Interview with John Hight. Here’s some lore bits I could transcribe:
"This is- I mean- this has actually been part of her plan all along. Certainly in the events in Legion where souls stopped going to the rest of Shadowlands- to the rest of the Covenenats, and they were all going into the Maw. And the Maw is the place where the souls that cannot be redeemed go. And so basically have this shortage of souls going to the rest of the Shadowlands- they're all piling into the Maw- Sylvanas is part of this master plan, and she's going to use that power."
“She does have the long game, and she really does want to break the cycle of life and death, and that’s a bigger objective for her than petty revenge at this point.”
“Who’s to say she can’t create more [Val’kyr]? I mean she basically has the Kyrian at her disposal, and Odyn was able to, by sacrificing a single eye, create the power of the Val’kyr.”
“We’ve had some characters that have passed and have very vague memories of the Shadowlands. If you ended up being part of Ardenweald and in the Fae part of their whole afterlife is reincarnation or resurrection. So some of the characters that went through that process are going to have memories. But not deep ones.”
“Obviously Sylvanas has been there. She’s really been the first to go and come back. She’s technically the first Maw Walker. And we get to be the next [Maw Walker].”
Alternatively being in the Shadowlands and wokring with The Jailer has given her this ability.
The point was that the Night Elves were supposed to be happy with taking out one of her get out of hell-jail cards. Which is now pointless because she has an infinite supply.
I’m really tired of explaining it again, but I’ll make a short summary:
No Power on Azeroth is stronger than Sylvanas now, she could single handedly destroy the horde and the alliance combined
Writers are obsessed with Nathanos and Sylvanas, see in 8.1 how Nathanos didn’t die even though there would’ve never been a better moment for a character like him to die
she will “set us all free”
she has a plan to save the universe
devs said she won’t die
If they kill her off they can’t make a 4th expansion cinematic of Sylvanas in a row
and lastly, killing her off would be satisfying for Night Elf players and we all know that’s not allowed.
i truly dont think these are good things for the rest of us, there is no way someone literally feeding souls to the “hungering darkness” is going to “set us all free” by anyway other than killing us all
Your not explaining anything but sharing your bitterness and cynical view on how Blizzard will further handle the night elf story. And it’s fairly obvious that the worst way it could be handled would be for Sylvanas to get a redmeption and thus your treating your theory born of scorn as fact.
Furthermore some of your points make no sense case in point:
There has been nothing to suggest this ever.
I keep seeing this thrown around and no one has ever back it up with a source. And even if their was they could have easily been talking in the context of her surviving Battle for Azeroth.
A revenge patch in which we achieved absolutely nothing.
We didn’t kill Nathanos
We killed 1 Val’kyr which turned out pointless because Sylvanas has infinite
We didn’t reconquer lands
We lost more people and Sylvanas raised undead
Imagine a revenge patch for the night elves where they lose instead of getting their revenge, and then months later they get told they got their revenge in said patch. How do you want me to be optimistic at this point?
It’s mostly the writers absolute and unhealthy obsession with Sylvanas and Nathanos, we’ve seen how they are immune to death in 8.1.
I don’t expect you to be optimistic and I understand why you are bitter about what Blizzard has done to the night elves. I just want you to stop taking that bitterness and screaming in the forums that Sylvanas is going be Kerrigan/Illidan 2.0 and get redeemed because it does nothing but promote a false narrative.
On a side note Blizzard revealed on the Q&A that the Alliance won both warfronts.
Thanos wasn’t an Avenger that turned bad though. I really have a difficult time believing they would turn Sylvanas into a crazy universe ending villain after how poorly received Garrosh was. She’s pretty much Kael’thas now.
