Poster: Buckwheat at 6/22/2006 2:49:47 PM PDT
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has more holes in it than swiss cheese. Thanks Blizz! Discuss. [ post edited by Buckwheat ]
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Poster: Nethaera at 6/22/2006 3:29:38 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Warcraft LORE... |
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has more holes in it than swiss cheese. Thanks Blizz! Discuss.
All history has a means of changing based on perception. Often history is written by the victors but there are other tales that tend to surface over time.
I believe this to be the case for World of Warcraft as well. It is a living and breathing world filled with ups and downs, winners and losers. An enemy today can become an ally tommorrow and so on.
Without some flexibility stories become far too predictable and stale. Allowing for those 'holes' as you call them allows for innovation and interesting new ideas to come to life.
So if the lore is swiss cheese, I'd argue that it is some pretty darn good swiss cheese at that.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Poster: Nethaera at 6/22/2006 5:22:47 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Warcraft LORE... |
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Correct, the CMs main job responsibility is to clear up the disconnect problems.
Actually that would be the work of the technical team of which are working very hard right now.
As to address the lore aspects.
I've seen spaceships used before in a lore circumstance. It's not anything new. I can understand people's dislike of the idea however and everyone is of course entitled to their opinions on what makes good lore and what doesn't.
We are in fact not talking about reality but fantasy in an ever evolving world. Things can and will change as more content and 'information' is added into the world. Some people are purists and don't like the idea of science fiction interacting with fantasy. In this case though, we need to remember that the Titans went from world to world shaping it as they saw fit. In effect this was space travel. While not in a spaceship it does bring to mind the possibilities that it could lead to.
From the lore page-
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/story/chapter1.html
"The Titans, colossal, metallic-skinned gods from the far reaches of the cosmos, explored the newborn universe and set to work on the worlds they encountered. They shaped the worlds by raising mighty mountains and dredging out vast seas. They breathed skies and raging atmospheres into being. It was all part of their unfathomable, far-sighted plan to create order out of chaos. They even empowered primitive races to tend to their works and maintain the integrity of their respective worlds. "
Meanwhile the Gnomes and Goblins tinker around with both machinery and explosives using their own brand of science. Who are we to say that there aren't other technologies that are unavailable to Azeroth and are yet to come to light?
I'm not saying spaceships should be the norm by any means or that we should expect to see them appear in WoW as a regular occurance, but it is something worth considering that their mere existence is a possibility and thus the means of the Draenei's transport to Azeroth is a distinct possibility in a progressively more complex world.
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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