Role-playing a Death KnightFollow

I was always under the impression that the sword sapped the soul from the death knight, but then gave it to the Lich King. I would think that once you are no longer under the Lich King's control, you would want revenge against the Lich King for doing this to you. Thus you would go to whatever faction that would allow you in and join their offensive against the Lich King ultimately for vengeance.

A ret paladin, tired of being lol'ed at.

These people have unimaginable anger. The kind of guy who will kill your wife, raise her as a zombie and force her to kill everyone else you have ever cared about.

These corpses will then explode, blowing up your farm.


......


I'm not even kidding, he'll kick your ***.

I hope only a few races get to become Death Knights. Gnome, Tauren and Troll Death Knights just scream "HELL NO!" to me.

I admit that I too am afraid of the pink haired gnomes that will be death knights. Personally I feel like it should be out for tauren, trolls, gnomes, dwarves, and undead. I don't know about you, but I don't like the contrast that would come from each of those races.

Well to me it isn't about RPing the stuff, rather more the looks. Just like a gnome warrior, gnome DK's are just a no. Some combinations just work horrible (tauren mage?)... Most of those combinations have been made impossible by Blizzard, but apperantly some haven't been and won't be.

Well it's simple really, Gnomes are basically the joke race.

They have minimal lore (compared to the other races), are ridiculously proportioned (considering they can be melee classes) and most people roll one for fun rather than a genuine up-front desire to be a tiny person with a giant head. I'm not saying I hate Gnomes (I do, but Im not saying that...) but considering them an equally significant part of the universe is just wishful thinking.

Let's take Blood Elves; they are unable to be Warriors. Even though Blood Elf males are way more powerful-looking than Humans and Dwarves, they cannot be Warriors even though the game is littered with powerful BE melee NPCs. Yet Gnomes, who are physically smaller than a Tauren's dagger, can be. Like I said, it's basically a big har-har moment for the devs, to which they are of course entitled.

Consequently, a Gnome DK fits right in. Sure 'every race can be taken over' is a fair enough concept, but it didnt have to be so; as shown above, common sense is a malleable concept. A Gnome DK is just something a developer finds totally hilarious ("Its so cuute! Look at his little sword!!! Kawaiin deshouu???") so there we are.

Tauren Mages would have actually been more funny to me (Evocation would look amazing!), but Blizzard apparently prefer small and weird to huge and ridiculous.

A noob with a huge sword is still just a noob. If ya know what I mean.

From what I've seen of the lore, mind you I've never played any Warcraft campaigns, DKs are just any fighter fallen in battle that the Lich King saw powerful enough to make into one of his servents. Mainly paladins, because they are usually the ones on the front line of the scourge wars. While some DKs are Paladins that gave up the light to serve the Lich King, most are just warriors killed in battle that were kept from passing on. And frankly, from an RP standing, if that was me, I'd be pissed. A paladin, a servent of the light who was fighting the good fight and died a martyr, just to have his powers stripped from him and turned into the thing he hated in the first place? You're damn right I'd be pissed! I've never RPed before (always wanted to try it, but don't know anyone who does and don't want to level again), but that's how I would play mine, someone looking for redemption for something they didn't technically do.

If it was Alliance, I'd be a human bent on revenge but who also felt guilty every time he used his new powers. How could you not when you are now the "undead scum" you wanted to rid from the world? I'd stay away from civilians, ashamed of who I was, and look for other adventurers to help find and kill the Lich King in revenge.

Horde now, I like Belfs. The idea of the scryers is interesting, a group of BE pallies who decided to stop corrupting the light and work with it, like regular paladins (or thats what I've gathered), and imagine what that would be like if one of them became a DK. A Blood Knight turned true Paladin only to become an unholy warrior? Damn, that'd suck so much.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I'm just trying to avoid doing homework.

Anyone who cannot make up a good backstory for any race/class combination is lacking in imagination. That kinda explains your other posts. OK, maybe not all of your posts. It takes some imagination to call Worgen a hero class instead of a race.

Edited, Jul 21st 2008 6:52pm by ohmikeghod

After creating a DK and going through the quest chain, I figure that there are three things that dive a Death Knight: Guilt, Need for Atonement, and Hate. Guilt for all the things he was forced to do, A need to atone for the things he did, and hate for the ones that made him do those things. The only way that a DK can possibly be bubbly and upbeat is that it's a mask to hide true feelings. I'll have to put the pink hair down to genetics.

How do you mean power? After Kil'jaeden gets beaten the sunwell is restored for the Belfs (apperantly, according to WoWwiki). So at the moment, you can RP a bloodelf either Pre- or post-Kil'Jaedenkill. Come WOTLK, I reckon it has to be Post since we've moved forward in time.

I play a Tauren Warrior as a main, and I've already developed a backstory on how he would of turned into a DK.

Imagine a battle filled with eager horde fighters, and on the opposing side there are: abominations, undeads, ghouls, if its from the scourge then it present. Now imagine them clashing, and my warrior is slaughtering many of these beings with his two felsteel blades, and in the back of the armory, you see a General Dark Knight point at me. I proceed to actually get overwhelmed and impaled. The battle is lost, and instead of my body getting devoured or raised back from the dead, it is dragged by one abomination.

Months past...

Imagine a huge fierce Tauren using training with other fallen "acceptable" candidates to be Death Knight and is basically another drone at the time. Talks of a another campaigh attack against your home is spread throughout. This invokes many emotions inside him that allow him to break some of Lich King chains, and that night he escapes after causing a few casualties to a few Scourge that "Dealt" him in on that day. He has been through death once before, so the fear of dieing is more of a blessing, but he is still a high spirit warrior that prefers victory over any loss.

**QUE MUSIC**

All the horde faction leaders are meeting with thrall discussing the imminent attack. They are stressing over what routes they might take, or where they will strike first. There is alot of commotion outside the door. One voice that is colder then Ice is heard "They will strike from _ _ _ _ _" I walk in with powerful dark aura, with intimidating meance in my eyes. Still being a warrior at heart, I volunteer my body for there use.

-------------

Kinda crappy probally, but I wrote this on whim. I dont RP, but I do like making little stories. :P

I'm pretty sure when the DK was risen by the LK he had his powers from the start, since he's a reincarnation of a fallen hero. It's like a hero dying and turning into a Lich will not suddenly be reduced to level 1 in his powers.