On another day of “funny stuff only a gamer would say”.
IIRC, she actually was, for a while, around the time of The Frozen Throne.
Thing is, at this point she might be involved on the Alliance side. Or at least go neutral.
I figured Arthas’s story was meant to be a tragedy, and undoing that to give him a happy afterlife would ruin that.
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Sylvanas returns, goes alliance side
Varian returns, realizes that he was entirely truthful when he mused to himself about being the happiest he ever was when he embraced the Zug life, goes horde
book it.
Arthas did more genocide then she did. That is a fact.
Sane people don’t have a problem with Arthas. He is a really cool character to a lot of people, especially as the Lich King.
It’s the gross fans of his who wanted Arthas to be Sylvanas jailer/punisher in the afterlife for all eternity and the other questionable stuff people spouted over the years. That’s the problem as I see it
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I don’t really care either way, since Arthas was a Lordaeronian and Lordaeron is not in the Alliance. Not My problem, not My horse in the race.
I just found it funny that you unironically said “only one genocide”. That proves how utterly out-of-touch you are with reality.
The biggest inconsistency that makes me hate the Shadowlands is how they framed the mechanics of judgement and punishment, ala the Maw and Revendreth.
How is it that an Omnicidal-multi-planet-scouring maniac gets to repent and become a main character of Revendreth? If an Omnicidal maniac only gets Revendreth as punishment for their sins, why use the Maw as the super-duper prison?
Why is it that when the Judge breaks, all souls are immediately super-mega-guilty instead of innocent? Personally I think it would have been far more interesting to see vile souls who deserved Revendreth to instead be sent to Bastion and start to make a mess of the place having no intention of adhering to the traditions and rules, rather than have each little corner working just fine on it’s own but wondering why the juice stopped flowing.
Bastion is littered with villain souls who then immediately start ruining things in their new angelic bodies. Maldraxxus is relatively the same, except there are now the souls of non-combatants and innocents who have never lifted a blade in their lives wondering what they must have did to deserve being hounded and butchered by endless armies of the dead. Ardenweald similar to Bastion, and Revendreth is now torturing innocent people who have done nothing to deserve their fate.
The Bastion storyline could’ve played with a dramatic reveal that Arthas had become a powerful paragon of Bastion, and Uther’s entire quest is to reveal Arthas for the fraud he is, while Arthas is willing to kill anyone who will try to take away his “redemption” and heavenly power from him and force him to actually atone for his sins. In the end, putting him back in Revendreth where he belonged would have been a just end.
As for Sylvanas, after she comes to her senses, she KNOWS she’s going to be sharing a cell-block with Arthas in vampire-prison, but since she hasn’t died, she figures she has time to atone while unalive and help solve the problems she caused, so she gets her community service hours from Tyrande, (but my version, not a single Night Elf was sent to the Maw, because again, that should never be the default outcome) which is to help Night Elven souls in the various corners of the Shadowlands reach Ardenweald where they are podded and “reborn anew” on Azeroth, just emerging from the woods, kinda like how the Avengers undid the snap.
But after all that, I would still vote that everything that happened after Legion be trashed, and burned in the incinerator with a full do-over. It really just caused more harm than good to the game and story.
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The maw shouldn’t have been used as one, thats a key plot point.
The worst possible people should have been locked away in revendreth and if they had no desire to repent after millenia, well hey, free anima battery.
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“I see only darkness” is hardly an expression of relief. His only regret was that he’d lost.
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Clearly he was just relieved that the savage beating we gave him while he was defenseless was over.
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Zovaal kind of removed that option for Arthas by obliterating his soul.
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Oh its such a tragedy that the worst person in wow’s history didn’t get his day in court i’m sure people will be weeping tears for this
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And why are you using that when I specifically said “Father is it over?” Like Arthas was actually glad it was over.
Clearly enough people didn’t like it that Blizzard has either made it private on their official channel or just outright deleted it. Hell, that cinematic was from my understanding one of the most disliked video in World of Warcraft.
And if Sylvanas and even Garrosh got a day in court(in his case literally) why not Arthas?
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Ask Zovaal… he was the one who reduced him to a fading echo… oh you can’t because he’s an inert statue now.
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And this is a story, maybe for all we know not all of Arthas’ soul got destroyed and it will be retconned someday.
In the same vein that was suppose to be the permanent depowering of the aspect didn’t last more then a decade.
I hope they don’t change anything Arthas can suck it and so can all of his fans
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And it can be read that they want to move on to new villains and not go back to the well with Arthas or Garrosh, so they were written out of the story and we pivot to new threats.
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…The expansion pre-patch event is us literally killing old bosses again. Look, if there is one thing I can count on Blizz to do, is to milk nostalgia as much as it can.
googles Well that’s disappointing, I mean, that looks like a fine thing for a holiday or dead time event, but not sure how that ties into the expansion. Wonder if they’re just gonna leave it there or shoehorn in some story connection.
And I mean, there’s a difference between this kind of event and future story. I mean, it’s not like if they do Wrath remix one time they’ll not have arthas, just not a new plot with him or Garrosh in new content.