What really surprised me about their implementation of the Pandaren is how flat their culture seems compared to the old art. My impression was that they were much more unique. Like how the Tauren are inspired by native-american imagery, and then changed to fit Tauren lore. It's not straight-up native-american. Or the…
Most likely because both pull from the same real world sources of ancient china and martial arts. Both also happen to have the same vivid stylistic styles. The Pandaren does not fit in as easily as the rest of the lore, since they were birthed from a joke, but were eventually included in wc3 expansion, but none the less,…