If the Safe Haven cinematic foreshadows the obvious; what does that mean for the Forsaken as players? I mean i will follow Sylvanas into undeath and beyond without question but, practically speaking, what happens when she is defeated and we have to interact with the rest of the NPC? Will it simply be assumed that we were for the rebellion regardless of our choices? Or will the NPCs just pretend like nothing happened after.
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this and you will be expected to clap and exclaim how excited you are, if you don’t believe it ask a night elf player
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This is a MoP repeat the only difference is we get cinematic this time around. If I’m following the repeat correctly this is the part when the good guy Forsaken follow Saurfang, despite gleefully blighting and burning entire cities.
I am not a Forsaken player, but I felt kinda bad when the camera zoomed into the assassin’s little skull buckle. Skulls, and that broken female face has always been so emblematic of the Forsaken people and their plight.
The combination of the skull buckle, and the female assassin’s broken body lying there felt like a huge slap in the face of the Forsaken by Blizzard.
Geez, I don’t even LIKE Sylvanas and I just wrote all that.
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I really hate being forced to fight horde as horde. If I don’t do the quests what happens then? Like the characters who don’t pick a side in this dumb divorce.
This, forsaken were told they were not part of the real horde since vanilla. Then they do stuff like this to really cement in the weird disconnect between the forsaken and the rest of the horde.
They are going to off or out sylvanas and re-write forsaken lore to be more horde, I just know it…
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they will have to rewrite forsaken lore at that point because there will be nothing left to shred
You guys always been the bad guys, you just humanize your toon and started to believe you have honor, but when horde players started a horde toon all had the mindset of death, war, camping lowbies etc.
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Much like the Orcs after Garrosh, a twitter post will declare most of the forsaken were in the rebellion.
Despite having kill them all on the way to Sylvanas.
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And they could have had a story about connecting with the Horde. The Forsaken are the same people who supported the internment camps after all. They could have had a story where they bond with the Kalimdor horde through admitting each other’s faults. Like a sort of group therapy between the Horde’s member nations. Family and all that.
But no, instead we’ve been the unwanted step-child since the beginning, and now Blizzard is pretty much telling us we have nothing in common with the more noble characters in the setting.
Such wasted opportunities.
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Wasted opportunities sounds like all of BFA. The alliance COULD have attacked first. The horde COULD have been united. The faction war COULD have been free of child burning. Ya know sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you’ve won… NOTHING! banshee screem
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No, you’re not. You and I are both nothing to Blizzard. We’re merely spectators observing a story that they want to tell to themselves, and that only they will enjoy.
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You just realized you’re villains, are you serious?
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Yep pretty much. I’m now convinced the only way to get a quality story out of wow is to make it up yourself either through rp or head cannon
It’s very sad
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I’m fairly convinced that RP is one of the only ways to have fun in this game anymore. The most fun thing I’ve done this expansion was participate in a pirate RP hordeside that had pretty much nothing to do with the overarching plot besides gathering and selling azerite.
Also, nice to see a horde MG poster! I wish there were more of you guys around ><
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My rp is basically the only reason I still play. I barely even read the quest text I have stopped caring so much
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A dying breed to be sure. How many of us could possibly be left after a second version of MoP?
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So many did not survive the culling
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I’ve seen this coming for years. Everyone likes to say Garrosh 2.0. Ha she was already worse then Garrosh before his little stint as Warchief.
Sylvanas has no redeeming qualities, at least none that I’ve ever seen. The funny thing is if Garrosh had been more patient Sylvanas would’ve been his biggest supporter in a war against the Alliance in MoP. She wants commit more genocide by killing every human in Stormwind and then raise them into undeath.
It’s funny though if you consider how quickly everyone turned against Garrosh but had a blind eye in regards to Sylvanas.
Then again Sylvanas has always had very annoying plot armor. You know that “female plot armor”. For how many expansions was she the only female faction leader in the Horde? Gave her that free pass to pretty do whatever she wanted with almost no reprisal.
It took BFA to finally introduce new female leaders in Thalyssra and Talanji. Both whom I actually I like. Finally get to kick Sylvanas’ plot armor into the garbage. She isn’t getting a free pass this time.
No I don’t believe she will be redeemed. That’s just annoying. It’s already been done with Kerrigan in Starcraft 2. Bad story writing if they decide so save here.
Sylvanas will either be imprisoned, executed or will abandon the Horde entirely.
I suspect that Blizzard is grooming the light blessed undead Calia Menethil to be the new leader of the Forsaken. That seed was planted from Before the Storm novel, and a hint at Anduin during BFA.
Calia as the new Forsaken Faction leader maybe she provides a way for all Forsaken to become Light blessed undead and negating the current negative effects of wielding the light.
Perhaps opening the door for a new Forsaken remodel. cough Blightcaller.
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I kinda hope she abandons the Horde after backstabbing is, if only because it’s the least annoying solution to me as the others are the awful Kerrigan 2.0 or Garrosh 2.0
Wow, you really think they’re gonna make the Forsaken player characters dismember themselves as penance? Harsh, but fair I suppose.
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