Filed under: Lore, Guides, RP, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage

This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the eighteenth in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class well, without embarrassing yourself.

Originally I had planned to write about death knights only after I had written about all the other classes, as a way of wrapping up and rounding out this whole series of articles about the lore behind the playable races and classes of World of Warcraft. But then ZuWho posted a comment on my last article specifically requesting me for my thoughts on death knights — and even used the word “pleeeaase!” So of course I’m always a sucker for such polite requests, especially comments like this with really insightful questions. Today we’ll look specifically at these questions and see what possible answers come to mind.

To a certain extent, we already covered a number of possibilities for death knight characters about 6 months ago. However, while most of those possibilities are still valid, there was so much we didn’t know about the player-character death knight lore at that time, and there are definitely some points that need updating.

Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be a Death Knight

All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be a Death Knight originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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