Month: October 2013

owlpellet:

I think that yes, they are definitely brought up with something of their original selves in tact. That’s why they favored soldiers and other fighters over regular civilians, who usually just got the pleasure of being ghouls. It’s evidenced enough in a lot of the NPC interactions; each has a very distinct personality and is very much not a mindless slave. They simply lack free will; all of their actions are an extension of the Lich King’s will, and if they act outside his commands, they are executed.

I’m not sure what the criteria is for who gets to be one and who doesn’t, though. When they’re raising initiates in Acherus, Razuvius inspects one that seems rather dazed and doesn’t look very impressed with it, and orders its execution. There’s not a lot to indicate why exactly he wasn’t impressed— maybe they like ones that have immediate clarity of their situation? Maybe they like ones that don’t show fear? Iiiii dunno.

But yeah the difference is largely political and can be boiled down to “DKs the Lich King values” and “DKs the Lich King doesn’t give a shit about”. Okay he didn’t really give a shit about most of them but you know what I mean. A “third generation” DK is always dead and risen- just a plain corpse imbued with some major sadism until they pick up their runeblade and become entwined with its powers. These are all pretty low-ranking, because they’re not his personal selection and didn’t give themselves over freely. I think it is largely a political difference (and not a timeline difference like a lot of people say), but I think there’s some distinction in the magic, too. But that’s because of that whole thing with Koltira’s suffering that I was talking about before and not really based on a whole lot and overall lol lore

copyx:

fuck ‘it’s all in their head’ headcanons

fuck anything that reduces everything fantastic and wonderful and strange into delusion

fuck stereotypes of mental illness, images of people in padded rooms unable to face reality

fuck destroying wonder and replacing it with sheer ableism

fuck ruining the magic

and fuck anyone who thinks destroying dreams is ‘new’ and ‘creative’

rhonin-redhair:

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe!

Today our world’s destruction has been averted in defiance of our very makers! 

Algalon the Observer, herald of the titans has been defeated by our brave comrades in the depths of the titan city of Uduar.

Algalon was sent here to judge the fate of our world.

He found a planet whose races had deviated from the titan’s blueprints. A planet where not everything had gone according to plan.

Cold logic deemed this world was not worth saving. Cold logic, however, does not account for the power of free will. It’s up to each of us to prove this is a world worth saving.

That our lives… our lives are worth living.