I just find it annoying that she apparently no longer cares for the Human survivors of Lordaeron at this point.
Wouldn’t make sense for her to since she’s undead.
I wouldn’t say so. At least not originally since she was trying to bring people together on both sides.
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Undeath changes how those affected by it think. It makes sense that what she wants now is different than what she wanted when alive. Though TBF Calia has been a nonsensical character since BTS so the reasoning doesn’t matter much.
They didn’t ask how the forsaken can change, they just sort of changed their leadership. The forsaken aren’t improving, they aren’t moving forward as a people, they are just governed by a council now. They aren’t saying “What does our future look like?” Its a backslide. Its a statement that any meaningful geopolitical changes in Azeroth will be swiftly reverted to preserve this weird status quo. It sucks. Borders shift, empires fade and new ones emerge, yet Warcraft has zero interest in portraying that.
Sure the Burning of Teldrassil was mishandled, and only delivered in shock value, rather than actually interesting storytelling, but given that its in the past, reversing it isn’t the solution, finding a way to use it to make something interesting is.
The Night Elves lost their only major city. Do they return to the forests? Do they become a refugee people, cast to the wind and their influence diminished? There are a lot of interesting stories to be told from that direction, a people with a grand, ancient history on the brink, at the mercy of their allies, where other forces in the alliance rise to replace their influence.
The same can be said for the Forsaken. Is the use of Blight ethical? (Of course not) Yet they continue to study it and even placed one of its main propagators on their new council. Imagine the stories that could be told of a people who have done very, very serious ills on the world, their old empire ground to dust. What do the remaining Forsaken do? Do they try to blend into Horde settlements? Do they start to question the use of Blight? Do they crave a final death, now that they know what lay beyond in the Shadowlands?
Nope, no interesting questions, there is no time for that! The only thing we can ask them is what they think of Calia, who has nothing of substance to say about the future of the Forsaken besides ‘lets give back Gilneas’. She hasn’t given us her stances, just that she wants the best for the people of Lordaeron. What IS best for the people of Lordaeron, Blizzard? What is Calia’s ACTUAL agenda?
Does the name Forsaken still apply to them? The Night Elves and Thalassian ones can literally just go live in the Alliance again apparently. Nobody is forsaking them anymore.
They have no place in the world, besides a mission: Continue existing with the curse of undeath, despite knowing perfectly well what lay beyond?
It’s so weird man, it sucks that world of Azeroth has to be a thousand miles wide, and two inches deep.
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He is going to be wandering the Maw seeking answers about himself while Turalyon runs the Alliance in his absence.
He got some advice from Sylvanas but now he needs to wander the Maw itself for more knowledge on matters.
He may have some chats with the Brokers inside Torghast as well as the living Kyrian, Venthyr, Night Fae and Maldraxxi in it’s halls. The Maw may be limited in size but Torghast(a Tower built of of the Primus’s Domination to contain Zovaal) is practically endless. His musings on the Jailer’s prison will take awhile.
He will learn much from studying the Tower as well as the ruins within the Maw. Not to mention the Loom of Fate is waiting…