They should have done this with Garrosh, but since they didn’t, when Tyralyon takes the throne, it should cause faction upheaval. He should question the Nelfs, Dark Iron, Wildhammer, and Kul Tiran involvement in the Alliance. I guess maybe the Worgen, hard to tell at this point. But it should be a purity of faith to Garrosh’s purity of strength argument.
But the Dwarves, choosing to keep the clans united should break off from the Alliance. Make more factions in-game, and then make cross-faction play allowed. To steal a line from Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross:
The people are just sitting there, waiting for you to take their money…
That was the story i was expecting at the end of Legion.
Think about it, the last time Turalyon was in Azeroth he was slaying bloodthirsty orcs, and now he returns to see alliance and horde hand to hand. I was hoping that he would lead the battle for Lordaeron.
If we have luck, Blizzard will be able to use the character in an intresting way, but I have low hopes since the changes they made to Garrosh/Trollbane.
I hope they don’t try to do an excuse in lore to explain cross-faction play. It’s not necessary and will be a disaster.
I would love for blizz to have something happen to cause the factions to splinter giving the playable races their own identity and race fantasy.
As for tyralyon he’s big on the light but also big on warcraft 2 I’d think it’d be like a bizzaro garrosh instead of pushing away he would try to bring them closer and that forced closeness would be what causes the faction to splinter.
He would do anything for the dwarves gnomes gilneans and high elves because they were his allies in WW2 and their faith is light, the dreani because of the light.
The night elves not being his former buddies or light worshipers would cause friction and start to butt heads, the gilneans feeling indebt to the night elves would pick them over tyralyon.
Then you got your alliance friction and a set up for the next expansion world of warcraft the lights revenge electric bugalo
Making Turalyon a Garrosh rehash would not go over well with the fans. And having yet more Light fanatics after the Scarlet Crusade would be cliche, especially if it’s for yet another “extreme order badness = extreme chaos badness” shtick.
Still has the idea of a supremacist with a “my way or the highway” approach causing dissent. Plus why break the Alliance when Garry didn’t break the Horde?
I’d still rather have Yrel show up from the WoD Universe. Turalyon has already demonstrated that he’s capable of setting aside zealotry in favor of rationality with Alonsus Faol, so he wouldn’t be the best fit for a “Light Crusade” plot.
But why do we need a Light Crusade plot in the first place? Fanaticism and “extreme order is as bad as extreme chaos” stories are a dime a dozen these days. Plus there’s better Alliance characters to villain bat than Turalyon.
The writers had to deliberately change the lore, including Yrel’s, to justify wanting to tell this story and railroad us into accepting it. As I’ve said before, if you have to go back and change the story after it’s been released, you’re doing something wrong.
True there is nothing new under the sun, but some clichés are more overused than others. This Light Crusade-type story arc is one of them.
