Are the Void Elves a liability?

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We have a very clear sense of what is morally good and morally evil and we apply it to the races, whether we like it or not. If a race outright kills, uses other humanoid beings as live test subjects, enslaves, etc, then we consider that race evil, that is our moral perspective.

The orcs, in many ways, would be morally evil from our perspective, the tauren would be morally good from our perspective, and even in game the orc could be argued to be more morally dubious, and the tauren, at large, obviously morally good - but because of the faction system, we can not really have cultures that differs so vastly in the same faction, because otherwise it would not make sense - and that is what in fact happened in Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, and Battle For Azeroth, even worse was Battle For Azeroth… why exactly did The Blood Elves, Tauren, Trolls, and Pandaren decide to join in on Sylvanas’ little war? An argument could be made for the orcs and goblins, but the rest of them?

The other races need their cultural background and moral perspective to be put on a backlog in order to justify their participation due to a faction system.

I am not interested in arguing whether the faction system is what kept the MMO going for so long, that is way beyond the scope of my point.

The faction system is simply not making sense unless the races start sharing a moral perspective and then culturel background. Someone has to change, and boom, here we are… every race is now human.

Talking about MMOs that did factions with races of different culturel backgrounds good.

Wildstar.

But that is because both factions had an overarching theme that all of the races within each faction shared.

The Alliance and the Horde in World of Warcraft don’t really have that - because blizzard have not written it to make sense like that, not even from the get go.

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That “good false lead hero” trope is also becoming too obvious and, dare I say, cliche.

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Void elves are always canonically on the brink of becoming slaves to the old gods and voids. That’s not exageration, Umbric tells you that himself.

The Forsaken have immense resistance to the void’s mind control powers, and the void is weak to death.

Of course, Nu-Blizzard loves the Alliance and hates the Horde, so you know how this is going to go. Voids elves weaknesses will be forgotten. Forsaken’s strengths – just like their religion – will be given to void elves.

Then forsaken will fall apart and die when they clap for void elves winning.

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void elves are a fanfiction

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The fact you are right gives me a primalistic anger reaction.

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Don’t worry, The Forsaken won’t be forgotten about…

…it’ll just be entirely Voss and Calia and their bright new future.

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Does that mean Alleria is also canonically on the brink of becoming a slave to the Old Gods and Void Lords?

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Yes, up to the point she remembers her husband and son, finding the mental fortitude to resist the mind control.

Eurgh.

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No.

Though Alleria will be tricked into going super void goddess powerful and dying so that Xalatath can use her powerful corpse like she’s using her currently modest corpse.

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The Forsaken broke free when Illidan launched his attacks on the Frozen Throne under the direction of Kiljaden.

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Around that time. Perhaps it was a bit of both.

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The attack on the Frozen Throne weakened Ner’zhul, the then Lich King, and consequently the power he fed to Arthas. This allowed Sylvannas to break free of Arthas’ Domination and reposess her body using her power as a banshee. (Arthas had been keeping it around in the off chance he could find a way to torment Sylvannas further with it.) She was then able to help the more strong minded of the Scourge throw off their shackles as well.

Feeling very much endangerd Ner’zhul would then recall Arthas to Northrend where the latter would have his dance with Bat Boy and then put on the Helm of Domination uniting the two and starting a struggle for domminance that kept Arthas seated on the throne so long that he got iced over.

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I know Ner’zhul mentioned his powers were leaking from the crack in the Frozen Throne caused by thrusting Frostmourne out of it. And yes, Illidan’s ritual took a toll too. I thought the other Forsaken just broke free like Sylvanas did, I don’t remember where she showed them how to.

You’re right that Ner’zhul started reaching out to Arthas when Illidan started gunning for him.

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She didn’t show them how. They did that on their own, it’s the basic requirement to be a forsaken. She just organized them to help each other with their new condition and that is visible during the Forsaken intro quests in Dead Knee or what it’s called. The starting area.

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Deathknell is the forsaken starting area. :dracthyr_nod:

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I was close.

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Valkyr are great.

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Illidan’s attacks were shaking the whole world which is why Malfurion and Tyrande traveled to stop him. and Maiev tagged along because of her fixation.