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In the previous article, when I introduced the Crocodile Man Predator card, I asked a question: Is the Crocodile Man also a Fish Man? So, I followed this question to consult some relevant materials, and found that the relationship between the crocodile and the fishman is really difficult to say, and it may not even be clear to the designers of Hearthstone and World of Warcraft. In this article, we will talk about the story of the crocodile man.
Crocodile Man Oracle
The Crocodiles are a race that appears in the World of Warcraft version of Wrath of the Lich King, and lives mainly in the Northwind Tundra and Soracha Basin in the western part of northend.
The player's first contact with them is a mission called the Elemental Wrath Horn in the North Wind Tundra, which requires the player to kill two Crocodile Man leaders: Chief Bugobugu and Chief Gorgoboo, obtain the horn fragments in their hands, and use the complete horn to perform subsequent missions.
However, the Crocodile People of the North Wind Tundra are only a small part, and their base camp is the Soracha Basin, where they lived long when titans transformed Azeroth and set up an ecological testing ground in the Soracha Basin. Because of this relationship with the Titans, the Crocodile People here have established a camp called the Oracle, guarding the relics and technology left by the Titans.
In World of Warcraft, players can choose to join the Oracle faction to help the Crocodile Man fight the savage Wolverine. If you join the Crocodile Man, they will also reward the player with the Green Archaeopteryx mount. Being able to domesticate Archaeopteryx, even if the Crocodile Man did not get the true transmission of Titan Technology, he must have gained some benefits, right?
Crocodile man and fish man
After understanding the background of the crocodile people, let's talk about their relationship with the fish people. Although the hearthstone new card classifies the Crocodile People as the Fishman race, although the two are related to each other, they are completely different races.
The Annals of the Old Wizards in Dalaran's collection describes the various races of Azeroth, with the Crocodiles classified as shamanic and the Fishmen as the people of the earth.
Here again comes the question: there are shamans (prophets) within the fishmen tribe, why are they not a race that advocates shamanic teachings?
The book explains the problem this way: many races in the world of Azeroth possess spells derived from natural energy and different from shamanic teachings. Whether these spells were shamanic or not was always the focus of debate between the Council of Kenrito in the halls of Violet Castle.
According to the camp of the oracles, we can also understand that the crocodile people are considered to be the ancestors of the fish people a long, long time ago, which is roughly equivalent to the relationship between humans and ape people.
However, as an ancestor, the crocodile people, although ugly in appearance, are much gentler and more intelligent than the fish people. For example, they seek the help of the player, ally with the player, and fight against the operation of the wolverine people, and the fish people cannot learn. The fish people will only bully the weak and the weak with many people, and when they encounter powerful enemies, they will scatter. How to look, how to look like the fish man is the ancestor of the crocodile man.
According to the introduction of the Fishman in world of Warcraft, we can know that the origin of the Fishman is a mystery, and the time of appearance is very short. Therefore, whether the two are related or not is still unknown.
In summary, the Crocodile People are counted as a fishman race, most likely because Hearthstone designers had to force the Fishman to do it. After all, without this card, the Buff Fishman technique promoted by the new version would not have been able to achieve the desired effect. So, we can't be misled, or we have to understand the truth, right?