hadn't?
Nowhere. They'd all be dead and I'm surprised Deathwing didn't obliterate their continent to hell, after all he was the Earthwarder, he should have been aware of their existence. But I digress.
They're like children that step unto a battlefield to fight over who broke who's toy.
This is not their war.
This is not their universe.
No. There's really a lot of people that have always loved Chen, me including. A lot of people talked about him, and a lot of people wanted Pandaren and Brewmasters in the game. They were among the most popular ideas for new races and classes, and they were often brought up.
As for his "personality" he didn't have a lot of screentime, but in that short time he showed a lot of character, mostly through his lines.
I have more problems to characterize Boba Fett, to be honest.
if you go through and quest and learn about the wandering isle you will find out that pretty much all pandaren thought the world was destroyed during the sundering and that the legion had killed everyone. they believed that beyond the mists was a dead world only a small group of explorers ever left pandaria in the last 10,000 years
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Most of them were on Pandaria and the Wandering Isle. Either you have not informed yourself or you're asking rhetorical useless questions.
The short answer is, they weren't there, because a large part of who they are and what they do was developed just recently.
Where were the Vrykul during the second war?
Where were the Draenei during the first war?
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Look, you can act like a little child, but that doesn't change anything.
Where were the Night Elves and the Tauren during the First War?
Where were the Night Elves and the Tauren During the Second War?
Where were the Humans and Orcs during the 1st invasion of the Legion?
Orcs and Humans would not have a world now.
Where were the Pandaren? They were being slaves to the Mogu that's were they were.
Stop trying to create the story. This isn't about the Alliance and the Horde. This isn't their war because this war is meaningless compared to the true war against the Burning Legion.
Alliance and Horde will be thankfull to the Pandaren because it is the Pandaren that will open their eyes and clear their vision.
I think they fit fine into WoW... in the same way the Tuskarr fit. Pandaren have absolutely no business dicking around in the Alliance/Horde with their culture, general outlook and attitude imo, especially with a brimming war going on.
Can't help but feel they'd have made a better NPC faction.
Where were the Night Elves, Tauren, and Draenei during these events?
These were times of Alliance and Horde cooperation.Where were they during the 2nd invasion of the Legion?
Where were they during the re-opening of the Dark Portal?
Where were they during Icecrown, when Azeroth's men and women held back Arthas' hand? Where would they be if we hadn't?
By this logic, why didn't Deathwing obliterate the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor?Nowhere. They'd all be dead and I'm surprised Deathwing didn't obliterate their continent to hell, after all he was the Earthwarder, he should have been aware of their existence. But I digress.
To counter these, where were the members of the Alliance and Horde during the Pandaren war with the Mogu and Zandalari? They were in isolation, much like the Far East was in isolation from Europe during the Classical and Middle Ages.
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Just because pandaren were placed in the original as a easter egg originally, doesnt mean they cant exist at all. People got interested and therefor lore was created to further them as a part of this fantasy world. Im pretty sure there is lots of things that are in WoW that never existed or were mentioned in WC 1-3 or books prior to first coming up in WoW.