I know nothing about lore and this and that but would it make sense for a being of what is effectively a death realm make it back into the life realm. Our hero is special or some such allowing it to cross over into Shadowlands but does that also not mean the races/beings inside realm not leave the realm?
As a huge fan of the allied race system, I fear we've seen the last of them with Vulpera and mechanical Gnomes. I can only hope I am wrong about this.
Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking, they would definitely be neutral.
That way they only have to do one at a time.
From the looks of it, there's no particular race associated with the Scourge covenant though so that's three races for three .5 patches
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They didn't want allied races to be a BFA system last I heard in one of the streams that Ion did a long time back, they wanted that to be something they could iterate upon over time. Seems like it's here to stay tbh
I have to imagine they'll give us the four Covenant Races, as neutral Allied Races, in like 9.2 or 9.3.
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Even if that mattered, the one jarring exception is the Nightbourne who had connections to the night Elves above all else. So it literally doesn't matter.
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There seems no reason to believe races from one realm cannot exist in another. We've seen multiple instances of races going from one realm to another... whether it's the Emerald Dream, the various elemental realms, or Shadowlands. It would make no sense for our characters to go to the Shadowlands but the denizens therein to not be able to come to our realm.
The only thing that would argue against them leaving is that they all seem to have a purpose and function to fulfill in the Shadowlands. And abandoning that seems... odd.
Just give me Vrykul that I've been asking for since wotlk. They are already established in the lore and would fit in perfectly. I don't want any more asspull allied races. Just give me the good stuff.
I can't stand their zones, but I did try them, back in TBC, and as much as I hated the whole trip, Blizzard went out of its way to explain why the Blood Elves joined the Horde and not the Alliance. GArithos sparked their distrust, then the dwarven ambassador and the Kaldorei confirmed it anew while Sylvanas (a former hero of their people) and her Forsaken where ther to help them deal with the Ghostlands when no one else did. As a matter of survival, joining the Horde in such a situation made sense.
Only if you play Horde. If you're Alliance, asspull and crappy AR which brings nothing to the table but reinforce the stale and emprisoning "theme" of the Faction is all we'll get.
The only interesting ones?
Dude the Alliance would be getting Fae Satyrs! The Horde would get overused gothic aesthetic #8. I don't dislike them per se but man they could have come up with a lot cooler than Gothic Vampires.
Also only thing I know for sure about the Venthyr? Blizzard WILL use English accents. Again. For what feels like the 80th time... for some reason Yanks really are fascinated by English accents and I don't understand it
One day I look forward to seeing full grown adults realize that their averse reactions to levity and positive/contemplative expressions of emotion are a cry for therapy.
Since we are at peace maybe make em all neutral?
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I hardly see the covenant races become faction specific races because you can see in the beta a kyrian who claims to be a tauren (or at least he was when he was a living creature).
But I easily see them become neutral allied race. The venthyr already have more customization than kultirassian male and are based on the Nightborne skeleton.
Necrolords don't seems to have gender, and from what I saw they have the zandalari skeletons (no joke because they're actual skeletons) so this might simply be the first genderless / genderlock race (and if this brings playable skeleton I'm in)
The satyr race are based on female draenei.
Kyrian seems to be based on vrykul skeleton, which has shown the potential to be a playable race. And most of the female vrykul animations are based on the female orcs one.
Forgot about the bat-people ; The armors would be too much of an hassle to adapt.
Also, don't forget they can't adpat to sunlight. It hurt them.
Ha, and one thing !
THEY ARE ENTITY OF THE OTHER SIDE, THEY CANNOT GO ANYWHERE BUT THE SHADOWLAND SINCE THEY'RE DEAD ENTITIES §§
Venthyr with "Gargoyle" form as travel form would be neat but also kinda edgy. Dunno about this yet.
Just make them neutral during the intro zone like Pandas, then once you leave you need to choose Horde or Alliance. Gets rid of of the whole "X race should be Y faction." Would look weird at first but would make more sense in the Shadowlands.