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I have done something which will piss off every WoW player in the world. Or make them squeal with either horror or delight.

I have taken the Warcraft out of Azeroth officially. If Knaak can make Nel and the other Aspects a bunch of jackass proto-dragons, well, I can not only make Nel a test tube baby in my stories (which makes more sense), but the Titans actual hyperdimensional advanced aliens, not demi-gods.

As in you're look at my interpretation of Khaz'Goroth, Neltharion's...as was termed in Romancing the Coffer, creator and programmer. Because I did state that Nel and the other Aspects were technically synthetic lifeforms. Yeah. It was heavily hinted and continued to be hinted that Neltharion was NEVER a true dragon, but a synthetic creation by the Titans, with a programmable artificial intelligence and everything.

Mad yet?

No more silver spires and togas for the Titans, we've got space armor. And they've got actual intergalactic starships. Eat it all!

Oh, even better, the original draft had King Ghidorah as N'Zoth and he's the one who made Nel nuts. I should just stick that in there, retcon the whole thing because, fuck it, Knaak did!

The Aspects are Proto-Dragons...fuck it, N'Zoth's really a three-headed space dragon from another dimensions. Makes about as much sense as what Knaak did. Right?

Khaz'Goroth and Neltharion/Deathwing © Blizzard – Though I'm thinking that license needs to run out very soon.

PS. The Twisting Nether, really some gaseous nebula in space left over by several exploding stars. And the Netherdragons, really created by cosmic radiation rather than the strange magical energies of the Nether. Yeah, Neltharion has irradiated mutant babies. SUCK IT!

Anyone who wishes to participate in the fan rant against Knaak and his stupidity...

Knaak retcons NeltharionI have to say it one more time. Leave Nel alone!  Nel doesn't need this.  He's already gotten the shaft from Blizzard, now they had to hire Knaak again to do his character, which by the way, he did horribly in the first three books which "detailed" his transformation to Deathwing.  I put it in quotes due to the fact that the detail was just one paragraph long in the book Demon Soul and he was pretty much a douchebag in all three books.   You know what, I'll excuse the douchebagness of Neltharion in those three books, because in those three books, he was already maddened by N'Zoth and made into that calamari's  personal bitch.   I get it.  Nel was Mr. Nutcase in those three books.  But I kinda like to think that before he became Mr. Nutcase, he was in fact as noble and as wholehearted and kind and gentle, the gentle giant that I described in my own little writings on him...that he was originally like that.  But this... La


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:iconkaychu-the-gamer:
*Kaychu-The-Gamer Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Demigods would be how the more mideval people of Azeroth would accept them.

I like and approve of this interpretation!
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*Ghostwalker2061 Feb 20, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you so much.

I had fun doing it.
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*Kaychu-The-Gamer Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
X//3 I like the sci-fi feels, honestly.
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*Ghostwalker2061 Feb 20, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
I am pretty much tearing down what was Warcraft and making it different. For the most part, I'm bringing Azeroth to the 1930s in terms of technology. Just imagine Mists of Pandaria with a D-Day style feel and the Landing looking like the Battle of Normandy, instead of Americans and Brits fightning Nazis, it's the Alliance fighting the Horde, and the expansion ending WWII style with the invasion of Berlin, or Orgrimmar. However, it's the Nazis or the Horde who have the atomic bomb aka the Mana Bomb instead of the US, and they use it against Theramore.

And all the while the Alliance is being backed by the Earth-Warder, Neltharion himself, after having his hand forced by Garrosh.
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*Kaychu-The-Gamer Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
That's wicked!

Steampunkish feel, maybe?
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*Ghostwalker2061 Feb 20, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
They still have steam power, especially in the ships, but vehicles are gonna be arcane powered vehicles, kinda like our electric cars, except powered by magical cells produced by mages. Shamans will use their lightning power to fuel generators for power plants.

Neltharion, due to his connection with the Titans, when he was Deathwing, was trying to build the first Magnetic Acceleration Cannon, a type of coil gun, but then Garrosh got a hold of the plans and he's built it now, using shamanic power over lightning, IE electromagnetism to power it.

A lot of what I have in this revised Azeroth was already in Azeroth to begin with, but not in abundance. I'm just making it more abundant. But it also means that armor has to be changed as well since we're going to guns rather than swords and shields. Armor is going to be less obnoxious, no more oversized pauldrons shoulder armor, except for formal wear. No more plate armor. Up close combat will still be fought with melee weapons, but it's gonna be fewer and far between on the battlefield. The orcs might charge, but eventually they'll figure out that charging only makes them loose the battle even more due to the Alliance just hanging back and picking them off one by one with their guns and magic. Guns and magic. The new Warcraft.

Imagine an Alliance soldier looking less like this...

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And more like this...

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*Kaychu-The-Gamer Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Very cool, actually! I like this twist. =3
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*Ghostwalker2061 Feb 20, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you. I started heading down that road in the final chapter of Hammer's Fall. Everyone returning to Stormwind after Ultraxion ransacked it and they're coming back in actual motorized army trucks. But in this next story I'm writing, I'm going all the way, with factories and power lines, and radio, and black and white movies. Not many color movies just yet. No TV though, this is the 1930s version of Azeroth.

Actually show that people do things outside of fighting each other between the Alliance and the Horde. Theramore, before it's destruction, kinda turns into a 1930s version of Hawaii, complete with tourists, but still also a military presence. And the attack on Theramore is like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but ending with the blasting of Hiroshima instead.

Since aircraft is in Azeroth, I've changed it up and instead of them being mostly made of wood, which seems silly for what they do, they are going to be made of steal. Aircraft will actually look like aircraft. The horde airship that unloads the mana bomb won't be a boat with a balloon keeping it up in the air, it'll be an actual bomber.

No more Alliance and Horde ships with sails, we've got diesel dreadnoughts with armor piercing tungston rounds and depth charges! Because the Horde has U-boats. This is going to be fun.

And the radio blasts with Goldshire Jazz.
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~Giratina3456 Feb 20, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
*gives applause* That is one fantastic Idea.
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Yay Neltharion! Been waiting to see him for a while. :) And I've read the book(s), what was the 'detailed' version of Nel becoming Deathwing, my mind was destroyed when I red that the Aspects were simply Proto-Drakes shaped by Titans....
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