#magni bronzebeard

[helenrira]

Decided to join @druidonity2 ‘s Dragon AU :)

I was thinking of which character I could do and eventually decided to do Magni!

Really fun to do, I hope I’ll be able to do more characters soon <3

[sirdolraan]

Coming to Terms

((DWC Feb 2025, Day 6, Annoy/Holiday, @daily-writing-challenge CW: None ))

Moira Bronzebeard, Queen Regent of the Dark Irons, pinched her brow as she read the letter that Dagran had sent her, days after she and her father had returned to Ironforge, leaving him with the Earthen to continue to unlock their pasts, and aid the champions. Magni watched her quietly, enjoying his beer-basted boar ribs for the first time in years, while Moira made frustrated sounds as she went through the photos he'd sent along, nearly all of them including a certain young woman. Lorellai Truthhammer could be seen in nearly every shot, either posing with Dagran and whomever else had been present, or visible in the background during the more candid "selfies" the boy enjoyed taking, including more than one of her fighting a giant beast of some sort or another.

"Is there something the matter, lass?" he asked, as innocently as he could manage.

"There are dozens of adventurers on that island, so why in the name of the mountain is -she- in every blasted photo?" Moira scoffed, crossing her arms.

"Well, she's one of th' only ones his age, both of them grown up in Ironforge, both incredibly excited to find the hidden truths of Khaz Algar, they've got quite a bit in common."

"Don't you play innocent you old coot, yeh know exactly what I mean. Why does it have to be -her-?"

"I think it's an excellent pairing!" Muradin Bronzebeard chimed in, entering the hall and taking a seat beside his brother. "Why, just imagine th' advantages."

Moira's eyes widened, then narrowed again as her father and uncle began keeping a list.

"Both of them children of two clans, but both Bronzebeards, a fine symbol of our new unity."

"Not to mention the imagery of reconciliation of one of the greatest personal feuds to hang over Ironforge in th' modern age."

"And of course, the fact that she's a proven fighter, well able to step up when force is needed, in contrast of his preference for soft power."

"Oh aye, would certainly help put paid to th' complaints that he might not have the steel to defend the clans if it came t' it."

"ENOUGH" Moira shouted, slamming her fists down on the table, causing the older men to look at her while trying to hide their grins behind their beards. "I'll not be teased by you two while I'm in anguish."

"Och, sorry lass, just a bit of family fun," Muradin said, holding his hands up in surrender. "But in seriousness, they're a long way from kneeling before the Stone and ascending the throne side by side. Love may be in the air, but they've both got many years t' figure themselves out."

Moira sat back, crossing her arms in a funk. "I hate it when you play th' wisdom card, uncle. Let me be annoyed, it's a mother's right. After all, I know first hand the dangers of meddling in my child's personal affairs, don't I?" she said, shooting a look at Magni.

"Och, returned to life only t' be struck down!" Magni replied, dramatically rocking back in his chair. "But yer not wrong, daughter mine. Learn from my mistakes, if not from my example."

Moira grinned, leaning forward and beginning to list her father's mistakes, Muradin sliding over to her side to help, as the game turned on the former king, old wounds continuing to mend.

[nightfaeded]

idk why alleria was basically the main protagonist of tww when anduin and magni both had much more compelling story arcs. well i can take an educated guess but still

[sekhithefops]

Yeh got any o' that... azerite? O_O

[azerothtravel]

The Bronzebeards At It Again, Uldir, March 31, 2019.

[rethar-quips]

Finally getting around to uploading my adventures through the Shadowlands.

No one tell Rethar that the sword isn't going to get acknowledged for another five years.

[topsecretgamediary]

You get a lot done in the first day of the new expansion.

[shadez-art]

Magni Bronzebeard. I'm still learning how to draw diamonds and gems. But I feel like he turned out pretty good! I think he definitely looks like he's made of diamond!

[skymagpie]

Mists of Pandaria literally took a dwarf character, previously rightfully depicted as a scumbag villain because he wiped out an entire tribe of tauren whilst citing imperialism and racial superiority, and depicted him as a good guy out to protect the pandaren whilst vilifying the tauren for resisting him!

Not to mention that they retconned nearly the entire orc race as evil in that expansion with countless promising orc characters previously depicted as honorable and likable like Zaela, the entire Kor'kron organization, Bloodhilt, ETC becoming Garrosh clones simply because they were orcs and "orcs are inherently bad".

Or that the tie in novels for Mists of Pandaria like Tides of War literally had Baine freaking out and exiling tauren for resisting human and dwarf colonization of their lands.

Vol'jin, one of the only Poc coded monsters to be depicted in a decnet light in MOP, was literally described by the Alliance player as "Disgusting", "savage", and other terms, with the game even adding flies around Vol'jin for this quest.

Before you say thats just the Alliance player's view, white characters never get this description like say human characters when you're playing Horde.

For reference, Shadowlands demonized Dambala, a revered and famous real world loa worshipped in Haiti and many other parts of the World.

The same expansion almost exclusively had PoC coded monsters in the Hell portions, like Zul'jin was in Hell for protecting his lands against colonists that are so proud of their genocide of trolls, their leaders name themselves after it(Trollbanes) the recent Sylvanas novel even clarified that the humans and High Elves knew that it was the Amani's land when they made their homes there from the stone obelisks decorated with troll holy symbols and writing.

