What the hell was with the Unnelves? Why would she actively deprive the Jailor of souls? Sira was a mini boss at the end of Darkshore and Shadow’s Rising. Otherwise they’ve not factored into the game or overall plot in any significant way.
And I’m still confused about Azerite. Is there still a bunch of magical yellow cake uranium floating around out there? Just a small sprinkling of the stuff was shown to multiply the force of any weapon. Shoukd we not be worried about that?
Which is ironic because Golden’s early work was heavy duty Horde lore. Which of course got more or less chucked out, and she just smiles and goes along with it.
With how much of a mess this is, I legit wonder how much of it is a scramble to clean things up from the behind the scenes mess with the toxic culture that was found out.
At best I can figure it was an obsession Sylvanas had with being right. Delaryn told Sylvanas she couldn’t kill hope, and she couldn’t, burning the tree only made the Night Elves fight harder, so likely Sylvanas raised Delaryn and the others in believing that seeing them suffering in undeath would demoralize the Night Elf army. Obviously that didn’t work, either.
I think a pretty broad sentiment is that people want to go back to an era where the races were distinct and the world emphasized their identities, rather than continuing to remain in the passenger car of the train that has derailed into an ocean of buttwater while the conducter that led us here and one or two passengers swear “We started this trip, and dammit, we’re going to see it through!”
Honestly it wasn’t that bad of a plan, it’s just Sylvanas decided to pull the same mistake she made with Arthas and grandstand the final blow. The only reason the Alliance leadership was even on their guard was because Sylvanas was making clear flags that she was up to something.
I think trying to figure out the purpose of Azerite and the “unnelves” is futile, because I’m pretty sure they were both tied heavily to storylines that were later discarded. Azerite was downplayed because Afrasiabi decided he wanted Pure Evil Sylvanas™ instead, and unnelves were downplayed because they were a part of the Pure Evil Sylvanas™ story that was derailed in turn when he left.
