#rakeesh

[keeshplay]

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[isei-silva]

“There are many souls in Argus. Lost. Find them, and return them to me so that they may finally rest.”

Combining an old concept sketch of an uncorrupted Rakeesh with the fun idea of returning to Argus in a possible future expansion (fingers crossed) got me thinking about the kind of quests that we may encounter.

After Rakeesh’s death maybe his soul has returned home, to Argus. And while his father, Velen, leads the draenei people, Rakeesh is trying to guide and rest the many wayward, troubled draenei souls left wandering in Argus. 

You, the hero, would help Rakeesh find these souls. As you quested along the areas they may appear randomly and you have a narrow window of time to engage and defeat them, perhaps gathering in a crystal you carry that Rakeesh gave you at the start. The souls would be randomly created NPCs so that no character would run into the same NPC souls twice (or would be rare to). As you level the souls would “calm” and speak to you, perhaps telling you a bit about their lives in selected areas that trigger their flavor script. At level cap Rakeesh beckons you to return them to him, as they are ready to rest and be with the Light.

Fun to imagine!

[the-exobar]

Too soon? Definitely too soon.

[katieskarlette]

Just when you think you can’t possibly have any more draenei/eredar feels, there are Velen’s wife and son--or their echoes, anyway.  (It doesn’t say that’s who she is, but it’s pretty obvious from the context.)

[highhighelf]

I wonder what Rakeesh's name was before he got turned into a demon. I don't think Velen would have called him 'butcher'

[isei-silva]

A while ago I got an message asking about what I thought Nuuri, mother of Raakesh and mate of Velen, would look like. I cannot find that ask again in my inbox to respond, but I manage to do a quick sketch before work of the lovely woman. I want to continue working on this too I think it would make a great piece.

[isei-silva]

“He would’ve looked just like you.”

haha so what if the whole terrible Burning Legion thing never happened and Rakeesh lived to be a normal draenei? look at the son of our Prophet

I can’t imagine what terrible things the boy went through to transform him into the eredar butcher he became

[katieskarlette]

If I hadn’t already wanted to set Kil’Jaeden on fire before, that low blow about Rakeesh would have been sufficient motivation to get through that awful trash and melt his face.

(I also wanted to set fire to the prankster who kept putting raid markers on my head and ruining my screenshots, but that’s beside the point.)