I’ve asked myself that as well, when did her goal go from building those around her as a bulwark against the hungering dark to I must feed the hungering dark.
Its really hard for me to pinpoint, but I can at least say by the time she met with her sisters she was possibly already serving Death, if the whispers from the void are to be trusted lol.
I have a feeling her master is going to end up being Ner’zhul because why not. He never got a proper send off and Blizzard likes to reuse characters.
I mean, the Lich Queen theories are abound. This isn’t what I feel is happening but I certainly will not rule it out.
With how blizz wants to make her seems like the ultimate plotter even out plotting an old god with ease she has been planning this from begore she first died like when she was a child she started these plans. I am joking.
Considering she wants to “master” death or more like avoid it with undead, I guess she is just serving herself.
Or, whatever bargain she made with Helya granted her powers from the Shadowlands, I mean Odin traded his eye for… knowledge of said realm to make warriors both “powerful as Life and eternal as dead” and made her the first Undead or Valkyr, but she went south. And in the Halls of Valor its mentioned Helya used to study the Shadowlands.
Okay, but the Legion actively turns all races it doesn’t kill into demons, so my point is that Sylvanas can’t kill everyone if they successfully convert all races of Azeroth.
It’s quite obvious that the writers just decided on this–in the planning stages of Legion at the earliest, I’d say, and possibly later than that considering the disconnect between Broken Shore Sylvanas and Stormheim Sylvanas. But they’ll probably try to tell us she was thinking about it in the background for longer than that.
Her overarching plan is to ‘master death’ and has been since at least legion when she tried to enslave Odyn’s Valkyr, a plan which of course backfired thanks to #1 woofer Genn. However, it has evolved greatly since then…The specific details which include feeding everyone’s souls to a new spooky shadowlands friend is fairly new.
My suspicion is that has only really been a thing since Tyrande destroyed one of her final Valkyr, scaring her into making a series really dangerous deals with Azshara and then SpookyShadow to ensure she will never go back to her appointed afterlife.
i’d say since legion. whatever she discovered after traveling to helheim.
her goal even then was to sustain herself by enslaving eyir, thus having unlimited val’kyr to stave off death.
after that fails, she goes completely radio silent. we hear nothing from her or any major forsaken character. then the war begins, and she fights malfurion, this is the first time she uses whatever these new powers she has.
she hit malfurion with “a tremendous explosion of darkness” which was strong enough to send him flying. we had assumed that was her explosive banshee arrows, but now we have the context of the saurfang fight, that she can use this explosive darkness blast. malfurion was strong enough to protect himself from it/survive it, but it did a real number on him as you can see in-game, he’s missing a sizable chunk of his health(though, thankfully, they show he’s stronger because sylv’s nearly dead).
Are we even sure that it was Varimathras who told us?
From N’Zoth:
Let your eyes be opened.
Come forth and be drowned.
Your eyes… are closed.
You will never leave the Circle.
Remember Il’gynoth’s words:
A presence… Something new, yet… Familiar. Yes…
Could it be that we this whole time have been in the Raid trapped in a dream retracing the path we’ve taken? Could N’Zoth have been using Varimathras’s form in the dream of Ny’alotha to persuade us of Sylvanas’s villainy when we face him?
Sylvanas believes Death serves her.
My guess it would be the bargin she made with Helya. We never actually found out what Helya actually wanted in return for giving Sylvanas a tool necessary to corrupt Odyns new Prime Val’kyr
Am I the only one concerned that when Sylvanas killed herself, she was impaled upon Saronite? The blood of Yogg Saron with mind manipulating auras.
Didn’t Garrosh rebuild Orgrimmar with saronite?