pet battles at dawn it is then
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okay ill bring my pet chainsaw.
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check mate nerd
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Excuse me?
He reacted badly, sure.
But still, take that scene in context.
He has shown to be against xe’ra’s judgment before, specially regardless alleria.
Illidan just killed his boss, and the leader of the one group that has been making an actual difference in the fight against the legion.
He regains his composture right after.
Illidan has been all about sacrificing everything to defeat the legion, except that one momment, it feels everyone in that scene was specially out of character just to show “hey, light isn’t exactly good”.
Calling him a zealot is at best an exaggeration.
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That scene was edgelord pandering, courtesy of the chief of the Cosby suite crew - Alex Afrasiabi. A lot of fans blindly lapped it up - but I was part of a tiny minority who saw it for what it was. Nice to see more people are catching on.
Funny you should bring up the definition of zealot, since there are mages in the Army of the Light. Looks like Xe’ra compromised by allowing them to use a power besides Light… except zealots don’t compromise! So, you just helped prove Xe’ra wasn’t a zealot.
And given Alleria is now constantly battling whispers from the Void Lords and nearly borked the Sunwell by accident… looks like that Naaru knew what she was talking about.
A lot of people don’t know what “zealot” actually means because the kind of atheists who’d be fans of r/atheism, Dawkins, NBC or Amazon took the term “zealot” and twisted it into a snarl word against religious people as a whole.
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Last time, on Wars of our Lives….
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cue General Hospital theme music
On that note, Turalyon/Liadrin has probably happened in a few fanfics.
It actually IS possible for a man and a woman to work together without sex being part of it. I know… for this crowd, that’s a radical thought.
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No he cheated on her with a Night Elf refugee he met on the streets of Stormwind. Now there’s a half-human, half-Night Elf toddler running around. She had to raise the baby to be raised by his aunt and uncle. He’ll grow up to be a made man in the Kaldorei version of La Cosa Nostra.
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Plus at that point, Turalyon had basically just met Illidan, and would only have a cursory awareness of who he was beyond “a demon Xe’ra apparently wanted brought to her.” So it’s pretty understandable that he’d be upset in that moment, since from his PoV he’d just watched a demon blow up the leader of the Army of the Light.
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This.
I’ve pointed this out to people for years, and got a lot of trouble and more than a few unkind words in regard to my character for doing so. Seeing other people also point this out is sweet, satisfying vindication.
On the original topic the same Naaru Tuyralon tried to avenge the killing of was the same Naaru he disagreed with about Alleria. Turalyon loves Alleria that much, he’s not going to cheat on her.
Legion truly is “let’s sweep under the rug everything bad Illidan did”.
People complain about maiev, but Maiev at least has shown many times regret in doing what she did, Illidan doesn’t know what regret is.
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That whitewashing of Illidan is one of my biggest complaints about Legion. I’ve wondered if, while Legion was good, whether Legion was overrated.
Illidan’s only regrets, if they count, were that he and his brother butted heads - a conflict Illidan caused - and that Tyrande didn’t pick him over Malfurion.
And I agree completely about Maiev. In fact, for me, Legion did a better job of salvaging Maiev while putting me right off Illidan.
Are all elves from Quel’thalas just completely allergic to each other or something? Every one of them seems to pair off with another race. They’re really going to go extinct at this rate.
Hardly. just before the end Ilidan sent a farewell letter to the two people he cared about the most.
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Malfurion questioned the sincerity of the letter.
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Tyrande refused to read hers at all.
There is absolutely no evidence that Turalyon’s visit to Lilandrin was anything but purely professional as one Paladin leader to another.
Malfurion seemed open to and considered his letter. Tyrande read hers but questioned the sincerity.
And his regrets in the letter, if you can call them that, were hating his brother and that Tyrande rejected him. Everything else swept under the rug.
And Legion was, pardon my language, a pro-Illidan circle jerk.
True. Some fans are too thirsty.
Why, because he wasn’t immolated by the people he had common cause with?
Illidan served 10,000 plus years of hard time for his first major crime.
He was then released only to be killed by so-called heroes.
He was later revived in order to serve as a weapon against Sargeras. Your main beef with him was that he obliterated someone who tried to put him under a new form of slavery.
He would later sentence himself into a new jail cell…eternal battle with the Legion’s Big Bad.
He received no accolades, no reward, just renewed suspicion and distrust from the only two people he cared about.
That’s hardly a circle-jerk of admiration.
I told you we need to kill Liadrin
now shes outright consulting with the alliance
He was given the spotlight in the trailers and art.
He got a cult of personality named after him - Illidari - who were dedicated to him and his cause.
His life sentence ended long before Legion. And his “first major crime” was joining a genocidal demon army for incel reasons.
That first time he was freed he then caused major collateral damage while doing a demon’s dirty work for them, then the writers whitewash him with a retcon.
Second time he’s freed he struts around while characters who know just as much or more than him get hit with the stupid bat and hang onto his every word.
Velen; “Oh, I’m sorry. I’m just a 25,000-year-old head of state who can see the future and knew the leaders of the Burning Legion before they were demons. I’m not educated enough for a magic addict half my age who can’t see the future and SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN A SMALL CAGE UNDERGROUND!”
Your main beef with me here is that I don’t approve of him edgelording to death the character who saved his life twice and wasn’t trying to enslave him. Your beef with that character comes from the fact that she dared try to give him a Light vaccine instead of letting him stay a Fel crack addict.
Xe’ra; “Oh, I’m sorry. I’m just a 30,000-year-old general who can read minds, see the future, predates the Burning Legion and has travelled across the universe. I’m not educated enough for a magic addict less than half my age who can’t see the future, can’t read minds, wastes his potential and SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN A SMALL CAGE UNDERGROUND!”
He also got away scot-free with killing the leader of a holy army in front of said holy army.
He then chose to stay as Sargeras’ jailer exactly as he wanted to, gets a red star in the sky reminding us of that, and we’re all expected to cry now that we’re without Illidan.
And he got the last word with Furion and Tyrande.
And all that came from the plan of the chief of the Cosby Crew suite; a toxic director shilling a toxic character.
That’s a huge circle jerk.
Even Sylvanas didn’t get that much, and she had more retcons to whitewash her.