No one else here had ever known the loss of ninety percent of their race in one day.
Oh sure, the draenei had lost two-thirds to the Burning Legion, but that had been a betrayal, not a loss. It had driven them to flight and to attempt to set things right, not to grief that coalesced into a desire to protect others.
Add to that the fact that being thrown together with comrades you had to trust simply because you were thrown together with them was a daily occurrence for the paladin, and understanding his cheerful acceptance of this situation became easy.
"I have to protect everybody. And most likely I will die doing that, because I'm not going to let an almost certainty of death stop me from fighting a battle that needs to be fought. So far my record has been pretty good, though. I've only died once to date that really counted. We all did, but the trapped spirit of a dead king restored our lives."
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Oh sure, the draenei had lost two-thirds to the Burning Legion, but that had been a betrayal, not a loss. It had driven them to flight and to attempt to set things right, not to grief that coalesced into a desire to protect others.
Add to that the fact that being thrown together with comrades you had to trust simply because you were thrown together with them was a daily occurrence for the paladin, and understanding his cheerful acceptance of this situation became easy.
"I have to protect everybody. And most likely I will die doing that, because I'm not going to let an almost certainty of death stop me from fighting a battle that needs to be fought. So far my record has been pretty good, though. I've only died once to date that really counted. We all did, but the trapped spirit of a dead king restored our lives."