6 Races in WC3?

[MCV]

I read on Infoceptor just now that WC3 originally had 6 races to pick between. I know that the Burning Legion was the fifth (The 4th actually), but what was the 6th?

 

[VG Emblem]

Most likely Naga. They have their own category in the World Editor, too...

 

[TheDamien]

Either Naga or Draenei I reckon.

 

[MCV]

Very unlikely, as the Dranei and the Nagas were not introduced until TFT, with no references before that.

 

[NoxMortus]

High elves maybe?

 

[Mahucharn]

there is 7 or 8 (I think!) (drainei is undead), human, orc, undead, night elf, neutral, neutral passive, neutral hostile, neutral naga. I just looked and the neutrals might not be a race

 

[risen_jihad]

Nerubians perhaps? They did have multiples buildings and an "epic underground empire" sort of thing

 

[OrochiSpike]

Nerubians like the last guy said. That or maybe at one point Tauren were their own army. I remember from the old Warcraft 3 promotional poster that there where creatures standing behind the humans with pointy ears and spears. Perhaps they are the answer?

 

[Atreides]

nerubians seems like a decent guess, or maybe high elves or burning legion...but I guess blizzard decided that those races would be too similar/not diverse enough compared to the 4 races they chose

 

[Zackreaver]

Probably a mistake

The fifth one was indeed probably going to be the burning legion, maybe infocepter made a mistake, and counted the "Random" selection as one of the races, I don't know im just throwing it out, after all high elves were kinda just a remade humans, I just came up with this because if burning legion was a playable race, you'd be able to have 6 selections in choosing your race
Human
Undead
Orc
Night elf
Burning Legion
Random

But oh well, who's to say. Anyway theres already hundreds of warcraft 3 custom maps that let you play as additional races, they are all unbalanced, but its still pretty interesting to look at.

Edit: Oh I just had a thought, what if the 6th race was going to be a race of creeps, maybe, just maybe, before making heroes they were going to make a race of united creeps.... Naw maybe not, I'm just kind of thinking of that monolith game that came with TFT, oh well just sharing my thoughts.

 

[Tornado X]

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[DM Cross]

(drainei is undead)

Wrong. The undead came AFTER the Draenei. Long before the Orcs even came to the land of Azeroth where Humans lived, they lived in their own world, now known as Outland. They were a noble yet savage race until Demons corrupted them. Then, the Orcs became ruthless and began to butcher the peaceful Draenei, who eventually fought back. After the Orcs leave and the planet gets imploded, it becomes known as Outland. Draenei survive but a Pitlord begins to rule over the land, away from the Legion. Finally, Illidan leads the Blood Elves and Naga back to Outland, hoping to hide there from the Legion because he's failed them. They team up with the Draenei and kill the Pit Lord, taking the land under their control.

Very different from the Undead ^.^ I know my stuff

The Naga are also different from any other race, though they (like Night Elves, High Elves and Blood Elves) ascended from the original people of Azeroth, before it was Azeroth. I believe they were called the Kaldeorei? Something like that.

 

[risen_jihad]

The naga actually WERE the night elves, before they began tapping into the magic of the world tree which ultimately corrupted them, twisting them into the creatures that they are. The lead naga, queen ashara *spelling?* Was the queen of the night elves before the burning legion even landed in azeroth, and she helped him get a foothold into azeroth/kalimdor by opening a portal by tapping into the magicks of the world tree, and then she and her closest followers were banished from their homeland.

While they have unique units, they descend from night elves, before splitting off and mutating into a new race, ish.

 

[InfectedWithDrew]

there is 7 or 8 (I think!) (drainei is undead), human, orc, undead, night elf, neutral, neutral passive, neutral hostile, neutral naga. I just looked and the neutrals might not be a race

Am I the only one that finds this hilarious?

 

[risen_jihad]

Am I the only one that finds this hilarious?

Possibly?
At any rate, I think this topic was talking about the races introuduced previous to TFT.

BTW, if I could take a looksies at this article, that might help to clear things up?

 

[Oninuva]

Am I the only one that finds this hilarious?

Most Likely.

 

[DM Cross]

The naga actually WERE the night elves, before they began tapping into the magic of the world tree which ultimately corrupted them, twisting them into the creatures that they are. The lead naga, queen ashara *spelling?* Was the queen of the night elves before the burning legion even landed in azeroth, and she helped him get a foothold into azeroth/kalimdor by opening a portal by tapping into the magicks of the world tree, and then she and her closest followers were banished from their homeland.

While they have unique units, they descend from night elves, before splitting off and mutating into a new race, ish.

Not quite. The Naga never came from Night Elves. Both Naga, High Elves and Night Elves came from the Kaldorei, which weren't really "Night Elves". They were BEFORE the Night Elves. And Humans. And most... Everything else, except for Dragons. Dragons were before everything.

Trust me ^.^ I know my Warcraft History.

 

[Monovertex]

In fact, the Dragon Aspects were before everything jsut in the Azeroth world. The Titans were before everything in the Great Void.

 

[DM Cross]

I wasn't aware we were talking on a universal stretch, here. I meant solely Azeroth.

And actually, the Old Gods were before the Dragons I THINK... Might be wrong on that.

 

[esb]

I do remember there was an April Fool's joke about the Pandarean race. Maybe it was that race.

What date was the "article" written/last updated?

And it was first the Old Gods, the Titans. Then the titans made the dragons. Then Sargeras turned evil and yeah you know the rest...