A copy of Tevruden's blog because I don't Trust Like that anymore.
Tevruden doesn’t really think about relationships in the first place. He knows that Feiyn has feelings for him, and he’s been asked about why he promised to protect her and hangs around her, and stated point blank that he doesn’t actually know why. He’s satisfied with that answer and nobody has gone and suggested he should go find out a reason either, so he probably isn’t going to.
He’s really a giant dork when it comes to social interaction.
Some big kids took Ben’s other practice sword and guess who got it back. It was easy!.. so he says.
My paladin and DK, Sig and Ben’athir, when they were wee baby elflings. They woulda been great warriors together if their course had not been altered by the fall of Quel’thalas years later. Ahh now I am sad.
Background is a screenshot of the Eversong coast. Had to desaturate it cuz it hurt my eyes lol.
This sort of thing happened to me a few times growing up.
Tiny me would stand between bullies and other kids, launch legit recovery missions of missing/stolen toys, bait bigger kids away from the smaller ones, stuff like that. I HATED seeing bad people get away with shit even when I was really young.
Like my baby pally here, I met my very best childhood friend when I was maybe 4-5yrs old after I came between her and the neighborhood bully over a toy.
Unlike my pally I never got the shit beat out of me lol — I was too fast.. and also a dinosaur. >:E
And make no mistake, I was completely capable of being a little shit myself, but I knew what it was like to get picked on and I always hated seeing other kids deal with it.
man i wish homophobic people were actually AFRAID of gay people like could you imagine having the power to strike fear in peoples hearts with your homo
“If I do not have one trazillion dollars on my doorstep by noon tomorrow, I swear I will KISS THIS WOMAN on the MOUTH in front of your children.”
WAT
my brain
….ow
I love paradoxes
wow, exactly how many loops are in this one? like four?
AGHH I LOVE THIS
i fucking hate you all. WHY ARE THEY ALL THE SAME PERSON??
And is it still incest if you have a child with yourself?
That is literally the plot of All You Zombies a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1958.
Clap your hands.
Does it count if one of them is a death knight?
Casually brings this masterpiece back
#Northrend#Thasstira#yeah das right I tagged it#I picture them angstily looking out across the tundra side by side on their deathchargers with their hair whipping in the wind
But do they make eyes at each other as Ogrim’s Hammer and the Skyfire pass each other in Icecrown?
One of the worst feelings has got to be when you’re prepared for Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby comes on instead
Truth: I will go on for a thousand years about Frozen As Queer Narrative. But not now because I have no keyboard.
I agree with everything here except your tl;dr. I think it’s inadequate (oxymoronic way to describe a tl;dr, I know) and misleading.
“tl;dr DKs are creepy, gross, murder machines, not misunderstood woobies that just need to learn a little control and happiness.”
Call me naive and perhaps delusional, but I actually don’t believe this is universally a case of mutual exclusion. I also saw (pretty vague, but they were enough to make me go ‘huh, interesting’ in the theater) parallels between DKs and Elsa, even beyond the frost powers. I agree that the insatiable death-hunger is a bit…uh…compounding but I think there is more nuance to it than you’re implying. There’s plenty of space between “willingly (? dubioouuus, see: coercion, loss of all hope in the face of the inexorable) destroyed an entire society and slaughtered their own family” and “melts the ice of their heart with the power of lurve.”
tl;dr DKs aren’t nothing but creepy gross murder machines. And some of them are a lil woobesque let’s be real here (
lookin straight at you, Thass)I see your point when it comes to comparing Elsa and DKs, but I have to agree that DKs are pretty much mass murder machines of the scourge.
Being a rper of a Self – aligned DK I know that, even if they have control, they still have to resist the urge to chop everything they see into a million pieces. (It’s not that simple)
As far as I am concerned, having never watched Frozen, Elsa absolutely hates being feared, ruling via fear and etc, but DKs are sadistic war machines who feed off the fear of civillians, and also classed as masochists. (Makes them feel alive wot wot)
I’ve gone off topic but, DKs will pretty much chop anything as soon as that little pain starts, which would eventually send the poor DK to be as mindless as a ghoul and as deadly as a stampeding mammoth.
Elsa and DKs are only similar in the fashion that civillians fear them both and that they can use frost (which DKs such as 1st and 2nd can’t)
Yeah. I mentioned the blood hunger complicating things. There’s a bit of ‘her magic can become evil and uncontrollable if she doesn’t learn to rein it in’ in Frozen and that’s where I saw the closest parallel.
I’m not arguing that DKs can become lovable teddy bears with a bit of cuddling and the occasional gnoll slaughter, but I am saying that I don’t think it’s…like…”universally all dks are the worst ever and they’re all the same without any variation among them whatsoever” outside of their blood hunger.
