hmf...Raven Hill/Duskwood has always had that horror vibe going anyway.
I'm thinking a bit less monolithic and more long-term, actually. Characters who could persist from expansion to expansion, recurring within the theme of class-centric content and perhaps even granting rewards that grow or expand with new stories in a progession-based fashion.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Hm.. this is kinda hard
Race: Black Dragon
Class: ....dragon?
Alignment: Dragon Flights
Narrative Contribution: Helping to wrap up the aspect plot. She doesn't need to be the new aspect, just help pick one. It would be nice to have a black dragon that isn't biased to the factions and focuses on her flight's mission/the fate of her species. I want an older female dragon preferably, with a warm maternal personality. Of course purified, since I think it's silly dragons are extremely weak to whispers when even mortal races can combat them now.
Race: Worgen
Class: Rogue - A Noble
Alignment: Gilneas
Narrative Contribution: I want him to represent the pre-Cata Gilneans that still carry deep resentment towards all things nonhuman and carry an undeserved arrogance. I want him to be a hypocrite that takes pride in his worgen form, while calling others monsters, denouncing witchcraft, and making a profit off alchemy. A self serving man that is easy to hate, but entertaining to watch. The type of swindler that Genn wouldn't mind losing to the blight. That sort of guy. And I want his narrative contribution to stay within the world building of Duskwood and Westfall.
Race: Blood Elf
Class: Priest - Archaeologist
Alignment: Neutral to Either faction
Narrative Contribution: A silly side character tied to leveling archaeology. A blood elf that is obsessed with learning about his 'troll heritage' and adores Troll history, culture, and civilization. Essentially, a Troll-weeb. He used to be a typical BE priest, but after learning about elven ancestry he's become obsessed with finding his "true roots". Even better if he behaves more like a troll priest, praising loa rather than the light. I like fun side characters when Blizzard adds them in.
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Draenei mage, artificer, or soulbinder. Just a draenei that isn't all light 24/7. You know, draenei that are the old school eredar classes who never got fully on board with the naaru and the light, but also wanted nothing to do with the Legion/fel magic. Or maybe even a draenei who was on team naaru but jumped off that train after the draenei were left to be slaughtered by orcs on Draenor. Someone who doesn't like the Light, but is not at all a villain.
And also a draenei who wouldn't be all in on the Alliance(since that's based on Velen's prophecy) and who is questing the lack of aid the draenei got on Argus and fed up with the faction war. And not because "muh peace," but because they don't see the Alliance or the Alliance's wars as beneficial to the draenei people. Maraad held some anti-Alliance views until Blizzard strip him of them for WoD because reasons.
Even when we have a draenei artificer(Romuul) and the leader of the Auchenai(Maladaar) both are paladins. And we've never really had a draenei mage character despite draenei being masters of the arcane in lore.
To fill out the OP's thing:
Race: Draenei
Class: Mage, Artificer, or Soulbinder
Alignment:Neutral
Narrative Contribution: Just an old school eredar-like draenei mage, artificer, or soulbinder who still has some of that iconic eredar arrogance and who questions the current state of draenei affairs in regards to both the Light/Naaru and the Alliance WITHOUT being a villain or evil or bad.
It would bring diversity to both the draenei story with having someone questioning the place of the Light in their culture and to the Alliance story since everything is all homogenized and everyone loves the Alliance.
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Thought of an interesting wrinkle (mostly because I'm playing a Zandalari Druid at the moment). Malfurion is believed to be the oldest and first mortal Druid, but say the Zandalari, having been newly brought into the world, make a claim on the title themselves. They claim the Raptari predate even the existence of the Night Elves by millennia, and while they weren't granted the Gift of the Wild by Cenarius or Malorne (arguably what makes a Druid a Druid), they did pioneer the concept of shapeshifting via the gifts of Loa such as Gonk and Gral. This Raptari Druid, along with his followers (Druids of all races and creeds), create a competing organization to the Cenarion Circle that emphasizes the concept of shapeshifting primarily and being at one with the Wilds over the ideas of conservancy and external balancing the Cenarion Circle espouses. A more chaotic and primal philosophy that holds some sway over the more martial Druids, and could in time open the doors of Druidism to races not traditionally interested in exploring the doctrine.
