Elune can intervene and grant Tyrande her Night Warrior Blessing (which just so conveniently fades before Tyrande can rip Sylvanas’s head off) but she won’t lift a finger to save tens of thousands of her own people?
And not only that, she can’t use her godly powers to commune with her sister to ensure that souls can even go to Ardenweald?
And even then, who the hell wants to be used as anima fuel and get deleted from existence because The Winter Queen is a total moron?
Shadowlands is like the biggest crap Blizzard has taken on Nelf lore, it’s so bad from every perspective.
In Legion game play, Elune was hinted as being a very powerful being. Now, depicting a powerful being as being apathetic or not willing to participate in minor matters is common in fiction.
But Elune was never portrayed as a resting or watching type of god. But a type of a god that was active. Also, the burning of the tree wasn’t a minor event either so on two fronts it really undermined the build towards Elune from in game text and also from outer sources like the books.
She didn’t just “happen” to run out of juice. Elune literally pulled back her power because she didn’t want Tyrande to murder Sylvanas in cold-blood.
Why Elune spared Sylvanas in-universe, I have no friggin clue. If Sylvanas had some truly vital piece of intel we needed that would be one thing but… she really didn’t.
The truth is, Elune didn’t spare Sylvanas, Danuser did. He didn’t want Elune to kill his waifu so he just wrote it so that she didn’t.
I’m honestly surprised they didn’t make Tyrande go crazy and have us kill her, or have her die from the use of the Night Warrior power. It was foreshadowed so heavily, the only reason I think they bailed on it was from fan backlash.
Keep in mind she couldn’t even beat Nanathos WITH Malfurion as backup the first time around lmaaaoooo.
Having writers fanboy certain characters has been disastrous for WoW’s lore.
Which is completely dumb. Nathanos is actually just some guy. Malf has 1v1’d some of the most powerful lore characters and Tyrande has shown incredible powers even before the Night Warrior.
That said, Nathanos had a secret power neither of them knew about…
He was the Avatar of the Snoozer, which imbued him with near god-like plot armor.