It has been over 10.000 years, is the immediate first thought you have if you get to return to your homeland of “Well, I better check on the people we locked up and forgot about”? I don’t get how folks complain about Dragonflight’s story without understanding parallels.
No Night Elf really ever “forgot” about Illidan when he was locked away for 10.000 years. But because no one also thought of him for that long, that meant that he was assumed gone, dead, no longer, and so on. It wasn’t until Tyrande was reminded of Illidan that it became relevant.
Why would we assume Alexstrasza, a diplomat, would start thinking about combat and war immediately upon returning to the Isles? Especially since each region still had to be stabilized first and foremost. And before you ask “but why though?” again, locked away. Until Razsageth told us what she was up to, we had no idea what was happening. At the same time as we were told Alexstrasza was also told and reminded.
We have no idea what she sought to do while we helped each flight get established on the isles. And let’s not forget that the plan was “Activate the Oathstones to reinvigorate our aspectral powers again”. As it turns out, the Oathstones (as far as we know) only ever related to each respective’s flight connection to the Dragon Isles and their particular oaths. Not anything about their aspectral powers.
Furthermore and again, Alexstrasza for being an aspect is easily the weakest of them all. She can’t control time, have an entire realm to herself, have no control over the leylines that stretch across Azeroth, or can call upon the might of Azeroth itself. She’s the aspect of life, her task is to be as close to a nurturing mother as possible ya’ know … the reason why she’s not fighting is because she’s as close as possible to being a pacifist.
On top of this, let’s not forget that we as mortals have repeatedly beaten (with relatively limited help) the Aspects again and again. If Raszageth can beat Alexstrasza, why not send their most combative aspects to deal with her? Like the black dragonflight’s aspect … whom didn’t exist yet.
Alexstrasza ain’t dumb. Nor has she ever been. What one can call her is naive as all hell though! But then again, listening to why Vyranoth and the other Primal Incarnates chose to fight the aspects is why she was willing to ally herself with us. Not just a tentative alliance as she first proposed but for all intent and purposes as a Primal dragonflight. Just the same way there are now freed and non-hostile skydragons on the Isles. Why there is a Netherwing flight on the isles now.
Now, calling a diplomat acting diplomatic … that is something I think we can agree on is dumb.
And quit with this jackass attitude of calling anyone and everything “brain damaged” just because you dislike something.
