Thread:Dojo88/@comment-25050130-20150503000119/@comment-26252250-20150503170134

@Tesla: I mentioned the Kinkou given they're 3 members, each with a sacred duty, and Bard's mask has three dots. And given that Bard tries to maintain cosmic balance by going on Magical Journeys, and the Kinkou enforce balance in Valoran and go where they must to do so, it only made sense to assume that the Kinkou are like the "students" of the Wandering Caretaker's ways, albeit limited to the mortal plane.

@Sharjo: Back in the day, I played WC3 and TFT (never the first two, gotta remedy that at some point) and I remember going to Outland with Kael'Thas and Lady Vashj, and meeting Akama and the Broken Draenei.

I understand what Blizzard does: Since the days of O&H they never really nailed down the minutiae of a lot of stuff, and that becomes a tool and an advantage later down the line. I don't even know how many sub-races of Orcs there are already (I remember Grom Hellscream and the Warsong drinking the blood of Manoroth, and being named "Chaos Orcs", but then I think the actual designation is "Fel") but since they never really specified Orcs beyond what one saw in the RTS trilogy (green humanoids from Draenor). Same with the Draenei: one assumes Akama and the Broken are the only Draenei and native to Outland, but that's because they were the only ones seen. Since nothing was set in stone, they saw a loophole and took the opportunity.

Blizzard's rule is basically: Unless set in stone, it's not a retcon, but fleshing out. The only instances I raised an eyebrow were in documented cases of the novels (e.g. Arthas conducting a ritual to turn Sylvanas into a Banshee as opposed to murdering and turning her on the spot.) It was probably explained in WoW, but how did Sylvanas regain her body?