At least Bran was a powerful individual who was capable of Machiavellian manipulation befitting a competent westerosi king. Pelagos is WAY less satisfying as “king” of the shadowlands.
He is the most milquetoast, bland, uninteresting character shown throughout the entire kyrian arc. Even the entirety of shadowlands imo.
I say this as someone who loved the kyrian aesthetic, lore, and overall storyline. I was even psyched about the dreadlord retcons and shadowlands story as a whole. This is just insultingly bad writing that’s really making me consider if I was mistaken in enjoying 9.x lore up to this point.
He was the Three Eyed Raven who was infact Lord Bloodraven the old Master of Whispers. A Targaryen whose father’s heir is of suspected illegitimacy which would make Lord Bloodraven the true closest living heir.
The Novel version heavily implies that the Three Eyed Raven is even Varys the current Master of Whispers which says much about how old the sorcerer that Varys got revenge on actually is.
The TV Show Version of Varys is so incompetent that even Littlefinger is able to get him around his finger despite Varys’s defiance of him. Littlefinger practically got Varys to give a glowing review to Olenna just so that he could get Sansa to himself!
TV Show Varys is no schemer despite getting the Sorcerer who turned him into a Eunuch captured for his personal vengeance which says more about his connections than it does his competence.
That prophecy is clearly turalyon (the golden one) sitting on a vacant throne (Anduin’s). He wears a figurative crown of light, and he’s being foreshadowed as a baddie in an upcoming expansion.
Idk about making him Arbiter but I’ve been following his story since the beginning and recently he’s really made some good steps towards becoming stronger and finding his way so I was excited to see where it was headed.
As for Sylv honestly it’d be nice if she was just given a break for once. Help defeat the bad guys and then getting to live a peaceful life somewhere away from war and violence, since she has her soul back now essentially she’s been reverted back to her pre-LK corruption.
I’m not particularly against Pelagos, but he didn’t show any particular feats or skills to fit the job unlike let’s say…Uther.
If Pelagos has to be the next arbiter, i want to see him doing something to earn the place, not being served on a silver plate.
Something else annoy me: Will they go for an unique arbiter again? Meaning going back to a system which failed because there was no safeguard just in case the arbiter is KO for whatever reason?
It would be unbelievably stupid to going back to the way it was before, because one day another force like the Void could do the same and here we go again with another crisis for the same reason.
That pathetic weakling is the reason I wanted to join the legion. Everything blue in this expansion turned out awful from the blue forests to the blue npcs. Purge it all!