Is this the first time we see Malygos' humanoid form?

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I think it's fair to say Malygos' visage form during the Yogg-Saron encounter is a generic placeholder, Blizzard always does this when they want to use a character that's not having a major role in the current storylines since developing an unique model takes time and human resources. See Ysera and Nozdormu in Dragonblight during Wrath and Queen Azshara in Darkshore during Cataclysm.

Am i the only one who hates that they made these cool visions and put them in a place where you're way to busy dealing with annoying mechanics to pay attention?

Same. He’s crazy as hell, but yeah.

Maybe Nozdormu looked forward in time, went "wow these races are strong and noble and have a huge part to play in future events" and picked that form, causing the other aspects to follow suit.

Or they just wanted hot dragons and made up the lore later

In the last legacies video, Wasn't it said along the lines of 'we eventually learnt to take the visage forms to communicate with the other races'? Meaning that they most likely only took those forms around the time when elves already existed.

There is a dragon with a Vulpera visage form out there and I will find them and pet them

IIRC they all looked human-ish back in Day of the Dragon (2001) but like, weird humans. Nozdormu was made of sand, Malygos was unnaturally pale and dressed like a jester or something. So back then it could be assumed they took a form similar to the Titans who uplifted them.

Eventually Dragons in WoW just became a boring type of elves that also sometimes turn into dragons when it's off cooldown or something.
Meanwhile the aspects lost their unique designs and character traits (like Nozdormu sssounding like thissss) and they just became wise elves who look conventionally attractive and talk and act just like everyone else.

The black dragons at least pretended to be human nobles in stormwind.

They choose their forms at will to fit in, basically. While they have a hard-on for elves those aren't the exclusive races for. There's theoretically also not much stopping an aspect from taking on another form, but aside the blacks they're not infiltrators like nathrezim but rather want to be recognized as diplomats or messengers.

Neltharion and Kalecgos go with humans, Ebyssian with a tauren, Chromie took the form of a gnome.

Guess a whole lot of handwaving aside the initial form they took depends on which race they interacted with a lot canonically. Neltharion and onyxia stuck with humans because they infiltrated stormwind at some point (and despite canonically having human visages way before that's the first big lore-relevance so the timeline here doesn't necessarily have to make sense). Ebyssian goes with hmt tauren because that's where he's hanging out, Ysera nelf because emerald dream being strongly connected to druid and nightelf.

In the end a lot in there probably is hand-waved and they went with elf as default because the "noble, ageless, wise" stereotypes kind of can be funneled in both dragon and elf easily.

Not much horde representation in there intruigingly. Where's my orc dragon blizz?

Maybe highelves look like aspects, have you tought of that?

They never had visage forms before the mortal races came to Azeroth. They only adapted these so they could live amongst them and learn more about them. It's explained in the Visage Day short story.

I thought they picked visages to not be threatening. Hence why Deathwings Visage is very threatening

Dragons can take on the form of anything. They just choose humanoid forms for practical reasons and to spy on mortals. Deathwing and Onyxia are both good examples.

They can probably take on whatever form they want to, they just take on elf/human forms (and gnome for chromie) because that is the most pleasing shape for the people of Azeroth to converse with.

Its stated in short stories and I think somewhere in Dragonflight that visage forms can change over time. Likely they weren't actually in these forms until the races became active (though humans did exist in this period, they were just primative).

Realistically, visually they want the visages to be obvious and recognizable for most of the characters so visually they look like they do in the modern time even if they wouldn't have in reality.

Since this is basically a Power Point presentation that Nozzy is doing, I assume he used their current visage forms so that the audience would recognize them, rather than whatever forms they probably initially took on back 10-20k years ago.

If you read the short story “visage day,” you learn that they get to pick their humanoid form. They can look like anything they want.

Do we see them take these forms in those times?

They look like elves because elves are the first people to be truly civilized, so the dragons took their form to blend in.

Of course, the Black dragons seem to prefer human forms.

But they can take any humanoid form they want.

Neltharion’s visage should be a Drogbar.

Humans look like titans so that make sense if they took a titan like form

He should be a Drogbar.

Titans look like human to be fair

I agree

I’m pretty sure the Vrykul had been hit by the Curse of Flesh by this point and depending on when they devolved into humans, there might have been some primitive human tribes in Northrend/Lordaeron. So it is less weird to see a human form for one of the aspects than it is that 3 of the 5 aspects have high elf forms when all elves would have been night elves at that point.

He should be a Drogbar.

They made a sweet looking human model with a sick mace…… and they used the model in like one leveling quest, never to be seen again 🤦‍♂️

While I don't think there's been an official answer, they generally picked a race when around essentially lesser races that would reflect their age and mystic aura which ended up being High Elfs that have long life spans. Granted, the Dark trolls are older. Also, in the book the Twilight of the Aspects, I believe Korialstrasz and Alextrasza took those forms to make out and made reference to the feel of smooth skin that scales did not offer.

Tyrygosa also states the Elven look as the more aesthetically pleasing.

Since this is basically a Power Point presentation that Nozzy is doing, I assume he used their current visage forms so that the audience would recognize them, rather than whatever forms they probably initially took on back 10-20k years ago.

The mortal form they take is up to their liking, but fixed once they picked it.

So my head canon is that the aspects didn't really bother with one until they met the high elves and decided to mingle with them, hence the elven form of all aspects.

tbf since elves were a single race high elves and night elves should have looked similar at the time they splitted

This is a good question to which you are not given any answer. Why do they have the form of high elves if they actually never met one, wouldn't know how they looked like because they didn't exist yet.

It would make more sense for them to have the form of a race that currently exists.

Wasn't Ysera a Night Elf?

He is, the picture is from the new dragonflight animation video, the context is you're seeing flash backs and this was from when Malygos was alive.

This is a vision from the past

they could hook up, his last wife is also very cold and aloof

I think about this all the time. It made sense to see them that way in modern times as they could have changed their forms, but literally only Ysera and potentially Neltharion had historically appropriate visage forms.