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Reprinted the first few pieces for Vol’jin!

His mohawk isn’t glued on yet since I’ll have to print the torso, attack the head, and fill and sand the seam first because the mohawk will get in the way

Also, even at x2 size the tusks were still a pain to glue

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Commission - Amaca

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Sav'hik High Priestess of Bwonsamdi

sketchy comm for @holykalamity

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Honestly I do like how Warcraft initially had Orcs be generic evil monsters, only to turn around and say they were victims of the literal demons causing these wars just as much if not more so than the humans, Dwarves, and Elves… and then the humans, dwarves, and elves turned around and literally enslaved the orcs long enough for their demonic taint to fully fade, by which point nearly all of the Orcs had lost all sense of cultural identity and no longer had a homeland to return to. So they managed to free themselves and fucked off across the ocean to another continent entirely, settling down in a literal desert and finding out that there were several other races the humans didn’t care for or just didn’t bother helping, the Trolls were considered nothing but monsters and the Tauren were nearly going extinct thanks to Centaur aggression, so the Orcs, still reeling from their loss of identity and all but the oldest among them having been born slaves, chose to help these people. The Darkspear Trolls were welcomed into the Barrens with open arms and the Tauren given military and material aid against the Centaurs- and then a group of undead managed to break free of the Lich King’s clutches and regain their mental freedom and senses of identity, and the Horde welcomed them in too! Maybe not with love, the Forsaken are a pretty gloomy people who use biological warfare with gusto, but still allies.

The Orcs did fight with the Night Elves from time to time, but that’s because the Orcs lived in a freaking desert and a savannah and desperately needed wood to build homes and light fires for cooking and such, and the Night Elves chose to go to war over their forests being cut down instead of, say, help the Orcs learn about druidic magic and teach them how to upgrade their new home’s environment so they don’t have to intrude upon Night Elf territory.

And basically every conflict between the Alliance and Horde since then has been caused by the humans and their allies refusing to let bygones be bygones and accept that the Orcs were betrayed and forcibly turned into monsters but have since healed and only seek stability now.

…and then Blizzard turns Garrosh Hellscream, son of the man who freed the Orcs from their demonic enslavement, into a bloodthirsty villain who waged war for the sake of waging war and who accidentally murdered the leader of the Tauren.

Then they made Vol’jin, the wise and compassionate leader of the Darkspear Trolls and personal friend to Thrall, leader for literally a single expansion before killing him off in an opening cutscene.

And then they turned Sylvanas, a former High Elf turned banshee turned queen of the Forsaken and an extreme pragmatist seeking only to protect her new people from those who see them as nothing but unnatural monsters, into the villain by having her become the new warchief of the Horde, and then blame her for things her new political opponent did with glee but now speaks out against as if it was all her fault, as well as meaningless babble about honor from a man with none. Now she’s fucked off to who knows where, abandoning her post and the people she fought so hard to protect.

I just… the Horde’s story was one of persecuted minorities banding together for mutual protection and support against human aggression, but they’re still treated like the aggressors and the villains in every expansion, and their iconic characters are all killed off with no (good) new ones introduced in turn. Meanwhile the Alliance’s golden boy Anduin Wrynn went from a spoiled brat of a prince to a grown man and genuine leader, the three Dwarven clans have made efforts to reunify under one banner while the former King Bronzebeard has become an avatar of Azeroth itself, the Night Elven leaders are now both present and still alive, and even Gilneas is part of the Alliance despite their centuries-long isolation. And also the gnomes are there, but they never really played a major part in the story to begin with. Meanwhile the Alliance has allied with elves who use void magic (which, in this universe, is as bad as demonic fel magic, just with less of an awful reputation because the Void Lords are more subtle and are playing a longer game than the Burning Legion), abandoned their longstanding allies the High Elves for dipping into Fel magic to stay alive, and the Nightborne (literally a faction of Night Elves who were enslaved to demons for a time) allied with the Horde despite both factions helping them.

I just… at every turn the alliance is praised and upheld as being righteous for waging war with their former slaves, while the Horde is depicted as evil and backstabbing despite having been founded and lead by persecuted peoples seeking community and understanding from one another. But if you actually look at their actions as a faction rather than just their leaders’ personalities, the Alliance is instigating conflicts with races who would mostly be fine with opening negotiations, even if they don’t really trust the Alliance due to a long history of oppression and genocide. And the Horde’s leaders undergo character death or literal death to keep having them be the villains, even when the Horde’s actual populace and military fight those characters too! The Alliance’s new allies are ones of convenience, half of whom would (and in the case of the Dark Iron Dwarves, did) backstab them in any other circumstances, while the Horde take in refugees and victims to help them recover. Blizzard keeps trying to have it be both ways, to have the Alliance be the righteous heroes and the Horde be monstrous villains, while still having the Alliance be racist colonizers and the Horde be victims of the Alliance and the burning legion.

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If not big kitty why tiger shaped?

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The beginning of a Vol’jin!

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The little Galio test print and most of big Galio!

The full statue will be 12.5in tall and is 9 pieces that all have to be glued together (vs little Galio is one solid piece)

His right wing is printing now, an hour to go out of a 5.5hr print job

The filament is Elegoo PLA in marble, painted with Citadel paints

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Halduron ref I made for myself based on his TBC design

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Asking the visitors around Dornogal about their thoughts on Jaina Proudmoore and her role in the Kirin Tor 💜🎤 (also known as me dispelling the idea that I hate Jaina, featuring my four mains (in character): Shazi, Waria, Telarius and Palanzual) 💙

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Can't believe I haven't shared this one, I'm a huge Bwonsamdi fan

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i was made aware a warcraft version of this meme didn't exist

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don't take it personal, Rin'jhi doesn't like anyone and would sacrefice you to the Mistress of the Hunt for one cornchip

rin'jhi belongs to @dravatti

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Sketchy comm for the lovely @combustiblecake ❤️

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is it okay if other people write for WoW trolls??(not necessarily your characters, just in general) you’re the only person i’ve seen do it so i figured it was respectful to ask

Of course!

I don’t own the rights to WoW/Blizz (lol), everyone is always free to write fic for any media they feel inspired to do so for!

I don’t see many other people writing WoW trolls (or anything adjacent) often, so it would definitely be cool to see people do so!

I sort of just used WoW vibes for most of my writing and not actual canon (with the exception of the setting/details for Daz’ai, though he’s still an OC). Any named characters in Zen or Ba’s stories are all my own creations and I would be uncomfortable with anyone using them. Same goes with my specific setting and details since it’s not WoW/Azeroth, just stuff inspired by the game.

But yeah! You should absolutely do some fic writing if you’re interested! The world always could use more WoW stuff!

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fuck. i love my own blog. it’s almost like it’s full of things i would post it’s crazy