Because he couldn’t bear to go through even 1% of what he put others around him through.
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Illidan: “Sometimes the hand of fate must be forced”.
Xe’ra: “I agree.”
Illidan: “Wait a minute…”
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If the Tauren, Mag’har, Draenei, and Night Elves are all about purity, then I say their warlocks should lean into that angle.
Give each a special organization or coven made for the study, containment, and highly regulated use of fel energies, and make it a point that each member is hand-picked and rigorously trained to handle it safely and responsibly. They aren’t power-hungry scoundrels callously abandoning everything their people stand for, but absolute Paragons. Individuals of such proven honor, resilience, integrity, and goodness that the broader swath of their society takes a step back and says “Okay, we trust YOU SPECIFICALLY with demon magic.”
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He’s a hypocrite. We all know that
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I agree that both sides needed each other. Nobody was winning on Argus by themselves
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I provided plenty. You ignored it.
I will shamelessly admit that when WC 3 came out in 2002, I had fanboyed over Illidan. He was one of my favorite characters back than 
LF were fighting legion for 10k years and couldn’t win
Illidan arrives, a good guy that uses fel magic
Eyebeams their light god into explosion
Stops their greatest human champion blade with bare hand
Some LF might think that fel magic is pretty strong, and you don’t have to be evil to use it. So they got inspired by Illidan and maybe some other warlock characters and dive into that power
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Not to mention they’ve been around societies that have had Warlocks for years now and none of them have gone off their rocker. At some point some are gonna get curious.
Lmfao. He ain’t no good guy my dude. He is an anti-hero maybe at best, but that is stretching it.
His pre-legion status is irrelevant. Legion and Illidan book retconned him into tragic self-sacrificing hero that does things that “had to be done for greater good”
Uh-huh. Sure…
As we see him literally killing his students for power.
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It doesn’t matter. If a woman say no. That means NO. That’s should be the number one rule in relationships and dates.
No does not mean yes in any context. X’era tried to force herself and paid the price.
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“I have traded my freedom for power before. Never again.”
That’s the very thing he said to her.
She could be the most holy, most pious priest who ever lived.
A priest forcing themselves on someone doesn’t play well no matter who that someone is. No matter what his past, at that point in time, Illidan was an ally.
No means no.
Typical phrase of hypocritical villains when they are cornered and can no longer continue their tyrannies.
Except at that point, he wasn’t a tyrant. This wasn’t the Black Temple. He was someone we had liberated and made into an ally. Just like when Maiev made the decision to free all of those demon hunters that she had imprisoned.
We freed him exclusively for that.
If the bad writing hadn’t obscured that pathetic climax, it would have saved us time and peace of mind from that questline about Illidan.
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That’s not his feeling. Since Thadeus is determined to see the Light as the standin for his religion he’s of the opinion that light-wielders should not be able to and can do no wrong. That as long as the cause is “holy” any and all actions by it’s standard bearers are justified.
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We freed him so that Gul’dan could not make use of him. He intended to make Illidan’s body an avatar for Sargeras,.