It’s a tree the size of a mountain, visible from many miles away. Anyone who ends up in Kalimdor is gonna see that and ask “What happened to that big tree?” “Oh, that? Yeah, the horde army herded the majority of the night elf population in there and set it on fire.”
Is Blizzard seriously trying to whitewash their own god damn writing?
It really is. As bad as it was, you don’t try to pretend something like this didn’t happen. Teldrassil was a huge, world changing event. You just… don’t.
I think they are trying to set up a new player’s pov of a naive young undead trying to find his place in the world while having blinders on so you don’t notice the decaying, burned husks of millions basking int he moonlight enacted by the faction you serve.
You are an upstanding forsaken youth. Pay no attention to the news. For the Horde!
the plus side is the forsaken were never edgelords that hated the living but rather carebears so concerned with those who aren’t cursed with their affliction of undeath they’d strive to improve the world for them. Vis-a-vis this revelation the Scarlet Crusade most certainly did nothing wrong in wanting to wipe them out, the Forsaken should embrace their own extinction for the betterment of all living beings and I expect the storyline to be full of Forsaken NPCs gladly dying for good so that living beings be continue to do so on both sides of the faction divide.
Does this mean they are going to get rid of the darkshore warfront in Sl? I mean if they are retconning it might as well remove any trace of it too. if so then thats REALLY stupid.
I doubt it, they may just be trying not to overwhelm people.
“What’s with the giant burnt tree?”
“Well…” drops an entire encyclopedia on new player
“And after Space Satan stabbed the desert noone wanted, magical rocks that everyone wanted appeared and then the Extraneous Spikes Alliance killed the tree hippies in a mass slaughter”