Well, clearly you wouldn’t, I get it. I’m not denying their stories were handled badly ( and for both sides ) but I think they deserve better and I for one would like to see more of them.
On that I agree. The tendency to write actual Forsaken characters out of the story and replace them with the likes of Calia is worrying, to say the least. I don’t like that either. And I’m not advocating a starring role for Delaryn or Derek in the future Forsaken storyline. I just want something better for them than what they got, namely being reduced to a mere plot device to drive home the point how evil and ruthless Sylvanas is. And be forgotten afterwards.
( I’m aware I’m in the minority on that though and if it doesn’t happen then it doesn’t happen.)
We used to get a lot of exposure to the rank and file undead through questlines. You’d meet that mad scientist at his impromptu lab, or help some lady recover her lost felpuppy. Occasionally a minor lieutenant would hint at a larger plot. And the major lore characters would show up from time-to-time to heighten the narrative.
Now we still have those major lore characters showing up – but we left everyone else at home. I don’t know how apothecaries feel about the House of Plagues, or how the science of fleshcraft has been changed.
Same goes for all of the rest of the citizens of Azeroth.
The whole “leave everyone behind and have no interaction with your own faction” is something that has been a thing since… I wanna say… Uldum in Cataclysm, but it became much more of a thing in MoP. Though with Uldum we were still traveling with recurring neutral NPCs (and there were so many faction-specific quests in Cataclysm, I can’t fault it in that regard), and MoP it was meant to fit a greater narrative in regards to the faction war, and it did have faction-specific quests that were very meaningful… sometimes.
Though I don’t think the whole “leave them behind” aspect of questing really started to feel invasive until Legion for me. I guess arguably WoD, but I felt disconnected from all of WoD in general, so it’s hard to say.
I know a lot of players were feeling itchy to go back to those kinds of quests after WoD and Legion, and BfA promised to be that… but then it wasn’t. Not really, anyway. There were bits and pieces like the Bilgewater and Darkspear quests in Naz’mir, but then Vol’dun was completely cut off from all Horde NPCs. Zuldazar was neat, but it was also a brand new world story in a similar vein to some Pandaria zones (I’m drawing a blank, but I think the experience was similar for Alliance BfA too). It was also hard to really be motivated to care about the faction war in general after that dead-on-arrival prelaunch event too, especially knowing that the story was going to culminate in ending where MoP ended… again.
I think what pissed me off about BfA was knowing well before SL was announced that the next two expansions to follow would be “go visit another world without any faction NPCs” stories.
Seems lately Blizzard have a nihilist in charge of their narrative & lore. They’re ridiculously destructive on a often boring or stupid scale, I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring Delaryn back into the story simply to kill her off sadly.
Calia and Derek should get nothing but being killed off like the trash they are. Nothing of value is lost with these characters. Screw them and fans that may like them. They are not real Forsaken and never will be.
Her boyfriend is one of the souls we rescued from the Maw and brought to Ardenwealde. In fact he asks us to look for her when we go back, which makes her being raised undead even worse somehow >_>; “Good news Ferryn, your girlfriend isn’t in the Maw anymore, bad news…she’s walking around on Azeroth as an emo dark ranger who was working for the woman who personally murdered her and had her boyfriend raise her out of spite.”
Sylvanas didn’t need to kill Delaryn to look bad, what? Delaryn was killed pretty much, because she was a primary Alliance quest giver during that lengthy scenario, the one Blizzard atleast partially appears to be giving Sylvanas justification for doing so. Atleast she’s pouting about it lately, or something.
They certainly only started making her look bad from WoT onwards though, she was seen as untouchable throughout Legion.
They made a point to say Sylvanas fired the killing arrow to put her down in the novella because seeing her still fighting to protect her home/people despite other arrows in her was irritating to her. Forcing her to watch Teldrassil burn as she died and then deliberately targeting her for raising was just a pure malice cherry on top of an already spiteful banshee queen sundae.
The War of Thorns was just a prepatch event and those tend to get removed. If I recall correctly, the only one that really stuck around is remnants of the WoD prepatch.
No, they already piled on lots and lots of reasons for Sylvanas to look bad. But I didn’t say Delaryn died because otherwise Sylvanas would have looked good. She died to make Sylvanas look even worse.