Whitemane

Whitemane
"Let the inquisition commence!"
Basic Info
Title	High Inquisitor
Role	Healer
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	August 7, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1400
Health Regen	2.9218
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.0
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	62
Data Page

Sally Whitemane, the High Inquisitor, is a Healer Hero from the Warcraft universe. As the High Inquisitor of the Scarlet Crusade, Sally Whitemane zealously leads her champions in a neverending war against the undead. Under her guiding Light, all who have been touched by the plague of death will be purged by her cleansing flame... no matter how much they protest.

Whitemane is a versatile Healer who heals her allies by smiting her foes.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

At a young age, Sally Whitemane witnessed her family succumbing to the Scourge's plague of undeath while they were traveling through Lordaeron. She was forced to destroy her own parents and siblings when they rose as mindless undead, and since that day she found fulfillment only in the destruction of undead. She became a priestess of the Light and joined the Scarlet Crusade, a religious order dedicated to the eradication of the undead from Lordaeron. Though they believed that their mission of cleansing the world of undead was a noble one, the crusaders soon grew intolerant of all non-human races and came to believe that anyone who was not a part of their order was infected by the Scourge's plague of undeath and had to be tortured or eradicated. Along with Renault Mograine, who had been given the rank of Scarlet Commander, Whitemane oversaw operations in the Scarlet Monastery. However, while Mograine commanded the military forces in the area, the fearsome Whitemane, who had the ability to resurrect her comrades after death, was the true master of the Monastery.

Alliance and Horde ordered Sally's death, but this was not the end as the High Inquisitor returned years later. According to Lilian Voss, "the problem with the Scarlet Crusade is that they keep coming back, even after death. Behind those resurrections is High Inquisitor Whitemane. With her death, so goes the Crusade." To give Whitemane a final rest, Alliance and Horde adventurers retrieved two anointed blades known as Unquenchable and the Hand of Providence. They then confronted and slew Whitemane. The adventurers plunged the blades into Whitemane's corpse, seemingly putting a final end to the Scarlet Crusade's tyranny.

Ironically, Sally Whitemane was later raised as an undead by Thassarian and the Deathlord to serve as the third member of the new Four Horsemen. While death rid her of her madness, her strong spirit remained.

Gameplay

Whitemane is an aggressive Ranged Healer, that bolsters healing to her allies by dealing with her enemies.

Strength

• Flexible Healing Style
• Debuffs and Disruption

Weaknesses

• Costly Burst Healing
• No Escape

Abilities

See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

D

Zeal

Cooldown: 40 seconds

Whitemane's healing Abilities apply Zeal for 8 seconds. Allies with Zeal are healed for 100% of the damage Whitemane deals to Heroes.

Activate to gain 25% Spell Power and lose 25 Armor for 5 seconds. Can be cast while channeling abilities.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier (active), Offensive damage modifier (active), Healing dealt modifier (active) / Healing (passive)

Scaling: -

Affects: Self / Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Armor reduction (active), Spell Power (active)

Cast time: Instant

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• Healing from Zeal follows Lifesteal rules. Healing is calculated directly from final damage dealt and is unaffected by Spell Power's healing modifying properties.
• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Whitemane's Spell Damage or healing output.
• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Q

Desperate Plea

45 Mana Cooldown: 0.5 seconds

Heal an allied Hero for 140 and gain Desperation for 4 seconds.

Desperation increases Desperate Plea's Mana cost by 45, and stacks up to 3 times.

Current Mana Cost: 45

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Self-castable

Cast time: Instant

Range: 8.0

W

Inquisition

Cooldown: 12 / 0.5 seconds

Channel on an enemy Hero for up to 3 seconds, dealing 50 damage every 0.5 seconds and Slowing them by 30%. Removes a stack of Desperation.

Shares a cooldown with Clemency.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stationary channel, Slow

Cast time: 0 + CH + 0 seconds

Range:
- Cast: 7.5
- Active: 11.25

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x7)

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• Inquisition can be canceled after 0.5 seconds by reactivating the Ability to end its effect early.
• The channel is interrupted if the target moves outside the active range.
• Cooldown begins at the start of channel.

E

Searing Lash

Cooldown: 6 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, smite enemies in a straight line for 82 damage.

If the first strike hits an enemy Hero, a second strike will occur after a short delay.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 8.0

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 2.0

Height: 7.0

Initial delay: 0.375 seconds

Secondary delay: 0.75 seconds

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• The second strike is perpendicular to the first.

R

Scarlet Aegis

Cooldown: 60 seconds

Bolster the spirits of nearby allied Heroes, healing them for 300 and granting them 40 Armor for 4 seconds.

