What ABout the Dranaei

[TranquilNightElf]

It would be cool to have them as a playable race...
Would Players be able to partake in quests on Draenor?

[UndeadBastard]

Would Players be able to partake in quests on Draenor?

Yes...I think. T.T

[BSTRhino]

From what I read, there's only going to be two factions. Although I can't quite remember now, I should check that out. That does sound a bit unreasonable.

BTW What's a Dranaei? Sorry, I don't know much about WarCraft III...

[Scauthra]

You didnt play FT then, because the Drainie were in almost the entire second half of the Human campaign.

The Drainie are a butt ugly tall race with shamastic powers and live in huts. Enough said.

[Graeme]

I honestly don't think we'll see much of the Dranei until an expansion is released. Perhaps a few NPCs kickin' around, but other than that . . .

[TranquilNightElf]

The Drainie are a butt ugly tall race with shamastic powers and live in huts. Enough said.


The Dranaei Assassin kicked but and you know it :ninjar: :)



And It would be nice to go through to Draenor but i doubt whether blizzard has said anything of the sort. :\

[Exedore]

When visitng the remnants of Draenor was brought up in the recent fansite chat, Blizzard dodged the question. This probably means that it is included (along with the Blood Elves, Illidan, the Draeni, etc) or it may be included at a later date through content update or an expansion.

BSTRhino, the Draeni were a race that lived on Draenor, the Orc homeworld (from War2: Beyond the Dark Portal). However, when the demons took control of the Orcs, they sated their bloodlust by annhilating all other civilizations on the world of Draenor. The Draeni were thought to have been whiped out long ago by the Orcs before the Orcs came to Azeroth, but apparently some survived the slaughter of the orcs and the destruction of draenor.

[Mtank]

whats more is that when Illidan travelled to outland, he made a pact with the dranei: they would help him defeat the demons....

[TranquilNightElf]

And Help they did...the penultimate and/or the last mission would have been impossible without their help.

[BSTRhino]

Okay let me get this straight. Here's all the information that's got into my head somehow.

There are two worlds/planets, Azeroth and Draenor, connected by a Dark Portal. The Demons (burning legion or something, isn't it?) took control of the Orcs, and the Orcs had to kill everything else on the planet to satisfy their new bloodlust. Then the Orcs went through the Dark Portal and started killing the crap out of everything there, since it was believed no other races were left on Draenor, not even the Draeni?

But then something clicked and this guy Illidan (he's an Orc, right?) realised the Burning Legion were mindlessly controlling them and so he made a pact with the Draeni (which previously were thought to be dead) to defeat the demons and the control they had over the Orcs.

Wow, cool storyline. Have I got it right?

[Graeme]

Eh, that's the basic gist of it. Illidan is a Night Elf though . . .

[blkmage]

There are even more worlds. At the end of war2, Ner'zhul had a bunch of portals open. Also, they're all connected by the Twisting Nether, which is where the Burning Legion is currently wreaking havoc.

The Orcs freed themselves when Grom Hellscream killed Mannoroth at the end of the Orc campaign in war3.

I don't believe there would be enough Dranei to justify adding it as a race. If Dranei, why not the Naga or the Burning Legion?

[Exedore]

The first part is correct BSTRhino.

The second part is all from warcraft3, and your account is way off. Illidan is a rogue Night Elf that escaped to the remnants of Draenor. He is under the control of Kil'jaden, the head of the control/management/recruitment part of the legion (with the deceased archimonde heading the military portion). However, there was a Pitlord ruling the Orcs that remained on Draenor named Magdetherin (spelling), who apparently were apparently their own seperate faction. In order to establish himself on Draenor, Illidan had to remove these Orcs and their leader. But he was having trouble and encountered the remaining Draeni during one of the battles to seal and rid the Draenor of the rogue demons and corrupt orcs.

It makes a lot more sense if you play the war3 campaigns.

[TranquilNightElf]

Yeah BSTRhino, that's very well put by Exedore.
Read the manual that came with the warcraft 3 game for an indepth history...best game manual i ever had :D

[MacG]

I thought Illidian was trying to get Arthus(SP?)

I forgot everything from the campagins.

[Exedore]

I thought Illidian was trying to get Arthus(SP?)

I forgot everything from the campagins.
Illidan is trying to defeat Arthas, who is under the control of the Lich King Ner'zhul. Illidan is mostly motivated by personal gain and the desire for magic, which has caused his alliegences to shift quite often. Eventually, Kil'jaden, the head of the intelligence/infrastructure branch of the Burning Legion (not the army, which was the other branch) offers Illidan vast power if he defeats the Ner'zhul, who has taken control of the Undead. This basically leads to the fight between Arthas and Illidan, both doing the bidding of their opposed masters.

[TranquilNightElf]

And to provide more detal...Illidan was going to make Outland (Draenor his home world along with Vashj and The blood elf ) but Kil'Jaedan shows up and is very angry at hois failure to destroy the frozen throne.
So he then goes back for a final confrontation in which artha's ends up defeating him.(though many people have this misconception Illidan is NOT dead)

[BSTRhino]

It seems that only the evil creatures can take control of the other ones. And this 'Frozen Throne' thing has got me intrigued. Do you think it would be a good idea to get WarCraft 3 before progressing on to play the two year storyline in World of WarCraft?

I find it hard to comprehend how World of WarCraft could really continue a story like this. I mean, there's only one Arthas, one (now dead) Illidan, and so on. How could the game makers possibly make it so everyone in the entire game gets a chance to see/interact with these heroes.

The storyline of World of WarCraft is what really excites me. I really hope they pull it off.

[TranquilNightElf]

True... that will be an awesome feat of arms...
and <Ahem>........Illidan is NOT dead

[BSTRhino]

Oh sorry, he is -not- dead. Okay. Got it.

[MacG]

Isn't Arthas dead?

[Graeme]

If by dead you mean undead, then yes! Yes he is!

Otherwise, no :P.

[MacG]

Oh yeah, nevermind. He became the Lich King.

[Adovid]

No no the lich king is Ner'zul and the liches are other orc shamans that were under Nerzul and suffered his fate but still serve him unquestioningly.

Ner'zul the lich king is actually an undead orc shaman. Back in the day when he tried to open the portals to other worlds that caused draienor to collaps, the demons got ahold of him again some how and tortured him and destroyed his body and left his soul in some kind of amor incased in ice. Then during the short time before w3 he ends up in northrend and finds that he has untapped powers, but because he is imprisoned in a glacier of ice enchanted by the burning legion he ends up fighting on the side of the burning legion until their forces are defeated at the end of the roc campeighn. This is where his plans for arthas begin to show their true colors. Arthas was Nerzul's trump card.

[Demon_Child]

Arthas is an Orc in a Human body that is aligned with the UD. Anyone see a pattern here?

[GeYadrON]

Or you could find the entire story somewhere in the net.
You dont have to play war1, war2, war2x, war3 and war3x, just for the story.

[TranquilNightElf]

no but it sure is fun :)

[RelinaIonna]

Arthas was Nerzul's trump card.
You forget that in the manual at the end of the Undead history section it says that the Litch King is searching for a suitable body trapped between dark and light in which to possess and escape his icy prison. Arthas was not just a trump card, he was also being groomed to host Ner'zhul.

[The_Forsaken]

Illidan is a demon hunter nightelf he went to outland with prince kealthos a blood elf after he betrayed garathos(hes a sob) and vash is the naga who freed him. Illidan made a pack with the naga to kill magtheridan and thye did and illidan was king of out land then got wasted by arthas




U DON'T GET IT DO U

[BSTRhino]

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