So, we have Soulbinder Tuulani in the 20th anniversary event.
The only one we have met so far is the AU Draenor version.
I suppose this is the Main Universe Soulbinder Tuulani but I wonder… why introduce this character now in the Main Universe and what purpose? Or is this the AU version and they’re just teasing us about Yrel’s return along with her Light zealots (including the Mag’har Orcs she converted) ?
She has to be MU version. Same with Reshad.
I don’t see how either of them would survive in a crazed Light zealot future as they both use shadow magic. They could be from the same point in time that we originally went to in WoD, but that opens up a massive can of worms.
They just reintroduced MU Naielle and Illona in the draenei heritage quest, so reintroducing MU Tuulani and Reshad now would go with that and would make far more sense and create far fewer plotholes.
As for what they’re doing with her, she’s the perfect fit to become the new Auchenai Exarch since Maladaar is still filling in that role even though he’s dead.
My problem with them being MU versions is that they seem to recognise us. How would they if this is the first time we met?
Also keep in mind that the 20th anniversary event is probably non-canon in the grand scheme of things.
That I don’t think so.
The storytelling about Thassarian and his dialog with Koltira seems to indicate there will be an update soon to the Knights of the Ebon Blade – which could expand Death Knights to other races that don’t have it right now – maybe Earthen, Dracthyr.
But I hardly think anything there is just being given away for the lulz. There is a lot of things there if you stop to think about it.
And there must be something about Soulbinder Tuulani that we’re about to find out sooner or later.
With Nozdormu regaining his Aspectral power, I would think opening a portal to AU Draenor is possible again for the Bronze Flight.
Correct me if I’m wrong, my BC lore memory is from a long time ago, but wouldn’t Tuulani have been vaporized by the summoning of Murmur?
Some Auchenai survived and are rebuilding the order as of the draenei heritage quest.
It’s the AU one. We’ve never met the MU one and have no idea if she’s even alive. She also references us meeting her before.
As Kagehiro points out, Nozdormu, and by extension his whole flight, are repowered now by the ending of Amirdrassil’s raid. They haven’t made a point of it yet, but considering the Nozdormu being depowered was the only reason getting to and from AU Draenor was an issue to begin with, we could conceivably go back at any time.
No she doesn’t. Neither does Reshad. I specifically went out there to talk to them on the character I did WoD loremaster on and neither said anything about meeting before.
Tuulani and Reshad know us, and us them, It’s absolutely the WoD versions.
You guys are thinking too deeply about the canonicity of an anniversary event.
Maybe it’s just for fun. Don’t forget we are in the Caverns of Time and the bronze dragonflight isn’t really serious when we get some stuffs about them. I think Tuulani is just here for fun. Maybe she came on Azeroth using the time travel or when we came back from Draenor (WoD) or when Mag’har Orcs came on Azeroth but we didn’t know it until now. But I wouldn’t take it too seriously (at least for now).
If that was AU Tuulani, she’d either be Lightforged or killed off for refusing. And the Tuulani at that event was not Lightforged. If Tuulani found a way here, Yrel’s Lightbound would have too.
The 20th anniversary stuff is definitely canon, many of the NPCs present at the celebration have dialogues that are dead serious and definitely meant to be taken as valid information so by default this canonicity applies to everyone
I do think Tuulani and Reshad are the AU versions since, as others have pointed out, they appear to know us ; as for how they could make it to the MU, idk, it’s up in the air, maybe they crossed over at the end of WoD, maybe they were caught in the BFA teleportation spell somehow (after all Botani and Saberon were caught in that spell and made it to Azeroth as well despite not being anywhere near the Mag’har gathering in that Gorgrond outpost. Maybe the range of the spell was just very big and Tuulani & Reshad had some business in the area in that moment)
Or maybe they were brought here due to Bronze shenanigans we yet have to learn about
Not necassirely. The bronze flight could have easily brought her over from long before the formation of Yrels Lightbound army
Nothing indicates that all AU Draenei have become Lightforged, there could totally be some dissident groups here and there and Tuulani may be part of one
May I ask what made you reach this conclusion? lol
As for the anniversary event being canon or not, I think Blizz will at best take some dialogues as cannon in a vacuum. Koltira and Thassarian’s dialogue, for example, could have happened in the Ebon Hold or in a mission they did together.
There’s a point to be made, though, that having a meta-event wouldn’t be the worst offender to the game’s lore.
Nozdormu can pick any point in time he wants. Nothing about Draenor changes that.
Except that Draenor is an Alternate Universe, not a “point in time”.
Except it is, because it was anchored to the main timeline. Which is why it didn’t immediately vanish like all alternate timelines do.
He can go back to when the portal reopened during WoD, if nothing else, and visit Draenor at that point. And that is even if I granted that Draenor were somehow different. We have seen ample evidence that the Bronze flight can explore alternate timelines.