And generally for female characters who are barnacles, they are created explicitly to become the love interest of someone.Ī character who is supposed to be a High Priestess of a goddess and leader of her people, has spent almost the entirety of all books and gameplay being a catalyst for her husband, Malfurion Stormrage. The women in World of Warcraft have been subject to this time and time again. When you take a look at lists of important characters on any WoW site, certain people will pop up more than others: Varian and Anduin Wrynn, Thrall, Arthas the Lich King, Garrosh, Velen, Baine Bloodhoof, Illidan…I could go on, I really could, about the amount of male characters that have deep character development, appear in quests that players have to go on, and have seriously contributed to Warcraft lore by their own merits and independence.Īnne Stickney of Endgaget created a term called “barnacle character”, which means a character whose entire existence is dependent on and wrapped around the existence of another. The problem I found is that none of those women have any development or any depth given to their characters alone. Now, this isn’t to say that there are no female characters in Warcraft, because, in fact, there are. World of Warcraft has a severe case of gender inequality.
No, the main reason was that there were no longer characters that I could find myself connecting with anymore. The main reason I stopped playing is not that I felt like I had “aged out”, or that the storytelling was getting bad (which I could write a whole other article about), or even that I didn’t have time to play casually anymore. The creative gameplay, vast worlds and lore to explore, dungeons and raids, and endless number of characters and storylines to create had me hooked immediately.īut as the months and years passed, the enchantment began to wear off, and nowadays I hardly find myself playing the game at all anymore. This was my very first experience with a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (or MMORPG for short, which is a really long acronym anyway). To sum up my experience, I was absolutely blown away. I didn’t know anyone very well yet, the maximum temperature for an introvert to go outside had been exceeded, and, most importantly, the Starter Edition for World of Warcraft was free.
I started playing World of Warcraft for the first time while I was at NC Governor’s School East in the summer of 2014. If you wish for more information on the characters, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or do some research during your downtime.) For the purpose of the article, I kindly ask that you bear my lore nerdiness and just go with the flow. (I’m about to list the names of characters that, for those unfamiliar with World of Warcraft, might not be recognizable.
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