A lump of charcoal.
Sweet! I’ll equip it to one of my battle pets for stronger fire attacks!
If that lump of coal is super cute, and I squeeze it super tight, will it become an even cuter diamond pet? Because then all the dead night elf souls suffering in the maw or napping with Elune will have to admit it was worth it.
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It was worth it just for the s’mores!
Besides, diamonds are just carbon molecules aligned in the most boring way.
Wandering around time displaced Teldrassil really demonstrates just how insane it’s burning was.
I know Blizz has never been great at in game scaling (see: Kul Tirans are of a comparable size and weight to Tauren) so I’m not sure if it’s on par with say the Isle of Manhattan or like, Sicily, but it’s large enough to have branch mountains so - pretty darn big.
The actual cinematic shows about 9-12 flaming payloads hitting it. Let’s be nice and ignore the catapults that by all rights could launch satellites if positioned properly with their range. Let’s also give the benefit of the doubt and say the 12 we see is just a hint at the rain of fire that peppered the great tree city.
How long did this take?
Either this was hours of bombardment or the tree was just as flammable as butane. And in the ladder’s case the Kaldorei seem just negligent for not having a fire escape plan in place while living in a tree apparently made from extremely dry pine wood and oily rags.
Like if you take two minutes to actually try to figure out the logistics of this situation your nose starts to bleed.
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Also remember that these same Druids had the magic to grow and protect a tree from burning in the Firelands just a few expansions ago.
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The kicker is Before The Storm kind of highlights the different vibes Anduin and Windy get from Azerite. Anduin realizes it’s immense potential for nice things and Windy gets ideas for mean things. Because their writers definition of moral gray came from someone dealing with severe color blindness.
But seeing as the Horde gets to the Azerite in Silithus first - wouldn’t this have been the time to introduce some terrible Azerite infused weapon? Imagine if just one thing was fired from a catapult and then, as it impacts, we see a blinding flash that boils the surrounding water as a huge chunk of the tree is just vaporized and the rest of it is engulfed in flames in an instant.
You could argue that’d effect the rest of the narrative more but, c’mon, Azerite in general fell to the side almost immediately and after mana bombs it’s not like hitherto unmentioned super weapons appearing once and only once are a strange concept in this setting.
Plus you could have some of Windrunner’s dialogue mirror Arthas’s to hint just how off the deep end she is. Have her say something similar to the
“I have no love for you or your people. On the contrary, I intend to scour humanity from this planet. And make no mistake --I have the power to do it.” line.
Edit: Plus then Windy’s "This changes everything" line vis-à-vis the Azerite discovery would make sense.
‘Oh I just made this deal with Lich Santa to kill a whole bunch of people and look at this there’s stuff that can supercharge weapons! I thought I was going to have to play the long con here but nevermind, this changes everything, all engines go on project murder the world’.
Plus it would make Alliance players feel less inept. This wasn’t the culmination of a weeks long campaign that murdered thousands by exploiting a pretty blatant flaw their civic planning types really ought’ve prepared for. It was accomplished by the use of a weapon that was at best theoretically possible in the minds of Alliance commanders.
Plus Horde players would feel less guilty because instead of this being a determined bombardment of a civilain population center their heroic characters did not stop, I guess because it happened during their lunchbreak and they were really invested in a Youtube video on their phone at the time, it’s a blink and you’ll miss it attack that couldn’t’ve been stopped.
Plus plus ufckidity plus - it’d be foreshadowing that Windrunner intended this to be just a bloodbath from minute one and her only strategy was causality count.
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this made me giggle.
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