He didn’t want to be free because his mission isn’t over, and it’s a part of him now. That’s what, “I am my scars,” means. At no point did it seem to me he’s a junky craving his fix. He seems more like someone that has his power (addiction, if you want to call it that) in check.
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Yeah murdering someone who is trying to help you definitely seems reasonable and like you have everything under control.
Per the developer QnA they were not. The blood elves would have been horrified at such a notion of feeding off demons. The ones who did, were with kael’thas and we killed them.
its why the book is such an issue.
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So he was just lying about everything he said during that cinematic? Come on…
Also…
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Pursuing_the_Black_Harvest
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This thread is wild.
The sin’dorei used fel crystals to sate their magical addiction. They had a magical addiction. They used fel to sate it. Their eyes turned green. What exactly is being debated here? You can walk around the city and still see the remaining crystals. As someone said before, one of the first quests was using a small crystal. I have no idea if this is some weird semantics thing where OP is trying to say “They were addicted to magic, not fel” but it’s dumb and a behind the scenes video and random quotes aren’t going to change what they put into the literal actual game. They broke from Kael’thas because he was going insane and doing horrible things. Originally the blood elf character was going to Outland to link up with him and find out what’s going on. Only then do they find out he has lost his mind and is working with the enemy. They turned on him because he was a lunatic and then tried to turn the Sunwell into a gate for the demons.
Wrong.
`https://wow.gamepedia.com/Ask_CDev
Encyclopedia says they didnt.
Devs said they didnt.
Chronicles said they didn’t.
So, they didn’t.
Fel crystals were used to power silvermoon, the fel magic irradiated, but the mass majority of blood elves did not use fel to feed their addiction including the PC.
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Shaw works with that Blood Elf rogue frequently and is literally in charge of the intelligence gathering part of the Alliance military.
It makes negative sense for him to just make some assumptions.
The BC dvd commentary said they didn’t…
But that wasn’t in the game Aerordin. There wasn’t a quest to use a fel crystal, but there was and still is a quest called “Thirt unending” that had you use mana tap on creatures. That’s what the actual in game lore has said.
And it isn’t just in some weird behind the scenes video. It’s from the WoW encyclopedia which was on the website when Burning Crusade released.
Sorry you think the lore is dumb, but in game it was an important distinction between the blood elves in Silvermoon and the more reckless ones that followed Kael’thas. Part of why Kael’thas was considered a lunatic was his use of fel energy.
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To be fair, it is not the first time we have seen these characters make errors in their observations or go based off what they have been told.
And the BC DvD commentary said they didnt.
Like…I still dont get how players keep getting it wrnog.
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IIRC the whole fel thing was a temporary stop-gap measure until they could get their Sunwell back.
It was using mana from creatures that was the stop gap. That’s why some high elves were exiled from Silvermoon, because they objected to taking mana from creatures to sate the magically addiction.
Here is the link to the Burning Crusade behind the scenes video, which is interesting for more than just the green crystals: https://youtu.be/NE-4Edh3RuM?t=273
If you guys would like to hold onto ages old CDEV questions and off hand quotes, go on I suppose. The game depiction and many quests contradict what you’re saying and the original story was that the sin’dorei on Azeroth were gifted with what Kael’thas had discovered. Fel crystals are found all around the city and you can see them being siphoned in both public and behind closed doors. I’m going to take Shaw’s word and what I’ve seen over the outdated and not ingame info.
They don’t though? They are pretty explicit regarding the matter.
Yeah, about that, it was explained sometime ago that many of the magic crystals we see in game being used for siphoning use the same texture as the fel crystals. Both in books and in game, the crystals are green but not fel, and we see this as well in later parts of the game where the crystals are green but not imbued with fel energy. So a large portion of what you see isn’t accurate in game, and is clarified by the devs and the books.
Shaw’s view of the world < Titan<Devs.
Both titans, devs, and the BC DvD commentary contradict both your belief and Shaw’s. Feel free to engage in confirmation bias, but then that is just you seeking to support your view because you’ve already made a decision. So…not sure why you’re here unless you’re hoping to hear your opinion from other people’s mouths.
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This is coming from an elf with fel green eyes.
Ok then.
Y’all are equating meta knowledge with NPC character knowledge. Shaw can be wrong and it doesn’t change the BEs history.
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A book of lore from an unreliable narrator isn’t even worth reading in the bath room.
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I mean, the issue is more that Blizzard is putting out a book that people are going to read that has information that’s just straight up wrong. “It’s a subjective book” is a massive cop out and pretty obviously will just be used to excuse a member of the writing team who has no idea what she’s talking about.
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Probably got that info from Valeera lol
Especially when people will use this book as a lore reference.