Talk:Thros fiend

I'm pretty sure these are supposed to actually be the Drust. Their skin and features look exactly the same as Gorak Tul's, bar the face, the herald speaks as a drust, and they only seem to be capable of appearing when there's heavy concentration of the energy from Thros. Whereas with the constructs they're possessed, these creatures are fully formed. I'd suggest their name be shifted to Drust fiend instead of Thros fiend if nothing else. --Berenal (talk) 02:53, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe they are how the drust were transformed by Thros? Xporc (talk) 07:07, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah that's what I'm thinking. They only appear in Thros heavy areas and are the only Drust creature that is not possessing something. It's impossible for them to be anything else but Drust in some capacity, and we have the Herald confirming they are indeed Drust. If this isn't just what the Drust look like, it's what Thros has turned them/their spirits into. --Berenal (talk) 07:42, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm more inclined to say that they were transformed instead of still maintaining their drust form, but yeah, this beings should be drust for the way they talk. Still, calling them Drust is still a speculation so Thros fiend should be enough for now. --Ryon21 (talk) 10:28, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * We know that this is not how the Drust looked like originally as per the concept art and the visions of the past quests. They looked like vrykul/humans.
 * The Herald says nothing, to my knowledge, confirming that he is a (former) Drust.
 * As for them being actual Drust, it's technically never confirmed, which is why it's under a Speculation section. They could be native beings of Thros who transformed Gorak Tul. They could be Drust who were transformed like Gorak Tul by magic/the realm of Thros itself. Etc. -- MyMindWontQuiet 16:46, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

We can see from Shadowlands that the actual Drust are just Thros fiends standing upright, so i'm not against the merge proposal discussed on Discord. Xporc (talk) 12:09, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed, 9.0 finally confirms that they are slightly different looking Drust -- — MyMindWontQuiet 12:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it's just an open and shut at that point. I don't mind writing up on the Drust page something for their variants, since the Drust come in arguably 4 forms (counting the female drust model).--Berenal (talk) 12:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and made up a section on the Drust page, it can be looked over and edited as needed, but I think it's safe to say we can go ahead with this merge?--Berenal (talk) 14:01, 18 May 2020 (UTC)