Sounds right. iirc, according to the Chronicles Yrel’s group thought Lightforging everyone would fix the problem, some Mag’har disagreed but weren’t able to fix things either, so Yrel’s group decided to do it whether people liked it or not.
How would they revive Kairoz? We already killed his time echo and his corpse, if anything is left, is in AU Draenor.
That whole “Lightbound” business already had issues of its own with the writing.
Uhh yeah. It was done just to make angry orc players feel better about the orcs going along with yet more warcrimes a few years after ousting Garrosh.
“Hey look guys. The Draenei are randomly Light Fascists… Please stop being mad about BFA’s plot.” :v).
Nevermind the fact that Yrel taking such a dark turn makes zero sense for her character and if she ever shows back up it better end up being outright Mind Control.
Oh, and the person supposedly responsible is never seen and is just called “The Light Mother.”
I feel like the Lightbound plot needs to come back around at some point just because of how egregious it is with what we have.
AU Draenor as a setting deserves better tbh.
If the Dark Iron cult of Ragnaros plot is anything to go by, I think Blizzard either forgot about Yrel and that subplot or they don’t want to expand on it.
I mean we still don’t know where Smolderon was when the Cult of Ragnaros tried to bring back… Ragnaros. And given that Smolderon is killed in the Amidrassil raid, with his essence being sucked into Fyr’alath, I doubt we will ever get an answer. As I think it is intended that Smolderon is dead dead after what Fyrakk did.
Then there is the various creatures of AU Draenor making their way to Azeroth via the Mag’har recruitment chain. Primals, Breakers and Saberons all crossed over and nothing has come of it yet. Except that random “Genasaur” in the Ringing Deeps but who knows if that is a Genasaur or if it was Blizzard simply reusing assets for assets sake. And if it is the former, how did it get there from Kalimdor and why?
The Arathi Empire could be from other side of Azeroth is there a chance we might see them in the fullest might on another continent of azeroth where we might fight off against the corrupted light emperor if the light is leading a crusade against anyone that isn’t following their briefs.
He’s gone for good, yes.
But y’know, Blizzard…
From what the Scarlet Brotherhood’s letters say, I think the group’s been taking over by a subsection of the Arathi, and they’re being led by Calia’s long lost son.
“But Calia had a daughter!” you say, and I reply: don’t misgender Calia’s evil transgender son, who is not evil because they’re trans, but is merely evil and also unrelatedly trans.
I know this is wrong because there is no way current Blizzard would make a trans character a villain.
idk, Bungie had a trans character as a villain. That being Oryx, the Taken King.
Born as Aurash, the eldest daughter of the Osmium King, upon taking up the King morph became Auryx, the King of the Hive. After defeating Akka and learning how to Take, he renamed himself Oryx, the Taken King.
And Bungie goes hard into having LGBT+ characters. Even during the days of Destiny 1.
I think it’s more that nobody trusts the people at blizzard to be able write such a character in a meaningful way without it coming off as juvenile. 
Yeah I can see that.
The quest writing is consistently good, actually. I know we’re all quick to generalize Blizz as a monolith of bad writing, but a lot of it is really good if you get beneath the A Plot Umbrella stuff.
We need to wait for more data, such like actually finding this Empire.
Which makes one wonder how the can mess up the overall story as much as they do…
Because:
“HEY, I’ve got a killer idea for an expansion, but all that pesky lore and existing characterization is in the way.”
“Have you tried ignoring all of that stuff and just plowing forward anyway?”
“OMG, YOU’RE A GENIUS!”
The fans: this is a two faction game, and within those two factions, are sub factions with their own rich histories and cultures. Can we explore those, maybe?
Blizzard: Alleria and Anduin you say? Blonde Ambition Tour 2024?
Blizzard: No Human or Void Elf makes a dull boy
Anduin is popular despite being controversial and they need another Sylvanas figure.
Don’t overthink it bro.
Anyways, the new, alliance aligned villain is very “rah rah regain the glory of the Arathi Empire”
Really makes me think.
Sun Warriors are just Druids who worship the Sun instead of the Moon. Realizing this fact, Horde should have Paladin exclusivity come Midnight.
Blizzard shines when it comes to World Building. I’d argue they do it better than any other MMORPG out there, and as the world is what a lot of players fell in love with in Warcraft, it’s small surprised WoW grew as big as it did in the early years of its life. It’s also no surprise that as Blizzard increasingly ignored or butchered that world to tell the stories they thought were, “New and Cool,” that players grew increasingly dissatisfied with the game.