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To everyone saying "deathknights don't use staves" / "deathknights are powerful, plate-wearing warriors", the term deathknight actually comes from warcraft 2, where the deathknight was the orc spellcaster unit. It was an undead knight raised by Gul'dan and inhabited by the spirits of orcish necrolytes. They rode skeletal horses (which wc3 continued) and used jeweled truncheons - staves - as their primary weapon. They wore tattered cloth, and never so much as glanced at a runesword. The title was reused for a new undead unit in WC3, but the original deathknights were spellcaster units (and, in my humble opinion, much much cooler).