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Post by
taurenmoo812
Despite in recent years, the horde having made allies with blood elves and forsaken, who both carry a kind of knockoff version of the belief system the alliance use, the main body of the horde are those that follow a spirital path. This is to the orcs, tauren and trolls what the holy order is to humans, dwarves and draenei (and gnomes soon).
The concept is complex between each of the races that follow a spirital belief, such as being at one with the natural order in different ways, but all are similar in how they believe in it.
When it comes down to it, it is the one uncorrupt element that keeps the three main races of the horde grounded in what they follow, aside from honor and survival, this is there belief system.
Now. as anyone knows, the orcs started off in this way, almost exactly like tha tauren did, until there spirituality was corrupted by the legion, and lost to them, there ways of believeing at being one with there surroundings and the elements and ancestors was lost, and all they had left was a driven notion to fight.
Now going years later, they, both with Thralls leadership, and the help of the tauren and trolls, regain there sense of spirituality, and the three races make it that this is the essence of what is sacred to there people..
And for a time it worked, despite even the orcs warrior like prowess, they were able to regain that sense of themselves...
Until I'd say now.
At the time of when the orcs were corrupted, and lost there spirital following, there no longer worked at one with there surroundings. This was completely evident with the hellfire citadel, as durotan discribed it, an eyesore on the land, not at one with the land but a stain on it.
It seems that without cause or reason, other then who lead them to it, the orcs have stepped backward in there ability to be more at one with there surroundings, and made there bases, towns, homes and capital city to look just like it did in the old days.
Orgrimmar now does not look like it works with its enviroment, but rather against it. All orcish towns and bases now reflect this too, well they once did have a more homely design with the stone, leather, bone and wood, all that now is replaced by black metal and spikes.
Its a pale reflection of when the orcs lost there spirital belief for the sake of strength and strength alone. I have to say, in redesigning ALL orc towns in this manner, blizzard really just lost the plot on things.
Post by
GVHB
Sigh... The orcs will not loose their spiritual belief only because Garrosh is the acting Warchief. There still will be Orcs that workship the elements and their ancestors. Not every orcs will turn into a "me kill little pink-skin! WAAAGH!" only because Garrosh is an alliance hater.
Post by
Adamsm
Aye, the orcs will be just as shamanistic as they already are, as Garrosh isn't stupid enough to !@#$ off the elements like Gul'dan did.
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Post by
taurenmoo812
Shamanism is not pacifism. The Orcs had a fairly warlike culture on Draenor, what with being a clan based society surrounded by expansionistic Ogres.
Are you telling me you can't tell the difference between when the orcs had a spirital culture, and when they lost that and were driven to a mad lust for power and control, and how that was reflected in there structures?
I suppose next your going to see orgrimmar after cata doesn't look anything like hellfire citadel.
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GVHB
Shamanism is not pacifism. The Orcs had a fairly warlike culture on Draenor, what with being a clan based society surrounded by expansionistic Ogres.
Are you telling me you can't tell the difference between when the orcs had a spirital culture, and when they lost that and were driven to a mad lust for power and control, and how that was reflected in there structures?
I suppose next your going to see orgrimmar after cata doesn't look anything like hellfire citadel.
It doesn't. It has spikes and use metal... So? Doesn't mean the orcs will replace their shamanistic culture with a demon-workshipper fel magic using one.
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Post by
Monday
Tauren, Tauren, taurentaurentaurentaurentauren. STRUCTURE =/= Magic. Otherwise shouldn't the humans have Shamanism with the new architecture in Northrend? It is exactly like the Vrykul (who were Shamanistic by the way), so shouldn't the humans have Shamanism too?
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Post by
Joemaster240
Tauren, Tauren, taurentaurentaurentaurentauren. STRUCTURE =/= Magic. Otherwise shouldn't the humans have Shamanism with the new architecture in Northrend? It is exactly like the Vrykul (who were Shamanistic by the way), so shouldn't the humans have Shamanism too?
actually....i think that humans MAY have once had shamanishm, but there culture may have evolved passed it when they began worshiping the holy light. Most likely there ancesters, the azotha, were probably shamanistic and worshiped similar beliefs to the orcs and other races but just simply stopped when there cultural focus shifted from that to that of more modern humans.
Also, tauren, i do see the point that you get here. The orcs are seeming to revert back to the architectural styles of the old horde. This however isn't a bad thing nor is it a sign of them losing what they've just regained. I see it as them taking and adapting the architecture and the positive abilities that it gives for there people and mixing it with there current values and belief systems.
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Post by
taurenmoo812
Also,remember that Garrosh was assamed in the begining for his father,Grom Hellscream,for drinking the blood of Mannoroth(i dont remebr well)So i dont think that Garrosh would like to return in culture.
thats whats called a retconn. How he went from being a redeemed version of grom, to being a complete !@#$%^.
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