So the War Within Beta cinametic has Xal’atath speaking of the main characters’ issues, and when we came to Thrall she says this…
“But deep down, you know the truth. That when all your illusions are burned away… all that is left… is your fury.”
As she says this, Thrall loses his connection with the elements and he gets upset.
This got me thinking, the first part of her statement speaks of illusions being burned away, perhaps this is reflective of his beliefs being questioned and torn down. Maybe there’s a part of him that’s becoming disillusioned with the Horde, though he’d won’t admit it. His illusion being that he still believes the Horde can be good despite the 2 wars that the Horde started, willingly or otherwise, and the events that followed suit(Time Travelling, Afterlife Travelling) that endangered Azeroth. Maybe he’ll reach his breaking point in the xpac. When disaster strikes, and the elements still won’t help him, Thrall loses it and goes full Dark Shaman to save his allies.
“And in the end… your glorious fury… will be mine.” Xal’atath says this after the scene of Thrall becomes a starry constellation makes me think she might go for Thrall first instead. That once he gets that taste of Dark Shamanism, he’ll be at risk of falling to Xal’atath’s control.
Honestly, who even cares anymore? The lore has been complete rubbish for several expansions now, and if we’re being completely honest and take off the nostalgia goggles, it was never particularly good. I’m at a point where I pretty much don’t care what they do with the NPCs.
Foreshadowing the moment that, in his great disappointment, Thrall rerolls warrior and finally learns how to hold a dang sword.
But… we already went down that road in BfA, when Thrall retreated to his farm and Saurfang had to go find him and drag him back into the fight. And unless Thrall’s been reading the forums (which would disillusion anyone), the Horde hasn’t really done anything in SL/DF that would change his mind.
If anything, I think his beef should be with the elements more personally. He’s done everything they could ask of him, and if he’s still not good enough, maybe that’s a them problem and not a him problem.
Thralls probably getting a big boy upgrade from Azeroth herself because Metzen didn’t like Danuser’s “oh yeah I can elements again” resolution to the arc.
it would be neat if he actually was a semi competent warrior like he’s supposed to be until this plotline resolves unlike how clownish he was in SL.
Thrall will split into two versions of himself. Go’el, which will become a dark shaman because of his overreliance on the elements, and the Thrall we knew before cata happened, which will remember he was a pretty damn good fighter before he became the chosen one.
Anyway, It’s of no use when Blizzard will never unite Arthas, Illidan and Thrall together with a fanbase that has made CRAPCOM with your Resident Evil characters.
The only illusion that the game have about Thrall is that he is not a dishonourable coward and a hypocrite. He need to face that if he want to move on.
We had plenty of npcs patting him in the back, saying he did nothing wrong, that he was right, that he doesn’t hold responsibilities, but deep down he know he shat the bet.
He was the one that put Garrosh to clean up his mess after he left the orcs to live in repentance in desert in famine, he didn’t came back after he dealt with Deathwing, he had the power but chose omission.
He went to challenge Garrosh and hence he could not win as a warrior, forced the elements into his will to cheat on a honor duel leading him to give up the keepsake of his old friend to mere players, hide in shame in outland being selfish allowing the monster that was Sylvanus to take the horde and do what she pleases and now comes back and still don’t want to take responsibilities for what he did and for his people.
If one thing Thrall should learn from spider-man is that with great powers come great responsibilities, and until he face and admit his mistakes he is dead to me.
Its an interesting concept, especially as Anduin is all too familiar with the loss of faith and the climb back towards acceptance of self and would be there to try and get him back.
A Dark Shaman Thrall would be a formidable problem.