Nah, if she did nothing, then the status quo of the afterlives would’ve continued. In fact, if Sylvanas hadn’t pushed things to their tipping point, the afterlives would’ve likely just starved out completely and died off without the people of Azeroth ever hearing a peep.
Compared to the entire universe sylvanas really didn’t help all that much. Zovaal’s plan works with or withought her since all she offered were the souls on azeroth
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He needed her.
The valkyr weren’t the maw walker.
She was.
They could only do it because she bound their souls to hers.
Yeah, she was also the one who broke open reality and brought the attention of the horde and the alliance to the Shadowlands.
Anyways, to answer this Thread’s original point. Anduin being distraught does make sense. But should he be distraught to the point that he abandons his responsibility as King and goes AWOL for five plus years?
I’m not so sure. To me, it was just an excuse for Blizzard to shuffle Anduin away for awhile due to player discontent with him and then bring him back as a more gruff somewhat older Anduin with a Call of Duty haircut. Which is exactly what’s happened.
I expect Anduin will also rally the Alliance at the lowest narrative point of this trilogy so we can also get a “return of the king” thing too.
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That is some grade A twisting.
By your reasoning:
If I were to decide to kill you, shoot you, miss vital organs, and you got away. Then when the doctors removed the bullet they spotted a malignant tumor and removed it. That would make me a good person. It would be me trying to kill you, but it ended with a good result. So, that would make me a hero, right? And that would mean I could not be charged with attempted murder, right?
Can you see the fallacy there?
Sylvanas failure doesn’t mean she was good.
And that is before we get into the what if scenarios. Sylvanas accelerated Zovaal’s plans. What might have happened if she wasn’t there? If Teldrassil was not destroyed Elune would not have had the souls to try and send to Ardeanweald. Would that mean she took a more direct involvement? It is possible Zovaal’s plans would have been discovered earlier. Or without Sylvanas who would Zovaal have reached out to? Would he have found a less effective agent who revealed the hand earlier? Would someone have figured out what was happening years earlier?
We are only guessing at what ifs, but there are scenarios without Sylvanas that end Zovaal’s threat earlier and with far less death and destruction. So, you can’t even say that Sylvanas actions lead to the better result.
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Correct. Now, my malignant tumors aren’t going to find themselves. Get started.
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I think he was infused by the Jailer with the memories and experiences of Arthas and the soul of the former Lich King had been used to control him. In a way, he can’t find distinction between himself and the soul he had forged into his mourneblade. The soul of Arthas. When the spell was broken the experiences remain and the imprint of the time he was controlled by the Jailer and more importantly the experiences, sensations, and desires of Arthas.
Meh. To be honest, the levels of writer’s fiat present in Zovaal’s “plans within plans” meant that no matter what happened, he would still reach his goals right on schedule.
See, the writers attempted to pull a “Xanatos Gambit” out of their rears, without even understanding the trope or realizing they were building a teetering tower of plot contrivances in order to service their intended story.
While the War Within is a nice detour, I’m still convinced that Diet Coke Thanos dealt a lethal blow to the story of Warcraft, and the poor IP is just limping along, slowly bleeding out.
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Blizzard just makes the characters, how people feel about them is their own creation
Her earlier books were fine and still hold up… am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and say that the main problem was Blizzard itself was in conflict with itself and gave bad prompts to build off of. Dragonflight and TWW have merely been mediocre rather than offensive so clearly someone somewhere in there managed to finally get the #### together.