It has also been confirmed in recent novels that the tauren gods are fake whilst the night elf gods are real...

And the tauren's oppressor whom had been frequently terrorizing the earth throughout World of Warcraft's history, Magni Bronzebeard, literally got the role of voice of Azeroth like the true Mighty Whitey he is.

Warcraft III for all its racial coding never had anything like this and Warcraft I and II did not have this much racial coding.

So the Doubling down on the racial coding and the "PoC Coded monsters are evil" stuff was done by the modern writers that go "look at how woke we are, two white women are gay an we retconned another white character to be trans, now lets kill some voodoo worshipping savages in the Jungle together!"

Anyhow, sorry I have strong feelings about this as someone whom isn't white myself.

This is sadly a very extensive list and I have no doubt is only part of the problem. I used to play WoW when I was 13 which was 13 years ago and I didn't speak English then so I didn't really know lore. I came back only recently and the few things I played were some BfA (Kul Tiras side), all of Dragonflight and some Legion and a bit of Shadowlands. I haven't touched the other things aside from the vague knowledge of what is going on. I have to keep an eye on these things as I play on because I didn't know most of it.

Hell they do stupid colonialist tropes even with white-coded races, like I am sure the Drust are supposed to be Celtic coded and yet they also have them portrayed as bad for not wanting the Kul Tirans on their land.

I feel like when they do something good for the non-white coded races, it is always played safe for the general playerbase of the cishet white dudes who want their racist stereotypes intact. They always seem to be pussyfooting around the issue without making any meaningful change. They want to make sure they won't offend their biggest racist consumer base and that is so sad. Blizzard has potent racism 10 years behind everyone else.

Also I am sorry you have to write so much, but thank you for sharing this and I hope more people are made aware of it. It's okay to always vent here for anything, and I will eventually catch up with playing the content.

[renaultmograine]

As a tauren whom has seen what the Explorer's League and the Stormpike clan did under Magni Bronzebeard's direct "imperialistic" orders, and yes "imperialistic" was Magni's words, Magni can go stick his head up his own stone ass.

[helenrira]

Hasn’t felt his kin’s warmth in a long time…

[sirdolraan]

Meet-Awkward

(( DWC August 2024 Day 4, Ego/Coincidence, CW: None; @daily-writing-challenge ))

"Ah, Sir Dolraan, it's good to have you and the Meddlers at our side," Khadgar said, shaking Dolraan's hand as the others filed in behind him.

"Same to you, Archmage. A few years of relative peace aren't enough to rob us of our edge, where are we needed?"

Lorellai's gaze wandered as Khadgar and Dolraan began to discuss the ghostly memories that were appearing across the world, and fell on the glittering, still form of Magni Bronzebeard, with Queen-Regent Moira kneeling at his side. The former king's body shone in the low light of the chamber, and Lorellai could hardly drag her eyes away. The stories hadn't done it justice, a dwarf made of living diamond.

Her reverie was broken by a warm hand on her shoulder. "And who do we find but one of the League's finest up-and-comers, ready to answer tha call!" Brann Bronzebeard declared, giving her shoulder a friendly shake as a handsome young man with spectacles and pockets full of scrolls and tomes followed in behind him. "Toddy speaks highly of your abilities lass, glad to see yeh here!"

Lorellai smiled back, taking his hand and shaking it. "Well, just happy to help where I'm needed."

"Is this a friend of yours, Uncle?" the dark iron lad asked, straightening his glasses, his gaze torn between the unconscious speaker and his desire to be polite.

"Ach, that's right, you've not met yet. Dagran me lad, this here is Lorellai Truthhammer, one of the Dragonscale Expedition's finest champions. Aided in several key discoveries -and- stood against the primalists t' boot! Lorellai, this is my nephew-"

"Dagran Thaurissan the Second." Moira's voice rang out, putting a chill over the conversation. "My son, would you please attend me, your grand-da needs us both right now." Something about her voice and gaze made Lorellai feel only a foot tall.

"Oh, of course Mother. A pleasure to meet you, Lorellai, perhaps we can talk about your discoveries once things are calmer," Dagran offered, smiling genially as he strode to his mother's side. Lorellai nodded, then barely held back from shrinking under the icy stare of Queen Moira.

"Oh, would yeh look at that!" Brann said a bit louder than he needed to, "I think yer meddler friends are gettin' ready to head out, go on lass, we'll catch up later." Brann patted her on the shoulder, before leaning in close. "Don't take it personal, lass. Old hurts and all that. You're a good egg."

Lorellai nodded, stepping back with a slight bow to the royals before turning to join the others at the portals, her gaze lingering as it met Dagran's once more, before she went off to join the fight.

[nightfaeded]

my earthen standing next to magni.....i knew earthen were bigger than dwarves but not that much. nearly twice his size

[xalatath]

Just played tf2 with a demoman named Magni Bronzebeard

[azerothtravel]

Do Your Thing, Magni, August 15, 2017.

[best-warcraft-character]

Round 1