Pretty amazing how thoroughly retconned Tess Greymane has become

It’s really hard to encapsulate just how bad this questline is.

Tess Greymane, the woman who joined the military as an excuse to get away from the responsibilities of nobility and to get away from the line of succession is suddenly the queen of Gilneas.

Genn Greymane, the man who is Gilneas personified and whose entire lifeblood is about fighting and defending her people, even going so far as nearly blood-pacting himself to kill Sylvanas and chasing her across several hells to get vengeance for his people.

Both of these characters have a skirmish with the Scarlet Crusade with the aid of Calia Menethil (who is literally the queen regent of Lordaeron at this state and has a responsibility to the still living heirs of Lordaeron Ie the Scarlet Crusade) to slaughter them wholesale.

At the end of the questline you have a daughter consoling her father about why he built the wall in the first place (Sure, it had nothing to do with the tangible doorkicking threat of the Scourge and had everything to do with his fearful feewings), crying over the grave of Liam saying that Tess will be the superb ruler of Gilneas, and Tess just straight up immediately calling herself Queen.

The level of 180’s achieved here would rack up a high score in a Tony Hawk Pro-Skater jump.

EDIT: To those who will argue ‘Scarlets are a bunch of human supremacists’, mind they are anti-undead first and foremost. Why would they give a flying dog about the other anti-undead faction of the alliance, when theres records of them even attempting to ally with them in the past?

This writing is awful.

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