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Richard A. Knaak is, in my oppinion, one of the worst things to EVER happen to Warcraft lore. He does nothing but pump up his pet characters and beat down Metzen's well established legends (and you can't deny he looks like Hitler).In order to make his two little favourites, Krasus and Rhonin (*gag*), seem even more hench than he already had, he created the Dragon Aspects, the titan-infused leaders of the five dragonflights.
Though the dragon aspects go against the overall point of Warcraft III (which Medivh so rightly speaks), that the fate of Azeroth will (or did) always reside in the hands of the people, the mere mortals, the level 30 Orc Warriors such as yourselves, I felt that they were a sound idea in themselves and perhaps one of his very few good creations.
It is known that dragons can appear in mortal forms so I thought it'd be cool to depict how the dragon aspects themselves would look in a mortal guise.
These pictures were made with the rather handy (and at the moment, extremely volatile and unstable) WoW Model Viewer. I apologise for several noteable flaws and I'll be re-uploading the pictures when WMV is properly functioning again.
This one is Malygos the Spell-Weaver, the leader of the blue dragonflight and the warder of the arcane, who has recently declared war on all who cast spells.
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The New Model Viewer has allowed me to create all of my WoW Character pictures to the best of my abilities without any hinders from bugs and gliches...so...enjoy!
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Knaak created the Aspects...
where did you get THAT wicked information?
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Personally I love the Dragon Aspects but that may just be because I have a dragon fetish. Malygos has always been my favorite and I'm plenty pissed that WoW let's you kill him. That is quite frankly retarded. The Dragon Aspects are like god level and some lowly no name can kill one of them? WTF!? WoW has dragged warcraft lore through the dirt so i stopped playing. Killing Illidan was fucking retarded too! WTF!? It's also stupid that the same loser no name is strong enough to take out some of the top dragons in the Blue flight. That is epic fail.
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I do have to agree. I was fine with players being able to kill Illidan Stormrage (though Akama and Maiev do play a huge role in the battle also) as it was clear it was his time to go. He had served his purpose and was about ready to kill off. I began to feel uneasy once I learned Malygos was killable. I quit WoW only a few months back, when I heard about Cataclysm.
I try to remember times in Warcraft I, II and III as the good days of Warcraft lore.
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I think if anyone should have killed Illidan it should've been Malfurion. I also don't like that Illidan basically got tossed out with the trash. To this day I refuse to acknowledge WoW as canon. I only acknowledge the RTS games and a few of the novels.
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The same though I personally thought Illidan's out-with-the-trash exit was actually most befitting. I did like the idea that it was actually Akama that killed Illidan and even by Warcraft III standard of storyline, Malfurion's killing of Illidan would be contradictory to his letting him go after he saved Tyrande.
One thing I am bitter about and personally hate is the villainising of Kael'thas Sunstrider.
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i do like it just like i like everything you've done for the dragon flights. but i have to say this cause he is my favorite dragon aspect. in his lore he takes the mortal form of a high elf
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I know...I made these pictures before the Secrets of Ulduar patch. I personally always felt he'd be more akin to a Human guise so...
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okay no arguing that. still good work
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I'd like to point out.....the dragon aspects have mortal forms and this is not malygos. ALL the aspects use high elven forms. Some of the other regular dragons do not so a lot of the choices I've seen you made are false.
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Thank you for your frank criticism...
now may I just point out Daval Prestor..
Deathwing's mortal form who is in fact a human...
And that the mortal forms are merely an illusion used for diplomatic purposes with the mortal races of Azeroth (equally, for disguise and subtlty among the lesser races) and, of those we have seen assume a mortal form (Alexstrasza being the only one thusfar, excluding Deathwing), the Elven form was simply chosen because it was 'attractive' to the mortal races of Azeroth.
It is actually known that the dragon aspects can assume any form they wish (the Keepers of Time in the Caverns of Time, for example, are seen assuming the forms of crocodiles, guards and various other forms in order to keep an eye on the events happening in various timelines).
