#wotlk death knight

[warcraft-guru]

Badass Death Knight main.

[den-with-6-ns]

Not comic related, I just got back into playing WoW and Darion Mograine is my most beloved ever, this is just a real quick 45 min painting.

[elvensnowart]

child of the stars, deathlord galethei

[sevgrestuanghr]

I have granted you immortality so that you may herald in a new, dark age for the Scourge.

sjxhcusjsjfkah i love death knights and their original quest line

Mechislawa, my death knight (not human, not forsaken, but a secret third thing)

[esperanta-dragon]

My stupid DK jokes stickers are on Etsy! So if you want to support me so I can make more, feel free! Suffer well! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1481525366/world-of-warcraft-death-knight-funny

[night-elf-aesthetics]

If you don't steal the tiniest horse are you even doing it right

[bananaisa]

[kazhul]

“There must come an end to all things, death knight.”

[rivkael]

"Siblings bright and fair, wrenched apart by men and gods / crawled their way back to each other / no matter the cost."

My ocs, Melkoras the death knight and Rivkael the demon hunter. Nonbinary siblings. The story of them being torn apart and finding each other again is really tragic.

[redsinistra]

[OLD ART] 2017 vs New ?

Again taking some of my old art pieces to here just to keep track of them. I was doing a proper reference for my Dk so I added a little WIP as well at the end.

Legion was a good expansion and inspired me so much! He’s Lerashen, my (night elf) frost death knight. The other is a human blood Dk character, from my friend.

[bloodsailbuccaneer]

A smooth, cool and minty blast!

[rangerzath]

I've been really enjoying World of Warcraft Wrath Classic. The game just feels so much better than the clunky retail I left behind. I just found out my Death Knight is ranked 69th in the All Stars on the Bloodsail Buccaneers server. I'm pretty shocked by this but I have to admit it feels good (and not just because of the number 😉 though @wondrouswendy made sure to point out the ranking number specifically to me). I haven't really been in a guild or a dps ranking list since my SWTOR days. Feels a little weird but I'm glad I am performing well. I've been working hard at it.

I'm also in the top 10 of Frost Death Knights on the server and top in my guild! I've just always loved Death Knight since I first started playing in Legion. Through the ups and downs there has just always been something about Frost that just clicked for me. The whole class theme and gameplay just makes sense to me. Not to mention my Death Knight character Thaeus himself who I've developed an interesting and interconnecting backstory with @wondrouswendy. He's special to me so I'm really happy I can continue playing him to his fullest potential.

[the-sentinel-enclave-blog]

2003 pre warcraft release screenshots.

Kaldorei were originally designed to have a pink hair option with golden face markings. Pink hair was reintroduced during Wotlk for Kaldorei death knights. The face option seen here was also removed.

[aggravatetheaxe]

dethklok plays WoW

Nathan - main tank. Horde of course. Probably orc. His only toon. Absolutely a blood death knight both for aesthetic and because you know he's pulling top dps in addition to holding agg on everything in the room. Guild leader, does not take his title seriously but will still kick your ass if you bail on raid night. likes pvp but prefers pve

Pickles - plays mostly trolls, has 2 or 3 toons, probably also has an ugly forsaken and an ugly goblin (although goblin is a later race so depends on the year). Cat druid, often forced to spec into healing because mythic dungeons are only 5 man. But prefers to be cat or combat rogue. Incredible dps when he's allowed to do dps. not nurturing at all as a healer, WILL let you die if you piss him off (unless you're Nathan, but Nathan never dies). loves both pvp and pve but gets super steamed during pvp

Skwisgaar - paladin paladin paladin. Belf, of course. has secret female alts as well as secret ally alts. constantly adding his girlfriends to the guild and taking shit from the bank without asking. But he doesn't get in trouble because his dps is second to none - topping the charts even over Nathan. Ret pally, could technically heal with holy but his dps is just so insane that they can't afford to have him healing. pvp is beneath him

