Aqir Physical Castes

[zumbak04]

Describe your suggestion in full detail below: Add traits together with different looks for aqir castes:

Qiraji casts:

• Gladiator (male)/Battleguard (female): more prowess, martial, less learning, diplomacy, and stewardship.
• Prophet: learning, diplomacy, stewardship, less martial.
• Emperor: (only Twin Emperors, some major skill boosts)

Nerub casts:

• Spiderlord: the same trait as Gladiator, different localization
• Vizier: the same trait as Prophet, different localization
• Worker: no special bonuses

Mantid casts:

Has not casts.

[BurnedCrusader]

As I decided to research the wiki on Nerubians and then saw this I'm deeply against making Spiderlords just a copy of qiraji gladiator. Instead I suggest adding a worker caste for qiraji too(they obviously can't reproduce) and making spiderlords basically like twin emperors, since they RULED Azjol'Nerub. Though we could make them weaker in learning and intrigue, instead giving more powerful buffs to viziers, while all Nerubian "high castes"(viziers and spiderlords) get bonuses to stewardship. Both castes can reproduce, but since viziers are priests they can't(disallow it via religion) until spiderlords are mostly gone(after War of the Spider). Also Nerubians had battleguards too, so they could be knights of their armies(more prowess, but less everything else), while spiderlords are commanders and marshals(less prowess than battleguards, but more martial and still can pack a punch). https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Azjol-anak_Battleguard Also possibly queen sub-caste could be added for both races with a small bonus to fertility(they pump out lot's of eggs, but not everyone is born into high caste), learning and stewardship, but they can't really into intrigue and martial. I will make an issue about Nerubians later today explaining this point also.

The half-spider, half-humanoid viziers once served as advisors, sorcerers, and seers to the mighty nerubian spiderlords. But in the aftermath of the War of the Spider, the tables turned, and in the vacuum of their collapsed society, the cunning viziers rose to power. Utilizing their sorcery and high intelligence, the viziers have emerged as the rulers of the nerubians' underground kingdom.

Nerubian spiderlords are cold, ruthless, deadly, and intelligent beetle creatures. They are perhaps the most powerful nerubians. Spiderlords once formed the majority of Azjol-Nerub’s leadership in Azjol-Nerub; they were the keepers of law and dominated nerubian society, though the eldest members of other castes held considerable sway.

Only nerubian queens give birth to spiderlords; one out of every twenty eggs she lays on average grows into a spiderlord (the rest emerge as regular nerubians).

(I had to use rpg lore here since otherwise blizz just doesn't care about spidy bois and we have basically no info on their society, which isn't really cool)

[zumbak04]

I'm deeply against making Spiderlords just a copy of qiraji gladiator

You need to explain why. To give spider lords stewardship bonus?

Instead I suggest adding a worker caste for qiraji too

There are no qiraji workers.

Nerubians had battleguards

Your link is a worker nerubian.

possibly queen sub-caste could be added for both races with a small bonus to fertility

There are no qiraji queens.

[BurnedCrusader]

You need to explain why. To give spider lords stewardship bonus?

Basically, yeah. It wouldn't make sense for Spiderlords to be stupid in stewardship, since they were the ruling caste, while Qiraji had Twin Emperors

There are no qiraji workers.

Add one, since don't Qiraji actually build stuff? If not then it's okay, cuz blizz gave even less info on Qiraji society as I saw. If models are the problem just use some smaller bug's model.

Your link is a worker nerubian.

Hmm, I thought it was a unique one. Guess my eyes aren't working properly

There are no qiraji queens.

Well, we don't even know how they reproduce, do we? It makes sense to have a brood queen. Maybe make her stupider, since we never see them they might be used only for breeding and don't need alot of knowledge. If models are a problem(again) you can try using battleguards, but make them less warriory maybe? Or just replace them with battleguards themselves if it's too much effort for a small feature

[zumbak04]

Add one, since don't Qiraji actually build stuff?

They have silithids. They're closer to animals though that's why we don't have them as characters.

Well, we don't even know how they reproduce, do we?

They have females: battleguards.