Are these Souls Sacrificed or Not?

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I’m still wondering about this cutscene, regarding the new Night Elf seed.

The Winter Queen says “They have chosen instead to become part of a new beginning for their kin.”

Are the souls that chose to empower the seed permanently gone? Soul Dust? Maybe they could simply remain dormant until the seed is grown, then come back as Wisps. Maybe they’re just, idk, passively feeding the seed with anima, and waiting to be reborn. I really don’t like more permanently destroyed Nelf souls. Maybe the meaning is obvious, and what I’m hoping for doesn’t make sense.

Yes, it’s a Night Elf thread. Keep it civil, please.

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Are the Night Elves hyper-individualist the way most Americans and Western Europeans are?

Or are they more of a Buddhist/Shinto/Jedi persuasion where all souls are just temporary manifestations of a unified life force?

None of the souls that went into the seed were specific named souls so there is no way of knowing. But I would think that for the seed to work properly the souls infusing it would need to be willing to leave their old identities and baggage behind.

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My guess is that they are probably in there with some sort of “merged consciousness”. I’m assuming that Blizzard won’t pass up the chance to use them to speak for the new tree.

Don’t think they are coming back as individuals. It seems clear to be a one-way trip?

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Unironically used the term NEFPA

Cringe.

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It’s gone. Sorry. Also, guess the souls are gone too. Sadly. Anything to add?

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We should have empowered the seed with Horde souls

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You’re entitled to that opinion.

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I have a feeling people would find a reason to complain about that too

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The honest answer is we do not know. I think the wording of what was said is important, however. The winter queen didn’t frame it as some ultimate sacrifice. The seed is explicitly the embodiment of rebirth, anchored to both ardenweald and the emerald dream. It would be more in line with the …spirit… of what was demonstrated that they will be reborn in some form. Might be wisps, might be treants, might be a sudden elf baby boom. Who knows!

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Beet answer so far. Guess this thread wasn’t a waste, like most of my threads.

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To me the whole thing came off as a more impressive version of the traditional Wisp deal.

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I don’t think I’ll ever get over what a pointless marketing gimmick Teldrassil was.

And like it could’ve been done in so, so many other ways but they deliberately made it this extremely dour event that pretty thoroughly demoralized everyone.

And then it’s point in the story was so vague and such an after thought that even if they do something really different like make a crazy new fae forest in Silithis and it’s this wildly cool new tree weaving through Sargeras’s sword - I’ll still wonder why the hell any of that was necessary.

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If you think I’m cringe, I’d appreciate if you didn’t interact with me again, ty.

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Teldrassil could of been something compelling, but they never had any intentions of making it such. When they realized people actually cared about it they tried to pivot, but Blizzard’s top-down hierarchical design flow is about as agile as a blimp.

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Or they just wanted to use it to get rid of the matriarchal race, according to rumors.

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It took you 2 hours to decide to post this?

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The Ignore feature is nice, too. Such a toxic poster.

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Try using it more. It works wonders for ones sanity when posting here

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I do not really think that was the goal. They had already weakened that considerably back in Vanilla by making the Archdruid a legit co-leader. The strongly matriarchal stuff is mostly RTS material, which sort of divided elves into female warrior priestesses, and male druids (who mostly were taking a nap). One of the only strong vestiges of that is the Wardens, which remain an all female organization.

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