Toki - altaholic. Lots of female toons, lots of ally toons, gets bullied for both. Really wants to main a hunter so he can have a bunch of cute animal companions (and because it would be easier dps) but the others say that's gay so his main is a frost DK. the others make him spec into unholy because his crowd control brings clusters together so that Skwis and Nathan can wipe them out. So, so fucking angry that he never gets to do any actual dps because his plagues never get the chance to stack - and despite knowing it's a DOT issue the others clown on him for being the absolute bottom of the dps chart. pvp is too hard for him, no one protects him and everyone picks on him

Murderface - orc arms warrior and tauren fury warrior, dps but mostly off tank. makes cringe jokes (abt both native americans and milking) if tauren. One secret ally toon (human no less), also a warrior, that he uses to /walk around stormwind and RP badly. constantly brags about his dps but he's actually garbage, only above toki. makes a big deal out of his rank in the guild but he actually has no bank privileges. loves self harm through pvp

Charles - undead disc priest. a few alts, equal numbers male and female but almost all undead. probably a GM. heals when pickles is on dps and there's room or in a raid setting. guild treasurer, full bank permissions, has to constantly police the boys and spends thankless hours filling the bank back up with pots, food, etc. Also in charge of recruiting, so he should just be guild lead at this point but he dutifully never complains :) plays an affliction warlock and a couple rogues (combat and assassination) on a different server, when the boys give him one free fucking moment to do his own thing

Magnus - used to be a super powerful destro warlock that matched skwisgaar in dps. was super involved in the guild, help build it into what it was, contributed lots of materials, consumables, and money to the bank. Recruited some of their best players. after a horrific falling out (he was the asshole in the situation; controlling, etc) he was kicked from the guild and replaced. has since (due to wotlk) abandoned his warlock for a death knight. now he has a forever grudge and badmouths dethklok any chance he gets, but the majority of the server knows he's the drama so he has trouble finding others to play with. because of this he's been forced to switch over to alliance side. hence he falls in with...

MMA & the revengencers: MMA is yet another DK, probably blood, guild lead of the revengencers - rival guild to dethklok, constantly butting heads with them in pvp, ganking their low level members/alts, just generally being a nuisance. MMA wants revenge for Nathan (with the help of GM charles) getting his OG account banned

Edgar - human arcane mage main ("actually, the rotation is quite simple"). has lots of female alts. treasurer of the revengencers, takes everything way way way too seriously. Definitely works for blizzard or is a GM. very tense, sometimes outright hostile, relationship with Charles despite being essentially coworkers. "umm you sir have won the internet" "updoot" guy in chat. full collection of mounts, even the rare and/or limited edition ones

[esperanta-dragon]

Hi, I hope you are doing well! I recently read a piece of lore that described how to destroy a lich Ras Frostwhisper, and this meant returning mortality to him. Perhaps you know this chain of quests, but if not, it was necessary to find a memorable object associated with the life of the undead, a kind of anchor, fill it with power, at the place where a person died and a lich was born, and use it on it. This process somehow gave the soul the right connection with the body, and the lich became a man. It struck me that this is possible. My questions to you are, do you think this is possible for dk? Is the vampiric blade of the death knight a kind of phylactery for the defiled soul? If Darion had known that such a thing was possible, would he have tried? Do you, as a writer, find this idea interesting, or does it break the character development of the dk and his concept? Sorry for the bunch of text, but I was very interested in this topic

This is an interesting ask and I had to think about how to reply to it.

I am sure some fanfics touched on that and allowed death knights to be mortal again but this is a topic I solved years back when I was trying to figure out if it would be possible at all. Because I am not used to twist lore after I realize I want something and it's not possible with canon.

First of all, Raz was a lich and did not have a phylactery which was fubar on its own. Liches store their souls in their phylacteries, when they are killed, they return into it and they can regenerate. Since it was in Vanilla, I am sure the Scourge was more strict and tried to avoid such incidents later on.

Second of all, the Scourge was more built on in WotLK about how they work and some of things were rewritten as impossible. I remember there were some things from RPG books which were used in-game but later on were confirmed as non-canon but could be still used for RP purposes, such as living death knights. That was a thing before Blizzard said and shown how exactly death knights are made and how they work in WotLK. I am still sure there could be some living death knights before, but more like corrupted paladins who joined the Scourge willingly, and were in the middle of a trial if they can become true death knights. Because being alive has limitations for their magic and they would be weaker this way which is not something they wanted.

