Tyrande was the Night Warrior and there was a unnamed Night Warrior 10k+ yrs ago that helped carve out the Kaldorei Empire. There’s only been two that we know of in Kaldorei history
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If they put a new tree in Dragonflight I doubt they would renew Teldrassil in Expansion 11.
Thats what seems to be happening here Blizzard is giving Kalimdor away to the Horde and Dragonflight is supposed to be where NEs live now.
What I found weirder about the Darkshore scenario was that the newly raised Darkfallen would immediately join the Forsaken. Losing your faith in the deity is one thing. Immediately joining the enemy is another. It’s like Blizzard didn’t learn anything from the Silverpine storyline.
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It also did not help the shadow of the idea that being raised as a Forsaken is inherently coercive.
I have to practice extreme double-think with multiple political entities in this game, stuck between what Blizzard chooses to be their main portrayal and the random screwed-up stuff that gets tossed in, because it is impossible to judge what is meant to be a hidden flaw and what is just inconsistent.
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Oh, yeah, no arguement that that was odd. I especially loved how you could talk to Delaryn as Horde and kinda ask her why and she’d be like, “No time to explain! Maybe later.”
Later never really came.
Sira came back coocoo for cocopuffs and you know, I get that one. But the others seem to be mostly “normal” but with their allegiances completely swapped for no reason that ever gets explained. Even if it is being mad that Elune let your sisters get slaughtered, dealing with it by slaughtering more of your sisters is an… odd reaction, to say the least.
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To add to that its even odder to join the ones that slaughtered your sisters so you could slaughter even more sisters!
We have to invent a whole new cereal for how crazy that is… Dreadmoorios! Yeah maybe that would be an apt name.
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Well, we all know the answer for why it happened is “AESTHETIC”, and to be fair, night elves fighting the masters of death (using all the tools at their disposal including -gasp- necromancy to revive our own!) with nature magic in a spooky night drenched forest did look cool.
And equally obviously, they probably didn’t want the forsaken catapulting over the morality cliff of mind controlling undead (so it could be more dramatic when it maybe happens later to one single human who may or may not have been just being normal-expletive deleted- brainwashed instead of anything magical).
So they just left that as a big ol’ ???, and nothing has really clarified matters.
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I remember how people ( myself included ) suspected that there must be more to this, that Delaryn had something up her sleeve, like pretending to join the enemy to backstab them later- Illidan style. But nope. There was nothing lol. She just really had no nerve to talk about it.
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Yeah, they really had no plan for that character who they spent a novella and a prepatch on, then made brought back for SHOCK VALUE…
And did basically nothing with it. Like, she stands on the beach in Darkshore and gets run over by the night elf army and has two moments of stubbornly inexplicable dark ranger pathos. Woo.
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It’s sad,really. If they never planned to do anything with the undead Nelves, then why raise them at all? It was just frustrating for both sides. But that’s symptomatic for bfa’s story as a whole, so no surprise here.
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Honestly this entire Teldrasil storyline has been filled to the brim with things it feels like they never intended to do anything with and just threw out into the world on a whim. Right down to the Burning itself.
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Well, Delaryn’s whole purpose was to get fridged so we would be sad.
But of course, they also made you play through fighting her on Horde and skipping giddily past the moral event horizon. Then resurrecting her later on to show that Sylvanas is incredibly sadistic and wanted to REALLY hammer home those parallels or that Sylvanas felt a weird kinship and so did exactly the thing that she hated having done to her. Seriously, it was weird. And ALSO never expanded upon because Nathanos went looking specifically for Delaryn’s body and then, again, we did ??? with the character.
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It remains baffling to me there arent playable Nelves Hordeside.
Because that I actually do think would be an interesting character to explore. It seems the obvious reason they’d stay is because they’re, ya know, undead. And the Forsaken are the only real business in town catering to that lack of lifestyle.
Undeath doesn’t necessarily change your personality but it does change your tastes. People mention finding spiders adorable now and finding like a cozy farm homestead unnerving. They don’t hang out in crypts to stay on brand they do it because that’s comforting for them. Suffice to say an undead would be as uncomfortable living in SW as a human would be in UC. Even if they were welcome it just doesn’t have what they need to feel that way.
And for a Kaldorei in particular that’s gotta be a weird adjustment. I fully intended to make an Undead Sentinel because I like playing with different generations of Forsaken and I think it’d be interesting sering them adapt as they’re about as odd man out as you can be. Figure she’d spend a lot of time just traipsing around Silverpine and the Plaguelands.
The Forsaken do happen to have forests that are essentially themselves undead. I feel an undead Kaldorei could find some happiness there.
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You know what’s even worse? They command the player. You take orders from these random dark warden npcs. Who are they and why are they leading Horde players? Nobody knows. Awful plot.
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I mean…
(I made this character in BFA for pretty much that backstory- she was originally created as a warrior in Legion, but come on, I named her Ashfall and I’m not too proud to capitalize on that.) But for some reason Blizzard doesn’t let me have red eyes as a death knight. Which is a crying shame.
Look if an 8ft tall goth woman wearing essentially a blender tells me to jump my only question is ‘How high?’.
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Though on that note, one of the many many things i would have liked to see is the night elf pariahs coming into play.
Having the demon hunters and night elf death knights sit the whole war out was a crying shame. At least the mages/Highborn got a skoch of love.
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In general I’m confused what the darkfallen are. Because I think that initially referred to the San’Layn who are vampires. But now it’s a catch all term for just any undead elf.
When originally the lines between DK, Dark Ranger and San’Layn were pretty notable. One is essentially an undead super soldier with a need to cause suffering, one’s a banshee wearing their old corpse like power armor, and the others are as mentioned draculas.
But now it’s a catch all term for I guess any corporeal undead elf.
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I should clarify I created and named and even roleplayed on Ashfall, new sentinel and warrior, mid Legion, well before any leaks about the BFA prepatch. I’m not that tacky. Generally speaking, anyway.
On that note, War of Thorns could have been quite good, even with the signature event intact. But it really needed a lot more delicacy and planning ahead instead of just blazing from DRAMATIC STORY BEAT to DRAMATIC STORY BEAT like a drum solo in some wildly mediocre interpretative jazz.
There’s just no nuance or considerations for the ramifications of what we just heard. Off to the next set of loud noises.
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I mean, I get that and it was dumb but what really frustrates me is that there was no follow-up whatsoever.
And it’s not even that they’re trying to sweep it under the rug in shameful silence. She’s still there in the new UC scenario, and she’s still sad and that’s it. Save for the ( admittedly cool ) customizations.
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