Now that Teriz got Augnentation Evoker right, the next expansion will have to be Buccaneers of the Bloodsail to make up for it.
There was one pirate settlement in Stormsong, not multiple. It wasn’t a shipyard either, it was a very small town next to a dried out lake - Deadwash. It was a very minor quest hub.
The rest of Stormsong was:
- The Kul Tiran’s navy shipyards
- N’Zoth cultists
- The main village Brennadan which revolved around faction conflict
- Hamlets with slice of life style questing
- Farms that dealt with the Quilboar
- Tortollan
- A Kul Tiran military base dealing with a Naga invasion
- Bees
The pirates at Deadwash were pretty much insignificant.
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
Theres HUGE difference. HUUUUGE.
In both, outcome is impossible.
But the way how everything functions and the themes between SF and fantasy are 2 different worlds.
Fantasy comes from "invisible" fonts of power, techniques....
SF is technology-based setup where source of power comes from technological inventions, man made structures.... etc, etc... characters in SF setup almost never have power over the elements.
Star Wars isn’t your typical Sci Fi though, it’s more of a case of fantasy in space.
Also, LOTR and Star Wars are extremely similar when you deconstruct the narrative.
I’m digressing though, fantasy and sci fi are often blended together hence the SFF genre in literature. As @Kiivar86 has already eloquently put, the line is very blurry and not well defined. There is a place for fantasy elements in a traditional sci fi story and vice versa.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
So....about that uhhh expansion about outland.... /topicchange
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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I'm not super into the idea of pirates and the like (unless it ends up in Avaloren, which I am still hopeful it won't disappoint me), but one thing that did get me a bit hyped about pirates/seafaring stuff is maybe a hub city that's like a floating city in the ocean (or hell, a giant boat, I dunno).
Kezan/Undermine doesn't interest me in the slightest, so I'll hold onto that hope.
Sorry, but that's a difference of degrees, not anything major. For that matter, when was the last time you actually say nuclear fission? And do you think a mage tower is not a man made?
Star Wars is more Fantasy with SciFi elements. The story focus is on the sword fighting wizards, not on the futuristic tech. Mass Effect is far more firmly rooted in SciFi, with the biotics still having a pretty scientific explanation and Element Zero being the main break from reality. The Force is just blatantly magic.
In the same way, WoW is strongly leaning towards Fantasy even in Legion. People got this weird idea in their head that "starships = SciFi", but nothing we saw was even remotely scientific. It was all blatantly running on magic. I mean, those spaceships were basically large hollow rocks, without magic they wouldn't have gone anywhere nor been able to keep their crew alive.
The most SciFi thing in WoW is still the gnomes.
Though i doubt they're going to play a major role any time soon as things currently stand.
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I'd accept it as a hub location for a more general Azeroth Underdark focused expansion, but not as the sole focus of one.
If 11.0 is anything related to Titan/Void, I am sold immediately (doesn't even matter what everything else is).
I want every body to remember the velf and LFD time walkers talking in Valdrakken about the nature of time in relation to the light and void.
I believe that's the biggest on the nose hint for 11.0.
Feels random placing those two npcs almost hidden in Val having an RP discussion about the light and void.
I'd take that, though I'm just leery of hanging around anything overly gnome/goblin themed (sorry fans of either, just not my aesthetic). But I'll take whatever we get, I suppose. I endured that stupid pandaren vault for MoP after all.
Its possible but speaking above of the pandaren vaults, I remember there being that worgen who talked, at least once, of the ethereals being untrustworthy and that's gone nowhere so far.