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Biology of a Death Knight
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realta
I'm hoping this is the right place for this....
Okay, so while taking a shower last night, I wondered if death knights need to bathe. I know, weird. But one of the main reasons any mammal bathes is because their body has sloughed off old skin, secreted natural oils, etc.
Well, if a death knight is dead*, most of those reasons to bathe are gone. However, death knights are heroes like anyone else in WoW, so traipsing about Azeroth (cough Outland cough) and murdering things and the like are going to get messy. But if your death knight is hanging out in Silvermoon, could they go bathless indefinitely?
* You found the asterisk! Now, I'm still very fuzzy on if death knights are actually dead. After reading
Lord of the Dead... Alive?
, we can safely assume Arthas is dead. But does that mean his squires are, too? They haven't fused with any other soul like Arthas, and that was how the former prince "died".
While reading up on vampiric runeblades, there really isn't a mention of soul-suckery, so a death knight would be whole, in a mental/physical sense, right? Presuming they weren't driven insane or a Forsaken, of course.
Post by
Skreeran
I'm hoping this is the right place for this....
Okay, so while taking a shower last night, I wondered if death knights need to bathe. I know, weird. But one of the main reasons any mammal bathes is because their body has sloughed off old skin, secreted natural oils, etc.
Well, if a death knight is dead*, most of those reasons to bathe are gone. However, death knights are heroes like anyone else in WoW, so traipsing about Azeroth (cough Outland cough) and murdering things and the like are going to get messy. But if your death knight is hanging out in Silvermoon, could they go bathless indefinitely?
* You found the asterisk! Now, I'm still very fuzzy on if death knights are actually dead. After reading
Lord of the Dead... Alive?
, we can safely assume Arthas is dead. But does that mean his squires are, too? They haven't fused with any other soul like Arthas, and that was how the former prince "died".
While reading up on vampiric runeblades, there really isn't a mention of soul-suckery, so a death knight would be whole, in a mental/physical sense, right? Presuming they weren't driven insane or a Forsaken, of course.I would say yes. That is, if their war-brothers are offended by the scent of putriying flesh.
And yes, player Death Knights are dead. It says so right in the opening cutscene. ;) (Although you could conceivably roleplay that you are alive, as it's possible to roleplay an orc who fought in the First War, even though in the opening quest it says that you have just recently come of age :P)
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Post by
Erlinn
All player Death Knights are stated to be dead and rasied back into undeath for service to the Lich King. It is stated many times in the Death Knight starting area about how you have been "raised again".
And, in regards to your bathing question, I'm pretty sure one of the books strewn about Acherus says specifically that undead no longer need to bathe.
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Post by
Dralas
If I re-call, don't necromancers have ways of preserving their scourge minions? What's to say death knights can't do the same thing and be able to even to the the extent to keep themselves
actually
clean.
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Post by
GenXCub
When things like this aren't explicit in the lore, you can just say that the magic that raised them also served as deodorant.
Magic fixes a lot of things in fiction.
Post by
Skreeran
You could also say that the magic that raised them smells like hell and they have to take 5 baths a day to even smell tolerable.
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Skreeran
or perhaps even a soul encased in armor.Alfonse Ulrich ftw.
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Post by
Adamsm
No; DK's are corpses, which is said all through this thread.
Post by
Orranis
or perhaps even a soul encased in armor.Alfonse Ulrich ftw.
Colonel Hughes > Pretty much everyone else.
I think a DK could bathe, but I don't think it'd need to after the initial rot smell from the first death was gone.
See, when someone dies, chemical changes occur within the body and result in changes to the chemical making up of the cells causing cells to lose their structural consistency. The loss of structure brings the release of enzymes capable breaking down surrounding cells. What I always assumed was that the Necromantic Energies prevented this loss of cell structure.
Seeing as the body no longer produces oils, sweat, or various other smelly things, nor is it (at least at the same pace) rotting, it shouldn't produce too much of an odor.
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