r/warcraftlore • u/CoolerClimbXIVe • 1d ago

Kal'dorei golems?

In game we have representations of Arcane Golems from the Blood Elves, who have a metallic/masonry golem, and has been represented that way since TBC, but we also have their anima blood golems. The Nightborne have distinct constructs that feature a core, and are more metallic, often resembling a Nightsaber, though there are also street sweepers. For the Void Elves, I am not aware that they have been shown to have a racial golem. This leaves the Kaldorei; surely they, who have had millennia to design and build arcane constructs, would have in game appearances. I'm imagining Kaldorei war machines like the Leviathan from the Walt Disney animated movie Atlantis. I am not going to consider the Ancients as Kaldorei golems because they seem to serve mainly at the behest of the druidic part of Night Elf society.

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u/Professional-Tank848 1d ago

Well, yeah, if you don't consider the Ancients, you'll have a bad time.

The Night Elves outlawed Arcane magic for 10,000 years - you're hardly going to see lots of golems running around.

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u/Viseria 1d ago

I guess after banning Arcane magic and the renegades having limited resources, the main society had to come up with something non-Arcane. Like some kind of huge, mobile tree. But it'd need to be Ancient to work.

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u/Odasto_ 1d ago

They night have existed before the war of the ancients, and probably look a bit like how nightborne golems look today.

But modern night elves? They don’t need ‘em. They’ve got ancients of war and mountain giants.

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u/MixAmbitious307 1d ago

This leaves the Kaldorei; surely they, who have had millennia to design and build arcane constructs

Kal'dorei outlawed arcane magic for 10k years. Sure, one could imagine more "druidic" kind of golems like wood golems. It would have been as if in WoD, the Iron Horde (before Gul'dan took it over) had warlocks and summoned demons.

I personally think that, instead of having golems, Kal'dorei (also as a nod to Warcraft 3) has Ancients and wild creatures as their allies.

Why use magic to build a golem, when you can ask the help of creatures like mountain giants?

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u/Kaelynath 1d ago

Kaldorei*

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u/PhantomMuse434 1d ago

How does the apostrophe misspelling still exist??? We have seen kaldorei a thousand times between the RTS and WoW.

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u/Jake-of-the-Sands 1d ago

Highborne had same the same type of golems as Nightborne and Blood Elves (they are all bascially same constructs, just with different visuals matching the cultural aesthetics). Darnassian Kaldorei don't use arcane magic and therefore don't have arcane constructs. Anima Blood Golems BE used in MoP belonged to the Thunder King, they are not BE technology. What we see now in Quel'thalas is their regular Arcane Golems.

Shen'dralar might've brought some of their knowledge with them during the Cataclysm reunification, so the techno-magical capabilities are there for sure, but I don't think The Sentinels ever viewed it as an option to use them.

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u/Acceptable_Bed_5750 1d ago

Kal'dorei just used arcane golems... you can see this in aszuna then when highborne left they took golems with them while kal'dorei ditched arcane magic

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u/Grafiska 1d ago

Isn't there one in Dire Maul or am I making this shit up? If there is I'm guessing that's what they used in the Azsharan times.

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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 1d ago

Treants

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u/Acceptable_Bed_5750 1d ago

Treants are just younger ancients just as sentient but smaller and weaker 

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u/ExplanationMundane3 1d ago

They outlawed Arcane magic for 10,000 years. The closest they have to one are the Ancients.