The Hate for Calia is much larger than Me’dan, Jaina, Thrall, Vereesa, and etc, etc.
I mean seriously. She had like a good role in Legion and when BFA came and then she died and turned into a Undead Priest. She never had Development at all until near the end of the War Campaign where Jaina and her talked to Lilian Voss meeting up with Calia trying to gather what’s left of the forsaken undead race.
So since She’s pretty much the leader of the Forsaken. I wouldn’t mind seeing her actually develop as a Character as a Undead Forsaken and then some conflict with happen with the living paladins and priests that like Sylvanas and other forsaken. They ended up going back to the Horde and pretty much do their best like the Forsaken were. Surviving as a Race that the World Hates them.
I hope Calia actually gets some screentime and grows as a Character rather than a Side Character or just a another character like Alleria and etc that is used less.
The greatest gripe I have about Calia is her affiliation towards the Horde.
The Forsaken are a Horde race. Who ever leads them should also be Horde.
Putting Calia on the Horde’s side of the leader gathering seems to be stepping towards making her Horde, especially since Tyrande seems to treat her like any other Forsaken. But as it stands now, she’s not Horde. She’s at best a neutral, and I don’t want a neutral racial leader for a non-neutral race.
As far as I’m concerned, whoever leads one of the main Horde races, should be Horde themselves. And Calia could totally do that. But she hasn’t yet, so I’m not keen on making her the Forsaken leader.
I’m… interested to see where they go with Calia. Putting Calia with the Horde leaders caught my interest, and I wonder if they really are going to go with Horde!Calia. Certainly makes Alliance undead seem… less likely.
I’m kind of excited to see what happens now, since it’s essentially confirmed that she’ll lead the forsaken. I feel like it’s stupid to qq and complain about it at this point, all we can do is wait and see.
It’ll be a nice change of pace seeing Horde players qqing about something for a change; a whole expansion of night elf whiners got old. Based Legion of Dusk mum.
I was surprised but didn’t mind it when Calia returned in Legion. Before the Storm is where my issues with Calia began and remained. The light raising into undeath was bizarre but something I could have accepted but throughout the novel she came off entitled and naive.
She, like Anduin, wanted peace between the Alliance and Horde and yet saw no issue about being apart of the Gathering, while wanting to hide her identity. This part really bugs me because Sylvanas sent a list of Forsaken who wanted to be apart of the Gathering and Calia recognized that Parqual Fintallas, who was on the list, could recognize her. And the in the Gathering itself she felt entitled with leading and/or saving the Forsaken because to her a Menethil damaged them and thus a Menethil had to save them. It just felt it wasn’t about the Forsaken but about her wanting to redeem the Menethil name.
Her naivety shines through when Parqual and others approach about defecting to the Alliance. She actually thought they wanted her to lead them, when they were simply using her to remain with their living family/friends. And even after being killed and resurrected she doesn’t understand this and talks about how she isn’t ready to lead the Forsaken, seemingly taking their attempted defection as a sign that really genuinely wanted her to lead them.
The Horde’s gone through enough, the last we need is a Tommen leading one of our races and being on the Horde Council.
I would’ve liked an actual undead looking leader. Someone rotting, bones showing, whispy hair, kinda like the Forsaken guy in the original warcraft trailer.
Instead, Calia is pristine and glowing. Why the light raised her as undead instead of just resurrecting her back to life like the light normally does is beyond me. Good natured, caring, empathetic, campaigns for renewable energies.
A more popular leader would have been a leader with a dark and mysterious demeanour. Someone who seems shifty, someone the other leaders are concerned about and not trust until a crucial moment when the Forsaken leader pulls through doing the right thing and having the backs of their people and the Horde. They gain the Horde’s trust and has the Forsaken people unwavering loyalty, vowing to never become what Sylvanas had. That’s a good story right there.
Please tell me that isn’t true, that is so dumb, every Forsaken would reverse their curse if they could. You’re telling me she chose to do so? I can imagine the Forsaken population learning of this and thinking she’s a complete f’ing idiot.
She should’ve been some sort of Priest-Lich. Why in the name of Metzen did the product we got look more like a statue that belongs in Trump Tower?
At this point, I don’t care that she’s overly nice. That’s just Golden’s influence, and I expect characters she writes to smile no matter how many of their teeth are missing after someone decks them in the jaw.
But she should at least look like she belongs with the faction they’re dropping her into.
But they can’t reverse it. Calia felt she couldn’t understand what it meant to be undead after meeting Forsaken members. She knows what it means to be living, but not undead. So, when the choice came to her, she chose to be undead so she could better understand what it felt like.
She wants to reunite all Lordaeronians, both the living and undead, and is willing to forgo her own humanity to better unite the two.
Of all the problems I have with Calia, her choosing to become undead isn’t actually one of them. I can kinda understand it.
I don’t think “Light zombie” was the right way for Blizz to take it tho.
And yet, that’s the first criticism players level at her is that she doesn’t understand Forsaken culture. Even though she intentionally became undead so that she could understand them better.
That picture is LEAGUES better and i think would’ve gone over a lot better with players.
If you want my behind the curtain conspiracy theory. I think Blizzard doesn’t want any VIP NPC’s to be undead due to a certain countries censorship. That way they never have to worry about crossing that road if they need to animate the character in a cinematic or need artwork done for them and face the wrath from certain shareholders.
I wouldn’t care if she was developed in an interesting manner.
So far she’s just seemed bland and important for who/what she is. Ex-princess of Lordaeron and a weird Light undead. Not for any interesting stuff beyond a vague survival story of hiding.