The REAL reason Pelagos became the Arbiter

It should have been my most glorious primarch Vulcan… you may know him here as Bolvar.

Side note: If Bolvar was seeing Katrana Prestor, and Katrana Prestor is Onyxia, and Onyxia sends her whelps after you in phase two… DID WE MURDER HUNDREDS OF BOLVAR’S CHILDREN?

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No because the final chapter hasn’t happened yet and the Maw will have a part in it .

It is a robe like a priest or a mage or a warlock

0/10 bad troll

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If he was originally a woman, he’s now back to being she. So that makes it twice?

Side note:
Leather armor looking like dresses or robes on melee…you know how heavy and movement impairing that would be irl?

Pelagos got the job because he was the least important character of the bunch.

All the other NPCs were too important to ongoing narratives/book sales to dump into that awful job for eternity.

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I strongly disagree here. The role should be done by 1 individual (note I did not say person).

The arbiter actually being a machine is the right call. Anyone that is capable of emotions can and will have decisions that are somehow influenced by those emotions.

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And if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

That would require picking Kyrian. Boooriiiiing. :slight_smile:

Is there someone who does that if you’re with one of the other covenants? (I honestly don’t remember, it’s been so long since I first did the campaigns, and doing them again I paid zero attention.)

Personally I don’t care since we’ll be leaving the Shadowlands and won’t likely see the Arbiter again anyway, whoever it is. Doubly so if they do somehow “end” the current story.

Theoretically 3/4 of us didn’t

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So if I visit all 50 (+342134 unofficially owned, but currency dictated) states I’m one of the best candidates for Presidency?

Sweet.

They still showed him as incompetent and flighty.

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“Terminally naive” is how I’d describe him.

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No because you forgot you also need to make one off comments when someone else says something first that is supposed to make you sound insightful.

Like if someone from Idaho says “the President needs to care about potatoes”, you need to have a reflective moment and go “yes the president DOES need to care about potatoes because potatoes are food and food is needed to survive”.

And if you have even that low of a bar of self reflection, you’ll still be infinitely better and more capable than our last president…

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Yes, if you campaign in all 57 states, you will win.

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I may or may not have paid attention to the Kyrian story line. Is this a Pelagos thing?

Sounds totally anime. They like to explain the obvious or pull you out of logic loopholes by explaining it even though it wasn’t a thought.

I’m totally going to be President now.

That’s still a single point of failure - that’s as dumb as having a Warchief.

As to the bit about “emotions” that’s already a fundamental part of the process thanks to the Kyrians, much as they may try to brainwash themselves. If only they had an abundance of machines they could use to potentially do the job instead…

That said, if the Arbiter really does experience every lifetime that ever comes through the gates of death, that amount of experience would very rapidly render them unrecognizable from any limited mortal capacity. Trying to relate to, never mind judge their emotions would be a lost cause.

Either way, Pelagos is the character equivalent of room temperature tofu, so I wouldn’t be too concerned about him going off on some sort of impassioned rampage.

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Yup he is the wrong choice…
because

It’s pretty clear their agenda in SL to subtly put that in so the writers of WoW, who are part of said community can feel like they did good.

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No Pelagos was following us as we gave orders to the covenants to help us on our assault and they all made some off hand comment about how important the arbiter is and Pelagos, in no way being foreshadowed was going to have to be the arbiter, would make an offhand comment to you after the interaction basically agreeing with whatever was said.

In the Kyrian campaign specifically, he basically was just a constant crybaby and occasionally you had to go help him, again, go beat up manifestations of his doubt…though I don’t actually recall him going to Maldraxxus or helping when it got messy and dirty.

In the Korthia campaign, after you help the Kyrian reforge their dumb seal and make peace with the Forsworn, Pelegos is talking with Uther and finds out about Arthas and comments how, now having been to and seeing the maw, he feels nobody should ever go there. You had to stick around though and not just take the teleport out like most probably did.

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I saw it coming along with many other things. I can and will blame the bad writing and cut content all day long but there’s something else at work here.

The four covenants and their campaign stories should never have been locked like they were. Everyone should have been able to do each of the stories once they hit max level instead of being locked into just one.

50-60 had you quest through each zone and introduce you to everybody. 60 should have continued that theme and finished off each story.

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