Talk:Druid lore

Druids of the Claw
"All playable druids in World of WarCraft are considered Druids of the Claw." -I'm curious if anyone could provide a source for this information; also, even if information can be supplied at the moment, it seems this will be nullified either way in the Burning Crusade, since playable druids will get Storm Crow form. We'll have to wait and see how that plays out, but in either case, that statement doesn't seem to hold up very well. --Pure.Wasted 12:16, 3 October 2006 (EDT)

Druids in WOW are actually "Druids of the Wild" in that they share aspects from many druid factions. Further note Druids of the Claw do not have anything to do with the cat forms, but rather they are only tied to the Bear totemic.Baggins 22:20, 12 November 2006 (EST)

Other Druids
There are druids of the claw in the Wailing Caverns iirc. these are of the Snake aspect.


 * Those would be Druids of the Fang.. --Anticrash 10:33, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

ah yes., And what about: Druids of the Grove, Found in Alterac Valley. Not much is known about these. CJ 10:46, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)


 * Hmm.. 'Grove' makes me think 'Deer', which makes me connect Druids of the Grove to the Druids of the Antler.. I've never seen a DotG, though.. --Anticrash 10:52, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)
 * http://www.thottbot.net/?n=657959 Hard to say. CJ 10:54, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)


 * Seeing as the Patron of the Druids of the Grove is likely Ivus the Forest Lord, an ancient, and their name is "plant-like" I would assume they are more likely to have tranformations based on treants (Tree of Life) most likely.Baggins 16:22, 13 November 2006 (EST)

Source?
It would be nice if someoneone could put a source in for all the various druid types. Is it from an RPG book? --Aeleas 14:12, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)

"The first mortal creatures that Cenarius instructed in druidism were the tauren, as recounted in their myth Forestlord and the First Druids."

There is no proof that this passage above is accurate. The title itself ("Forestlord and the First Druids") doesn't indicate specifially the first druids to walk in Azeroth but can be used as a reference to the first druids among the tauren. As written in the "Forestlord and the First Druids" Cenarius came to instruct the tauren in the ways of the druids, but "Forestlord and the First Druids" doesn't tell the exact time when Cenarius came to do so. If this happened before Cenarius came to visit the Night Elves or not remains shrouded.

Most of the information comes from WarCraft III or WoW. I have heard reference to the Druids of the wild, and fang in WoW. Druids of the claw and talon are from WarCraft III. I have never heard any one say this directly this is just how I interpreted the druids. I was under the impression that druids completely devoted to a form got a name. Druid of the Claw was devoted completely to the bear form and would not be able to use the cat, seal, crow, snake or other forms. A druid that has not chosen a path or has taken such a balanced path they have made it to arch druid can use more than one form. Druid of the < > is a hero class.

Considering that the WoW Encyclopedia now clearly states that Malfurion Stormrage was the first druid, and that Nethaera, a blue name, has clarified that the Tauren Myth is inaccurate on the WoW General forums, I have changed the druid history to reflect this new information, and linked the relevant Encyclopedia article and forum post after the new paragraph, although the forum post will, of course, eventually disappear. -- Enabrin 23:48, 03 Nov 2006 (PST)

High Elf Druids
Looks like there really were high elf druids. As wow established a blood elf druid in Tempest Keep. Plus evidence of half-elves having druidic culture passed down to them, and the connection between runic magic, runestones and ley lines according to the RPG. I've tentatively called them "Druid Maji" based on the the fact that said druids have been called druids by some sources and maji by other sources. The term "druid magi" or term "magi" connected to "druidism" does have some basis in history or at least cultic/mythological beliefs of scotland so the term is not contradictory.[] Magi by itself can mean "priest", so definition druid priest is also not contradictory.Baggins 16:56, 18 November 2006 (EST)

Really, I don't see why there should be High Elf Druids when they don't care anything about the nature? Tomatketchup 16:21, 18 September 2007 (EST)

Might of Kalimdor
What is this? Someone has added it saying some druids belong to this, but the sourse/link goes to knowwhere. What is the 'Might of Kalimdor'? --Diggory 10:51, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Its a mob faction in the game, hostile to everyone. I think they are tied to some horde quests, but no one has ever put up the lore surrounding them.Baggins


 * Searching for "Might of Kalimdor" only reveals the name of an unimplemented quest and some unimplemented mobs; and some quotes where it refers to the combined armies against the Qiraji and no separate faction. I'll remove it from here since there is no information. --Hurax 08:44, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Break-up the article a bit
I think we could probably give individual pages to at least half of the druid orders/organizations list in the article, as there is alot of lore that could be added for individual groups from various sources. This way we could reduce the page length, and just have short introduction for orders leading to their individual pages.Baggins 15:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * That's probably a good idea. I'll leave it to you to organize this, given that this is a lot of RPG info. -- Ragestorm  (talk &middot; contr) 16:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem, I'll try to get onto it once I finish updating the stubbed class articles I'm working on currently.Baggins 16:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Im afraid Im not to up on the RPG stuff so anything related to that i cant help with, but let me know if i can help you at all. --Diggory 09:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)