Oh Oop (but yknow blood elves and Draenei share all the same cities/crash pads sooo)

But green crystals??? In my city of people with a Jewelcrafting racial passive???

Unspeakable get that EMERALD away from me

??? Also if they’re going back to being high elves the rangers literally have a green motif because they’re hunters

In the woods

Like RGB is the aesthetic

The eye dialect makes me fumed tbh

I still know white supremacy is deeply entrenched here in WI but that doesn’t not make the university the appropriate place to present this information.

Admittedly I did submit a message of concern to my professor because she offered a timeline of master race ideology to her predominately white students simply out of my own anxiety of giving bad faith actors a workable reading list. I’ve since reconciled that was a bit silly. Still have the list too

Other instances of this tension:
why Ardenweald is a function of Oribos yet also uniquely naturalistic in themes

why the Botanical was the way it was in relation to the Tempest Keep infrastructure

What does the Curator of Karazhan really mean when they say “the Menagerie is for Guests Only”?

What is the meta magical concepts being played with in the nature of mechanization as it relates to the curse of flesh and the mysteries of nature magic a la the emerald Dream?

Why are garden gnomes only being introduced now, yet faerie dragons have been a thing since vanilla?!

Machinist’s Garden boss fight in Mechagon.

The interworkings between Mimiron and Freya’s innovations are mysterious (also another suspect thing of this type: the Deeprun Tram and its uniquely phenomenal environmental incorporation. Also, Mechanostriders!)

It is the unexplored awakening of secrets, this expansion— the Hour of Twilight (Midnight), fight until the Dawn, etc.!

Same reason we got the Arcantina and the lore of Stromgarde!

I’ve been cultivating the suspicious about garden gnomes and the mysterious origins of goblins ever since SoD + the

the journey of change in storytelling.

Q’onzu, the Loa of Change, is likely more abstract in concept, embodying both the good and bad side of this authority (the bad side is outright frenzied madness).

A vase is a flower archive

Shipwright tools/frames, shredder engineering stations, loa mask-carving stations (more industrial workshops)

simply diversifying existing ideas too-- more types of farming architecture, more types of storefront doodads, more types of festival pieces-- I think even in small amounts, it adds a lot

This feels like a question @andeanhermedic.bsky.social would be well-versed to answer

Worcestershire

Master Race Ideology attempts to falsify legitimacy for itself, chronically attempting to also reoriginate its own histories, often drawing from myths/conspiracies (the big 4 that the Nazis constructed their own narratives from being Atlantis, Vrilya, Lemuria, and Thule);
it’s an arbitrary hegemony.

This particular theme has been curious to me for a while because of the Arcane Mage artifact, Aluneth (which by the name alone makes me think it’s “the man in the moon”)

From my understanding isn’t it closer to vampirism? The well of eternity reshaped them

From the Oracle in the Garden of Elune, Aszuna:

“We should never have forsaken the grace of Elune for the vanity of the arcane!”