I get that Blizzard says these things, but as usual they fail to do a convincing job of actually selling that theme. Sure, they’ve surrounded Tyrande with dark and foreboding theming - but she is still striking blows for our side against an enemy that we absolutely have to beat. One of the ideas about vengeance isn’t just that it’s an unhealthy obsession - but that it’s an unjustified obsession - that it’s disproportionate and in many ways optional.
This is the furthest thing from optional or disproportionate, both because of the magnitude of the inciting event and the fact that Sylvanas is an ongoing threat.
For the same reason that they were once High Elves and we know that there are nature freaks among them, The Windrunners especially seeming to be of a throwback nature.
I really believe that Elune …first “went into Tyrande” in the ritual, and then…stood by her side and together they formed the tear. I think before that there were certainly aspects of her in Tyrande in the Night Warrior (last…the rage, ne, the boundless rage).
This Theory is impossible. Because Zovaal is 100% Death and darkness and has been for Eons while the Tauren can still call upon An’she and have revered him through the Light.
Zovaal wouldn’t be running a side gig as a benevolent, yet benign, deity that wouldn’t of had greater payout by now.
I think a lot of these theories are pointless as Blizzard has a history of changing their grand cinematic plans mid-expansion. Whatever they settle on for Elune will involve soft and hard retcons of past lore, so attempting to piece it all together is doomed.
I thought it was still all faith-based powers in the end, so An’she wouldn’t have to be real for a tauren to think they’re calling on his power when using light magic.
they already did a pretty good job of painting Elune as both benevolent and malevolent in the story about the White lady and the Blue child, when they explained the blood moon over Nazmir when she almost cooked all life on Azeroth when she usurped the Sun.
The An’she is Zorvall theory was mine btw.
I’ve also been speculating that Shadowlands will at some point feature a fight on Azeroth’s moon.
That’s more generally only related to the Human form of the Light (Which is probably just a manifestation of An’she anyway.)
While The Tauren specificallly call upon An’she, not the Light. And An’she’s power manifests in ways that the Light does not.
Eitherway, Zovaal has no power to channel the light to even cause the Tauren to identify Zovaal as An’she.
The Grimtotem, maybe.
There’s a greater probably that Lo’Sho is Zovaal. Since An’she was Wounded by the Void and not the Pantheon of Death, it doesn’t like up with Zovaal’s betrayal and imprisonment.
Yes, it probably is. I was only noting that Lo’sho is more likely to be Zovaal then An’she, since last we knew, An’she is mortally wounded and Musha is tending to him.
But both are highly unlikely options for being Zovaal.
yeah that’s true, but everything coming out of 9.1 is pointing to the fact that we cannot trust mythology as fact. While both The Earthmother’s Eyes and the Embrace were good stories, they both were almost contradicting each other or flat out telling a completely different story. The new lore is don’t take mythology as absolute fact was the opinion I got from all the recent lore spoilers.
In the Embrace, the White/Pale Lady talks about the Sun like she’s only heard about him from rumors, and by this time, he’s already formed a negative opinion on family. If they were siblings they would be closer. The Embrace’s story lines up more with Zorvall being An’she.
I don’t see how you can draw this conclusion. In the Embrace, The Sun doesn’t seam to have much in the story to do other then to be a minor hindrance/detached character. Not to mention, Zovaal has never shone over Azeroth in any form nor does the story indicate that Elune would have any loyalty to Zovaal if he was the Sun in that case.
Eitherway, the stories are meant to be more metaphoric then literal. Chances are, they are retellings of folklore that has been “flourished-up” somewhat to make a better story.
Afterall, it mentions a human signing a song, while humans are fairly resent to Azeroth (unless gods consider humans and Vrykul the same race?) Most likely, this is just a more recent telling of a much older story with new details added and older details forgotten.
Also, the entire story seams more apt to explain a cosmological event.
The Blue Child is a Planetoid that does not revolve around Azeroth, like the White Lady does (at least, not regularly) and the story tells about The Blue Child leaving out of the gravitational pull of Azeroth and causing the White Lady’s orbit to become disrupted, which leads it’s rotation to become between the Sun and Azeroth, causing a permanent Solar Eclipse-like effect.
Sorry. I’m very tired so that explanation may not be clear.
Also, it’s fair to mention that, like in our own history, Tauren may name celestial bodies after deities, not the other way around. So these stories probably have no baring on the real An’she, Musha and Lo’sho and their histories.
The tauren believe that An’she still bleeds every morning, sacrificing part of his light to let the tauren know that dawn is coming. But he doesn’t do this alone; the yeena’e (“those who herald the dawn” inTaur-ahe) help him.
That would still work with An’she being who knows where the heck.
#conspiracy
I would not be surprised if that would be why Mueh’zala is “night’s friend”.
IMO 9.1 and the current direction in general says that there is nothing other than the current story taken into account.