It’s virtually near impossible for a DK to overcome their blood hunger, due to that pain they have.
Yuuup I know. I think I’m having trouble articulating my point. I’ll shut up now, haha.
As someone who plays two DKs, one of whom is a gross, sadistic, cruel reanimated corpse and the other of whom is….not so much with the adjectives….I come down on the side of there being plenty of wiggle room in terms of how DKs are interpreted. I think there is plenty of space for conflict and adaptation, both.
Also, “gross” and “horrific” can be (disturbingly) subtle. It all depends on how you want to play it, what themes you want to emphasize.
There is wiggle room yes, but they have shown in lore that if DK’s do not kill regularly they will suffer wracking pains until they do so because killing things is now their addiction.
They need to kill. They can fight it, resist it, some better than others, but if the DK isn’t off killing stuff every so often they will be in debilitating pain until they cave.
I have a DK I play as a ditzy goblin who is like a failed DK. She is funny, derps about and in general fails or lucks her way through missions she is given from her Commander.
When in reality she has to every week or so go find some cultists, scourge, or something to slaughter to feel better. There are days she worries that she might run out of stuff to kill with the war winding down and if she should just end her existence to avoid hurting people who have befriended her.
So while yeah, RP your DK how you want – I 100% agree not all of them need to be grim dark murderous machines – they do have to by lore have an desire to kill that has to be sated.
I would like to gently point out that the addiction is not to killing. It is to inflicting pain. From Ask CDev #2:
Are blood elf death knights still afflicted by their racial addiction to magic?
No, though their new addiction, the one all Ebon Blade death knights possess, is arguably worse: the need to inflict pain. If death knights do not regularly inflict agony upon another creature, they begin to suffer wracking pains that could drive them into a mindless, blood-seeking hysteria—a far worse fate than that of those who suffer from arcane withdrawalIf you have a different source in lore that indicates that the addiction is to killing specifically, please share?
It’s kind of wobbly tbh
from the starting quest:
The endless hunger will soon take hold of you, death knight. When it does, you will feel pain immeasurable. There is only one remedy for the suffering: the hunger must be sated.
I give you the key to your salvation.
Chained to the Heart of Acherus are those deemed unworthy of the dark brotherhood. Use the key to free an unworthy initiate. Allow them to equip their gear and battle you for their freedom. Kill and the pain will cease. Fail and suffer for eternity.
Live or die – the choice is yours to make.
But this is in the scourge, where the general interest is in actually killing your enemies and not just making them suffer. There seems to be a general consensus that pain is the minimal requirement to sate them. There’s also the question of vampiric runeblades, which do require death.
Still not the kind of person most folks would be interested in hanging around with for a long time, whatever the case.
Outside of the game, Creative Development has said that the addiction is to causing pain:
I- I can see where you’re coming from? She definitely holds a good narrative for people fearing what they don’t understand (and my bb Lightandwinged will go on forever about how her story is a wonderful queer narrative, à la the X-men), but- uh. There are a few noteworthy… differences.
Their violent streak is an insatiable urge. It’s less “I’m going to stay away from people because they don’t like me” and more, “I’m going to stay away from people because my blade and body are screaming at me to mutilate them into unrecognizable chunks of meat” (thanks Arthbama). They’re also walking corpses, possibly plaguebearers, more than likely suffer from severe (and with their urges, violent) PTSD, likely smell terrible, and overall not somebody that would be healthy to have your children or elderly around even if they did have control over their urges.
There’s also the fact that they’re the face of an organization that committed a wide-scale genocide and destroyed an entire kingdom. Regardless of the fact that they’re now free, it’s perfectly reasonable for people to fear them or be wary. The average citizen probably doesn’t give a damn about the nuances of mind control and unholy magic; they just see the thing that murdered their mother in front of their eyes. And on top of that, some of the Ebon Blade did ask for that power, which I can imagine most would find unforgivable, and since there’s no way to make the distinction I would again say it’s reasonable for the average person, especially someone impacted personally by the Scourge, to just avoid the hell out of them.
tl;dr DKs are creepy, gross, murder machines, not misunderstood woobies that just need to learn a little control and happiness.
Q: Are blood elf death knights still afflicted by their racial addiction to magic?
A: No, though their new addiction, the one all Ebon Blade death knights possess, is arguably worse: the need to inflict pain. If death knights do not regularly inflict agony upon another creature, they begin to suffer wracking pains that could drive them into a mindless, blood-seeking hysteria—a far worse fate than that of those who suffer from arcane withdrawal.
But in the quest, a Death Knight killing them has the added benefit that the necromancers can now come up behind you and reanimate anything you’ve just killed, a very easy way to for the scourge to get an ancreased headcount without that giant job fair that was Wrath of the Lich King.