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Type: Healing / Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Armor

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

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• Grants Zeal on cast to every hero inside Scarlet Aegis's initial radius.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

R

Divine Reckoning

Cooldown: 75 seconds

After 1 second, consecrate an area for 4 seconds, dealing 50 damage every 0.5 seconds to enemies inside. 25% of the damage dealt to Heroes is returned as Mana.

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Type: Spell Damage / Mana restoration

Scaling: 4.00% / -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Self-castable

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 10

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x9)

Initial delay: 0.875 seconds

1

Clemency

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Activate to cast Inquisition on an allied Hero, healing them for up to 329 over 3 seconds while Channeling.

Shares a cooldown with Inquisition. Removes a stack of Desperation.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stationary channel

Cast time: 0 + CH + 0 seconds

Range:
- Cast: 7.5
- Active: 13

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x7)

Healing per tick: 47

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• Clemency can be canceled after 0.5 seconds by reactivating it to end its effect early.
• Applies Zeal on every tick.
• The channel is interrupted if the target moves outside the active range.
• Cooldown begins at the start of channel.

Talents

1

Pity the Frail

For every Hero hit with Searing Lash, lower the cooldown of Inquisition by 1.5 second. Allies below 30% Health receive 25% more healing from Whitemane.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Self

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• Pity the Frail can also affect the damage-based healing from Zeal, stacking additively with it.
• Bonus healing stacks additively with healing dealt modifiers that affect Whitemane's healing output and multiplicatively with healing received modifiers on the target.

Righteous Flame

Searing Lash deals 25% more damage to enemies. If the second strike hits an enemy Hero, they take an additional 25% damage and Whitemane gains 40% Attack Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Status effect

Affects: Ability / Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Searing Lash's damage.

Inquisitor's Prayer

❢ Quest: Hit Heroes with Searing Lash.

❢ Reward: Each Hero hit grants 3 permanent Health and 2 permanent Mana. Heroes hit with the second strike count as 2 hits.

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Type: Bonus Health, Bonus Mana

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

4

Unwavering Faith

Increase Whitemane's Basic Attack Range by 1.1. Whitemane gains 20% increased Basic Attack damage for each active Zeal buff.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Whitemane's Basic Attack damage.

Martyrdom

Desperate Plea's healing is increased by 30%. Increase this by an additional 10% for each active Zeal.

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Type: Healing dealt modfier

Affects: Ability

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• Bonus healing stacks additively with healing modifiers that affect Whitemane's healing dealt modifiers and multiplicatively with healing received modifiers on the target.

Indulgence

Gain 5% Movement Speed. Increase this by an additional 5% for each active Zeal.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

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• Stacks additively with itself, but not with other sources of Movement Speed.

7

Zealous Spirit

Upon reaching 2 stacks of Desperation, Whitemane gains Zeal.

Saintly Greatstaff

Enemy Heroes hit by Searing Lash are marked for 3 seconds. Basic Attacks against them deal an additional 55 Spell Damage and remove the mark.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier

Intercession

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to make an ally Unstoppable for 1 second and gain 1 stack of Desperation.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Unstoppable

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

10

Scarlet Aegis

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Bolster the spirits of nearby allied Heroes, healing them for 300 and granting them 40 Armor for 4 seconds.

Divine Reckoning

Cooldown: 75 seconds
After 1 second, consecrate an area for 4 seconds, dealing 50 damage every 0.5 seconds to enemies inside. 25% of the damage dealt to Heroes is returned as Mana.

13

Subjugation

Inquisition reduces all damage the target deals by 50%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Damage reduction stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target's damage output.

Lashing Out

If Searing Lash's second strike hits an enemy Hero, reduce its cooldown to 1 second.

Scarlet Wrath

Basic Attacks against Heroes increase the duration of active Zeals by 0.75 seconds and lower the cooldown of Zeal's activation by 4 seconds.

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Properties: Attack Modifier

16

Radiance

Upon reaching 3 stacks of Desperation, all allies with Zeal are healed for 175. Activating Zeal while at 3 stacks of Desperation now increases her Armor by 15 instead of reducing it.

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Type: Healing, Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

Properties: Armor

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• Does not reapply Zeal.
• Instead of setting Zeal's Armor to 15, Radiance grants a buff of 40 Armor, which following Armor rules sets Whitemane's total Armor 15. This, however, means that, while Radiance's Armor bonus is active, positive Armor instances below 40 from other sources end up having no effect, and the total Armor for higher instances of positive Armor is still calculated against Zeal's base Armor reduction.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Shared Punishment

Upon casting, Inquisition can chain to an additional enemy Hero near its target, dealing 35 damage every 0.5 seconds. Affected enemies lose 10 Armor.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction, Bounce

Radius: 5.0

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• Clemency can also chain to an enemy hero.
• Additional target can receive the debuff from Subjugation.
• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Harsh Discipline

Hitting a Hero with Searing Lash while they are being targeted by Inquisition Roots them for 1.5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Root

If a Hero is hit by both lashes while affected by Inquisition, only the first one applies a Root.

