An interesting thought has struck me considering Allied Races, and it’s so simple. Here goes: every current race receives an allied version.
Check out my list:
ALLIANCE
Humans – Kul Tirans (Drust)
Dwarves – Dark Irons
Gnomes – Mechagnomes (from 8.2.)
Night Elves – Void Elves (with Blood Elf models)
Draenei – Lightforged
Worgen – ?
HORDE
Orcs – Mag’har
Trolls – Zandalari
Tauren – Highmountain
Undead – ? (Dark Rangers?)
Blood Elves – Nightborne (with Night Elf models)
Goblins – Vulpera (same skeleton and animations)
Considering that 4 races of every faction are already done, we might as well take it as reality.
Your thoughts? :) And I’m most intrigued about the Undead and Worgen.
Stands to a reason because they don’t have to design models from scratch. Saves production costs.
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I’ve been noticing/wondering the same thing, and I think it would look neat to have all the basic races paired up with their allied race coutnerparts in the minor mages section of my character roster…
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Oooh, I see that, makes sense. Worgens has be intrigued for sure!
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In case you havent seen it before. But sethrak are built off of female worgen models. And since vulpera are from goblins. And goblins and worgen are a pair maybe vulpera and sethrak will come as a pair!
From what I saw of concept art. I really really hope we get those mechagnomes as our gnome allied race. I just hope they dont call them mechagnomes. We already have a race called mechagnomes and they are all full robot not the partial mechanized ones we saw at blizzcon.
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Sethrak are unlikely, they have only a local story with no further development. Although Alliance is freindly with them too, I think it was done for gameplay reasons. Lorewise it’s the Horde that solved their troubles.
Vulpera though will have an escalated conflict with the Alliance – in today’s lore the only reason for this is pushing them completely to the Horde.
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Well as it stands currently yes they seem unlikely. But there could be further development down the line. I do know that there is a large demand for Sethrak online, I see people asking for them all the time at least.
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