I mean, you’re not wrong, but, “Tyrande hurt Thalyssra’s feelings,” is a dumb reason to rip on the Nightborne anyways. You wanna rip on the Nightborne you need to go full propaganda IC rage mode.
Take this as an example.
Reason number one. The Moon Guard. The Moon Guard are everything the Nightborne should have been, and everything that the Night Elves could still be. They are perhaps history’s most responsible magic users. As far as i know, they’re the only Elven magic Order to go ten thousand years without mutating, causing an explosion, summoning a burning legion invasion, or some combination of the three. They were watching over Suramar Province for Ten Millennia whilst the Nightborne got drunk on Arcwine inside their safety bubble. They were waiting to reconnect with their estranged brethren. When the Dome finally did go down, the Moon Guard welcomed the Nightborne with open arms. They exchanged greeting and tomes and gifts of Arcane power. Then the Nightborne betrayed them and slaughtered them all, finally killing off one of the only remaining orders of the Kaldorei empire.
Reason number two. They abandoned the fight against the Legion. I dislike the Pandaren for the same reason as this. While the whole of Azeroth was rising up from Dragons to Demigods to Trolls and Titanforged, the Nightborne decided to hide. What makes this worse however is that the battle had not even been decided yet but they decided that no one but themselves was worth protecting. Suramar Province never fell to the Legion. The Moon Guard Stronghold never fell to the legion. The battle was ongoing. But the Nightborne decided to drop the shield, condemning any elves caught outside of it to death, desperately banging on the shield, begging to be let in, leaving them easy prey for the demons.
Reason number three. They betrayed the Night Elves. So, Thalyssra is just exiled, along with Valtois and Occuleth. They’re just getting set up in Shal’aran and who should decide to take pity on them but Valewalker Farodin. A Night Elf. He gifts them with an incredible gift. An Arcan’dor, a unique specimen that ultimately ends up saving their entire race and civilization from magic withdrawal. Farodin is eventually joined by Kaldorei Druids from Val’sharah and EVEN the Moon Guard! They display their amazing ability to focus on the bigger threat by lending the Nightfallen their aid, but it was Night Elves who are responsible for saving the Nightfallen rebellion while it was still in its infancy long before any Blood Elf ever turned up. They repaid their generosity by joining a genocidal war against their race.
Reason number four. They joined the Burning Legion. This one is unacceptable. Orcs are still paying off this debt decades after the Blood curse ended and they stopped being under the Legion’s direct control. I don’t care what their justifications were. They decided to throw their lot in with the very same Legion that worked so hard to destroy them during the War of the Ancients all because they were afraid of losing their pleasure barges and comfort pillows. They refused to even accept any possibility that there could be a united stand against the Legion. No timeline Elisande looked into was one where we stood together against the Legion, not just the Nightborne alone in their vanity and vaingloriousness. For this reason alone I find Tyrande’s caution when speaking with Thalyssra completely justified.
Nightborne have no honor, no decency. They only care about themselves and I wish they weren’t playable.
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