The Queue: Dinosaur Paladin again

Yes, I used Rezan again for the header image, are you kidding? I might never use another header image again.

So, you know how Zandalar won’t be getting Paladins in BFA? Well, I figured it out. It’s jealousy. Here’s why.

Human Paladins – “We get our power from the Holy Light.”
Dwarf Paladins – “Eh, whatever, that’ll do, we’re in for the Light deal.”
Draenei Paladins – “Naaru guide us.”
Blood Elf Paladins – “Well, we kidnapped a Naaru and tortured it until it died and went Void, but we’re cool now. Light’s cool.”
Dark Iron Paladins – “We –”
Lightforged Paladins – “Woah, woah, BACK UP, what did that Blood Elf just say? They did WHAT?”
Tauren Paladins – “We seek the Light of An’she, the glorious sun, the mate of Mu’sha.”
Lightforged – “I REALLY need us to do a rewind on what that Blood Elf just said.”
Zandalar – “A big freaking Dinosaur gave me my powers.”

Tell me everyone wouldn’t be jealous as hell.

No.

The group that Jaina led across the sea to Kalimdor (not to Theamore, that wasn’t founded until after the Legion was defeated) was made up primarily of the survivors of Lordaeron that Jaina could find. There were some Kul Tiras elite troops, likely a personal honor guard, but on the whole the expedition was made up of survivors and refugees and not a great number of folk from Kul Tiras.

Remember that Yenniku was left behind in Stranglethorn because it was a custom to give children to the Gurubashi Tribe. It’s possible that Vol’jin had done this before and perhaps several of his children still live in Stranglethorn Vale among the Gurubashi. Or maybe not. We really have no idea.

It would have been nice if they’d fleshed this out before they killed him, yeah.

None of them.

Look, let’s be honest — we don’t need to point fingers at Demons. The Alliance and Horde do enough to each other to absolutely justify the two factions going to war, and the events of Before the Storm seem to make it absolutely clear that they were on a collision course. All Detheroc needed was to watch them in action for ten minutes and he immediately knew they were going to go to war, even without the fact that as a Nathrezim, he’s extremely good at manipulating people and that requires being good at reading people.

We’re going to war because of our own homicidal idiocy, not because of Detheroc.

Accidentally? No.

Okay, I’ll be up front with you, I’m totally down with feathered T-Rexes. It’s unlikely they were fully feathered but they likely had at least some, and I think it would be cool. Keep in mind these wouldn’t be flight feathers. But yeah, I’m generally very okay with the idea of feathers. One of my favorite books is All Yesterdays, which makes the point that many modern dinosaur recreations are suffering from the ‘shrink wrapped bodies’ effect, where they basically reconstruct them as if they were emaciated.

We don’t know how many feathers T-Rexes had. But some theropods were utterly covered in them and looked a lot more like birds than we’ve previously understood. And man, I have to say, a seven ton carnivore scares me now matter how many feathers it has.

I don’t like the new Action Bar UI. It feels weird and empty to me, even if it actually is enough for the reduced number of abilities we have. It just bugs the heck out of me.

Okay, that’s the Queue for this Friday, June the 1st. I wonder if they’ll let Rezan have a whole lot of feathers. They probably will not. I will be sad.