From the Sylvanas Loyalist ending, which there’s a thread for already: Sylvanas and azshara spoilers.
But I just wanted to note: Are the Night Elves still in the Ghostlands? Man they’re persistent. Blood Elves still haven’t been able to get rid of their settlements after all these years?
I suppose so.
But I’m more interested in her line about “stubbornly cling[ing] to hope. To life.”
So she’s going to rid her former followers of life?
It would make sense given that she hated feeling emotions again after she committed suicide. Returning to undeath wasn’t simply an escape from Hell, but an escape from feelings and whatever bargain she’s struck could be to avoid both.
She should have climbed the spire a little higher and given her big speech while staring at the statue the blood elves erected there in BfA of the heroic, living Sylvanas. Would’ve been a bit more poignant than this rather bizarre lingering shot of an isle relevant to none of this, still stuck in BC limbo.
I thought it was a funny choice that they decided to show the Night Elf camps when she was saying this, an obvious allusion to the Night Elves not losing hope, either, even though she was talking about the Forsaken.
My best guess on her talking about the Forsaken clinging to life would be from them still holding onto both Lordaeron and choosing being loyal to the Horde over loyal to her, as a call back to Before the Storm where she tried to force them to forget their old lives and only focus on undeath.
Then her plaguing Lordaeron was as much about removing the bonds the Forsaken had to their past as it was about killing Alliance leaders.
Hadn’t considered that angle, and we’re probably giving too much credit here, but I like the symbolism.