"Discipline" priests.. In Character?

Anjilo wrote:Anjilo Practices the belief that you can reach a balance between them
"May The light be my Fury and the Shadows my Calm"
"The Light is my Shield and the Shadows my sword!"

Dont believe there is any lore or such on the matter, the concept is mostly open to player interpretation.

know what you'll say, that "shadow is not the same as fire or frost", yes, indeed it isn't, it's merely another school of magic. Peasants would not "hunt" magic users, they live with them, the same way they live with bakers and blacksmiths and stableboys. "Shadow magic" is not "evil magic", you're looking for "Necromancy" here, for "Unholy magic", but not Shadow.

In fact, Elune herself has a dual nature. Shadow is half of it. It's part of the world, nothing that could even remotely be seen as "heresy"

Wrong, Shadow Magic is the destructive and pure form of Arcane, alas also Fel Magic, Necromancy etc are all a subcathegory of Fel Magic, and this is the most addicting and purest forms of destructive and physically manipulative magic and energy.

It corrupts as chaos and disorder is it's pure form, negativity etc.


The Elves magic is not the same, for they're empowered by the moon, It's more Nature magic than anything else, S'pose with a touch of the Arcane, but in a culture of the Elves and especially the Draenei, the Shadow is frowned upon, the Draenei if anyone have experienced it's corruption and results afflicted upon the outland and their race in the hands of it's most attuned wielders.

And the Shadow is the opposition to the Light, the Holy.
The population in World of Warcraft actually does frown upon Fel Magic and it's Shadow school.

This isn't harry potter where there's only two terms for magicians, Witches and Warlocks.

But Witch is the feminine term for Warlock, alas, foul magician, afflictor, curser. -Bad.

"One of the things you have to realize in Warcraft is, regardless of what they worship, all Priestly power comes from the Light and its dark side the Shadow. It’s just different ways of pulling said power. No worshiped being actually grants any power. Even Elune. The Cult of the Damned has priests in the form of acolytes, remember. They draw upon the Shadow through worship of the Lich King.
The domains are all facets of the Light (and Shadow), chosen and practiced through a particular faiths' rituals and practices.
Whether you worship the Holy Light or Forgotten Shadow (religions, not beings) or not, you still draw upon the Light (source of goodness) or the Shadow (source of evil). This is according to Metzen."
- Adam C. Loyd, WoW RPG developer

"The 'Light' and the 'Shadow' are both philosophies of a sort, but they also tap into universal powers that are at play in the cosmos. Good and Evil are real things – not just ideological distinctions."
- Chris Metzen

(Goggy) - Exilius wrote:
"The 'Light' and the 'Shadow' are both philosophies of a sort, but they also tap into universal powers that are at play in the cosmos. Good and Evil are real things – not just ideological distinctions."
- Chris Metzen

Cyaska wrote:

(Goggy) - Exilius wrote:
"The 'Light' and the 'Shadow' are both philosophies of a sort, but they also tap into universal powers that are at play in the cosmos. Good and Evil are real things – not just ideological distinctions."
- Chris Metzen

And as such both can be called upon by the same person, regardless of Worship? A "Good" person may commit evil, and vice-versa (The Cult of the Forgotten Shadow is a good example of the latter.) and so, if the light was not harmful to most worshippers of the Shadow they may call upon it?

(Goggy) - Exilius wrote:Sir Zeilek is no good example at all, ( Everyone always selects him to shield them D:) becouse he is not in control of himself, his mind is pure so he can still tap the light.