The original statement was poking at demon hunters if they go for Kyrian; assuming that there is a conflict in nature with the Lawful Good Undertones Basion champions, vs the Chaotic Neutral (with evil tendancies) that Illidan ran after.
Lets be clear, His story; like many other characters had multiple writers involved, including a whole novel detailing and ret-conning original ideas.
Sylvanas is a great example of that; the Sylvanas we knew at wrathgate and the one that back space-keyed Saurfang have totally diffrent writers behind the scene.
Same goes for the Illidan we killed in black temple, vs the Illidan we were dealing with post legion.
Blizzard has this theme about the means justifying the ends and that scene was blizzard posing a moral question to the players; through the characters.
This question being “There is fate, and its unavoidable; but how you address it is up to you”
We saw Arthas do the same thing, Sylvanas is doing the same; and now soon; we are gonna watch all through shadowlands and the next expansion Lothar and Alleria do exactly the same thing; only with the light as a pretense to it all.
Its just the direction the writing is going.
As far as the sacrifice lesson goes; this whole part right here, seems to be intrinsically connected to a greater argument/cultural issue with modern society, and the idea of social expectation underpinning it.
I will go ahead and don the villan mantle and accept all smoke and flagging, and BS that comes with stating an unpopular opinion; but I see nothing at all that contradicts his past sacrifices, what the demon hunters sacrificed to defeat the legion; and Illidan’s unwillingness to accept a forced assimulation as ‘inevitable’ even if he was given a vision of it in the past when he visited Argus.
Who is the say that still won’t happen eventually; He just made a concious decicion to do so on his own volition; not on the forced infrence of others.
beings and people can act as conduits of change and ‘fate’ but people and ‘things’ are NOT fate themsleves, and Xera may be of the light, but she is not some diety of ‘authority’
As far as this idea of Illidan ‘non-consensually forcing his way’ into the role of Sargaras’ Jailer; Remember how weakened the rest of the Titans already were leading up to this point, and the only ones left there were Khadgar, Tyrulean and the army of light.
Illidan was the only one primed with the skillset to truely address that, and the patheon accepted him being there. He was instrumental in providing the keystone via his demon hunters, and did the leg-work during the burning crusade to open the arcane gate-way to argus in the first place.
We knew this was going to be the inevitable result fulfilling blizzard’s tendancy to write in cycles; so he would watch Sargeras the same way Illidan was watched by Maeiv.
There was no idea of ‘non-consensual’ anything taking place, and was 100% classic blizzard writing being present here.
I hope this same energy is kept later on when we go back to stormwind and have to deal with Scarlet Crusade 2.0 Lothar edition; and everybody’s favorite NPC turned ethnic cleanser from an alternate time-line far far away.
For those demon hunters going Kyrian, Enjoy your Sigil; and know while you are being judged in that dungeon by members of the community for reason #99901 , you got an instant que; becuase you went Kyrian likely becuase you are Vengeance.
Osu!
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