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Yeah, I can definitely see the Nerubians as Lawful Evil; they probably fall in among the range of true neutral-lawful neutral-lawful evil, with a sprinkling of blue-and-orange morality thrown in for good measure. They're a great deal of fun to write about and speculate about. Like--what we see of Azjol-Nerub is beautiful, so obviously they had a love of the arts and a sense of aesthetics. That leads me to wonder what their music was/is like, what kind of games they might have played (something like senet, or chess?), how the family/societal structure worked... I like some of the stuff in the RPG books even though they've been retconned unless otherwise stated. It's got some useful stuff to build on.
Overall I try to...when I'm writing WoW stuff I'm like, "Okay what is logical for two groups of people who seriously don't like each other much to do when a big bad is bearing down on their faces, and nobody is being used as a random plot lever?" or "Taking prior characterization into account and ignoring arbitrary decisions made by devs hitting the beer bong with enthusiasm, what is X person/Y group/Z faction liable to do?" My interpretations may diverge from others' but I will back them up at least. (For example, the Forsaken going science-happy is based on the architecture you see in Northrend and now Brill, and the prevalence of purple stuff on those rather Burtonesque quirky buildings. Purple is an expensive colour if you're using straight up plant or shellfish pigment; there are probably magically-augmented dyes but those might fade without application of magic to refresh them. So I looked at the purple and thought, 'what if somebody was trying to invent a better beaker-cleaner and discovered mauveine?' And then there were the goblins, and I remembered the Nerubians being on Sylvanas's team in The Frozen Throne...and so it went. XD)
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Date: 2012-05-11 04:20 am (UTC)Yeah, I can definitely see the Nerubians as Lawful Evil; they probably fall in among the range of true neutral-lawful neutral-lawful evil, with a sprinkling of blue-and-orange morality thrown in for good measure. They're a great deal of fun to write about and speculate about. Like--what we see of Azjol-Nerub is beautiful, so obviously they had a love of the arts and a sense of aesthetics. That leads me to wonder what their music was/is like, what kind of games they might have played (something like senet, or chess?), how the family/societal structure worked... I like some of the stuff in the RPG books even though they've been retconned unless otherwise stated. It's got some useful stuff to build on.
Overall I try to...when I'm writing WoW stuff I'm like, "Okay what is logical for two groups of people who seriously don't like each other much to do when a big bad is bearing down on their faces, and nobody is being used as a random plot lever?" or "Taking prior characterization into account and ignoring arbitrary decisions made by devs hitting the beer bong with enthusiasm, what is X person/Y group/Z faction liable to do?" My interpretations may diverge from others' but I will back them up at least. (For example, the Forsaken going science-happy is based on the architecture you see in Northrend and now Brill, and the prevalence of purple stuff on those rather Burtonesque quirky buildings. Purple is an expensive colour if you're using straight up plant or shellfish pigment; there are probably magically-augmented dyes but those might fade without application of magic to refresh them. So I looked at the purple and thought, 'what if somebody was trying to invent a better beaker-cleaner and discovered mauveine?' And then there were the goblins, and I remembered the Nerubians being on Sylvanas's team in The Frozen Throne...and so it went. XD)