Sadly to say our glorious Queen Sylvanas Windrunner will become a raid boss next patch. Begs the question tho how this all will turn out. The best scenario for her to happen would be a vindication where she did all these things for the greater good of Azeroth and rubs it all into the faces of her enemies. I think it is just fair and right for her fans to get a real closure on everything and then get to follow her to wherever the story takes her.
Victory for the dark lady! Glory to Sylvanas! Lokâtar!
I donât think Sylvanas did anything for the greater good of Azeroth. However, I do think it will be Sylvanas pursuing her own self-interest, and that will coincide with the best interests of Azeroth⌠or Azerothians. Nor do I think Sylvanas cares enough about her enemies to rub anything in their face. If anything, she wants them to join her!
I donât think it would make Alliance the âbad guyâ, even if Sylvanas turned out to be ârightâ or whatever, just because even if she is ârightâ, the Allianceâs reaction to Sylvanas is still reasonable.
Just like the Scarlet Crusadeâs⌠crusade, against the undead. I have no doubt in my mind, that if a Zombie apocalypse scenario ever happened IRL, it wouldnât matter if some of them showed signs of free will later on⌠we would wipe them out⌠thereâs a small possibility that some might get kept, and studied. But we wouldnât be letting them form their own civilization on earth, if we could help it.
But it doesnât send that message. Being wrong about one thing doesnât make you wrong about everything. Otherwise I could use Hitlerâs supposed abstinence from alcohol to justify my alcoholism. *hick
This is a non-sequitur. People didnât have a problem with Hitler because he wouldnât have a drink. People had a problem with him over his military aggression and a genocide. Vindicating Sylvanas is directly related to her crimes, not to something incidental like this.
Even if she is vindicated in the âendsâ department, it doesnât vindicate her in the âmeansâ department. Nobody is mad at Illidan because he stopped the Legion. Theyâre mad because he sucked out his friendsâ life force to do it. He went to jail for like 10000 years, but he was still right that the legion had to be stopped.
Too Bad!!! lol. Come on, do you have to ârighteousâ AND ârightâ? Throw us a damn bone!
The burning of Teldresil is, I think, the largest atrocity committed in the history of Azeroth by someone not on an evil side (ie Legion, Old Gods, etc.). I can think of others, but they are all smaller in scale or were a failed attempt.
I donât think Blizzard can get away with ignoring that, like they have with others. So the question is, how does it get rationalized?
Blizzard could have had their being sent to the maw as being temporary. But I think it is too late. We have already seen some them being tortured and presumably some have been lost, given the treatment.
So all that is left is the greater good. The clearest argument, that more would have suffered more, looks like it will be hard to pull off. And even then it would like be controversial (look at the debate over Hiroshima).
So I donât see them going with a âclearly this was the right thing to doâ at all. Instead the best is a âwas what she did, or tried to do, worth itâ. Though my money is more on a âshe was controlled or lied toâ kind of thing, like with Medivh.
Iâm glad you atleast managed to say something besides, the script about Alliance morality.
Your logic with that is, Blizzard doesnât want to justify Sylvanasâ actions, because it would make the Alliance look âbadâ? Where are you drawing this from specifically, because Iâm not sure how you landed on such an idea.
Teldrassil wasnât ignored, and they rationalized it in front of Orgrimmar, and word of mouth but Sylvanas and others beneath the Jailor.
I wouldnât have seen them further trying to purify Slyvanasâ intentions either, until I started watching the cut scenes from SL, where she is pouting pretty much over the plan she is setting in motion.
No, they write stuff like that for the Alliance, but its not allowed to go anywhere. Weather it be the character being talked down, or literally told not to do anything about it. At this point, I donât think youâre going to be able to find this as âexcusingâ what the Alliance have to expend to keep this. It has nothing to do with the Alliance, never does. I harp on this point, but Genn wasnât allowed to harm anyone in Stormheim. He pretty much was allowed the Horde their in for a devastating fist pump triumph, which they only disliked after the inevitable fall out.
The Horde characters donât do anything remotely close to what Genn did in Stormheim. They succeed in their awful acts, and then the story the factions share is one about making sure the Horde isnât viewed as pure evil, and only partially responsible, while heaping further blame as an irritant on characters people enjoy. Namely Jaina, Genn, Tyrande, probably Turalyon soon.
Oh, the story and game can and likely would go on, just that I and maybe a sizable portion of other story enthusiasts could safely ignore aby further developments going forward.