If I remember right, this was explained in some dev interview that mortal souls appear as they self-identify, not their actual physical appearance. In most cases that’d just be how they look anyway, but theoretically you could have some forsaken looking human while others look like zombies, because the latter no longer identify with their human lives. It’s the same logic that depicts Pelagos as male.
Which makes me feel that there could have been a really cool subtle story beat of exactly WHY Lady Vashj ended up still identifying as a highborne when she first arrived in Maldraxxus; my hopeful theory was that she actually still identified as one instead of as a naga, but in a self-loathing way and hastily crafted a replacement form to hide away from her own self-perceived weakness.
How many times do I have to tell you that this IS NOT TRUE? You are blatantly lying about this to support a narrative that the night elves are all gone and removed from the game because you’re mad about what happened at Teldrassil. They are not obliterated. They are not removed from the game. They have not been erased. STOP LYING!
I forgot to write about those in my post, but the unidentifiable shapes were supposed to represent races that the player character had never seen, so from the player perspective, you’re unable to figure out what they look like.
Which flies in the face of the previous post I made, but that’s kinda the norm in the story nowadays. Also at least one of them makes a joke about not having legs anymore, so the story’s just a whole bundle of contradictions.
There’s actually an NPC dialogue she has with the character where I think you can ask about this. Or it’s in a cutscene. Can’t really remember. Anyway, she said she chose her Naga form because in that form she was more cunning, powerful and was praised for all of that as a Naga. While before she was a handmaiden, I think.
Well, Draka does clean up the mess the Primus caused by wandering off and getting himself captured, by killing all the traitors. I guess she’ll keep a tighter leash on the senile old wizard so he doesn’t do that again.
I actually think that it would have been better if they had made it so that most souls were identifiably from Azeroth. That kind of easy visual connection to the world everyone’s grown attached to would have done a lot to communicate the stakes to the players I think, even though it technically wouldn’t have made as much sense if every soul in the universe was being funneled to the Maw (in which case it should be extraordinarily rare to encounter anyone from Azeroth at all, tbh.)
You’re right on that part. Lady Vasj was simply Azshara’s handmaiden before becoming a naga. In the past; she didn’t have much importance beyond the queen’s trust in her presence. Afterwards; she became a powerful hand of the queen.
Yeah, that’s what got me thinking about it in the first place.
Because you’re right; her time spent as a naga made her feel stronger, empowered and that she had more choice in her life. So why did she default to the form of a highborne in death anyway? Unfortunately, the meta-answer is 99% “Blizzard forgot” but I liked the idea of her hating herself so much that she couldn’t help but take a highborne form, both because it would have been consistent with Blizzard’s statement and also that it’d serve as a sad contrast to Pelagos’s positive message about his own identity.
It’d also be a roundabout tie-in to why the Primus changes his appearance when he regains his memories: as soon as he remembered who he was, his form changed to match his forgotten identity.
Almost as bad as hearing Thisalee Crow’s (unique) voice for the first time (Can’t remember if it was changed from the generic female NE NPC voice in WoD? or MoP? Pretty sure it was done by Legion whenever it was changed).
Like yes, I did your Hyjal quests in Cata.
And no, I didn’t expect someone who told me that “facts are best found on corpses” to sound like…that
I don’t even know what to say to that cinematic. I figured the “Elune let the Burning happen!” theories were insane, tinfoil crap that would never come to pass. Nope lmao, it was right. Elune allowed the majority of the kaldorei, her supposed favorite children, to burn to death so her sister could have some mulch for her forest. I guess anything and everything is on the table when it comes to redeeming/excusing a certain lead writer’s undead waifu.
What’s worse is that it makes Sylvanas’s motivations even more nonsensical. How could her causing a war on Azeroth possible make a significant dent in the amount of souls going to the Maw to feed the Jailer? This all would’ve easily been rectified if Shadowlands were just an Azeroth specific concept but that wouldn’t fit in with the power creep they have to constantly do.