You’re free to join them
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Because…you´re indeed Wrong.
moonpriests with plate
- Tyrande
- Maiev
- Shandris
- Delas Moonfang
- Kalo’thera
and the Sisters of the Moon inside Tomb of Sargeras.
The moonpriests are dressed in robes in time of peace, but not all of them. Because the leaders of the Sentinels are moonpriests themselves.
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Sure you can downplay other old gods to be no more than trash mobs, but that will be all purely speculation because we have pretty much no info on this old god. On their planet it was essentially a world ending threat and they were able to fight against it because of the Nightwarrior.
On our planet the Nightwarrior was entire wasted and made to be a very pointless power up whose only accomplishment was killing a valk (a mob we kill during level 30 questing with a couple farmers). The Nightwarrior on our planet made pretty much no impact, which is the point. Not only that but Darkshore seemed to have no stated effect on the actual war itself, so it was more of just a sidequest that didn’t impact the actual war on our planet, maybe it did but we aren’t given anything saying that it did.
Now I could see maybe the nightwarrior was so weak because Elune has lost most of her power so the Nightwarrior power Tyrande got would be basically no more than a placebo power.
That is just speculation and we can really only go off of what we know at this point, which is the other nightwarrior served a major purpose and was key to defeating an old god, the Azeroth nightwarrior served no purpose and was involved in basically nothing. The Nightwarrior didn’t even show up to fight Sylvanas at SoO 2.0 (which is apparently Tyrande’s major focus now, which wasn’t before 8.3?) or show up to fight the actual old god.
So will they actually demonstrate the power of the nightwarrior in SL? There is nothing that would lead you to believe this nightwarrior has so much power a mortal can’t control it when she needs help fighting Nathanos.
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Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to.
Oh but I do.
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There is a channel for that, you deviant.
It got deleted because of the Euros.
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Or maybe - just maybe - the first Night Warrior’s power helping destroy an Old God in particular is telling. Telling that such a foe could be specifically what the Night Warrior’s power is intended to fight. After all, Xal’atath’s interaction at the Tomb of Sargeras implied that there’s a very particular sort of enmity going on between her kind and the moon goddess.
Thus the Night Warrior’s effectiveness against the Horde could have been less than stellar because if the Night Warrior is essentially an anti-Old God/Void weapon, it wouldn’t just be an all-purpose stat boost that makes one able to mop the floor with any foe irrespective of their nature.
After all, we still don’t know who or what the original kaldorei Night Warriors fought against back when they helped the night elves to carve out their empire. It’s easy to just assume it was the trolls, but by the time they fought the troll empires the Azshara paradigm was in place and powerful arcane magic was the trump card that allowed them to stomp all over anything the regular army couldn’t handle. Something like the Night Warrior wouldn’t have really been necessary.
So what did they call upon the Night Warrior for? What did they need a special champion empowered by Elune’s fury to overcome? Was it just to clear out a bunch of mortal races in their territory, or was there something worse that a newly rising night elf nation had to face? Something, perhaps, along the lines of a threat connected to the Old Gods, against which it was uniquely potent?
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I have to agree with the sentiment that the Night Warrior is presented as some ultimate power, called upon to in the darkest hour to fight back. While another race used it to fight back against the forces of darkness and save their world, Tyrande used it in an attempt to resolve some mundane dispute.
Maybe if Sylvanas and her forces were presented as some life ending threat it could have worked. But she was the leader of half* the player base. The writers kinda botched that. This is what happens when you want to keep your story a contrived mystery to the reader(player), doesn’t really work out in the long term.
Edit: Also, maybe I haven’t been playing attention enough, not caring, or just accepting whatever is throw my way… but if the Night Warrior is this universe spanning avatar… how do the Kaldorei know about it? Did Elune tell them about it? Did they read it in a space book? If aliens from another planet are practicing similar traditions to those on Azeroth, shouldn’t someone know about that already?
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Perhaps The High Priestess/Priest or whoever is the chosen of Elune can commune with her and that’s how they find out about her teachings and aspects?
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It’s possible that it is only intended to fight old gods so that would be the reason it was basically a non power that struggled to kill a valk and nothing else, maybe it didn’t give Tyrande any power at all and it was all a placebo. She wasn’t involved in the warfront after her scenario and darkshore made no known impact on the war.
Not only that she didn’t even seem compelled to fight the old god that appeared right after, if it was only intended to fight old gods maybe the power should have compelled her a bit, as it seems to have an effect on her personality, but it did not. She didn’t even use the power to fight Sylvanas when she had the chance at SoO 2.0.
From what we’ve seen the night warrior on Azeroth is pointless and has served no purpose, so why would Elune grant this power at all?
