Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Can Goblins Be Gay?

The more I play WAR, the more interested I am in the Lore of the Warhammer universe. When I first started playing WAR, I could care less about the story. I ignored Tome Unlocks and Important People stories, only read quest text for the pertinent information or if I got stuck, and really didn't question why I was fighting any of these people aside from they were labeled my enemy.

As I've moved from trying out the game to making it my new MMO home, I've started to become more curious about the characters and heroes of the Warhammer Universe. Of particular interest to me is if any of the characters/heroes have been or are LGBT. I realize that Warhammer's world is about fighting, and WAR is specifically focused on killing other players over other aspects of the game, but people are people. They fall in love in between battles, they get drunk when the romance ends and start brawls in pubs. They are people, within the confines of their racial specifics. I'm not so sure any of the Greenskins have ever mated, but I'm guessing all the other races do.

I'll be digging around soon trying to find what I can on LBGT Warhammer stories. There probably isn't any, as for some reason fantasy worlds tend to disregard LGBT folk (which is disconcerting in and of itself). If you know any of Warhammer lore like novels or what not that features LGBT people, give me a head's up, I'd love to check it out. If not, I might just have to give up any pretenses of not being a nerd and write some of my own fan fiction.

4 comments:

metrogamer said...

From what I remember, Greenskins come from spores and are genderless.

Helik said...

Greenskins do come from spores, but are you tellin' me that they dont want some every now and then, too?

Anonymous said...

Actually I met a gay goblin, he was rad.

http://www.scionguild.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=35&sid=5a5c1d68d3868332bf2b751055cb123c&start=10

-Valeigra

Anonymous said...

Actually I met a gay goblin, he was rad.

http://www.scionguild.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=35&sid=5a5c1d68d3868332bf2b751055cb123c&start=10

-Valeigra