World of Warcraft - Ilidan's creation process

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Samwise Didier, the senior art director for Blizzard Entertainment, drew a paladin for a friend's card game, which was left unused and instead, he ended up using it for Warcraft to create Uther. he carried over the paladin's mask to another character he drew, which was the inspiration for Ilidan, who he did concept art for back in 2000.  Ilidan originally carved his eyes out to allow demonics sense demons which allowed him to use demonic energy against them when he was a good guy at some point during development. 

there is no other way I could explain it so I tried the best I could.

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