We just hear someone out who has information. Denathrius orders us eliminated for finding out the truth. He drew first blood - well, he ordered it.
I don’t know how you could possibly need this clarified if you are even remotely familiar with Blizzard’s style of writing, shoddy as it may be.
We had entire cinematics and everything.
How does this still require clarity for anyone asking in good faith.
I mean…did you really not think he was shady when you first saw him? Just by his speech & his mannerism you could tell he’s up to shady things & would probably backstab the player. You even hear this the first time you enter Revendreth when the gargoyle pick up the carriage you’re riding in with his boyfriend & says some thing hinting towards the fact you shouldn’t trust him.
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Hoarding entire stores of anima in the middle of a drought that threatens to collapse the Shadowlands and release the baddest of all baddies isn’t any reason to suspect malice?
Imagine widespread famines happening, people literally starving to death, while the government sits pretty on a basement full of McDonald’s cheeseburgers. In virtually every other civilization, this would be an immediate cause for a revolution.
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Especially after we were betrayed in Maldraxxus by the house leader who we were sent to help. And in this case it wasn’t just some reported “rebel leader”, it is one that has constantly been claiming she is working in the best interest of Revendreth. Keep in mind that while we have no reason to trust her, we also have zero reason to trust him either. It’s not like we weren’t just played already by one of the SLs covenants.
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The warning signs were a lot earlier too.
The way Eschelon treats us in the main quest and how some of the side quests play out in tone.
…Not to mention the promo vid for Revendreth before the game even launched had him narrating entire business like tone while watching people get thrown into light and them living the high life while others starved.
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I mean, the storyline is called “The Master of Lies” in the achievement. Blizzard all but gave him the title “Shady Mofo.”
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Yes! The accuser says it during the cutscene and he follows along with/admits to what she is saying, leading to the ‘higher purpose’ line.
You don’t happen to be running Azeroth Auto Pilot do you?
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I think the main part the OP missed – and it’s a very specific moment so I get it – was the part precisely between getting to Revendreth and then the end of…no…I can’t. I can’t rationalise it. Not even using satire.
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Fixed that for you. It should make sense now.
You’re welcome.
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You must have not finished the story…
He got a helmet I want and I got a knife.
You know for me the big freakin clue was the whole Tithe quest line where the village who can’t afford to give anymore anima is forced to give more anima and then the capper on that is 10 mins later when you meet him and his aristocracy and see that they are anything but anima starved.
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The last section is where we find out he is in fact the reason, he is hording the anima, and is the one that broke the Arbiter.
Up to the point we join the accuser, denathrius and his goons treat us like garbage and a tool, if you didn’t get the sense that something wasn’t quite right then you just need to pay closer attention. Sure, draven tried to kill us at the start of the zone that’d be a fair point against siding with the resistance, but the accuser repeatedly says not to trust denathrius and this isn’t our fight, yet we get involved anyway, so why shouldn’t we at least hear her side of the story?
we actually don’t. What we do know at that point in time is that some bolt of red energy flew from somewhere in the shadowlands and struck the arbiter, disabling her. Now who in the shadowlands uses red magic?
except it is since we’ve been sent around to rally the leaders of the shadowlands to deal with this anima famine, only to find denathrius hoarding anima while his people suffer.
We didn’t.
I don’t recall any option in any quest to choose A or B.
I just clicked ‘accept quest’ and ‘complete quest’.
This game has lore beyond that?
Oh but… for the plot… did you watch the cinematics? Did you see the way he raised his eyebrows and grinned? Classic Disney Villain facial expression. So… that basically called it right there.
I mean, at that point in the cinematic I was expecting to see the furniture break out into a song and dance routine.
The fact that the anima drought is causing multiple problems in this world and he is the one behind it. The fact that we realize he is working for the Jailor and giving him the anima and causing all of the problems we have encountered over the course of multiple questlines.
Because the PC is not part of the story. We only exist to see the story like we are watching a movie.
Though in the previous zone did you notice how all the controlled NPCs were yelling “For the Master” and “The Master will prevail”? Then we come there and are told to meat with “The Master” and immediately get rebels telling us he is up to no good?
Edit: Also he is a Chad vamp, so I don’t need a reason to stake him.
Uhhh, he wasn’t just “harboring anima” those containers were filled with a TON of anima. And use your context clues. When you were in the town with the Lord Chamberlain, people were being asked to hand over their anima to Denathrius because of the “drought” and it’s clear that from what we saw inside his castle. There definitely isn’t a drought lol.
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