World of Warcraft fans were recently asked to post questions for the Content Development team at Blizzard. The team met with Chris Metzen and Alex Afrasiabi to answer as many questions as possible. The questions run the gamut from Frostmourne's destruction to whether or not incubi exist.

Q: Do incubi exist?

A: There are several different rumors concerning the male counterparts to the demonic succubus race, and it's clear that the succubi are responsible for all of them. A few of the more common rumors are:

1. Yes, there are incubi, but the spell to summon them has been conveniently forgotten by mortal practitioners and Burning Legion agents.
2. Incubi are kept as slaves on their home planet, having been rendered incapable of escape or independent movement.
3. The succubi consumed the males of their race when they were brought into the Burning Legion. (Alternatively, the act of devouring the males is what caught the attention of the Burning Legion.)

Q: Could you please explain the lore behind goblin shamans? Goblins do not seem like a particularly spiritual race, especially one that would care about the elements (as evidenced by the Venture Co.).

A: Goblin shaman are an extension of their society's single-minded devotion to making a profit; to a goblin shaman, elementals are potential customers. Goblins do tend to be a bit more forceful in their negotiations than the other shamanic races (especially the tauren) would like, though they are far less forceful than what we've seen from the taunka in Northrend. (Unless the elemental tries to weasel out of its contract. Elementals tend not to have breakable knees, so goblins sometimes have to resort to other methods of control.) As for the goblins' "mechanical" totems, note that these are merely physical manifestations of the small totems they tinker/craft to form a link with the elemental spirits. Instead of lugging around large totems, goblin shaman have a ring (probably the same ring on which they keep their house and motorbike keys) with small totems they've built as conduits for the elemental spirits they do business with.

WoW lore fanatics won't want to miss the rest of this Q&A so head to the WoW forums to read the rest and add your thoughts to the thread.

incubi made me lol, lol

Once again Blizzard rips lore apart. Goblins seeing elementals as customers, totems in a ring where they keep....... WTF

Whatever lore WoW may have is mangled into hash by their "Systems" team. Now they've got too many cooks in the kitchen.

The lore was pretty Lol to begin with... I think it is brilliant. =)

How can it not make sense when it's their story?

Wow get some lives. Can't play a Nelf pally cause of lore nerds. Its a damn game go make some RL lore.

yea blizz has done a great job at shooting their selfs in the foot and ripping apart the credibility of the lore wtg chris

Bending the lore too the commercial success ^^

I still have to laugh for the reasening behind the horde getting palas.......

Who cares about this....how about the Real ID\forum fiasco. How long until our names are displayed above our character's name???

Haha, looks like some of these people who think they know the lore are getting the answers to questions that they deserve.

None of the changes is breaking or even "bending" the lore; L2Read if you think it is! Some of the assumptions of the people that think that way think things like Elves can't do magic, when it clearly in fact says in the lore that they can, and Elves all over the WoW universe in fact DO use magic.

;)

Originally posted by Dyner

Who cares about this....how about the Real ID\forum fiasco. How long until our names are displayed above our character's name???

 Fiasco? It's implemented and thats it. Let's see if the number of monthly susbscriptions drop.... lol right.

Honestly, im very happy with this new system. No more lvl 1 alts to insult people, no more telling people what you want and attack people personally just because you think you're covered by some videogame toon... thats it.

Now everyone has a RealID and must face the consequences of their actions.

Great move Blizzard, you've made me resub the game again.