20

Scarlet Crusade

Scarlet Aegis heals for 50% more and makes affected allies Unstoppable for 2 seconds.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier / Status effect

Affects: Ability / Self, Allied Heroes

Properties: Unstoppable

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• Healing bonus stacks additively with other healing dealt modifiers that can affect Scarlet Aegis's healing.

Judgment Day

Divine Reckoning deals 50% more damage and pulls enemies to its center the first time it hits them.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Crowd control

Affects: Ability / Enemies

Properties: Knockback

Knockback duration: 0.1875 seconds

Knockback speed: 25

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Divine Reckoning's damage.

Guiding Light

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Activate to cast a permanent Zeal on an allied Hero that costs no Mana and doesn't grant Desperation. Only one can be active at a time and has a global cast range.

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Type: Healing

Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Self-castable

Cast time: Instant

Range: Global

Purge the Wicked

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Active: Activate to blast an enemy Hero with holy fire, reducing their Armor by 25 and dealing 300 damage over 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Damage over Time

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 7.0

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x5)

Damage per tick: 60

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• The Armor debuff is applied after the first damage tick.
• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Skins

Whitemane Skins
High Inquisitor
Backstory: As the High Inquisitor of the Scarlet Crusade, Sally Whitemane zealously leads her champions in a neverending war against the undead. Under her guiding Light, all who have been touched by the plague of death will be purged by her cleansing flame... no matter how much they protest.
750 / 10,000 High Inquisitor	Free Lordaeron	Free Vengeful	120 / 75 Twilight	120 / 75 Scarlet
Celestial Empress
Backstory: From the depths of space, the Celestial Empress has bitterly observed the Star Queen squander her magical power. Once the stars are aligned in her favor, Whitemane will overthrow Li-Ming and bathe the galaxy in cosmic fire.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Warpspace	350 / 400 Galactic

Whitemane Event Skins
Cursed Witch
Backstory: The Witch of the Hollows' beliefs are unconventional, even by Raven Court's standards. Her methods of torturing the living deemed too extreme. It was the Raven Lord alone who saw the potential within her...
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations, themed mount.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Fall of King's Crest.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Court	600 / 1,200 Forgotten
Showstopper
Backstory: Whitemane watches over the sludge and grime of New Tirisfal from the highest spire of the Scarlet Monastery Casino, where thousands of residents invest their loyalty, and their hard-earned coin, on a daily basis.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of The Scarlet Heist.
900 / 1,800	900 / 1,800 Noir	900 / 1,800 Idol	900 / 1,800 Diamond Dust	900 / 1,800 Silver Screen

Mounts

Whitemane Mounts
Hallowed Broom (Cursed Witch Whitemane exclusive)
Free

Portraits

Whitemane Portraits
Carbot Whitemane120 / 75	Cursed Witch Whitemane	Mecha Pilot Whitemane75 / 40	Mecha Whitemane75 / 40	Showstopper WhitemaneUnreleased, unavailable	Toon Cursed Witch Whitemane75 / 40	Whitemane Emblem75 / 40
Whitemane Hero	Whitemane Mastery

Sprays

Whitemane Sprays
Carbot Whitemane120 / 75	Casino Queen Whitemane75 / 40	Cursed Hollow Whitemane	Cute Cursed Witch Whitemane75 / 40	Encore!75 / 40	Looking Glorious75 / 40

Emojis

Whitemane Pack 1			Whitemane Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Whitemane Happy	:whitemanehappy: :whithappy:		Whitemane Angry	:whitemaneangry: :whitangry:
	Whitemane ROFL	:whitemanelol: :whitemanerofl: :whitlol: :whitrofl:		Whitemane Cool	:whitemanecool: :whitcool:
	Whitemane Sad	:whitemanesad: :whitsad:		Whitemane Embarrassed	:whitemaneoops: :whitemaneembarrassed: :whitoops: :whitembarrassed:
	Whitemane Silly	:whitemanesilly: :whitsilly:		Whitemane in Love	:whitemanelove: :whitemaneinlove: :whitlove: :whitinlove:
	Whitemane Speechless	:whitemanemeh: :whitemanespeechless: :whitmeh: :whitspeechless:		Whitemane Surprised	:whitemanewow: :whitemanesurprised: :whitwow: :whitsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Whitemane/Quotes

Development

Whitemane was considered for Heroes of the Storm because she is a iconic character from World of Warcraft. Scarlet Monastery was a staple of the leveling experience for many years, with Whitemane and her fancy hat as the ultimate boss. To this day, the developers see cosplayers coming to BlizzCon in Whitemane costumes.

