Book 13 Dev Diary Feedback: The Orc Defiler

[RootedOak]

I, too, am having mixed feelings about the Defiler, but for completely different reasons: it just doesn't seem to fit the setting. Halucinagenic gases, slimes and molds hardly seem like the fell sorcery, Black Speech, and curses that Tolkien described in his works -- and I always pictured cruel, wickedly-armed Men as Sauron's sorcerous, not staff-wielding orcs wearing bear-skulls.

I'm near to positive that there are no sorcerors in all of middle earth. In fact most of the Angmar content is conjecture its self, so also are Defilers.