Spoiler warning if you haven’t done the Tauren heritage quest yet.
Alrighty, so throughout the Shu’halo heritage questline, Tauren players deal with a variety of spiritual threats, hinting at an unrest in the Shadowlands, especially since it was well known at the time of the quest that Shadowlands was extremely likely to be our next expansion, corroborated by the now known use of Shadowlands assets for the questline, including the models for the kyrian memory npcs, the ghostly pale blue glow prominent throughout the Shadowlands (including the death effect while reclaiming your body in the open world) and the ghostly apparitions that appear in Revendreth that need repentance.
Towards the end of the questline, Cairne appears to help Baine come to terms with the ancestors of his people or some such nonsense, and during this, there’s some extremely Shadowlands-esque stuff going on, hinting that Baine would likely have a heart to heart with his father and hopefully tell him to saddle up and be a bit more proactive in his role as not only his people’s spiritual leader, but also as a Horde leader overall.
So…
Where’s Cairne? The Tauren (all clans) are as a people, a spiritual society and it’s a bit odd that despite having the leader of that people in the Shadowlands, there’s no side quest where we go on zany wacky adventures with Baine to seek out his father’s wisdom.
What gives, Blizzard?
Edit: Appears Blizzard gave a low effort ‘stay and listen’ line after the Sylvanas quest. Very cool, I’m immensely disappointed and sad, and my weekend has been dampened slightly.
When Baine is speaking to Lor’themar after the Judgement quests they talk about it. Baine says he feels like he and his father have said enough. Or some such thing.
My guess is they were going to have it be an actual thing that plays out in game, but opted out of it.
Oh?
I didn’t finish Sylvanas’ judgement questline because I literally have just had enough of angry dead elf lady, I didn’t know there was a breadcrumb to that effect.
What a missed opportunity. Jesus Christ, Blizzard.
I think what really sucks is that they did write that Lor’themar wants to speak to Kael’thas. I’m cool with that. That’s a neat little bit of character drama. But I doubt they’re going to have it play out in game, cool as that would be. So why not have Baine at least say he’s going to find his parents and have that conversation hinted at during the heritage quest? Just so it’s not a loose end.
I’m just imagining ghostly old Cairne and Mrs Bloodhoof sitting at the ghostly dinner table, checking their watches. “I’m sure he’ll be here any minute”, says Mrs, as ghostly tears well in her ghostly eyes.
This is basically what I think in less polite terms.
Baine.
Cairne literally was willing to beat the absolute snot out of Thrall’s own protege, man up and start fighting people if you think the Horde’s going down a dark path.
Shoot, even Vol’jin literally threatened to stab Garrosh in the back, openly in front of the rest of the Horde, no less.
What I’m saying is
I want a Baine with some pride and the gumption to throw some god damn hands here and there.
Well if you believed the rumors originally tauren were going be from shadowlands as death constructs and that an she was actually the jailer. Glad blizzard scrapped this though