It’s just kind of just now clicking with me why the Naaru might have spread Light worship across the universe in the way they did.
The Light is an ultimately neutral force in the cosmos. An infinite life-giving energy that’s power only limited by the willpower and belief of the person using it.
Yet despite the fact that theoretically anyone can use the Light, the people who use it for malicious purposes like the Scarlet Crusade and AU Draenei are always the outliers and the vast majority of those who wield the Light are true virtuous paragons.
I think this is by the Naaru’s design. We know they’re the ones who converted the Draenei to Light worship as well as telepathically spoke to the human priests who founded the Church of Holy Light. In both these instances the Naaru preached tenants of compassion, righteousness, and empathy. Saying those were the best ways to reach the Light.
This is where I go into headcanon territory: I think they spread that ideology to discourage people who would harness the Light for malicious purposes. Like we established, the Light is powered by people’s belief in it and themselves, so to weaken its power you must cast doubt in the heart of the person wielding it. So if everyone believes the Light is powered by good intentions then those who know on any level that they’re acting out of ill-intent and/or self-interest won’t believe the Light will answer them, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as them believing the Light won’t answer guarantees that it won’t.
In other words the Naaru effectively gaslit the villains of the universe into thinking they can’t use the Light.
So literally the majority of them? Only the Draenei are so into them, and the lightforged. Rest of us view the Naa’ru as good as well but they aren’t culturally intwined with the light culture of theirs.
The blood elves with the sunwell as well. Also the Arathi use the sacred flame, which seems to be like the sunwell, a combination of both arcane and the light. Earthen both learned from the Arathi and being imbued by Azeroth’s world soul, which seems to also be a combination of arcane and light.
Yeah, majority of them are not about the Naa’ru. Naa’ru does pop up here and there, because of they they will, being light creatures and all, but yeah.
Well the fact that the Sunwell is only a source of light because M’uru cleansed it and the fact that the Blood Elves strictly credit the Naaru for saving the Sunwell and that the Light worshippers in Quel’thalas before the Scourge invaded were those who converted to the Church of the Holy Light…
I’m gonna say the Belves are pretty deep into Naaru influence.
More like the naa’ru dipped into their dirty pool and cleaned it. Now they suck up that sunwell like an addict who broke down. They will always thank the naa’ru of course, but culturally, they kinda just kidna go meh.
Not like it was hard among living beings. Since the Light actually helps people heal… and also see in the dark, obviously. But the best part, using it does not turn you into some kind of monster freak.
Fel makes you into a monster, Arcane makes you a mutant, Death makes you dead and Void makes sure you’ll always have work in Japan.
The Light just makes you glow in the dark.
I think they didn’t want to spring the crystal angels on spaceships stuff on humans who were so primitive that they only just learned magic was a thing. One mindblower at a time.
That’s my headcanon explanation anyways
And yes, we generally get NPCs and other sources attributing that to light but in the absence of light that life flourishes in the form of mushrooms and molds. And we’ve already been shown that light and void are two sides of the same windchime. The curse of flesh basically turned constructs into living things. And living things die. So there’s a weird, chaotic bond between all these forces of the universe and it seems that the arcane and order are the most interested in keeping that from existing.
I know people hate talking or speculating about it, but maybe that was an unintended consequence of whatever the First Ones did with the cosmic forces after they stopped their infighting with one another and created the foundation for what we know.
I swear in one of the books or short stories, a human priest mentioned something off-hand about a Light-given vision of a crystalline arrangement. I have absolutely no idea which book it could have been though.
you’re thinking of how mereldar’s visions are described in chronicles 2: ’ In her dreams, Mereldar saw five strange, inhuman forms thrumming with holy power that filled her mind with the wisdom of holiness, protection, justice, retribution, and compassion. When she put their wordless teachings into practice, power seemed to flow through her, miraculously curing wounds and illnesses.’ others also saw these visions and she got together with them working on codifying church doctrine.
which wound up being ‘don’t be a jerk.’
true pearls dropping from these priests.
Chronicles vol 1 also says that early human priests had contact with the naaru, but they did not know that they were naaru. Considering the first three chronicles books were written back to back, I doubt they would change that mid production of the trilogy.
