Akama looks way cooler than illidan ngl... HELL, ALL OF THEM DO
Hmm, a lot of these look more like Lost Ones than regular Broken Draenei...
The text in the links at the end of the article are in German for some reason?
really they are just draenei as the broken or lost ones did not exist in warcraft 3. the Draenei were a large retcon going into TBC, as they just looked liked this before.
Pre-Tbc Draenei are so much better.
I'm loving all the models but still no release daaate D:
draenei on non-medicinal, illegal, hardcore drugs
It's weird that they have a broken model for Akama but the original W3 models for the others.
These are the Draenei that I was hoping for and expecting when it was first announced that the Draenei were going to be the new Alliance race in Burning Crusade... Then I found out that the "Draenei" we were getting were just re-colored, holier-than-thou Eredar in a space ship, and it all went downhill from there.What was wrong with keeping the Eredar as the evil demonic overlords of the Burning Legion, and the Draenei as the other native race of Draenor that was tragically driven to near extinction by the demon blood-crazed Orcs?
They basically wanted to give us a non-demon demon race and retconned the hell out of the whole thing... At least we got a lot of good lore out of it.
They are quite menacing.It's a bit confusing with the new naming where these ones are called "Lost Draenei" in WoW, and those that are called "Broken Draenei" in WoW are the middle step in the Draenei devolution. And only with WoW, Akama's design was decided to be a mix between Broken and Lost.It's interesting how these Lost Ones have almost no resemblance to the regular Dreanei.I remember when TBC came that I did not understand why the Draenei look so different from the ones in W3. Good times.I also remember flying to the floating island in Netherstorm, seeing the giant Eredar sorcerer there and suddenly realizing: Waaaaait... this is how the Draenei look like now! He's just bigger and red!I didn't care much for it being a retcon. I thought it was interesting twist. Even thought the whole "spaceship" thing seemed to be a bit too sci-fi, I doubt that matters now. There are so many sci-fi elements in WoW that to remove them all, it would remove probably more than 50% of the lore, locations and aesthetics. And I don't consider those bad things now either.
Look awesome. Wish we'd gotten these in TBC, but at very least I hope we get Broken as an allied race some day.
TO BATTLE! (Hold my teeth.)
Draenei lore is confusing, isn't it?