Race: Zandalari
Class: Druid
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Narrative Contribution: Creator and leader of a new Druid order competing with the Cenarion Circle, emphasizing unity with the wilds by living among them as opposed to stewarding them from the outside.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Race: Blood elf
Class: Mage
Alignment: chaotic good
Narrative Contribution: I envision a teenage Sunstrider queen, a mage prodigy with no experience. Probably a bastard daughter Kael had in Outland. She grew up there, has never been to Quel'thalas before. She faces problems with her legitimacy claims, lack of understanding of her own culture and her own teenage lack of judgement, feeling she knows better than her elders, disregarding due process, and repeatedly failing as a result. Her character and Lor'themar would become very closely weaved together, with Lor'themar acting as regent lord until she comes of age, but her still having executive power, so we have a dynamic between the older, battle-hardened Lor'themar trying to reign in this young, prodigy firecracker of a queen. If done properly, younger people should identify with her, while older players should identify with Lor'themar.
why dont take any existing character and add some lore for them?
like dark iron dwarf who works for Venture Co but is member of Shattered Hand clan
add there legendary Gamon and several other characters that were introduced for Rogue class quests since vanilla. (alliance equivalent was Amber Keanen and some other characters who were used already)
invent some lore for them. who they were. where did they come from and where are they now. add some sort of stuff that Blizz missed. like Barrens invasion from legion. add that they too fought there. helped or were heloed by horde or ratchet members. new relations formed. uniting against some random demon and so on
Make him like an absolute monster to anything non humon and make him hard to find or get to ( Just not some one who gets killed instantly)
Also as extra.. I would like to see a pirate nation aka booty bay x100, with spike cliff kins of islands where you have to go by a underwater cave to enter or some realy long slipery stairs in the cliffs. Huge pirate fortress with like trade area, sparring areas.
Sylvanas is similar minus being mother.
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Race: Dwarf
Class: Mage
Alignment: Neutral
Contribution to the story: Formation of Church of the Titans. Dwarves were always fascinated with their titanic origins and now with Sargeras' defeat by the titans there was movement to worship the creators as true gods. The church reveres arcane magic as cosmic force higher than the Light. Their current goal is to stop mortals from feasting on Azeroth's lifeblood.
Race: Blood Elf
Class: Warlock
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Contribution to the story: Overthrowing Lor'themar. He would still be bitter after Kael'thas' fall and now his loyalty would be to the Banshee Queen. After Lor'themar's betrayal he would start revolution in Silvermoon. Is goal would be to place (real or false) Sunstrider kid on the throne and rule as the new Regent Lord. He would love to bring Kael'thas' techniques of mana tap and fel back to blood elven society in order to make them strong.
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The fan fiction enthusiast in me had to reply with my own idea, why not? That's the point of these threads.
Race: Night Elf
Class: Mage
Alignment: Alliance
Narrative Contribution: With the death of Malfurion Stormrage and Tyrande, the night elves look to new leadership in a Highborne Night Elf to counterweight the new Nightborne influence on the Horde. Yorumaho Ravenseer is a proud night elf who has spent a millennium in self-imposed exile. Relatively young in night elf years, he is well aware of Queen Azshara's past mistakes, but also finds weakness in the late Tyrande and Malfurion's brand of leadership. A proud Night Elf, he wants to embrace his Druidic brothers while bringing the night elf race back to their peak of dominance in Kalimdor with a new city where Darnassus burned. Yorumahu Ravenseer also sees weakness in young king Anduin Wrynn, often clashing ideally with him as it pertains to the interests of the alliance and his people.
Well we are geting a lot of this with mages, in particular night elf mages from both Legion and BFA - Mardivas being the latest.
Farondis and Thalyssra were two of the best characters of 7.0, and both were mages.
Many of the other characters were weak.
Talanji is the strongest new horde character, outside her we don't have a clear new deifned Loa Priest. Zantabra could have done th job, but she's not Zandalari, but darkspear.
Tess Greymane really doesn't stand out much, nor does Lucia Waycrest.. Talanji dominated the narrative for both Nazmir and Voldun really didn't interact much with its main character because we were looking for her.
Overall, the new characters in BFA seem rather weak overall or gimmicks for game devices (like Mardivas).
Jaina got a decent character development. Rokhan had more light but not enough to be that outstaning. We also see a lot more of Mattias Shaw. Gazlowe didn't really impact. The island expedition characters woudl have been interesting to use a lot more, I think they would have fit the bill for new interesting characters.
Villains were better though. Both Lady Ashvane and Gallywix seem a lot more invovled and stand out. King Rastakhan did have an impact from players, but i don't understand why, except for being killed he really doesn't do much.
Shandris Feathermoon perhaps has the greatest development - but i have never understood blizzard and night elves, Tyrande is a famous character that sees the first proper action in wow in 8.1 , nearly 15 years after release, Shandris is for the first time actually having a role.
Lor'themar also since TBC is the first time we actually do stuff with him.
BFA is doing much better on established characters than it is on new ones.
Yeah pretty much... the Scarlet Crusade and Scarlet Onslaught were small scouting type organizations compared to the power of the Scarlet Nation that completely obliterates everything in their wake. Being lead by Garithos Jr. is a given and recruits like Sky Admiral Rogers would give the invaders strategic intelligence and access to the Alliance's Military hardware. They could have spies everywhere like the Crimson Pilgrims in Dalaran.