I mean, some people have talked about Silvermoon being a possible future warfront. I’m curious b/c it was her old home after all…and obviously some part of her deep down inside still cares for it, she did die defending the city and its people, she probably knows lots of them personally.
Do you think she would really go after them for Lor’themar’s “betrayal”, or would she hesitate and show mercy?
Realistically, I can’t see her re-living Arthas’ razing of Quel’thalas for obvious reasons but we did see massive parallels during War of the Thorns so who knows?
Maybe, if she sends someone to kill Lor’themar and they sucker punch him and don’t finish the job she might burn it all down to ‘prove a point’.
We also aren’t sure if she’s ACTUALLY going to burn Thunder Bluff like Thrall suspects, we might be a big ol’ twist or something. (but probably not.)
It would be rather ironic if the final raid we face Sylvanas in was the Defense of Silvermoon. Only it would play out a lot differently than it did the first time.
I think war of thorns was supposed to be Arthas invasion of Silvermoon parallel.
While Anduin with his entrance in the Lordaeron throne room to confront was yet another parallel Arthas.
So we if continue down this path, of her been a parallel to Arthas, but having different tones to it.
Then her leading the Horde and Allaince forces to Azshara trap. Could sorta link up with Arthas leading Illidan to Guldan skull.
Save Arthas actions hindered the legion while Syvlanas help Azshara, I think, but that is till up in air.
Not sure what could be next though.
Spit balling it, after the betrayal by her allies she forced to flee to Shadowlands.
Where she absorbs Carine Soul ascends to thunderbluff and becomes the Cow king.
In Theron’s short story, she was willing to abandon them to the scourge if they wouldn’t help. Then we have Theron himself doubt if his people would choose him over Sylvanas.
Yes she would do it she had to, but she probably doesn’t have to.
I don’t think Sylvanas is that sentimental.
this is honestly where I thought the final fight would be
I think she would consider killing every blood elf and raising them as undead to be the ultimate gift she could give them short of contaminating the Sunwell into a font of Undeath.
Sylvanas might if she was convinced she was liberating Silvermoon from the hands of a traitor and weakling in Lor’themar. Wouldn’t be the first schism among the elves, and Sylvanas and the Forsaken occupying Silvermoon now that the Undercity is uninhabitable might seem like a logical change of scenery.
I don’t think she would raze the city as Arthas once did, but I have no doubt she would have no problem killing and raising those Blood Elves that stood against the Warchief.
Having said all that, I doubt she would be happy about it.
Kudos to OP, this is a far more interesting topic on Sylvanas than “Sylvanas did nuffin’ wrong” and its counterparts.
Sylvanas, as a character, has developed over time. She, through the circumstances she has faced, the nature of undeath, or a combination of both, has become increasingly harsh and pragmatic, though she naturally was so to begin with.
She generally rejects sentimentality, and encourages the Forsaken to abandon ties to their old lives, yet she herself has moments of both- her sisters, Nathanos, the locket- even her reaction at Teldrassil. This wars against her pragmatism and fear of oblivion, and makes her a hard read. Is her speech in Silverpine about the Forsaken genuine, or just mortar to the bulwark?
With Arthas’s death, her (justified) emotional hatred of him concluded after a fashion, and the events of edge of night, she tilted more towards her pragmatic side, and, by design or coincidence, seems to have marched ever more towards rejection of commonly held moralities.
I think it entirely possible that Sylvanas, as she is now, or at least if following the trajectories she is following, could attack Silvermoon. Even if subconsciously, it would be killing her own sentimentality/weakness, though that would never be her actual reason for doing so- it would require a pragmatic motive.
And that would be the Arthas parallel- not just physically attacking Silvermoon, no- but the equivalent of Arthas tearing out his own heart. That would be the act which showed her willfully abandoning what she once was in pursuit of something else, though, perhaps like Arthas, there might be some strange remnants left buried that determine or influence later action.
It would be an interesting path to take, though certainly a villainous one. While I don’t necessarily need to see her made into a villain, I’d prefer it to a “We are free, I was playing 4d chess, I’m really a goodie, never mind all the genocide” ending.
You think Sylvanas gives two coppers about Silvermoon?
The Sylvanas who cared about her homeland died the day Arthas invaded, something she makes absolutely clear on several occasions.
She doesn’t care about Silvermoon and she doesn’t care about her former people, any compassion or empathy she’s ever had for anything in her life’s is gone, now everything and everyone is a potential tool at her disposal. If that tool is no longer serving her well(Lor’themar convincing his people to side against her), she will not hesitate to dispose of it before it becomes hazardous to her plans.
When thinking about Sylvanas, ask yourself: “Would this benefit her in some way, shape or form, no matter how small and temporary?”
If the answer is yes, then yes she absolutely would go full Arthas if she needed/wanted to.
The current sylvanas would do it with a sd mile on her face while making snarky jokes aabout how she is doing it better than arthas.
Absolutely. She was willing to let the Scourge eat her entire homeland for a lot less than rebellion. If anything, Silvermoon’s isolation from both factions way up north is a point in its favour now, far away from Sylvanas’ reach and probably not worth the effort it would take the Alliance to conquer.
The twist is that there is no twist
It is my suspicion that Sylvanas might send the horde to attack Thunderbluff but only as a ruse to draw alliance attention there. Meanwhile the Forsaken will strike Stormwind to blight it and make its citizens forsaken.
We have known since BtS that she views Stormwind, or at least its possible corpse count, as a super valuable asset.
Who would be dumb enough to divert their entire army to one location…oh wait.
But…didn’t she spare her two sisters at least?
Yep inconsistant writting one moment she has sympathy and can feel the next she will happily pretend to be the person she hates abd comment on how weak how and love are and how life is pain abd suffering
Ya and she spared them because Vareesa “touched” her. Which is bizarre since they go back and forth on whether undead can feel positive emotion/love and to what degree.
One second she’s a calculating sociopath with no feelings the next she’s letting enemy commanders walk away because she loves them. It’s odd.