Sylvanas: official traitor to the horde

anon95961490 · October 21, 2019, 12:43pm

Then I think you did yourself a disservice, everything about that moment and cinematic made it terribly obvious the direction they were gonna go. They don’t make a faction leader genocide a player character race without giving them the famed “villain bat.” It would have been so jarring and absurd for them to like, not follow up on that. (Even then, they kind of swept the whole thing under the rug as if that was not the pinnacle of Sylvanas evil actions during the whole thing, as if “violating forsaken free will” was the true crime lmao)

“I use to think the Horde was a tragedy, now I realize it’s a comedy.”

It might surprise you but even I have shown sympathy with Sylvanas from certain points of view:

BfA = Modern Regime Change Propaganda?

The story of BfA is about an (Euro-coded) Alliance supporting an uprising against a foreign government because the leader “kills their own people” and did “genocide”, similar story beats we hear repeated time and again during any regime change operation over the past 40 years or so. Meanie dictator (who does not bow down to western…ahem alliance… interests) who has to be “overthrown”, so dissenting elements in the society in question are covertly funded and armed while war efforts are prepared and ramped up. After the “dictator” is slain of course a groomed puppet regime, whom represents the “old, true” traditional castes the disposed leader had cracked down on, friendly to western (alliance) business interests is put into power and all the supporters of the disposed government tortured/killed. Those are the basic story beats but it’s not all.