It’s distressing to me they’ve touched on this character so lightly.
I’m aware I’m in the minority but I defend Voss’s turn in BFA. As someone who came in during Legion having never played since Wrath, she was a brand new character to me. But one I came to be very familiar with as I’ve A LOT of Forsaken toons.
As I didn’t play a Rogue in Legion, and had no reason to do anything other than speed run WoD content, I thought she died in Scholomance. I felt it was gross to inflict such an agonizing death on a character who’d done nothing wrong, and had just been terrified and betrayed at every turn. My gut reaction was “Christ, I guess somebody had a miserable breakup with a Lilian”.
So I was relieved to see her on the Banshee’s Wail. The idea of her finding self acceptance and deciding to help others avoid the suicide crusade she went on was uplifting news. Perhaps they think Forsaken characters should do more than hate themselves and die screaming.
I do admit some bias. I’m an RPer and in Legion came up with the idea this character repatriated to the Forsaken to help the newly risen adjust. Figuring he can’t stop Sylvanas but he can help the new undead acclimate, it’s not too bad once you get used to it. So seeing a character I felt was mistreated return sporting a rationale very similar to what I invented made me happy.
But,
I’ve come to understand why some people felt that character arc was jarring. I do think some people were unobservant; Voss shows hatred of necromancers not the undead on principle, and she is working with RAS in the Uncrowned questline so there is minor precedent.
But yeah, overall, bit jarring she’s now leading the Forsaken.
Luckily,
Warcraft’s a multimedia franchise and they could produce much cheaper storytelling devices elaborating on her character and motivations. Online novellas aren’t exactly pricey to produce.
Unfortunately;
There’s nothing about Voss.
She’s maybe the most compelling character they’ve invented since WC3.
Her whole life was as a tool of the Scarlets, she was almost certainly betrayed and murdered by them, she is raised into undeath and launches a one woman warpath to eradicate all Scarlets and CotD personal, nearly dies in the most painful way imaginable to her kind, recovers and still hunts down necromancers on other worlds, is directly responsible for discovering one of the Legion’s greatest intelligence operations - thus helping defeat them, and finally returns to Tirisfal to aid her people, having finally made peace with what she is.
HOW THE HELL DOES SHE GET ONLY A FEW LINES?!
I DESPERATELY want to know more about this character. Don’t you? This is some compelling ish right here. She has so much room to become such a fascinating character.
It’s just exhausting that Blizz ignores potentially interesting characters to show their old favorites doing increasingly out of character, ridiculous bs. When there’s new characters who’s character is ripe for exploration.
