One of the best friends said: “My warlock has never been 'evil', he feels more misunderstood and thinks of himself as a shadowmage. He drifted into the 'forbidden' magic partly by accident and partly because of childhood/youth trauma. One could argue he was sort of hunted by his personal demons before learning to summon real ones. Being in his mid 30s he doesn't dwell upon morality issues anymore, but believes shadowmagic is harmless and equal to any other magic. Harnessing demons is in his mind just a way to use the Legions weapons against themselves.”
Congratulations! The Warlock is the ideological counterpart to the Paladin. Where paladins strive to wipe out evil wherever they see it, warlocks enslave those evils and use them for their own purposes. Being a warlock is all about harnessing the most wicked, corrupting, and evil forces in the universe.
Warlock uses curses and spells, which, like horrifying biological weapons of modern days, destroy his enemies' minds and eat away their bodies from the inside; wreaks massive havoc with great explosions and persisting fire; and sucks the souls out of people and creatures and uses them to power even more horrifying abilities, such as summoning demonic creatures who would just as soon pluck out your eyeballs as look at you.
Warlock magic is relatively new to Azeroth, although it is a bit older or the Horde than the Alliance. Although Warlock magic was first developed by the eredar, the orcs were the first race in the game to learn the ways of demonic magic, when Gul'dan became corrupted by the Burning Legion and set their race to the destruction of the draenei. Soon after, when the orcs entered Azeroth through the Dark Portal, they used these powers to great effect against the humans, no doubt making some mages secretly wish they could use those powers too. After the Horde lost the Second War, however, no doubt a few humans and elves tried to learn demonic magic from their new captives. At that time, they would have kept it very secret, but as time progressed and the chaos of the Third War broke loose, this demonic knowledge became more and more widespread among races without a strong racial sense of distaste and distrust towards these things.
You must walk in their cities, buy from their auctions, and fight foes alongside other characters in your faction. In many places, it would not be wise to go around broadcasting that you are a warlock, as there are many people who detest everything warlocks stand for. If you are indeed an evil warlock -- perhaps some sort of spy for the Burning Legion, or maybe just a free agent of mayhem -- it might be wise to have some sort of cover story for your character to hide what you really are.
On the other hand, if you're like me, you want to play a warlock because the game mechanics of the class itself look pretty fun, but you don't like roleplaying evil characters so much. How about your warlock?