Death knights work differently than liches. Their runeblades are not phylactery, they are their extended hand and vessel for a runic magic. They are not powerless without it but they feel weaker and uncomfortable when not carrying it.

They were killed and their souls are tied to their physical bodies. Liches were transformed into something else and their soul is stored in a phylactery. And thinking of Raz... I can't help but thinking it doesn't make sense and it was done during time when only lich with proper lore was Kel'Thuzad and Blizzard was still not sure how to approach this topic. Sure it's a fantasy world, but even fantasy world has a rules and I am afraid this one is obsolete after WotLK.

From what was shown in WotLK, there is no way how to reverse the undead. When somebody was infected by the plague, the only way was to ask Naaru to take their soul before they die and turn into the undead. Death knights barely gained free will back thanks to the Light intervention. They are dead already and they were raised by a powerful runic magic which soaked into their bodies (and my headcanon is that they have runes engraved into their flesh too). I am pretty sure the Scourge made sure that even if there would be a way like with Raz, they would get past some "security measures".

Another topic is: we do ressurection in-game all the time. Lorewise? Incredibly hard and very rare (yes even though Blizzard is bringing characters back all the time). The Blood of Our Fathers and Before the Storm. That was it. Maybe there were some other examples I do not remember now. Bringing somebody to life is extremely rare even for somebody like Velen, Faol, Anduin, etc.

And then... the psychology of it. Majority of DKs lost everything. Their home, their families (sometimes they were the ones who killed them), their friends, everything. They have nothing. Only each other. According to lore, death knights can feel emotions, but the bad ones are much stronger and the good ones are very rare and subtle. They are still managing somehow though. But imagine people who went through such mental manipulation and abuse, trauma, death, despair and such, to get physical bodies. With brain producing hormones again such as cortisol the stress hormone. With need to sleep, eat, dring, etc. I dare to say they would be so highly depressed and would hit them as a train that they would not even enjoy the life, they would be incredible miserable after all that happened. Plus their power would probably go away which makes them strong and such people don't have a workflow for peace.

Right now they at least have each other and are powerful enough to protect something they care about and can prove the world they are still needed and useful.

So if there would be a way, Darion would already find it. But I am not sure if he wanted to use it. He is the most powerful death knight on Azeroth and he uses his power to protect the Ebon Blade. Being mortal again, he would lose such power. And only reason he is still coping with his fate is that he can take care of others with the same fate.

I still have to write the story about sir Zeliek but many years ago when I wrote the first version (I am not happy with) I touched that topic and he stated that after all that happened, he wouldn't want to be alive, because there is nothing good in the world that awaits him, he lost everything and everybody.

But we've touched the topic if death knights can at least get their senses back, even if not fully and permanently. It's still a long way to it in Of Lucid Dreams and Nightmares but it was touched and explored. Because there is a way based on official and confirmed lore.

Sorry for tl;dr! Years of working with death knights.

Still if somebody wants to write a fanfic where it's possible, go for it. But I used to not making anything easy for characters I work with. If something is way too easy, it's no longer fun for me. Because life is not easy.

[dementation]

my OG wow main is finally getting to BE a roleplay toon like i’ve always intended for her <3

this is professor luna peccaminosa, a well-born pyrewood resident whose cowardice drove her to arugal’s experiments in the hopes that his worgen research would allow her to avoid the curse of undeath. after his death, she finally escaped his cruel service (wherein she got the burn on half her face) and roamed free for a while. one archmage beheading + resurrection by the lich king later, she felt his pull yet again and found herself in the plaguelands, where she promptly was killed and turned into a death knight.

after the events of wotlk she has decided to use her new strength and eternal life to learn whatever she can about the world and its history. she studies kaldorei rituals and relics and sometimes teaches at the stormwind mage district!! but she’s usually called on for some adventure or another. no rest for the angry dead, etc.