Night Warrior Lore

[Amadis-draka (Amadis)]

@Ruine-vashj

How much stronger is a night warrior compared to a regular night elf? What exactly does the night warrior blessing actually enhance?

Were a lot of night elves changed and enhanced? Is a good portion of the night elf populace still normal? Are the night warriors essentially just a small elite group? Were only those within the vicinity changed?

Here are a few answers to these questions we have gotten:

Terran Gregory at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEHc8le_Qpk&t=58m8s :

It’s very much Sentinel and Warden inspired. Right? And Wardens are, as we know, the keepers of vengeance. And while they were crated very specifically they’re still, you know, at their core a Night Elf institution. The concept of wielding vengeance as a weapon. And I felt that actually factored into this. This was just my feeling in putting this story together. If they are capable of being empowered by vengeance, then that means they’re more powerful after they lost Teldrassil than they were during the fight of Teldrassil.

Terran Gregory and Steve Danuser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpGvgXyi-U&t=38m40s :

And we thought, well, you know, that's a great moment. We have this transformation of Tyrande, that energy that she's calling upon, this dark side of Elune, how that infuses the other Night Elves in the warfront, hey, why not give that, as an option, to players. Allow them to tap into that power as well.
Terran Gregory: Character customization, yes.
Steve Danuser: Character customization.
Terran Gregory: And a lot of people were interested online in how exactly the players came to have the black eyes.
Steve Danuser: It is.
Terran Gregory: The darkened eyes.
Steve Danuser: Yes, the darkened eyes. And I think that speaks to the power of that ritual. This ancient ritual that Tyrande taps into - again, sorry, spoilers, but - Tyrande taps into that ritual, that calling upon- it's not even calling upon, she's demanding, she's like, "Give me this power. You turned your back on us, as those 'so-and-so's' took our home from us. Now you owe us. Give me this power." And that so infused her that it could change those Elves. So we wanted to give players that opportunity, to say, "You know what, I'm part of that, too. I stand with Tyrande," and show that off in their characters.
Terran Gregory: And if you'll notice at the warfront, all the NPCs that are Night Elves actually have the darkened eyes. So there's definitely a sense that, in proximity, fighting on behalf of the darkened element of Elune under the darkened moon, that's what happens. And whether or not the player has customized themselves, that of course is player choice, but I think in the story sense that any Night Elf that's fighting on behalf of Elune in that confrontation their eyes would be darkening.

@Fizzer-wyrmrest-accord

He was empowered by 1, the other was busy raising the dead.
Which Tyrande and Malfurion failed to stop.

I made this following complaint on the Tides of Vengeance PTR Forums (and the Story Forums, too):

@Amadis-draka

Not being able to intervene before Night Elves are risen as undead

Tyrande's Ascension Scenario
Stage 11: The Queen's Pawn
Intervene before Nathanos raises the fallen as forsaken.

Why is the Alliance narrative framed again as a goal that will not be met? We already had this in the quest objective of evacuating 982 Darnassian Citizens in 3:00 minute time limit in the mockingly named “A Flicker of Hope” quest. Though Tyrande is shown as more powerful in fighting Nathanos, the stated goal still ends in failure as the Night Elves are risen in undeath. This is especially bad given the one piece of information we have about the Night Warrior before this:

Necklace with Elune Pendant


Elune is the primary goddess of the night elves. She is associated with the larger of the two moons, the White Lady. While she is a goddess of peace, she is not a pacifist. One of her aspects is the Night Warrior, who takes the valiant among the dead and sets them riding across the sky as stars.

I propose the following change: As Tyrande and Malfurion are fighting Nathanos, have Tyrande cast a spell on Night Elf corpses that does what the description reads above as: Have their souls come out and fly off into the sky Team Rocket style and have their corpses despawn, having Tyrande save them from the Forsaken one by one until only Delaryn and Sira’s corpses remain. Then when Tyrande goes to channel her saving spell on Delaryn, then have the Val’kyr use mind control spell on Tyrande to stop her and stun her long enough to at least raise Delaryn and Sira, and then have Tyrande kill the Val’kyr. This would make the Alliance side feel far less like failure, and more just not being able to save everyone, which is far more reasonable.

Blizzard’s solution?

They simply changed the scenario stage description to:

Stage 11: The Queen's Pawn
Confront Nathanos