Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:00
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Lore, Know your Lore
The World of Warcraft
is an expansive universe. You"re playing the game, you"re fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
Where, exactly, do tauren come from? Yes, there"s the old standby about a mommy tauren and a daddy tauren -- but in a world where some beings trace their origins back to stone constructs and ancient curses while others are native and still others were altered by the Well of Eternity, the question of where a people originated can be an important and convoluted one.
The most recent
Ask Creative Development thread from the official forums managed to cover a lot of subject matter, from Elune and her relationship with the Naaru to whether Forsaken priests could actually blow themselves up by channeling too much of the Holy Light. But the question and answer that most interested me was the following:
Q: What races were on Azeroth before the coming of the titans?
A: Besides the elementals, the only known sentient races on Azeroth when the titans" forces arrived to subdue the Old Gods were the trolls, the race known as "faceless ones," and the aqir. Due to the Old Gods" war against the titans, as well as the extensive terraforming that followed the war"s conclusion, records of what races existed before even the Old Gods" arrival have likely been lost forever.
Anne already
discussed this to a degree, but I wanted to take a longer look at the tauren, their history and mythology, what they seem to believe about their origins, and why it might matter to this question. Where
did the tauren come from?
Please remember the rules. This is all speculation, and while I try and build it on the framework of the lore we"re supplied in game, I"m going to end up somewhere that is absolutely not at all in game.
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