Ergo, my interpretations are completely sound in terms of lore
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Wasn't trying to be mean or nothin. But Deathwing and one other dragon that wasnt an aspect took on human forms. The rest are in high elven form. Actually, you might wanna check WoWwiki. Malygos' form is seen quite clearly as well. He's a high elf with blue hair and blue eyes. Alexstrasza had a high elven form too. as did Soridormi(Nozdormu's prime consort) and most of the other dragons. Just saying....they usually stick to high elven forms, sometimes human. Gnomes and such? Not so much. Ysera takes on a night elven form. So pretty much, they all have set forms and they stick to just one unless they really need to switch but really, they have no reason to. So sorry to say but Alexstrasza wasn't the only one seen with a mortal form. the only one we haven't seen is Nozdormu. But I applaud you for trying anyway before they had set forms. ^_^
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No biggy, you just worded it to make it sound like you were slamming me so I went off on one
I appologise..
And Deathwing is a Dragon Aspect, he was previously Neltharion the Earth Warder, the Black Dragon Aspect, and although his name was changed, his power as an aspect remained.
And as for Malygos' High Elven form, as far as my Model Viewer (which contains a complete NPC listing all the way up to patch 3.0.2) shows, and Wowwiki.com, Malygos never appears in an Elven form.
Plus, Siridormi, being only a consort, does not count as an aspect.
And again, if you check out the Caverns of Time, you will see that many of the Bronze Dragonflight take the form of Gnomes. In fact Chromie, the Bronze Dragonflight's ambasador at the Wyrmrest Temple, takes the form of a Gnome.
Also, if you look at the majority of the Blue Dragonflight NPCs that take a mortal form around the Borean Tundra and Dragonblight, the most of them actually favour human forms (Oddly enough, the majority of Dragons in the Nexus instance tend to take High Elven forms but the Dragons in the Oculus seem to more commonly be Human).
And also, Ysera never appears in a mortal form in World of Warcraft, she is only seen at the Emerald Dragonshrine, sleeping.
Sorry if it seems like I'm on a rant but I'm quite stern when it comes to Warcraft lore
That and it's fun debating things ^^
Thanks for thinking they're good, regardless.
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Um...yes he does. Yogg Saron....^^
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Sorry but I think I just proved your arguement null and void. thats from WoWWiki directly. So yes they did appear in mortal form and I know DW is an aspect. I didn't say he was. Soridormi does count, though she isnt an aspect, but she plays the part of an aspect in place of Nozdormu, as stated by WoWWiki. That's close enough. and most bronzes I have come across, as well as other dragons, have taken either a human or night elven form. chromie is actually the only gnome I've seen.
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I hadn't seen those before.
And I stick by my ideas and statements.
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Well now ya have, so you know I wasn't just spewing bullshit or something. XD
You can. Nothin wrong with that. More or less just agree to disagree and you did put up a fair argument to keep a stalemate. :3 I see your points on some things. But we know how Blizz likes to start this sort of thing and be like "It was totally there all along!"
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True
Blizzard's lore is so maliable in it's inconsistencey and vagueness that it's incredibly easy to make things up yourself which don't at all conflict with lore.
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Yes it is. *cough* Vindicator Maraad.....that pisses me off due to the fact you see him IN GAME and he has his own action figure for cryin out loud, yet Blizz has NO background on him....none, zip, zero. I was expecting some epic back story, but nooooo. Hell, he's the reason why I fell in love with the male draenei, when I saw him in the BC Cinematic. ><; Bastards....
As malleable as it may be, we love to play for the lore anyway cause some of it is downright awesome.
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Aye, some of the aspects of Warcraft lore are beyond fantastic..
hell, that's why I got in to making 'lore scenes'..
And Vindicator Maraad deserves his own action figure...
because he's a Draenei..
and the Draenei are awesome by default! XD
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Trufax! That is Putress Approved material right there! *highfives*
We're lore whores and proud!
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Indeed we are
To the point where I've made up my own little bits and bobs here and there XD
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Yeah...like stuff with Nozdormu, you can make up a lot about him since most information on him, other than what we know is solid, is pure speculation.
And thats why there's roleplay. XD
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Ah, roleplaying. My old favourite passtime till I realised my RP buddies didn't give a damn about Warcraft lore and it's restrictions to their character's personalities..
