05/29/2011 02:49 PMPosted by
Omacron And yet he was never said to be a druid, part of the cenarion circle, or anything else. He was never depicted as using druid abilities, never used armor or weapons associated with druids, and here's the important part, he's explicitly said to be leading the KALDOREI, not CENARION armies.
Its been shown, repeatedly, that male, non druids and druids, are in charge of the standing Cenarion Army. This group accepts males and females into their ranks and does not represent the Kaldorei as a formal army, just as the Cenarions don't truly represent the Kaldorei. By this I mean the Cenarions can and do disagree with the Temple and do work toward their own ends.
This does not mean the two cannot share the same interests. This also doesn't mean that being the son of one of the most powerful druids alive doesn't give you some privilages.
EDIT: To make it clear, I'm not insisting that Valstann was a member of the Sentinels. I agree with you that up until WoW, the sentinels was female only. I am insisting that there were male, secular warriors and professional soldiers part of the night elf state and part of the chain of command to the point where they were allowed to command the sentinels, and that after WoW, males began to be accepted into the sentinel army, to the point where, in Cata, 5 years after vanilla WoW, there are now MALE commanders WITHIN the sentinels.
And I'm not saying there weren't male warriors. What I'm saying is that there were two major examples, Vastann and Shadowsong. Shadowsong has not been seen up until this point, leaving Vastann as our example. He, however, may not be the best to showcase your point given that:
-Vastann was the son of a druid who's power was in the tier of Malfurion and Broll
-The son of the commanding druid
-Likely was part of the Cenarion Army
WE have one example of a male leading a Sentinel army, a war run by Fandral, and his son was given a commander position. This does not equal conclusive evidence that there were spades of non-druid men in leadership roles at the time.