I wonder if there is anything in the book about Theresa <Gerard’s Mindslave>, and the guy who removed half of her brain and her free will so she could be his pet and do what he says. Because that always seemed entirely opposite of what sylvanas and the forsaken pretend to believe in, yet he was operating in undercity from the beginning.
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I woke up today hoping that this was some sort of nightmare that was super vivid but nope still here
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There isn’t. Not that I’ve encountered.
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Wait they didn’t remove that yet?
My bar was low, nearly non-existent, and I am still horrified lol
All through the book orcs are referred to as “green monsters” and I thought about you.
High elf xenophobia is so commonplace. And I wonder if Golden actually thought about that, and added it for continuity, which is doubtful, or just wanted orcs to be a big dumb alien threat the elves were too proud to consider a real threat.
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Nah, they like to keep that around for some reason, I just went to check. I think in 9.1.5 they changed the title to <Gerard’s Experiment> or whenever they were “cleaning” up wow, as if that makes it better.
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Is it high elf xenophobia or how Golden actually feels about the Orcs as an entire race given she thinks Orcish Culture is inherently bad and needs to be checked by Other Cultures + the Afrasiabi WoD lore of inherent Bloodthirst wasn’t retcon’d 
I am CONFIDENT Golden is among the devs who prefer WC1/WC2
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Nathanos is thier “orc specialist” and that says a lot. It’s absurd.
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Bro what is going on
What next, Nathanos’s job during the internment camps was rounding up Orcs who managed to escape into the forest?
Considering he’s also supposed to canonically 19 as per Danuser’s last jab at making sense of the timeline. how old is this man?
Turalyon is like 20 at most.
Nothing made sense Baal, I’m telling you. Nothing.
This book makes Anasterian look like an incompetant leader because Golden doesn’t know strategy.
The Ranger General and her Husband are murdered at the gates of Silvermoon by orcs (how considering they would have to slip by both a human and elven outpost?) Then Anasterian is like “just forget about it” and a week later Quel’thalas is on fire.
Everytime Sylvanas tries to follow her instict she’s told she doesn’t understand “the complexities of politics.” Despite being raised as a diplomat by her dad.
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Probably the same way the orcs in Wolfheart were sneaking around and surprising the night elf sentinels in Ashenvale at night.
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Golden is so profoundly ignorant of real life history that framing Sylvanas as incompetent to this extent is mostly just her telling on herself
Anyways here’s a song
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Also in reply to Zerde probably
“Are any families whole… in any afterlife?”
Agatha’s face was etched with sorrow, “In our experience, Lady Sylvanas, no.”
No one is reunited with thier families and loved ones. It’s on page 297
So no there is no, you get a reward to be with your family after you serve your time. It’s mathematically impossible due to the personalized Afterlife the Arbiter creates. That’s why the Jailer wants to break the system.
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This isn’t even true as per the ardenweld campaign with the deer.
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Double Predestination is an understandable reason to side with Diet Lucifer Sauron Thanos
Not being with your family, thereby the writers are framing the criticism that shadowlands didn’t center or value the ethnocultural bonds and beliefs of the playable races as bad, is not.
This feels super underhanded and written almost explicitly as some sort of defense
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I am not sure getting the criticism here. We are being told about this AFTER the fact when story wise I would have been more impactful to do so before hand and certain not go on the whole optimistic tangent Danuser used to explain the situation.
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To be honest will the general playerbase overall care about this book. Answer is no they won’t does not matter in the end. We can accept what is canon with our own headcanon.
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There is no way the general playerbase will not react with contempt and ridicule once they learn it was a flying viking showing Sylvanas eel fetish angst that led to genocide
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Eloquent as always. But so true.
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