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wavebiders · 2 months ago

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been playing the newest expansion and add attempting to give nuance to the "YOU NO TAKE CANDLE" critters to the list

Modern WoW is so funny. The franchise has been around for decades and is built on so many classic fantasy tropes half of which are problematic af, and they don't just wanna throw out the whole setting but the devs still try to be woke so now you get these really typical fantasy storylines but they now include the kind of subplots where you have to like. Negotiate with the queen of dragons over the rights of her servant race

#I was hoping they would continue this trend after Dragonflight started it with the centaurs #but kobolds are the funniest possible choice for it #I do think this is amongst the most important things for them to be working on tho #like #warcraft 3 and early wow was actually somewhat ahead of it's time in portraying the orcs and other horde races as not pure evil #the way their previous villainy was explained was still a little hmmm #and borrowing so heavily from non-white cultures exlusively for monster races is still gross even if they're not the bad guys #but it was a lot more than most fantasy media in the early 2000's was doing #the main problem for me when playing classic is the races like the kobolds the harpies the centaur and especially the quilboar #(their whole thing is they're 'enroaching' on the land they are native to that the horde colonized hello wtf was that?)#who do still very much exist just to killed by the heroes #at that point you haven't actually rejected the idea that races can be inherently bad or lesser #you've just slightly expanded the list of races that get to be nuanced #to me adressing that seems like a top priority #much more so than how easy it is to like babygirlify the horde or whatever #which going by the anons ive gotten seems to be something fanon zeroes in on sfshddfdf #warcraft

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