Just ignore

[Ekkora-azshara]

just ignore

[Caelin-boulderfist (Caelin)]

I would be fine with her returning but she needs to take a back seat and be a minor character for a while.

[Ughash-sulfuras]

Pretty sure she’ll play an important role in midnight.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

Nah, she can stay gone for a while

Evil since day 1 and we all gotta go “oh no poor her” instantly but super condemn every other person who was ever undead-ed

[Tea-moon-guard (Tea)]

How can you say that as a DK, as if Alexstrasza didn’t give you the biggest pardon in history.

[Lucifer-stormrage]

She can come back, but she needs to give us her clothes.

[Défenseur-area-52]

Absolutely not, mon.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

They should have just told me where the body was

My demands were very reasonable, not like they were using the body

[Tea-moon-guard (Tea)]

This is very fair, really.

[Ekkora-azshara]

nah, I wrote above why I think it’s a bad idea

@Ekkora-azshara

The defense, tactics, structure and fortifications of the Quel’thalas have changed since her time in command, Sylavanas knowledge will be obsolete. She also no longer has his banshee powers. And the most important. Would the Blood Elves really want her back? Even though she was a great hero in the past. She betrayed them twice, the first time in Wrath where she forced them to fight to the death, second betrayed them for the jailer.

And the argument - I can’t imagine the blood elf expansion without Sylvanas. - doesn’t work here twitter. Remember that in Guardian of the dream writers completely ignored Malfurion (The emerald dream poster guy) so anything is possible for Blizzard.

We have so many characters with so much storytelling potential in Midnight. Lor’themar, Liandrin, Thalyssra, Oculeth, Salandria, Rommant, Elisande, Veressa, Alleria, Arator, Giramar, Galadin, Aethas, Halduron, we will definitely see Elisande, Umbirc, Tharll, the rest of the Horde, Aspects, and Amani trolls there. There are just too many of them to squeeze Sylvanas between them and if that happens I’m sure she’ll take big chunk of the spotlight.

[Shadybolt-thrall]

“Returning” is… overall a straight up ‘no’. But it is extremely unlikely we aren’t going to see her again as a character in flashbacks, cutscenes, or because someone really, REALLY need an amazing tracker… and Huln was forgotten about.

[Hoofdini-moon-guard]

Saurfang(the traitor) challenged her in a fight to the death. what did you think was gonna happen?

If saurfang had followed order, as he was sworn to do, Malf would be dead. and the world would be a better place.

[Rubyrose-argent-dawn]

I’m certainly not a Sylvanas fan, there were a lot of things that she did that were horrible. I’ve almost exclusively played Alliance since I started, I have a main on Horde so I can see the other side of the stories. The fight to save those in Darnassas gave me nightmares, that was horrific and the one thing I wanted to do more than anything was kill Sylvanas. Then she kidnaps Anduin, who is probably my favorite character (outside of Khadgar) and the forced possession had me gunning for her for sure.

Her time in the Maw will be good, saving those who were sent there due to her actions. It should be that she can talk to each, have to hear the stories over and over about being burned alive, suffocated with smoke, holding their child in the water, hoping to survive. She should come out of there with enough shame and self-loathing that she will want to take a step back and learn to live with herself and with the world that, in many ways, will never forgive her.

There’s a lot of things I could think of to do with her story going forward, not an easy path but something that would give her, eventually, a path to redemption. Try saving someone in the fight to retake something, Something heroic that will at least bring some show of wanting to make good. I don’t think she can lose her snark, being Sylvanas will always have that. It may manifest in her thinking her penance has been fulfilled and she doesn’t want to lead, wanting to stay in the background but maybe having some strong opinions that would eventually make her break with the Horde and make her own group. And the Forsaken Council will have something to say about all this, she’s no longer the Banshee and certainly not Queen. But she’s still undead, just has her soul back and she’s still Forsaken. There’s some anger there we could see and work with.

I’m an author so I tend to think in those terms, what kind of changes in a character can work and the drama that comes from trying to redeem the unredeemable, political will versus having to give up everything you knew. There’s a lot of good story in there,

I do want her to come back, if nothing else to be a foil for some of the drama as we go forward.

[Renotarshil-malganis (Renotarshil)]

She did nothing wrong.

[Argrazahn-tichondrius]

I do not think Sylvanas should return, ever at all. Her story has had a conclusion, which its pretty rare for faction characters in WoW, whp weren’t killed off at least.

I do feel bad for Forsaken players who are stuck with Calia…but it’s very fitting themstically for a Menethil to take the throne or at least a leadership role for the Forsaken.

[Nalin-nesingwary (Nalin)]

I go with no because there’s no reason for NPCs to welcome her back after her bargain with the Jailer. Even if she was changed when the Jailer gave her back her soul.

But we know if Blizz wants her to return, they’ll get her to return no matter how hole filled the story/plot is.

[Drexigan-illidan]

Easy we just got a new tree she could burn that one down would make me like her even more.

[Tea-moon-guard (Tea)]

Thinking quick about how threads like these look juxtaposed to the “we need more war” threads.

[Khaleid-proudmoore]

Sylvanas’ character went beyond “fantasy evil” and, perhaps, into the realm of the unacceptable for a game that isn’t rated R.

I hope she never returns.

But I also know Warcraft, and I fully expect her to return. I would anticipate this to happen either right before or during the middle patch of the Midnight expansion, just in time to personally be the driving force that causes the elven races to set aside their millennia of differences and unite - under her. Turns out, her experience in Shadowlands will be exactly the insight we need to stop the void and protect Azeroth. Blah blah blah.

[Vernidus-hyjal]

Bruh,

She stepped on everyone and everything to achieve her own personal goals. She couldn’t even stay loyal to the one she sold-out everything to! Most untrustworthy character ever.

She can rot and be forgotten in the Shadowlands for rest of the game’s lifespan for all I care. Many of our original leaders are gone anyway, so why not put her to rest and make way for a fresh character?