Of all the squandered plot points in BFA that have conjured pages and pages of nerd rage on the story forums there’s one I think has gone unaddressed.
Why aren’t you people angrier about the WASTE that was Rezan?!
It was a T-Rex God. T-REX GOD! How utterly cool is that?! Not to mention this Loa of Kings scared everyone - even the Bwomsamdi. The Grim Reaper was scared of T-Rex Jesus. He commanded awe and reverence with every step. We barely get to know the God but in those few quests and cutscenes I was already down to die or kill in His name.
Annnnd then… he gets totally punked by Zul in an obvious trap so he can be a sub boss in an entry level dungeon.
The Loa of Kings. A Golden T-Rex God gets punked by a mini boss in the first raid to be a mini boss in one of the first dungeons. Then never gets mentioned again.
What. A. Waste. If there’s any soul we need to pull from the Shadowlands it’s His.
Rest in Power King. The WoW story may march on without you but let us never forget one of the coolest concepts introduced to the setting, short lived though He was.
I mean … on the other hand there are those golden eyes that are strangely proportional to Rezan’s watching Vol’jin as he walks through his memories. Just keep an eye out. They are there for every single one he visits somewhere. Who knows … if something actually comes of Vol’jin’s little subplot, maybe Rezan will tie into it in some way?
It’s a shame that Rezan was cast aside so quickly. I am hoping Voljin comes back riding Rezan, and they do something. I’m not sure what. But it would most likely be cool.
The idea of “gods” holding any sway in the Warcraft universe should be laughable now that the like of us can take down Old Gods and their worthless servants like wheat before the scythe.
Rezan was bolstered by a King who ruled like a weak old fool. His death was inevitable.
I mean, I was outraged, but since no one showed up to support my Ressurrect Rezan rallies(except Grandblade, who only came to /spit on me), I decided to just grumble about it to myself.
He also got some of the Cordana treatment. There was at least one quest to get a piece f his corpse to make something. I believe it was a 3rd star skinning quest. There might be more.
Honestly to my shame I kinda forgot about Rezan. But I’ve been leveling alts and to Zuldazar and man - what a waste.
They set him up as Talanji’s main man. He’s also shown to have some interesting powers. You just sort of assume he’s going to attack the Alliance fleet but he instead just hastens the ship. That was curious - does he consider himself above these mortal squabbles? Is he actually a more peaceful, nurturing presence than his visage would suggest? Guess we’ll never know.
I get they build him up so his death signals to you that the Zandalari are in deep. But they did too good of a job. He’s this instantly fascinating deity who’s mysterious and awe inspiring. Then he goes out like a total punk for a plot thread we move on from real quickly.
It’s just a shame. What a cool idea used once then thrown out just to raise the stakes.
One of my favorite lines in BFA is “You got a bellow dat could wake da dead!!! Whachu want, man?”
I didn’t get the vibe that Bwansamdi was afraid, but it is a shame, what happened to Rezan. I feel the same way about Hi’reek being corrupted, but I guess they couldn’t just have the Loa all join together and do all the work for us.
Well Rezan had personally been keeping Rastakhan alive by just intimidating the Troll Angel of Death all these years. Which honestly is maybe the coolest form of immortality I’ve ever heard of.
“Oh you had to connect yourselves to some magic super well or become undead or whatever? Pffft. I just got in real good with this Golden Tyrannosaurus. He bullies Death for me”
I still hope for Rezan for return, after all he was mentioned in the previous Blizzcon with Shadra that they can return since they are primal forces of Nature and they mentioned we’ll see the Loa again in the shadowlands.
Elfies are killed in masses in many different ways(BBQ, a spoiled dk brat murdered their cousins in masses and the legion used as fuel the ugly ones under a dome of stephen king) and yet the elfie playerbase still cries and talk about this.
At the very least wild gods are far more interesting as characters and moving plots unlike humies and elfies
The point is death is cheap for the wild gods, there’s little reason to care when they die because they keep coming back to die again like, as was said, DBZ. It would also help if they died to something other than the trolls that follow them betraying them for the 50th time.
But unlike DBZ, the story moves in a far slower pace and we don’t hear them for a long time and they are powerful beings killed by nonsensical ways. In fact the best example for this in the form of DB is like that time when Goku got almost himself killed by a laser, that’s just lazy writing.
False, this has only happened 2 times in all wow timeline and it was done by a tribe that was being genocided by the scourge and went to a dark path that no tribe forgives them and the heretics old god worshippers of Zul.
Meanwhile Elune gets weaker and their followers turns to twilight hammer or Ragnaros back in Cataclysm and let’s not forget the many that betrayed them for the legion power or joining the Illidan fanclub
To answer your question, OP, I feel like this particular point gets subsumed in the larger complaint about Horde BfA questing: so much of it feels like an absolute waste, where in every zone everything the Horde player does is undone and destroyed in the stupidest of ways, that when it comes time to give feedback the specific points are sometimes just lost in the overall “yuck” feel of the questing. Many people, myself included, have complained about how dispiriting Horde questing was in BfA, and this is just one more data point in a sea of fail.
I felt Nazmir had a fairly satisfying conclusion. You team up with Loa and allies made throughout the zone to storm the Blood Troll fortress and have an exciting battle on a doom pyramid with a Witch made of blood.
My only Nazmir complaint is, maybe it’s just me, but I was legitimately looking forward to story time with a giant turtle. That sparked some childlike glee in me and the reveal was just - why’d ya promise me that if we were just going to fight shoggoths in his organs?
Vol’Dun’s ending was pretty disappointing but Vol’Dun was pretty disappointing. How does the EPL still have the best caravan questline despite containing no adorable alpacas?
But Zuldazar was - ya know the sad part is I didn’t play MoP. So, I didn’t know who this Zul guy was. He seemed awfully evil but ya know I main undead sometimes decent people have resting villain face. Very sassy though I was looking forward to more stuff from him. And the Golden T-Rex God.