She also gave the developers the opportunity to bring another "dark" Support to the game. They felt this worked really well with Stukov, and they wanted to explore that space more. Where someone like Uther uses the Light in a warm and comforting way and embraces themes like salvation and redemption, Whitemane's version of wielding the Light is twisted and just a bit uncomfortable. She has themes like punishment, zealotry, fanaticism—a priest she may be, but a nice person she is not.

In terms of spec inspiration, the developers discussed ideas for how she could lean more toward Shadow or Holy Priest as the primary inspiration, but they ultimately leaned toward a more Discipline-inspired kit as the best fit for her character. They knew early on that we wanted to explore her design from the perspective of, "What does a priest kit look like through the lens of the Scarlet Crusade?" They’re a group of fanatics who show no mercy and stop at nothing to accomplish their goal, and they saw an opportunity to have her abilities reflect that while still feeling familiar due to their basis in WoW’s priest class.

Whitemane had an ability called Mass Resurrection in her World of Warcraft appearance, where she would summon Scarlet Monastary warriors to aide her. Players initially start the encounter by attacking Commander Durand, and once he dies, she chants out the famous lines, "Arise, my champion!" and ressurects the warrior.

Resurrecting dead allies was off the table pretty much immediately, because the gameplay is fraught with challenges in a MOBA context, and the developers were still trying to make Auriel's Resurrect competitive. Just for fun they did try a variation on Mass resurrection just to see what would happen, but as expected it made her want to stay out of fights to be an out of character rez bot. She got lots of nostalgia, but was not very engaging to play.

They tried out a heroic ability where Whitemane could designate an ally as a "champion" to give them bonuses, then channel to resurrect them if they died, placing the ability on cooldown. Sort of a hybrid between Auriel's trait and Kharazims Divine Palm. Having a restriction on the resurrect made it even more situational than normal, and the extra passive bonus didn't feel impactful enough to make up for that. Another thing they tried was a level 20 talent that allowed Whitemane to resurrect the "spirits" of fallen allies with timed life and bonus stats, similar to an Abathur clone. This was cool from a flavor perspective, but even at this level of power the outcome was wildly inconsistent. The benefit relied on allies dying, and more specifically dying before Whitemane, in order for her to get any real value out of it. It ended up being something you'd pick at 20 and be left feeling like it hadn’t actually done anything for you most of the time.

The developers did play with alternative variations where she could "resurrect" (summon) a Scarlet Crusader "pet", but it pretty much felt like a rehash of Nazeebos Gargantuan and felt very out of place in her kit.

Their alternative approach to hitting that fantasy came with Scarlet Aegis - it's still a mass inspire for your allies and great for turning a fight around. It just doesn't have the extra complication of requiring them to die first.

Trivia

• Whitemane made her debut in World of Warcraft (November 2004).
  • Her book debut was four years later, in World of Warcraft: Naxxramas (December 2008).
• Whitemane is voiced by Kath Souice in World of Warcraft; by singer-songwriter Grey DeLisle in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (September 2012); and by Erica Lindbeck in Heroes of the Storm.
• Whitemane was first teased on Twitter: The first tweet showed a very ornate gold-handled door. The second image was much clearer and showed the altar that Whitemane stands in front of before you fight her in World of Warcraft. In the third and final teaser tweet, Whitemane herself was shown seated on her throne with a fearsome scowl.
• Whitemane is the second priest hero in the game, the first being Tyrande Whisperwind and the third being the young king Anduin Llane Wrynn.
  • She is also the first hero to represent the priest class, the second being Anduin.
• Some of Whitemane's abilities mechanically resemble Discipline priest spells: Zeal resembles Atonement, Desperate Plea resembles Plea, and Inquisition resembles Penance.
  • Purge the Wicked shares its name with a Discipline talent, though its effect is different.
• The Twilight Whitemane skin resembles a priest of any rank in the Twilight's Hammer clan.
• The Lordaeron Whitemane skin resembles a priest of the Grand Alliance.
• The Warpspace Whitemane skin appears to reference Lady Ragyo from the anime Kill la Kill (October 2014).
• Whitemane's dance animation uses choreography from Britney Spears' "I'm A Slave 4 U."

Gallery

General

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  Whitemane artwork

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  Whitemane Concept Art

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  Whitemane Concept Art

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  Whitemane Concept Art

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  Sally Whitemane model

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  Celestial Empress Concept Art

Teaser

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  1st teaser

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  2nd teaser

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  Final reveal

Abilities

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  Q: Desperate Plea

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  W: Inquisition

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  E: Searing Lash

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  R1: Scarlet Aegis

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  R2: Divine Reckoning

External links

• Whitemane - Heroes of the Storm
• Sally Whitemane - Wowpedia
• Whitemane Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Whitemane Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes