Hmm. Fair enough.
I still don’t think the Horde should do it though, as the Alliance isn’t exactly our allies. So it’s not really in our best interest to be giving our resources to them. Especially when part of the Alliance is still technically at war with us. And that’s the part we would want to pay reparations to.
The Horde are already kind of trying? As quoted, the entire Horde council sent Thrall to apologize on their behalf, and when that didn’t work Thrall promised Tyrande Sylvanas’ head and sent Sira to her as a down payment.
I mean, cool. Those gestures aren’t actually costing us anything though. It’s not like we needed Sira for anything, and Thrall’s time certainly isn’t valuable.
It is a very odd thing, Blizzard trying to write Tyrande as if she’s standing opposed to everyone, when all she demands is the very thing everyone already agreed to.
Yeah, it’s not like anyone on the Horde or Alliance is arguing for Sylvanas to keep her head.
Well, such is the narrative of the devs. Which is one of reasons for scepticism in the devs trying to do a “faction conflict” narrative which contradicts theit own focus on “we definitely must be together to defeat a greater evil”.
Some could debate where “of Sylvanas” ends, and of other starts.
From Chronicles 1 (preface):
… Warcraft’s recurring themes and conflicts:
- How societiest often clash before seeing a common humanity in each other.
- How earnest, well-intentioned heroes can often succumb to temptations of power.
- How failing to take responsibility for mistakes of the past can lead to calamity in the present.
So, you can see all that of faction conflict stuff being mentioned years ago. It’s just a cycle that the devs keep, and the event that happen, are just to feed the cycle, regardless of how it looks in the eyes of the player.
It’s no wisdom, it’s just the devs placing things to move the story in the direction where they want to lead it, regardless of how it looks from an outsider perspective.
Given hints of what Elune could be, it is. But it won’t happen, because the devs say so, and the story will go in convenient route of “you can use this power for revenge, or for greater good!!1one”.
And here is the question. Should the sides go in that direction when about every year or so there is yet another world-threatening event, which, in the narrative that the devs focus upon, can be adressed only by united forces of both factions?
gl hf
Then atleast let Teldrassil hang over our heads. As long as it isn’t forgotten, and consequences are felt down the line, i’m fine with waiting.
Just because I noticed people talking about Malfurion’s eyes and how they are supposed to be gold, but they are green in game.
Remember Velen is supposed to have alabaster skin. Yet he’s as purple as any other draenei.
They aren’t super consistent with particular colors in game, for some reason.
Or when they had to say Tyrande dyes her hair, because they changed it from blue to teal.
I would argue that she has survivor’s guilt from the War of the Ancient which saw the first genocide of the Night Elves. How many drowned? How many consumed by the fel flames of the Burning Legion? She like many older elves will likely have this somber attitude and while many would want revenge. They’ve done this before. They have lived long enough and fought in enough wars - War of the Satyr, War of the Ancients, Scarab War, the Horde-Alliance War, the War against the Burning Legion, too many to count. After a while you get severe PTSD and survivor’s guilt. You just keep trying to move while not being consumed by the screams that you hear every time you close your eyes.
Most peacemakers often come from similar background. People who’ve seen far too much tragedy for one lifetime and can do not want that visited upon anyone else. If anything Shandris is acting like how one would expect a general to act post war. Similar to President Eisenhower.
This is indeed not the first genocide that has been attempted on the Night Elves. They recovered from the War of the Ancients, as has really any other playable race in WoW recovered from the population losses they have been through, and as such it is rather safe to say the Night Elves will again as well.
They watch a lot of JoJo.