I dunno, maybe if you were forced into servitude by a cosmic being and did unspeakable crimes against your will, and you saw things that were incomprehensible to the mortal mind, it would mess you up for life.
14 Likes
What gives a ruler who inherited the position any right to demand that? If he does and nobody challenges him and his army?
3 Likes
That’s the point. He’s moving along his journey from the uber-pacifist he was in MoP towards the man he’ll one day be.
It would be boring if Varian died and Anduin simply said “Alrighty then, I guess despite all of the character development so far as a narrative foil to my father, I will now be Varian 2.0 so you have the correct amount of aggressive testosterone the moment you need it, which is now!!”
I myself have been critical of World of Group Therapy, but let the guy have a friggin’ arc. Not everyone needs to grow into the person they’re meant to be in one single expansion.
13 Likes
Sounds like an old girlfriend.
WOW! You got all that from a 3 min teaser? I mean, sign me up. I guess we don’t need any character development anymore. You just stated it all. Fantastic! I don’t have to follow a developing story anymore, I’ll just turn to you for my story arcs in a bridged version.
2 Likes
You’re not looking for a leader, you’re looking for a dictator to lick the leathers of.
Azeroth has pretty well declared that such foul-minded folk are not fit to serve in positions of leadership. Just ask Garrosh, Arthas, Doomhammer, Sylvanas, or any of the other would-be world-conquerors we’ve made shoes out of in the past two decades.
Oh, wait.
10 Likes
All of this + the fact that he admitted that he liked doing some of it. He was forced to confront the darkness within him and he has to learn to live with it. That’s not an easy task for most people.
9 Likes
In MoP he was an idealistic teen who dreamed of peace.
In Legion, he was suddenly thrust into the role of king plagued with worry that he could do right by his people and fill his father’s shoes while having the most unhelpful advisors by his side.
In BfA, he had shed some of his doubt but still had the most unhelpful advisors by his side.
SL, kidnapped and possessed with his body used like a puppet and he could only watch what Arthas did until he finally could break free. With the help of his dad and Varok Saurfang. And later, you could see the mental damage he was dealing with. But again, a pack of unhelpful advisors who could have helped him cope stood by his side. A group who now look like they just let him wonder around to find himself because they thought it would be more helpful. (Which is a painful thing when Sylvanas was more helpful when they met in the Maw.)
If the writers want to show the devastating effect war(s) can have on a character, I can understand, but how they’ve tossed Anduin’s character all over the place and cringe writing in the past, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the spirit of Varian popping up more then once because the writer’s think that it’s a great time to hinder Anduin’s recovery/growth because he still can’t handle his inner demons.
3 Likes
Power. Lazy, worthless, Kings will have their power taken from them by more ambitious men. The power to rule is granted by his blood. Trace back far enough and his progenitor earned that right and bestowed it to his descendants.
The greatest empires were formed by men of action that sought dominion over their enemies and servitude by their allies.
It’s a video game bro, calm down.
Enjoy the story for what it is and see where it goes. It’s not trying to get a academy award.
5 Likes
The power of rule is granted by the governed.
1 Like
Why not? Why shouldn’t it aspire to be something better? There’s more money spent on WoW than most movies.
WoW’s story suffers because it is written by people with a weak mindset for consumers that are ready to capitulate before the first shots are fired.
1 Like
Stripping a character of dynamic emotional experiances makes them two dimensional, artifical and boring. Even superman had big feelings to deal with from time to time.
Sociopathic, emotionally stunted, “manly” men are not only incredibly lame characters, but the most unrealistic too. In the real world, even the toughest soldiers get PTSD once they’ve seen and done enough. Did you know the medival diaries and accounts of Knights showed they had severe PTSD too?
Violence is NOT a one way street. It will always effect you as much as the person you are doing it to. To pretend otherwise is willfully delusional. True courage accepts this sad reality.
8 Likes
Oh, if only you knew.
1 Like
‘Great men of history’ keep finding their ends at the end of knives, poisons, and pitchforks. Guess they weren’t so great in the end.
If the people you propose to rule want to, they can and eventually will overthrow you. It’s kinda jarring that Anduin understands this more than someone in actual reality.
3 Likes
I disagree. The conquerors can cry in their castles. The losers rot in the grave.
1 Like
I think it would have been less of an issue if we hadn’t spent nearly the whole expansion watching almost every npc getting emotional.
3 Likes
Reminds of me of ancient portraits of kings and soldiers on the battlefield.
Tall horse, clean uniform, no scars, no evidence of the harsh reality. Romanticized.
Only Illidan had the courage to say that he was his scars and rejected the gift. The rest of the kings and warriors all seem lost looking for answers instead just stumbling face first into another mud pit of war and despair
2 Likes
History begs to differ with you. Takes a few generations to get up a good rebellion, usually.
3 Likes
And they don’t need to
1 Like