To be fair, Trolls having something akin to Priests makes perfect sense even if they should really give them race specific animations, but they worship the Loa on a Spiritual Level so it checks out.
Same way I can totally buy Tauren Priests and to some extend Paladins with their Worship of the Earthmother and her Eyes (Sun and Moon).
Now Orc Mage is pretty odd because I dont even know who would teach them and if they would even be capable of using the Arcane when none of their lore relates to it.
You can kinda say the same about Troll Mages but at least they are more magic alligned with the Elves literally being evolved Trolls that got into Magic soup too much.
Now Orc Mage is pretty odd because I dont even know who would teach them and if they would even be capable of using the Arcane when none of their lore relates to it.
Orc Mage is one of those race-class combos that completely break the uniqueness of choice. Like, ok, I guess you can make it so that some Ogres or present Warlocks taught them, but in that case literally everyone can learn everything - why even have race class combinations?
Also, Dwarf Shamans should have been better explained.
I guess on the Alliance side Gnome Priests would literally have been taught by Dwarfs and Humans, who both have a very strong religious culture, so its not like teaching one race the customs of another can't work, but Orcs just have no need to learn Magic from the Undead (since they would be the only ones who could realistically teach it) as Orc culture is very tied to spirits and Elements, so an Orc Mage is just an Elemental Shaman wearing Cloth anyways.
Dwarf Shaman is just Wildhammer teachings, it checks out.
tauren beliefs are represented by shaman, their religion is animalist/spiritist, priest/paladin heavily implies church/organized autoritarian religion/dogmatic shit
Orc Mage : maybe like Ogre-Magi with the Runestone from Elven druids > Altars of Storms (Warcraft II), that allowed them to create mages at some point in the past. And Orc Mages would then be a relic from the past, like there are still Orc Warlocks.
Thrall was also raised by Humans near Dalaran, but I'm not really sure what could have been possible to do with this.
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u/Boethion 11h ago
To be fair, Trolls having something akin to Priests makes perfect sense even if they should really give them race specific animations, but they worship the Loa on a Spiritual Level so it checks out.
Same way I can totally buy Tauren Priests and to some extend Paladins with their Worship of the Earthmother and her Eyes (Sun and Moon).
Now Orc Mage is pretty odd because I dont even know who would teach them and if they would even be capable of using the Arcane when none of their lore relates to it.
You can kinda say the same about Troll Mages but at least they are more magic alligned with the Elves literally being evolved Trolls that got into Magic soup too much.