Pretty sure necrolords will be nice chill guys
https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/6/9670176/starcraft-2-future-history-dlc-blizzard
Artanis has his work cut out for him between guiding his people and dealing with the gameâs villain, the terrible and powerful Amon. Amon, whoâs been at least hinted at as far back as Brood War , has been part of the plan before StarCraft 2 began, says Waugh.
âItâs very much a Lucifer story on some level,â Waugh says of Amon. âItâs a character that had the opportunity to become a great being, and then realized he didnât like that; at the end of the day, he was part of this ancient, infinite cycle. He realizes that thatâs not what he wants, he wants to shatter that cycle. He wants to break everything. He feels lied to. In his mind, heâs the hero of his own story.â
Amon was a tough villain to craft; after all, all-powerful beings tend to be boring when the most interesting thing about them is their power. In early readings he felt a little like a one-note character, Waugh says. Internally, the team knew what his motivations were. In the game, they werenât as easily readable.
âI really think that your protagonist is only as good as your antagonist,â Waugh says. "In many ways, Amon is kind of the thematic inverse of Artanis. Where Artanis kind of takes on the burden and realizes that there is a lot of flaws in what is the world, that thereâs a way to work with them and improve them, Amon decides to shatter it all.
My understanding is that Maldraxxus is basically the Battlefield of Eternity from Diablo, with the Necrolords warring against each other and the native wildlife forever. Give up your sense of self, fight wars forever, torture and/or be tortured forever, or be fertilizer to be distributed by one woman.
None of the covenants are attractive options, which seems like an extremely bad idea when we have to ally with one of them for the entire expansion.
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sounds amazing!
my understanding is that maldraxxus is the shadowlandsâ personal army.
Maldraxxus is supposed to be the Shadowlandâs main line of defense against outside interferance to my knoledge, but theyâre to busy fighting eachother for anything else. The Eternal War with them is more âWe have way to many nobles and officials to have them do their job properlyâ rather then, Fight each other forever. The Vampires meanwhile are literally just doing their Job, they punish sinners, so they are punishing sinners. The Fairies main purpose seems to be to care for demigods and other high powered beings between resurrections, though the Kyrians are just kinda weird.
He feels lied to.
That doesnât mean he was. Realizing he doesnât like what immortality entails once heâs lived with it for a few cycles doesnât mean he was forced into it.
Thatâs just casting the blame on someone other than himself because he canât deal with having made a choice that he doesnât want to live with. If it were truly forced upon him, then destroying the Xelânaga themselves would have satisfied his desire to break their cycle because theyâd no longer exist to âforceâ that choice on anyone else.
He felt compelled to destroy everything because he knew that if he didnât, then eventually two more races could rise up and choose - unforced and of their own accord - to be reborn as new Xelânaga and replace those heâd killed. In a way he was trying to erase not only the Xelânaga themselves, but along with them any reminder that heâd chosen to become what he was just as all other Xelânaga before him did and any after would do.