"Mantid People"

[Bulletdance]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists- ... e/bestiary
NOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooOoooooooo They're not a people they're a pet...get in my stables! Oh well lol at least we have the older giant adorable tick things.

[cowmuflage]

I had a feeling this would be the case and I don't mind.

[Sigrah]

What I wanna know is how the hell the Tauren's seem to find "cousins" in whatever undiscovered land we walk into. Northrend has the Taunka, and now Pandaria has the Yaungol. Just seems strange to me that they were able to find their way all over with hardly anyone talking about it like they do with the Elves and Trolls.

[Tsuki]

What I wanna know is how the hell the Tauren's seem to find "cousins" in whatever undiscovered land we walk into. Northrend has the Taunka, and now Pandaria has the Yaungol. Just seems strange to me that they were able to find their way all over with hardly anyone talking about it like they do with the Elves and Trolls.

I'd like to think of it more like how there are cousins of birds or frogs on islands that have been isolated for many years. I mean, you've got tigers on both Pandaria and the other places, so why not divergent species of whatever resulted in Tauren?

[Equeon]

"The cycle of Mantid birthing and building revolves around the Kunchong, a colossal insect large enough to threaten whole towns by itself. The Mantid revere this enormous creature, and when instinct compels it to stampede throughout the continent, eating earth, trees, and lakes, they follow behind, collecting the amber-colored resin it secretes, birthing their young and creating their homes in its wake. If other races’ homes are trampled by the Kunchong, it is of little consequence to the Mantid. Where the Kunchong’s shadow falls, they walk. Where they walk, the land is transformed."
Sounds like a beast, not a humanoid to me.
Note the Kungchong are the ones that look like the Silithid Colossi. There's still hope!!

[Wain]

Kunchong are definitely wild beasts. It's a bit misleading they used one as the main pic for the Mantids, since they're not actually of that race, even if they are very important to them.

I suspect the reason that the various tauren races passed through history without much comment is that they all seem to be quiet, nomadic peoples without much technology. Well, quiet except in the current circumstance, but those seem to have been driven mad.

[Bulletdance]

I hope you guys are right, these looks soooo cool.

[Qraljar]

It doesn't really make a change for now though, as they don't seem to be slated as tameable for release, but yeah, Wain is right; it still sounds like a beast to me - even more so now, actually.


It would be cool if they allowed them to be tameable in a patch in the future(still MoP).

Like 5.1, because we raid Heart of Fear and kill Shek'zeer at release so maybe one of the consequences could be tameable Kunchong for some reason???(??)

I doubt it, but it'd be nice for sure.

[Meggers]

Well, there are people on various continents separated by oceans in the real world. Why not Pandaria?