You should… Trolls love it when you respond to them, you’re feeding their egos and incentivise them to continue their behavior. Every now and then I put him on ignore for a few months an marvel how it cleans up the feed.
I mean if his ego is fed by people thinking he has terrible takes(to be nice about it), then oh well. “People are laughing at me, I’m an epic troll.” is just hilarious to me.
Im not sure but i dont think Light ever had a mind or something behind it, though it was heavily implied in lore.
I think it was originally envisioned as at least semi-sentient (though they may have just been leaving their options open). It’s only when they brought in the cosmic chart (in Chronicles) that they started heavily pushing the idea that all the cosmic forces were completely nonsentient and neutral.
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I don’t really agree with this in principle, I barely play Waredrin these days and mainly stick with him because that’s where all my other posts are. I’m willing to bet 2/3rds of people you see aren’t playing their main, especially since I’m pretty sure the WoW forums auto assigns you a character to post on.
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Agreed. As soon as one starts talking why someone post from a certain character , or anything about person, you are engaging in an ad hominem attack. These are on the Wikipedia list of fallacies. They are also usually at least somewhat toxic.
If you think someone posts outrageously, or disingenuously, those posts are fair game. But you don’t know the person and assumptions (esp. self-serving ones) are not. “Attack the idea, not the person.”
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Isn’t this a thing where having a character still in free trial counts as being subbed?
There used to be a time where people would create a flurry of level 1 sock puppets to poste, then Blizzard made the minimum level 10.
The insane mushroom fueled reinterpretation of the Hindu Vedas is the best part of Elder Scrolls lore, it’s just kind of generic western fantasy otherwise.
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Yeah literally, the tribunal and basically everything in morrowind is just the best stuff in TES period.
It is not canon anymore. The Godhead is fake.
I’m forced to defend Erevien’s only good take ever (I hate MK so this isn’t really about Erevien): people wildly overestimate how much of the Morrowind lore was written by MK (especially considering some of that stuff is from Daggerfall lore books, none of which he had a hand in writing)
The man’s ideas for bosmer range from profoundly moronic to “blizzard does dimorphism”, he can literally only write women one way (crazy b****) and the way he salted the earth on a forum RP to take his ball home over Vivec being canonically dead was stupid (also like responding to criticisms of his writing with rape threats and that self-aggrandizing “I am Nabokov reborn” rant will always be the main things I remember of his social media presence)
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Funnily enough the Naaru were designed to BE Those ‘biblically accurate angels’.
The normalization and understanding of them has sort of destroyed any of the mystic and eldritch attitude they once gave off.
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Yeah he really isn’t an amazing writer. He has some cool ideas, but there has to be people in the room to kind of tone down some of the goofier stuff. His stuff is often just “Vedas but written high as hell and d&d-ized” at least the stuff people like anyway.
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The Naaru pretty much got the same development as Vorlons. Originally presented as angelic like figures the Vorlons were eventually revealed to have more nuanced attitudes with the vast majority not quite as sympathetic to the younger races as their first front man, Kosh, eventually becoming just as antagonistic to them as the “demonic” Shadows.
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So at the end of WoW’s story the Naaru will leave but humans will take up the Light wholesale and become Naaru 2.0?
Jokes aside, the Naaru are essentially a combination of angels and the Vorlons.
Making them jobbers so often - especially ones like K’ure, Xe’ra, Lu’ra - has also hurt their story potential. If they’re supposed to be major allies or threats in the future, make them powerful, stop using them as story punching bags.
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Maybe the mystery and mystique of the Naaru had been stuffed into some kind of “encounter suit” like the Vorlons originally were, instead of players immediately getting to see the funny wind chimes in Shattrath and The Exodar. Some kind of, ‘if you see the true essence of the light, your eyes start burning’ type stuff.
Maybe the first time any players get a glimpse of the “true form” of a Naaru would be right at the end of the Sunwell Raid, as M’uru is sacrificed to reignite the Sunwell.
edit: I don’t know what the encounter suits would actually look like, didn’t think that far ahead.
Surprise… it will be the Orcs.
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Technically Humans became like Valen(in his energy form) with Environmental Suits.
They did not become whatever the Vorlons looked like when we see them. The only similarity is the Environmental Suits.
Imagine Humans becoming the Cosmic Force of Energy.
Blizzard shows us that every cosmic force bar Life and Death becomes antagonistic due to their leaders starting to try conquering the whole multiverse. That is not a light exclusive trait, Void and Chaos do it too.