Lore specialists are never going to be a thing, the lore is just not that important to them and never has been.
To be honest, I’m not even surprised. My personal theory is that she ordered the Wrathgate to occur before pinning the blame on Putress and Varimathras who were planning against her but had different plans regarding it.
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I just keep having to say this to people, but you’ve given this more thought than anyone at Blizzard did.
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Maybe if Blizzard put more thought into it than what they wanted to have for their mid-day brunch…
Edit --> No offense to Shadesinger meant, by the way. That’s a cool theory.
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Oh they are indeed a thing. They’re called Lorewalkers, and they’re the namesake for the pandaren faction of the same name. That is not a joke.
There are three of them. And I imagine they are the nerds of the office. I imagine they’re there to make quiet corrections and then get swirlies for being nerds. NERRRDS!
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Thank you! I just kinda got hit with that thought because ya know, Sylvanas deserves more than ‘BURN IT’.
F’real, tho, there are multiple regular posters on the WrA forums who I would trust to write a more compelling story than I do Blizzard. And I’m not talking about myself for once.
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To be honest, I’d trust you more than myself. At this point, most of my writing is half-baked ideas a d a little too much coffee.
Thanks for digging that up, I was just looking for it under job openings of blizzard because I did indeed know it was a thing. Unfortunately they are apparently happy with …three of them.
My guess is they are quietly shuffled into a basement somewhere and shunned by the rest of the office tbh.
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Well as of this expac that’s the Blizzard standard so you’re golden!
I mean, not Golden golden. Golden is an actual writer, which is why she’s relegated to novels and Twitter target dummy duty. It’s very important that story beats be determined by game developers who don’t understand on a basic level how narratives work. That’s the system that gets us such innovative game design as azerite armor.
Damn, I gotta lay off the Campbell’s, I’m salty this morning.
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Shoot, that means most of us are probably overqualified.
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Yeah that article stuck with me because I remember actually laughing when I read there were three of them.
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I don’t know why there are any of them at all when it is so glaringly obvious that their work is meaningless. Blizzard retcons the lore at the drop of a hat. Why would they bother to pay someone to keep track of it?
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Probably because it means they can say they pay someone to care, which makes it look like they in turn care.
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Having that position exist gives the idea that story is important to them. Or so they believe, I’m sure.
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This is the truth.
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I love Golden. Her writing is actually what made me fall in love with WoW’s lore because when I picked up War Crimes, I couldn’t put it down.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a time where WoW was more explicitly written by pure fiat and whim.
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Golden is an actually quite good writer. I’ve always enjoyed her books simply because they are of a quality that can stand alone as fantasy novels. Most RPG tie-in books rely on brand power to sell themselves and are pretty phoned-in. Christie Golden and Erin Evans are the only two actually very good authors whose work I am comfortable recommending despite the fact that it is franchised genre fiction.
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Definitely. She gets a lot of criticism and not -all- of it is unfair I’m sure, but I’ve read and enjoyed every one of her WoW based books. There’s a reason she got a position and Knack didn’t.