Sure it does. It means their has access to them and will wear them willingly, perhaps even fashionably.
No different than their style of clothes being part of their culture even if there is no lore to explain whether they made it or traded some other NPC races for them. It doesn't matter because they are shown wearing them and it ultimately represents their culture. It represents their culture no differently than anything else. It shows they will wear glasses, comfortably in public, without any social taboos or stigmas against this particular piece of fashion.
Like if some Mag'har NPCs started sporting some new hairstyle you haven't seen before? That hairstyle becomes part of the culture now. Even if it came, from some other race, like a Forsaken style punk mohawk, simply sporting them would become a part of what Mag'har are culturally open to wearing their hair in the style of. And we can see that even though the Mohawk originated as a Native American hairstyle, the Tauren do not have this hair option at all, meaning real world culture isn't 1:1 with WoW's races anyways.
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It also doesn't make them 'historically inaccurate'.
Tauren have been shown wearing a wide assortment of clothing and fashion, and have been doing so since they have been a part of the growing multiculture of the Horde. All of the 'Holy' gear that Priests get? That is all quite a norm now for Taurens, who have been Priests since Cata.
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It isn't. It's just gameplay representation. Tauren Priests aren't your ordinary cleric or bishop. They are Seers. That's why you have different race and class lore. So, the game world wouldn't be muddled like you are trying to do.
They started. Might as well finish it.
And what do seers wear? Same thing that other Priests do, considering there is no specific formal 'Seer' clothing or armor that is specific to Tauren.
Priest gear visually represents what Tauren Priests would choose to wear. Just like the cinematic of the Tauren Warrior in plate is also the first and only cinematic depiction of any Tauren wearing armor, while it has been represented in game for literally decades now.
The BfA cinematics shows Grunt armor. We know where it comes from.
A seer wouldn't wear clerical robes if it was up to him. But, something Taurenish in nature.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Seers
Tauren seers are represented by wearing something they were never shown to wear? Uhh....
Tauren Seers were only known to us since Cataclysm, and were represented wearing Priest garb. Priest gear is literally what represents them, and their entire organization, in the game.
No different than how Grunt armor is a part of Tauren culture now too since they are part of the Horde. Would you make the same excuse and say they would not wear armor if it were up to them? Because WC3 depicted them without armor? No, you would simply see armor as another option.
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It's not their armor. It's orcish armor.
Just because they don't have a representarive garment, doesn't mean they are the same as, let's say, Human priests.
Sunwalkers don't have a unique-looking armor set either, but we know they differ from other Paladins. Blizzard is just lazy. At least their mount is a testament to their difference.
But we're not talking about whether they made it or not, we're talking about whether they are represented wearing it openly within their society.
Like, are we talking about Tuskarrs inventing glasses? No, we're not. We're talking about them fashionably wearing them. And there's nothing wrong with them wearing glasses that are of foreign design. It implies that trade is a significant part of their culture, and glasses reflect a willingness to adopt modern fashion. That is also culture.
They don't disdain technology, that was never in the lore.
They love nature, that is true. There's nothing about technology they actually avoid though, the way they actually avoid using, say, Arcane or Dark magic. Gnomish/Goblin Technology just hadn't ever been available to their culture before they joined the Alliance.
Having access to Goggles and Technology now is not deviating from their culture, it is expanding it. They have actually been shown using technological war machines as far back as Warcraft 3. What do you think the Glaive Thrower is? A product of Nature?
Crafted from the sturdy ashenwood trees, the night elves' ballistae are deadly siege machines built to fling heavy bolts of ironwood at both enemy forces and structures
I would consider siege machines under the branch of engineering and technology. Night Elves certainly weren't actively avoiding using Ballistae and Glaive Throwers.
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