this went on for awhile huh
I didn’t look after my last post lol, but uh
I have long thought about how Teldrassil could be resettled despite it having, yknow, been burnt into a blackened husk. Before I thought it could’ve been rather interesting (though very obviously ghoulishly evil) if the Forsaken turned the husk of the world tree into their new city. Living in the hollowed out carcass of a once caretaker of life, with construction heavily resembling nerubian temples and Scourge necropolises, with a more traditional form of Forsaken construction behind those defenses. An elaborate throne overlooking the sea, shrouded by smoke and blackened wood.
But then the Horde stopped being evil (again) and so that already impossible idea became even more impossible.
Instead, I find an odd beauty in the cycle of wildfires and forests, how nature often curtails itself via burning. Regrowth from the ashes.
Teldrassil itself will never be restored, maybe, but this does not mean the nature endemic to it cannot rebound. The Night Elves return, Wardens of the Ashes, and cut down the dead, return it to the ground - then cutting into the stump of the tree, freeing the once-suffocating nature from the stifling ashes of the old tree. Druids come along, not to speed it along, but to safeguard it.
New Darnassus is a humble thing. Of low buildings and barrow dens, all spread out surrounding the scorched ruin of the Temple of Elune. It, being stone, survived the fire, though far from intact as it fell quite far from atop the great tree. The denizens of this place are a quiet, somber, contemplative bunch, often reserving their words and letting their expressions do all their speaking.
A grim reminder of what was taken from them. A monument to nature’s refusal to die, and the refusal of the Kaldorei to do the same.
Their hope restored. Who knew it could be so… quiet?