Possible spoilers for those who haven’t completed the Maghar unlock scenario.
At the end of the scenario we find out Yrel and her lightbound army have taken control of most of Dreanor forcing the orcs to submit to the light or die. We show up and save the remaining residence force by bringing them back through a portal to our reality. It seems likely that we will have to deal with Yrel at some point but What reason would she have to invade our reality? Coming after the orcs that got away would seem like a waste of resources and time needed to come to our reality. I also can’t see why we would go back to stage an attack since she’s not likely to be a threat to us in her reality.
As a bonus question what do you think Blizzard is going to do with saberon and giant plant creature that came through the portal with the maghar orcs and ran towards the barrens?
I think blizzard is going to leave the whole AU thing alone seeing how it kinda of turned out to be a giant cluster f.
That being said I would love to see it simply for the implosion the forums would have of alliance posters upset a character who they leveled with and basically trained turned evil.
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If it did happen, it would probably because the Naaru are pushing the AU draenei to bring order to a chaotic universe through the power of the light, whether we want her to or not.
I’m not so sure. Ian made a brief mention of Yrel at last blizzcon and in a dev interview he mentioned the saberon and the plant monster that made it through the portal.
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The only reason I think we could go back to the AU is blizzard running out of ideas, and there was a ton of cut content from WoD. It still makes me sad we never got to see the Ogre Gorian Empire Continent.
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Frankly, Yrel is just a giant basket of disappointment. Her story never made a conclusive end; and they’re scrambling to make her worth something. But BFA just paints her as the “Horror of the Light”. Yet she’s fighting on another planet that we’ve come to not care for.
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I think because wod was for the most part a flop that Yrel is more likely to come to us for one reason or another.
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If one more thing comes through the darn dark portal I swear…
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What if the Draenei turned into the Light Portal? Would that make it better?
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I agree it feels weird that she’s suddenly this big bad evil person. Only justification that I can see is that we saw her again after 30ish years has passed for the AU wod timeline, a lot could have happened. Plus with the death of Velen there would have been no one to temper her. There is also the unprovoked genocide of the dreanei there is likely to be tentions in spite of someone yelling Dreanor is free.
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I feel like Turalyon and the Lightforged would welcome them with open arms.
The motivations of the AU draenei and naaru may be up in the air at this point. They seemingly began their crusade of violent conversion years ago, back when the Legion was still a thing and the naaru in both realities were still rallying mortals to battle Sargeras’ crusade, but denizens of that other universe wouldn’t have known our universe would go ahead and defeat the Burning Legion without them. That means they spent the past 30+ years conquering AU Draenor in order to create their own universe’s Army of the Light to fight a war that’s already over.
So they’re sitting on this army forged by their universe’s naaru to finally defeat the Burning Legion and end their march across the stars…except there’s basically no Burning Legion left to defeat any more. The Void’s “out there,” but it’s never come across as the sort of coherently unified and organized threat that could be isolated, squared off against and defeated with armies. It’s just a bunch of random worlds across the cosmos seeded with Old Gods and occasional instances of voidspawn spilling into reality without real coordination behind it. Unlike the demons there’s no “Void homeworld” or “Void chain of command” to be feasibly targeted and destroyed to end the threat, so an Army of the Light’s not really conceptually suited to properly fighting it.
So…what do they do? Especially with AU Draenor allegedly dying? Do they try to open a portal to somewhere else to find a new home, like the MU Horde did when their Draenor was dying from fel corruption? Do they find some way to preserve their Draenor and continue living there? Or is their Draenor’s decline symptomatic of some overall collapse of their reality that ends up taking them down with it?
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From her perspective she probably doesn’t see herself as evil. The religious types that want to convert others don’t see themselves as evil, they see themselves as trying to help people. Could be the same with Yrel.
The Naaru have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to their new empire.
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World of Warcraft The Naaru Inquisition
I like it
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I picture a Wailing Caverns revamp with the Botani taking over. I was honestly surprised that Botani didn’t make an appearance in Darkshore, perhaps they are too busy in Ashenvale and will appear if Ashenvale is ever revamped or retuned for max level players like Arathi/Darkshore.
The Saberon and Goren could easily in other Kalimdor zones such as Northern Barrens in a revamp/retuned as well.
As for Yrel and the Lightbound? I think if they ever invaded Azeroth I see them either using the Dark Portal as a Light Portal or just straight crossing over with their own Vindicaar like ships. We beat them back then invade AU Draenor or possibly somewhere new where they’ve established themselves.
My theory is Yrel is trying to keep Draenor stable. Look, Draenor should not exist and as per Chronicles, it is suppose to dissipate and yet it continues to exist.
I think that was retconned out of existence. Chronicles seemed to imply to me that Draenor only ever had the one continent; or at least there weren’t others close to it. And the capital city of Goria was where Shattrath exists now, built on top of the ruins.
This. The ogre continent is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-continent.
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Hello Darkness my Old Friend
Everything fun never comes to fruition.
Real talk, World of Warcraft: Inquisition
The plot is the fanatic Army of the Light from AU invading Azeroth. Basically a twisted parallel of the Legion invasions.
I would be hard pressed not to side with Yrel, but if they could competently pull this off… could be legit.