This story is driven by characters. So having a good roster of characters is a must have.
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Probably for the same reason people kept screaming about Thrall not taking care of his mess with Garrosh and then losing their minds when Thrall kills him.
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Was one of my favorite Cutscenes when Thrall killed Garrosh. Such an epic moment.
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Yep. The cutscene was great. Garrosh was a whiner who couldn’t accept that his choices were his own, including the greed he showed when he accepted the Maak’gora challenge from Cairne instead of acquiescing and stepping down. That moment proved that Garrosh lied when he said he didn’t want to be warchief.
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What was your favorite pre BFA Bwomsamdi line? And I hardly think turning up once for a prepatch event a decade ago makes someone a great Horde character.
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No, that’s you. If all you take from this thread is antagonism you need to grow up.
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::He would look at Cairne.::
I liked his interactions with Vol’jin in Shadows of the Horde.
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Point is, if you missed a prepatch event and a book you might fairly not know who the guy is.
Personally I wasn’t expecting much from the Loa. WoW has a meh track record with deity characters. Both the Titans and the Naaru don’t really say much of interest and the most memorable Loa had been boss fights.
Bwomsamdi instantly turned my skepticism inside out before he’d finished his second sentence. It speaks to how delightful the character is when he turns up to mock you after every death and he’s still widely adored by the playerbase.
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“ZALAZANE. What you tinkin’, takin’ dat which be mine? De Darkspear dead are MY domain, sorcerer… and now you gonna be one of dem!“
In this particular case it most certainly does. This was the event that begun the great legend that is Bwonsamdi.
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I guess. But he went from a cameo in an inaccessible piece of content from a decade ago to a fully realized deity who’s intrinsically connected to one of the Horde’s leaders.
Bwonsamdi had a pretty major part in Shadows of the Horde too.
I didn’t play after Wrath until midway through Legion. There’s a lot of lore I haven’t read yet.
I picked up War Crimes as I was told that was critical to understanding WoD but, if anything I’m still confused. And then the next thing I read was Before The Storm.
Thank God for Madeline Roux if Shadow’s Rising was bad that probably would’ve been the last time I read a WoW book. Is Shadow’s of the Horde solid?
It is one of the best books of the entire franchise.
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You’re heavily downplaying and/or ignoring his long-standing relationship that he’s had with the Darkspear Tribe and Vol’jin in particular, and I don’t like that.
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Personally, I absolutely loved Shadows of the Horde and Illidan. They both did some decent building on the characters involved in their stories.
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He was a theme to be sure but until BFA he wasn’t much more fleshed out than the Forgotten Shadow or Earthmother. Important, yes, but his presence as a focus of faith was kind of vague.
I got Troll bias, but Shadows of the Horde definitely felt like one of the better WoW books. It explores Vol’jin’s relationship with the Horde, Troll-kind, and the Loa. It’s fascinating to get into his head and see his prejudices when it comes to the Alliance and his more cunning side that didn’t get much spotlight in-game.
Bwonsamdi plays a large role in the book, acting much like he did for Talanji in Shadows Rising. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where Roux took the inspiration for his more serious scenes.
Plus Chen is a major character and gets a romance story. Who wouldn’t be down for that?
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Poor Vol’Jin. It was particularly jarring coming in blind into Legion. Like a lot of addicts I relapsed after seven years of WoW sobriety while drunk and bored one night. Hoped in with the cinematics being my only understanding of what I’d missed between Wrath and Legion.
So, I figure out Vol’Jin’s the leader in WoD. But I was eager to get to the hot content so I rushed through Draenor, figuring Vol’Jin would do some cool stuff in Legion.
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If someone tells you to read a book from Golden for WoW, that person is not a friend. 
It’s one of the better WoW novels, for sure. I say it’s mostly positive. As a Troll fan there are things that bugged me though.
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