https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Thalen_Songweaver
So since the Fate of the Kirin Tor quest chain made a point to mention Thalen Songweaver, do you think it’s possible that he could be making a return?
At the very least I can’t help but wonder if Jaina’s decisions to destroy his notes will have unexpected consequences.
Maybe next patch is an underground korkron base, he will return with a bigger bomb to drop on proudmoores (we help him)
Or we finally get his head on a pike.
Could just strap him to a homemade mana bomb and launch his scrawny backside into space and be done with it 
We have options here. Lets be clever 
I don’t want to spend a single second validating Jaina’s trauma for the twelth time until the narrative grows up enough to hold her accountable for how she handled the Purge of Dalaran.
That is to say, in a very based and justified way.
I mean we can kill him, but no need to be too brutal about it, we know Mana Bomb inventors for their homeworlds get sent to revendreth to think about what they did for a long time in a dark sealed up mausoleum.
Sorry, but Soylords aren’t allowed to use based. I’ll let it slide this time, but next time there will be consequences up to and including another torched world tree.
Pft, we’re torching the whole damn forest next time.
This. We’ve been blessedly free of Sad!Jaina for a couple of expansions, and I don’t want to go back to it.
The one thing that might be interesting is to find out that Mr. Songweaver (a) was definitely not a Sunreaver and (b) had defensible or at least understandable reasons for creating the bomb. But I’m not holding my breath for either of those things to happen.
The idea of getting an Oppenweaver quest chain is funny, but I don’t see it ever happening.
Or we could just accept that yes, bad people do bad things in war and move on with the story.
We already accepted that as the story way back when the incident first happened. I’m saying that new information about Mr. Songweaver is the only reason I can see why we should bother revisiting it after all this time. Otherwise, just leave it in the past and, as you say, move on.
I am not sure it is ever wise to give people justified reasons for creating a setting’s equivalent to a nuclear bomb…
Though if you really want to spice up the Alliance, have it come out he is actually a big fan of umbric’s work and is currently in training as a Void Elf.
Its a shame Thalen didn’t show back up during BFA. Imagine a mana bomb infused with Azerite.
As I said, I’d settle for understandable.
That … would actually be interesting! If they actually addressed the whole “made bombs to kill Alliance, then joined Alliance” paradox, that is.
He intends to make Void Bombs, of course.
Make him at the heart of it not horde or alliance, but hyper patriotic about Quel’thalas itself and willing to use extreme measures to protect it from perceived enemies.
I can’t really think of a natural way to, uh, weave him back into the story all these years later. His character didn’t make much sense in the first place.
Maybe it’d be amusing to learn Rommath has him boxed in a Magister lab somewhere, churning out gadgets for the good of Silvermoon under pain of extradition to Boralus.
Could have brought him back as a raid boss working for Gallywix in Undermine. Make him completely unhinged about mana bombs and other arcane weapons. Also a chance for that authors to get their sad Jaina fix.
The Alliance can have a little guilt free blood elf murder, as a treat.
There is no logical way he cant be a Sunreaver. Especially considering Aethas vouched for him. That would just make Aethas incompetent, oh wait.