Could be such an interesting counter narrative to Sylvanas.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say being raised as a weapon by a fundamentalist religious paramilitary organization didn’t make for the happiest childhood.
Though as I’m unsure how old she is (I’d wager 18 as everyone’s either that or 18,000) she might have some pleasant memories of pre plague Lordaeron. We never hear of her mother so I could see the Forsaken killing her and that being what drives Benedictus Voss over the edge.
I’m also really hope Blizz confirms my hypothesis that she was murdered via posion or in her sleep by people she trusted. Because the other fresh deaders in Deathknell clearly remember how they died. One you’ve to snap out of a panic attack because from his perspective he went from watching an Orc kill him in battle to sitting in a haunted cemetery with Swedish chicks zooming around shooting lightning at graves.
But Voss has no idea what’s going on. She hides, convinced she somehow is caught behind enemy lines, until you show her a mirror and that goes exactly as well as you’d expect. So, she was definitely dead before she knew what was happening. We get to see how the Scarlets treat anyone doubting the party line in the Conclave questline. So seems likely to me Lilian was starting to ask some pointed questions and they couldn’t risk their weapon turning against them. So they offed her then presumably her corpse was lost when the Cataclysm struck and she wound up in the Forsaken’s claws.
So after showing her her own reflection she runs off to the Scarlets who of course try to execute her. She says F that and starts a one woman suicide mission to destroy as many Scarlets and Scourge as is inhumanly possible.
Which leads her to tearing off her traitorous father’s head while going full horror movie monster;
Lilian Voss says: You raised me to be a killer. How am I doing, daddy?
High Priest Benedictus Voss says: I, ah…
Lilian Voss says: But wait… I remember now. You taught me to only kill the undead. So you do want me to kill myself, daddy?
High Priest Benedictus Voss says: Lilian, I…
Lilian Voss says: Then again, why kill myself… when I can kill YOU instead!
Lilian grabs Benedictus and climbs up the walls of the towers, strangling and killing him in the process.
It’s fantastic
Anywho from here she ironically stakes Whitemane to keep ole sadistic Sally down for good. Or at least until the KotEB use their battle rez on her. Hope she’s thankful that has a ten minute cool down. Nearly dies in Scholomance in perhaps the worst way an undead could. Turns up in Alt Draenor because she’s elected herself multiverse necromancer nullifier. Pops up in Legion as the reason the Uncrowned learn about the BL’s new homunculi spy project.
And in BFA she turns up having found some self acceptance and deciding to help out the Horde. A bit gang pressed into it but really she’s here to help out the newly risen undead so they might avoid the path of self destruction she tried to walk. She succeeds at this, Captain Stone at least seems kinda excited at this new alternative mortality opportunity, eventually.
So we’ve someone who was about as thoroughly traumatized as someone feasibly can be. But instead of, ya know treason, genocide, and allying with the Devil manages to work through it mainly via killing certified bastards. Eventually finding self acceptance and helping others like her do the same.
On its own we’ve a pretty juicy story about a woman likely betrayed by her family becoming the thing she was raised to hate with extreme prejudice. Going on a Crusade of her own against her old and new enemies that she’s clearly hoping ends when she does. And eventually making peace with her issues and having to shepard the very people she was raised to destroy in their bleakest hour.
I’d certainly read that story. But what it makes it even more interesting as now we could have a counterpoint to Sylvanas.
Idk after reading a whole book about Sylvanas being an emotional wave pool who only cares about herself and responds to immense dissapointment with suicide - I’d certainly like a story about a woman on top of her ish who actually works through their trauma and becomes a whole, functioning person despite it. She doesn’t have a piece of herself in a jar the Devil has to unlock. She put herself back together with time, patience, probably help from some friends along the way and a cool coping method called being a bastard hunting shadow assassin.
But why write a story about basically Azeroth’s answer to Batman when we’ve Calia. Oh boy I can’t wait for her to stand around pointing out the obvious.
