From when dreanor exploded. Besides the npc’s we meet in outland, does anyone know what happened to the survivors that went with turalyon through those portals?
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Probably died. If we didn’t see them in Outland or with the Army of the Light I figure they probably fell at some point in the ten millenia of war.
For some perspective human civilization is only around 15k to 7k years old depending on your parameters for what defines civilization. So really anyone surving that long in active combat without going completely insane is pretty damn impressive.
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Like all other nameless goons in WoW: Unless they are a main character or given a name, presume they are dead…
… Until an expansion 20 years later needs a MacGuffin and they bring them back.
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The Army of the Light turning out to be “a bunch of Draenei and Lothraxxion and Turalyon and Alleria” was disappointing for me; I was looking forward to seeing gnomes, dwarves, high elves, a handful of Draenor survivors (Arakkoa, etc).
My first thought upon seeing a Lightforged Warframe was that gnomes had to be involved in the design somehow, because personal combat mechs had never been a Draenei tech thing before (and why would it, they’re so much bigger than most sapients), only to actually realize there was literally nothing left of the people who went with Turalyon and Alleria.
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In a way i guess it’s not too late yet to fix that dissapointment yeah?
Maybe they where deployed somewhere else?
Although i will say i am dissappointed at the lack of lore on what happened to them.
Of course unless i am wrong which is why this post exists, to see if there is something at all.
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It should be stressed that Alleria and Turalyon being part of the Army of the Light as we saw it was in fact a retcon, and one that happened fairly late in the game’s life in all honesty. In fact, the Army of the Light we meet is a retcon of that retcon, which is even more annoying.
In TBC, when we first learned that Alleria and Turalyon had gone on to other worlds with some forces, the concept of an Army of the Light was that it was still being made, by the naaru we meet. The idea being the naaru were gathering and united a whole bunch of disparate races under one banner to resist the Legion. They were not implied to have any ulterior motives, they were just benevolent beings very in tune with the Light who wanted to stop the Legion from destroying creation. Via ethereals, we learned that there were many other worlds still, which said ethereals often did business with.
This continued on through until Cataclysm, where Velen’s vision of the Army of the Light was a huge and diverse force of many different beings centered on Azeroth, joined by the armies from other worlds to finally defeat the Burning Crusade.
Getting to around Chronicle and then Legion, we actually got a retcon for what the Army of the Light was. It suddenly came to be in the lore that the Army already existed, had formed independently of Azeroth, and hadn’t been formed by any of the naaru we knew. This version was similar, in that it was a bunch of different races under one banner, but it was more homogenized, all of them solely under the Light rather than the much more diverse force implied for years.
Then the final retcon was when we finally met them in truth, where now it was a bunch of new Draenei, from a ship never mentioned before, with a few token non-Draenei. Which were immediately blown out of the sky upon us meeting them, and then promptly replaced our Exodar Draenei for the starring role in taking back Argus.
So the answer is likely that Blizzard just… forgot, because what we have now is a retcon of a retcon of something built up for about a decade.
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Okay so basically what happened was they went on a TV show called “Survivor all Stars”
The Army of the Light was a huge missed opportunity. They’re supposed to have been around since the Draenei fled Argus and been recruiting from survivors of worlds ravaged by the Legion ever since.
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One of those things that, as Carhagen mentioned recently, really deserved being a full expansion with its own beats rather than rushing us through a roller coaster ride of things.
In part because making a lot of species we’ve never seen before is asking a lot of the artists no matter how much rig and animation use they can muster (and they can muster a lot).
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I can understand why they could not just create a bunch of random humanoid species for the army of the light during argus.
But I think allot of things could had still been done with the story of the army, it feels rather odd that the army is portrayed to be a single ship when the feeling of them had always make them seemingly a large army.
There is allot of holes that I feel can be filled still.
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