Are you looking for a suitable gift for someone who really loves World of Warcraft? The most well-known priestess from World of Warcraft is waiting.
That you can draw a lot of money from fans of certain games is an old hat. After all, we all know how tempting merchandise can be and that sometimes you don’t think rationally when it comes to a pretty statue. That’s probably what the cooperation between Blizzard and the Infinity Studios, who have recreated Sally Whitemane, is counting on.
How much does the statue cost? If you want to have Sally Whitemane in a scale of 1:3 with a height of over 100cm in your apartment, you will have to dig deep into your pockets. Really deep. Because the statue costs $2620, which is currently around €2300 – that’s more expensive than many used cars. For that, you get ‘lifelike silicone skin’ and hair. Oh, I won’t question that.
If you have this spare change, you can pre-order your own Sally Whitemane at specfictionshop.com.
The statue is, by the way, highly limited, as only 398 copies of it were created. So this is going to be quite a collector’s item. A closer look at the statue is shown in this video:
The most well-known priestess in World of Warcraft
What kind of character is this? Sally Whitemane is probably best known to Classic players, as she first appeared there. She is part of the final boss fight in the Scarlet Monastery, and her voice line ‘Arise, my champion!’ is about as well-known as Illidan’s ‘You have no idea what is coming!’
She is the High Inquisitor of the Scarlet Crusade and was a gifted priestess who opposed the plague of undeath. Later, like the entire Crusade, she fell into fanaticism and expanded her plans for purification to everything that had somehow fallen to ‘evil’ – and in the end, that was everything that was not human or elvish.
After her death, she was forced into undeath by the Death Knights in Legion and now serves as one of the four horsemen to advance the plans of the Black Blade.
Besides her appearance in World of Warcraft, she is also represented in several forms in Hearthstone. Additionally, she is a playable support character in Heroes of the Storm, where you learn a bit more about her personality and hear a lot more voice lines.
Cortyn states: Wow – the statue looks really good and is probably one of the better ones ever created for World of Warcraft. Sally Whitemane is also one of the most iconic characters that has existed since the Vanilla era. Her popularity is evident at various conventions, as even today, her appearance is regularly portrayed by cosplayers.
The hefty price of over €2,000 will likely pose the question for most average fans: Do I want this statue in my room? Or would I rather pay for the next 15 years of my WoW subscription? I will definitely feel a little envious when posts from people in social media come out next year who just happen to have this amount lying around…
A very different statue once caused a stir in World of Warcraft – namely in China. When the deal between NetEase and Blizzard did not come to fruition again, the employees were quite angry and destroyed one of the most iconic Orc statues that existed until then.
