[9.1 Spoilers] Thank you, Blizzard

[Falothorin-wyrmrest-accord]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

Okay well congratz at getting your wish at the expense of the Tauren, Trolls, and allegedly/theoretically the Orcs and Kul Tirans too with zero parallel being for the sake of narrative equity.

@Falothorin-wyrmrest-accord

Elune is a night elf symbol. Yes, I understand that she has connections to other races, but, up until Shadowlands, the night elves were the 90% shareholders in Moon Inc. I’m not trying to diminish her relation to other races, only put those relations in proper context. She’s a footnote in the annals of other races but the nucleus of night elf culture.

I don’t understand the concern? That Tauren, Trolls, Orcs(??), and Kul Tirans(???) aren’t her “favored” children. Show me where Tauren, Troll, Orc, and Kul Tiran worship of Elune even approximates the magnitude of Kaldorei worship:

• They built temples to Elune
• They named cities after Elune
• Their government is a Theocracy of Elune
• They greet each other with Elune’s Name
• They believe they are the creation of Elune
• Their official crest is centered around a symbol of Elune
• They create “Moonwells” as their source of power
• Elune is the primary diety of their pantheon, so much so that she’s the mother of their second most important diety (Cenarius).

Tauren? Worship her as one third of a greater entity. Which isn’t anything to scoff at, sure.
Trolls? One sect of Zandalari outcasts worship her.
Orcs? Draenor uh… Had a moon?
Kul Tirans? There were some reused models in Kul Tiras?

Like, I get it. Blizzard has treated these other races dirty. In the expansion about death, they didn’t acknowledge the ancestor-worshiping, shamanistic peoples. They haven’t so much as winked at validating the Earthmother or An’she as valid entities. I get that, and I nodded to that in the post. Like, those are good fights to fight.

But, “Elune doesn’t love them as much” is a uh… It’s a stretch to say the least, because they don’t love Elune as much.

@Ethriel-elune

Elune is an eternal one in the pantheon of life, not a goddess

“Goddess” was always really vague, and basically always amounted to, “powerful, but dissimilar to other powerful creatures”.

@Ethriel-elune

Elune wanted to use her children as soul fuel for her sister, yet didn’t do the proper research and instead condemned her “favored children” to the maw instead where they were tortured and obliterated

@Ethriel-elune

When Elune found out about what she did to her children, her reaction was “Oh well, guess I condemned them” instead of trying to fix the situation in any way, leaving the souls to their fate in the maw

This is a common misconception. I get it. I had that fear when I first watched the cinematic, and it took me a time or two to fully understand, but… Here’s what happened:

Elune couldn’t stop Teldrassil, that’s not in her power. She sent her children to Ardenweald to help save wild gods from eternal death. The souls can help her just by passively being there, as we see in the Ardenweald leveling campaign. The souls there are perfectly content shepherding nature, they’re not being ground into mulch or fed into a furnace. The cinematic was when Elune learned about the souls being sent to the Maw. Up until that very moment, she thought they’d been in Ardenweald. She couldn’t have done anything because she didn’t know about the problem until after it was largely resolved.

I get that it wasn’t presented super clearly, but that’s the bigger issue than what actually happened.