It’s my one gripe with the recent cinematic, they paint Turalyon as this 1 dimensional character who doesn’t see Alleria’s thinking behind the void. This isn’t true at all.
All of the recent short stories that have came out recently for war within has shown how much he cares about her, and understands her. The audio drama between them also shows this, just listening to that will give a much better perspective of Turalyon’s character than anything they’ve put in game.
It’s like Legion all over again. Every now and then the writers have a bad habit of mischaracterizing him.
It’s so aggravating too because he has such potential as a great character in current WoW. The audiodrama really showed his potential as an interesting character, with obvious flaws but not one of them was ever giving up on or doubting Alleria.
And I think you’re right too that Turalyon is being narritvely sacrificed to prop up Alleria.
They did the same thing to him in Legion with Illidan.
truth. in modern wow narrative men need to look dumb and weak, for only strong elf woman shines (sylvanas, alleria, xal’atath) look what they did to khadgar in that teaser too
turalyon in wc2 is just a total different guy, united the alliance with his speench, avenged anduin lothar and took the W for the alliance, then he went to the enemies world and slayed the first death knight (teron gorefiend) but now hes just a random paladin who is only in the story because he is the husband of the elf protagonist
Sure, if not for the recent short story that just came out that showed Alleria does not think this way and her and Turlyon still love each other unconditionaly.
The difference between the two? One is being told from her perspective the other is not. The cinematic she is narrating a story herself and how she feels and understands it. That doesn’t make it true a villian in one persons story is a hero or a victim in another.
Ah I haven’t read it. I’m unaware of the timeline if the animation is first or that story.
Both can be true. Like here lemme use me as an example. Due to some rather scary family moments growing up, I learned that as a kid. A slammed door or cupboard meant someone was mad at me.
This lead to instances where a genuine “no one is mad” slam happened and I would be immediately on edge or worrying that I did something wrong. To the point where even I. A grown freaking adult. Still have to poke my head out of my room to make sure everything is okay.
A slammed door can both be a bad thing, and just a case of “oops me push door too hard”. Alleria and Turalyon seem like they’re both absolutely devoted. But Alleria might have doubts from time to time which is fine.
I’m fine with it. His reaction was dumb, His blind faith in the light was willing to make a wind chime enslave someone for the greater good, yet when she turns to the void, he claims she is evil.
He is the typical Paladin, and acts like one. His judgement is clouded by what is right and wrong, and his own wife he said she turned to evil when magic even the light has always been a tool.
Like nothing about him to understand. After what that wind chime did, and he just sit back got upset because illidan killed it. He showed just how dumb he is.
You saying a char who’s perspective of reality and emotions that are constantly changing to from the pull of the void aren’t one way cause they were previously stated to be another? I would recommend learning about mental health disorders as that may help you understand this story a little better.
We have and it makes sense to us. Again refer to mental health disorders cause that’s this character
I mean most of us don’t? We only see what we see ingame. That is all the context we need. The books and such just extra. All we see is he is a typical paladin who is blind by his faith like Illidan said.
Unless the lore is in the game. Anything extra is just filler.
Again, Alleria’s thoughts of Turalyon have never been swayed by the void. They’ve even touched on this narritvely with her character that it’s something so set in stone with her it couldn’t.
This cinematic is backtredding narrative work their writers have already done.
Yes they have. We have seen it in game. That aside the whole well it never happened before so it can’t now shows a lack of understanding of mental health.