Now I just scene-make and fan-fic. I love the story but I barely play the game any more.
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Meh. That always sucks. I mean, if someone wanted to rp Malygos, you'd have to do his current form and state of mind now. But even though he technically gets killed, you can alter that just roleplays sake long as it works well with the storyline. Some people don't understand that. Really sad cause some stuff has so much potential. I really wish they didnt kill him and only seriously wounded him to the point it smacked some sense into him. Killing him seems to give me a bad feeling cause there now will be an imbalance, yanno?
I know whatcha mean. I just rp now mostly, since I suck at fanfics.
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As far as I can remember, the Aspects were simply guardians and not actual balance-keepers. I think it simply means Magic will go unpoliced...
but yes, I get what you mean, he shouldn't have been killed simply because his role in lore was just so essential.
One of the biggest things I disagree with in terms of "WoW Lore" was the villainising of Kael'thas. I was SO annoyed when I found out he had been made an evil character!!
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Well yeah you know what I mean. Burning Legion will seriously now come back for sure cause orcs and other mad people are running rampant without Malygos to lay the smackdown on them.
Oh gods, trust me. that pissed me off. He was just trying to save his people. suddenly he's all "ZOMG AHAHAHAHA I KEEL J00" just out of no where. no explanation. No nothing.
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Aye, I could understand his service to Illidan....but they just took it too far.
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Yeah....they just suddenly made him lose it. No explanation. Just....bam. went fuckin crazy. Makes you wanna bitchslap him in MgT....which you do, technically speaking.
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I'm still amazed how I appear to be the only one who gives Malygos a younger and Nozdormu a human form XD
Lovely work non the less...As for knaak...it's scary that DotD can be considred his 'best' book for the warcraft-verse Xx
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Knaak has made some good creations in WoW lore...pitty his FAILcreations outway and outnumber them...and I always saw Malygos as the elderly but still lively character, somewhat excentric and unpredictable.
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Quite the same to me XD just that he takes a younger / more playful form to fool the mortals
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Hehe, well it's good to see we at least have somewhat of a similar oppinion of him...anyhow mate, you might wanna check the dragon pictures again, the new Model Viewer just came out and I've fixed the pics so they now look as they should.
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ah
Well, I need to draw my versions of them again....soooo laaaazy
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lol, I posted a thread on the WoW official forums about my dislike of Knaak, take a read...
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Mate, this looks awesome, BUT I seriously love Knaak's books. As for the world being in the mortals' hands, it's true,because the dragons are seriously few. And Malygos has retained some of his sanity with the help of the nether dragons. So he wages war on mortal spellcasters, because he thinks that it's their fault that his dragonflight perished. Oh, and Krasus and Rhonin are both mortal ( and two of my fav chars 
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I'm too tired to argue at the moment to be honest -_-
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Malygos rescently awakend from 1000 years of madness or so they say, yet after 1000 years of sleep he doesn't seem to have lost this madness, however he now blames the mortal races and their misuse of magic for the state the world is in and now rules in a fortress in the Borean thundra. He now wants to rid the world of Azeroth of magic so the world will no longer be endangered, but this reckless act is rather threatening the planet. Many members of the Kirin Tor has gone over to Malygos side in hope of retain their control for magic.
That's all I know for the moment.
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Actually, with the help of the nether dragonflight he has lost some of his madness
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rly? I didn't know the netherwings had any connection with the blues.
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I think Tyri got the netherwings to help him...
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Hehe, I know the Malygos backstory fairly well
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ah well, just needed to say somethin ^^
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Haha, it's cool man
Glad someone else bothers getting into the storyline.
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On boring days I would sit infront on my comp and read wow lore on wowwiki.com while eating noodles
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I see an error in your statement. The Dragon Aspects have been around since Warcraft started, making their first appearence in any game in Warcraft 2 where you could play as Neltharion (Deathwing) and could produce dragon-riding units via the captured Alextrasza.
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I realised the characters were around before hand. However, as far as I know, they were simply the brood's leaders and didn't hold as large a place in lore as they now do.
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