Purifying Ysera’s body, massive strikes onto a battlefield, giving new powers and massively changing the bodies of select people in a area (the Horde did not get black eyes), causing others to sleep despite massive amounts of pain, all are not just displays in the sky though.
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Also capable of turning satyrs into night elves. Fairly impressive considering satyrs only exist because of direct intervention on the part of Sargeras.
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I forgot all about that quest chain.
Ysera is still dead. and yes, Tyrande dusted a bunch of scrubs. Malfurion dusted a standard 5 person party or scrubs and a bunch of Night Elves got a cosmetic makeover.
Not exactly the kind of things that Dino Di Laurentis would make a film over… although he’d probably do something pretty rad over the Rise of the Black Moon and maybe the transfiguration of Ysera.
And… I did not say resurrected. She more likely did what is known to some as call her home.
Which ones are you talking about? When Elune lazered people off the battlefield that wasn’t at Darkshore.
And… You realize exactly how powerful Tyrande and Malfurion were before the Night Warrior Ceremony was right?
Who is that exactly? Edit, I did search, even seen some of his movies, never really cared for cinema.
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I think the fact that the Night Elves worship her as such makes it so. Her own child is a wild god. Speaking of which, Elune being a goddess does not mean she’s the standard by which the others are held to. Their are many other deities that are completely different from Elune bit that didn’t make then any less of a deity, such as the wild gods or Hakara. While they gave been able to be killed and are physically beings as where Elune is not I would say that are more like demi gods.
Even if tube other races don’t see Elune as a “godess” that didnt mean she isn’t.
Seeing as she’s not a titan or member of the pantheon that would make sense don’t you think?
This
And this. You seem to think that she as a goddess should be all powerful but the fact is that in this game non of the gods are. Elune can’t do everything neither can the light or the naaru and the wild gods are extremely powerful and can be killed.
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Among the things he’s famous for… is the special effects extravaganza known as “The Ten Commandments” starring Charleton Heston.
I’m not the one who keeps pumping out the “One True Goddess” quote.
What I’m suggesting is that Elune as an entitity may be a goddess only because the Night Elves insist on calling her one. That she may well be an extremely long-lived mortal figure with an odd and limited box of tricks she keeps ahold of for special occasions such as the mis-named “Scythe of Elune”.
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Who said that?
I think, if I’m reading right, that Drahl is somehow conflating the idea that the term “true Goddess” must mean that Elune has to be an omniscient, omnipotent deity, in the vein of the Judeo-Christian God. When pagan deities (and the deities with new works of fiction they inspire) are often one-trick ponies. They have their one domain, and that’s their shtick.
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What he said was
While the “One true deity” line is out dated she actually confirmed as a deity. It’s been said in many different Blizzard texts.
Your suggestion is ridiculous. She’s been confirmed numerous times by blizz. But if you wasn’t took take the story writers out and look at it from a game play pov, Elune has since many things that could only come from a divine being, her connection to the light alone it’s evident of that. She created the wildkin and possibly the nightsabers, her followers like followers of Tyne light can heal and offer blessings, she’s cleansed thoughs tainted with the fell and the nightmare, she clearly has control over celestial events and the tides and the list goes on.
A mortal with the ability to create one of the pillars of creation. Really?! A mortal that gave birth to a wild god. Really?!
All of the deities in WoW have a limit of what they can do. If not the Night Elves abs Zandalari would probably be the only 2 races in power thanks to their affiliation with omnipotent gods.
She didn’t even name that nor did the sisterhood. The staff of Elune was combined with Goldrinn’s tooth by Belysra Starbreeze and Ralaar Fangfire. Their the ones who named it the scythe.
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Jeezis H Christ
I’m sorry I ever asked the question.
Not sure I’ve ever seen a forum thread go so far off track.
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Not your fault, it happens and it was a valid quesion. I did give my answer to it back in post 34.
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Realistically, when elves speak to each other, a Nightborne talking to a night elf should be like a British person speaking to an American. You understand each other but the British(Nightborne) person has a strange accent and uses old expressions.
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I am not. It is an interesting question, and leads to many other questions, which we have few answers for.
Do the Kaldorei have a word for “moon”? Is Elune the moon? Is the moon a manifestation of her power? Does the moon contain a piece of her essence?
The Zandalari have the Lunalai. What role will they play, if any, as far as Elune?
It happens fairly often.
A highly speculative topic such as this can ruffle feathers. Some of these Night Elf posters take their Elune very seriously.
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If you played WC3 Blood Elves and Kaldorei were able to speak to each other. The language gap isn’t that wide. Blizzard intentionally made it so players couldn’t cross faction communicate.
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Not sure but if so I’m surprised we haven’t heard it yet as I’m fairly certain that belore means sun in Thalassian.
Possibly. She’s not a physical being so maybe the moon is her physical manifestation or chooses to act through the moon because if it’s relationship between light and shadow as Elune seems to be a being of both. Maybe she created Tyne moon and the stars in the great dark beyond. The priests were able to bless and create moonwells on Draenor so it’s possible that her reach extends beyond Azeroth.
It’s interesting because if they do rever Elune you’d think they would be transformed into moonkin. Instead they are this bird like pterodactyl creature similar to Pa’ku.
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A big part of Elune is us not actually knowing much about how the whole thing works. We know that Elune is a goddess of ‘the moon’, and she’s most associated with the White Lady (the primary moon of Azeroth). The name of the moon is an obvious reference to Elune herself, likely being named by the Night Elves, but beyond that I’m not sure.
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You’re making the assumption that they even see Elune the way the Night Elves do. They probably see her as a Troll. (Not the forum posting kind)
They obviously don’t see her the same way as she’s called Lun’ali. Which maybe an ancient dark troll name for her or just their interpretation. It’s probably the former as I’m guessing what became ancient Darnassian was developed from the ancient trollish and titan languages.
It’s not how that see her but how her aspect of the balance is shown in the lun’ali druid. Elune created the moonkin or wildkin and that age not anything like that. Maybe they are taking some derivative for from Gonk and using that to worship Lun’ali or Elune.