Picture it.
In a scene reminiscent of the Scourge’s march to Quel’Danas we see the Horde and the Alliance struggling to hold off Xalatath’s forces.
Our characters fight elsewhere while the hero characters fight at the dockyard / portal room / means of transportation of some sort.
Xalatath or Significant Minion kicks in the door and begins to kick their respective rears.
Calia is doing all the Disc Priest cooldowns but gets kicked to the floor. Then some death flagged character gets dropped next to her. Let’s say Danath or Etrigg or some other old dude that obviously is going to get killed sooner or later anyway. I’m going with Danath because this will cause tension with the Alliance and make way for his crazy niece to take the throne.
She crawls over to them and finally embracing her undead nature, rips into the flesh with her teeth.
Rising up - more levitating and smattered in sanguine - she unleashes a psychic scream and explodes upon Xalatath or Significant Minion with a Hero version of Ultimate Penance. Turning the tide.
So yes I’m describing this scene;
But wouldn’t that be neat? Everyone’s all worried she was going to turn the Forsaken into noblebright hopehuggers. But then we have her do the gruesome Forsaken racial and actually save the day in the process.
And the kicker is it’s an in joke for Forsaken Priests because who hasn’t Cannibalized for in-combat mana?
Just saying she’d be way less of a controversial Forsaken leader if she was the first one to eat a mfer on screen. You know that thing vampires, zombies and ghouls are best known for?
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It’s an interesting idea and would be very unexpected.
Marran is unlikely to take the throne, on account being arrested for treason by Danath. The only way she is taking that throne is by outright seizing Stormgarde for herself and subsequently making her a target of both the Alliance, who would seek to either restore Danath or reestablish their hold on Stormgarde, and the Horde, who has made it clear she wants them dead.
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Yeah but imagine Danath’s dead and there’s a non-zero percent chance it’s because the sort of Queen of Lordaeron ate him.
Of course we know bro was already dead and she was just deciding he was an organ donor - which is a bit iffy to be sure - but everyone else doesn’t. In my perfect world a now Worgen Tess Greymane confirms this but when has the truth gotten in the way of a good narrative?
Though I’m betting Stromgarde either is embraces or is conquered by the Arathi Emperor.
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Cool Idea to do with Calia:
Calia: (speaking in odd gruff, deadpan, masculine voice) I have to go now. My planet needs me.
(Calia stiffly floats straight up off screen)
(NOTE: Calia died on the way to her home planet)
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I would not mind this… I mention once I think that Calia should show her Shadow Priest Side at some point… I think it be great to see and Forsaken would welcome it unconditionally, IMO.
This is me being bias as hell but I’d have her be Hero Class Discipline.
So basically conjuring shields, void ghosts and healing with the Light and Shadow simultaneously.
The Forsaken aren’t vampires. I’ve mained an undead Priest for the better part of a decade and went back to play them in Classic. The Light turning them into whiny cowards came from ONE Ask A Dev question post Wrath. It doesnt come up anywhere else.
A cool Eventide Priest caster would be a nice addition to their roster. Just make her actually do f’d up undead stuff.
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A ghostly hand rests on Calia’s shoulder. “Sister. Is it… over?” The camera pans up to reveal the spectral form of Arthas.
A separate ghostly hand rests on Calia’s other shoulder. “My so–err, daughter. No kin–err, queen rules forever.” The camera pans up to reveal the spectral form of Terenas.
A third ghostly hand rests on Calia’s other other shoulder. “Now, let it be finished.” The camera pans up to reveal the spectral form of Saurfang, Loa of Ghostly Encouragement.
Calia writes a strongly worded cease and desist letter to Xal’atath and hands it to Derek Proudmoore, whose arm snaps off under the weight because he’s a Golden Forsaken. He attempts to kneel down and collect his missing appendage, but the exertion causes his body to explode like a grenade.
Voss grabs the camera with both hands, pulling it in close so that her face obstructs the carnage behind her, then croaks out angrily, “I’m not the leader of the Council because Calia is so amazing and definitely a Forsaken and also Tess and Shandris are the greatest people who have ever lived and the players need to stop pouting about Calia who is no different than me except for how cool she is.”
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Or they could have her rip out a man’s throat with her bare teeth and turn into a winged laser bombardment.
Undead Priests are the coolest class race combination let’s play ball.
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Speaking only for myself, there is absolutely nothing blizz can do with Calia short of rewinding time and undoing the insertion of her into the Forsaken to begin with that would not outrage me.
Calia’s character single-handedly caused me to faction change.
So you were so afraid the Forsaken would have their edge sanded off, you went to the Alliance?
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I keep telling you, this isn’t going to happen until maybe after they get through whatever plotline they wanted a Light Zombie for. She’s going to stay Ms. Porcelain Perfect at least until that happens.
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I’m glad other people agree with my “Calia needs to eat a person.” stance.
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Being edgy or not had nothing to do with it nor did I imply that it did. Simply put, it was a very lazy character arc based on next to nothing. They could have been equally lazy and just bumped up Lilian and it would have least had some integrity to it.
I mean, I’d certainly prefer that version of Calia, but the elephant in the room remains every second of her depiction thus far. Maybe there’s some necrotic font somewhere we can accidentally push her in and unintentionally hold her head under for like a month.
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And I’ll continue screaming into the Void what would be a good use for her.
C’mon that perfect hair messed up as she rises up with bright red dripping down her chin.
All of a sudden that high collar makes her less Pretty Princess and more Dracula.
As opposed to the Void Elves.
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Why, though? What’s the point of making thread after thread saying “I want to see Calia eat corpses”? What does it accomplish?
Because Priests are a cool class and the rightful heir of Lordaeron being an atypical undead who’s part of the Forsaken is a cool idea.
There’s about 900 badass as Hell things you could do with this premise but because the initial step was bad everyone goes
“No icky don’t like”
Well maybe we take the idea and DO SOMETHING COOL WITH IT.
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I mean, if you want to just keep arguing about it for the sake of arguing I suppose I can. We are obviously not going to change either others minds, which is fine.
I mean the Rendorei were fun gibbering psychos. Once. In the Horde Island Expedition. Otherwise they seem to be pretty boring despite having the distinct possibility of exploding into Cthulu.
I play Worgen and Rendorei. I want them to be interesting but they refuse to. So the only Alliance race I reliably lean on is Dwarf because I can at least;
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Their intentions with Calia have been too blatant every step of the way to hang the frustration on the initial step alone. You are correct in that there’s any number of ways they could have executed the idea in a way that fit with Forsaken themes, but even now (three expansions on) she’s just an aborted plan that has been spinning its tires.
Any number of unexpected developments could salvage Calia, but it would involve a tone of writing cdev doesn’t seem interested in these days.
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