This is weird.
I thought nerubians were servants of the black empire, why would the queen refuse the call of Nâzoth or Xalâatath?
Even as far back as WC3, the Nerubians have always been depicted as being distanced, and arrayed against, the Old Gods.
They just had enough individual agency to reject the Old Godâs call.
Because they were only getting called up in time for the âlast stand at Nyalothaâ. So the war was already lost, only thing they would have done is show up and die.
I love that we get to see this. But they donât serve old gods anymore. Having them go back to them feels bad.
I see, thats interesting, I thought they were loyal to the old gods still.
That also makes sense.
Pretty good short. Seriously canât get over how button-cute Ansurek (?) looked as a baby spider.
I still believe that spiders are best when kept far away from me, but it was a good short story.
It was pretty cool. I wonder what other ones weâll get.
When Xal shows up we get somw flashes, including the dagger. Anyone examined those frames yet? Iâm curious if they snuck something in there that helps us piece together just whoever the heck is this entity
It feels that Blizzard will write something around the cost of the liberty:
- We have a mother who knew the price to serve an Old god and the Void, guessed that the war was lost and acted knowing that her people will have a hard time.
- We have a daughter nostalgic of the time where they served the Old gods because the people lived âwellâ.
Therefore, she chose to kill her mother to once again serve the Void so her people will have a great life.
But i donât think that Blizzard will be capable to write something compelling around it.
Time will tell.
I like how they managed to make Xal, in her attractive goth elf body, actively more unnerving than the giant spiders through weird body language and movements.
I watched with the arachnophobia toggle on and just got this;
Reminds me of the Lords of War Part Four â Kilrogg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRlokbOelfg
Then again the corruption offer has always been a thing for WoW (Arthas, Azshara, Gulâdan, Grom Hellscream, Kilâjaeden, KaelâThas etc).
Wish they could spice things up, make it more compelling like demonstrate the âofferâ genuinely helped them and accepting it was the right choice but knowing Blizzard I imagine itâs difficult to write that.
I see Ansurek found Azasharaâs playbook and decided that sounds good.
That aside, I like how they gave Xal a legit manic horror movie vibe. The way she moves is not really how her body should be moving.
I am thinking if we get three of these as is tradition we will get another next week, and then the third on the 22nd when early release shows us how Dalaran falls.
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She could make me worse
The last stand thing, was it OG black empire or was it BFA Nzoth shaking in his boots because we stacked corruptions?
I am pretty sure it must of been BFA, as that was legit the last gasp of the black empire, when Nâzoth kicked the bucket he took even the idea the empire with him.
Because then you have to write an actual history for an entire people instead of just saying âAnd this one person and their one policy kept things steady for X number of years until the expansion happensâ
I really hope it wasnât BfA? Because that was⊠not the Black Empire not matter what Lorewalker Cho was saying at the time. And it makes the Queenâs refusal less impactful if sheâs essentially just ignoring the most miniscule possible piece.
Problem is nerubians did not exist back in the OG black empire days. Nerubians did not evolve until the aqir were vanquished and scattered after their disasterous war with the ancient troll empires.