The only reason, by your initial speculation would be if they needed the night warrior to fight old god minions. We obviously don’t know what the night warrior did back then, but at that point old gods didn’t seem to be an issue since they would have been locked away by the titans at that point.
It makes sense to assume it was against the trolls, I don’t even think there were really old gods plaguing the land at that time for the night warrior power (you saying it could be it’s only purpose) to fight, but who knows, this is all random speculation that isn’t really backed up by anything. Blizzard has given pretty much zero information on this.
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Not actual Old Gods, but it was speculated - and by the time of BfA, proven - than any number of aqir hives likely remained hidden beneath the land in the wake of the trolls’ victory over Kith’ix, and the planet’s long been absolutely riddled with “caches” of dormant n’raqi waiting for their masters’ return or for someone else to wake them up.
The thing is, between both Tyrande and this original Night Warrior, the ritual is framed as a thing of desperation, with Elune granting this power in a time of dire need.
Yet the kaldorei were never facing a dire threat when against the trolls. By the time their territory ran up against that of the troll empires and skirmishes erupted, the night elves’ mastery of arcane magic and the Well of Eternity had already made the them nigh unstoppable, which was why they were able to force a lopsided truce on the trolls before things could ignite into a full-blown war that the elves would have absolutely dominated.
So logically at some point the ancient night elves were seemingly facing a great enough foe to merit calling the avatar of Elune’s fury to secure victory. And since their mastery of magic was what made them more than a match for any comers up until the WotA, such a need would suggest that the prior Night Warriors’ time was at some point before the night elf empire became an arcane juggernaut that no other nation on Azeroth could oppose, and thus before their expansion reached the borders of the troll empires.
If the other heretical channel is good enough for Samariyu’s xenomorph art, its good enough for elk x goddess smut.
ask away.
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Plot Twist, the first time the Night Warrior was used was by Dark Trolls before they were fully Night Elves per se but the Night Elves retroactively adjusted their own history so it was Night Elves
see: `https://www.wowhead.com/item=121410/crumbling-ceremonial-vestments
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The original night warrior on Kalimdor according to Maiev didn’t seem to be framed as a thing out of desperation.
Maiev Shadowsong says: Legend says that long ago, Elune bestowed her fury upon our greatest warriors to secure Kalimdor.
Maiev Shadowsong says: In a sacred ritual, the strongest among them became her avatar–the Night Warrior. Our victory was swift.
But here obviously you are inserting a lot of speculation, while also really down playing the Night Warrior on Azeroth with saying they no longer needed it because they had mastery over the arcane, so the power itself was kind of pointless such as here:
So why not just get a good mage to be far more powerful than the night warrior? Because the night warrior power was shown to be so useless in Darkshore and wasn’t even mentioned outside of Darkshore in the entire 4th war, that the threat to your life is beyond idiotic, it’s basically just some weak power that will kill you.
But we see on their planet the night warrior power was key to taking down an old god, and you are heavily speculating that on Azeroth the night warrior power was used for taking out some old god minions and then again for just killing a valk as far as we know, which is not an accomplishment by any measure and also had no known impact on the enemy, for that matter neither did darkshore since it’s never mentioned again after the WF.
I see you are attempting to say the night warrior is useless if you have mastery over the arcane and that it’s probably only good against old gods and their minions. All of which relies on heavy speculation with virtually nothing to back it up.
We can see from Darkshore the Night Warrior is essentially useless and accomplishes very little and we hear nothing of what Tyrande was doing after the scenario, she didn’t even show up to fight Sylvanas (which is her stated goal now) OR the old god you are speculating this power is meant to fight against. We see though on another planet it was used to save it from an old god.
There is definitely a gigantic fluctuation in power levels with these two stories, and unless they demonstrate the night warrior is actually something powerful, it makes no sense that the seemingly rather weak power Tyrande would kill her since it accomplished practically nothing and didn’t even seem like much of a threat in the 4th war.
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That’s thanks to WoW and them butchering the Night elves. Sure that’s fair. But Tyrande was never the only one.
Originally they wore armor. Even in the War of the Ancients (horrible writing) they wore armor.
You don’t wear your armor all day long.
Yes it does WoTA. And imagine raging against WC3.
You are wrong.
The sisterhood is female. Even their name is the “Siterhood of Elune”.
To be fair, Maiev is a Warden, not a Moonpriestess.
Kalo’thera is a good example though.
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I know no king but the King in the North, whose name is Fordragon.
Maiev is a warden and a moonpriest
I am sure she was a priestess before she became a Warden.
So ok, she was one, in the past. Her current armor should be the Warden one.
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She s one. Warden is her position, now. You don’t stop being a soldier because your position now is in the pentagon.