Do you think it would’ve changed anything major lore wise? Or would we Blood Elves be pretty much the same?
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The Void elves wouldn’t have been banished, they’d just be exiled/encouraged to wander anywhere but the Sunwell Plateau.
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i think the same basic path would still be taken just with Kael in the forefront of the Blood Elf stuff that happened after his defeat.
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I never really understood where he became evil.
He goes to Outland in WC3 to save his people and then boom he is insane bad guy in BC.
Illidan too for that matter.
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Kael was never evil.
He let his pride/greed/arrogance get in his way of trying to actually help his people.
He failed to protect his people from himself. His intentions were pure to begin with.
This is why he goes to Revendreth; to repent and atone for his sins so that he might be redeemed.
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Kaelthas did nothing wrong he was merely setback
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I understand that but where does that happen? Was it in a book?
My last memory of him before BC was in Outland with Illidan and the Naga woman whose name I forget, fighting the Legion.
Well he’s becoming good now so there’s that.
Kael wasn’t evil himselves. His decisions weres. He vowed to save his people by any means necessary.
Even if it means workin’ with the Burning Legion.
His ill-fated adventure in Outlands that brought a tons of betrayals and abandonments (Turns out a lotta his party wanted to chill with Illidan because hey warglaves are heckin’ cool) and he was more or less left with little choice but to get all buddy buddy with the demons.
He just had it pretty rough in generals. Ton o’ setbacks if you wills.
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Illidan made sense being a power hungry jerk in WC3, but yeah, Kael in the BE campaign seemed to legitimately care about his people. By BC, he was just pants on head crazy about demonic power, which seemed weird.
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Probably the same
Kael going evil was a bit out of left field.
Still not sure why he thought what he was doing would be a good idea
Road to hell is paved to good intentions i guess
I found the problem.
They didn’t really know what they were doing with the story in BC. They needed some villains, threw in some vaguely threatening characters from WCIII, and called it a day.
Then they spent the next 15 years trying to salvage those characters.
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Yes, everything about the Blood Elves would be different. Kael became “evil” because of Arthas and the scourge invasion (I think), so either the invasion doesn’t happen or they get pushed back.
In fact, most of the events in game would change radically because of that one alteration.
racist human leaves him to die. Nagas end up saving him.
Striving to placate his people’s addiction to magic, he later covertly allied with Illidan Stormrage, but betrayed him to the Burning Legion when its master, the demon lord Kil’jaeden, enticed Kael with the promise of salvation for the blood elves.
illidan was never “evil” in any sense, but kael’thas sort of was. very mildly i guess, even if his intentions were good
It’s mostly just been retcons over the years in various sources. Legion especially. Like Illidan dying at the top of Black Temple in TBC, which was retconned to him being captured.
Kael was exactly as “evil” as Illidan. In other words, he wasn’t.
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Chronicle Volume 3 filled in the gaps.
As Illidan prepared his army of demon hunters to assault Argus, Kael’thas became alienated. Several of his followers had left him to join Illidan to be trained as demon hunters and he believed he could harness fel magic just as they did to sate his addiction. Soon, the fel gnawed at his mind, causing him to become more paranoid of his people, believing them to think of him as a failure.[24] Many believed that the fel magic made him unstable.[25] He believed his travel to Outland to have been a mistake since he was no closer to finding a cure to the addiction than before and the suffering of the blood elves had only increased. He was too prideful to return to Quel’Thalas without a cure, yet also deeply ashamed and angered of his own inability to find one. In this state of emotional turmoil, the prince was contacted by Kil’jaeden. The demon lord told him of more effective ways to harness fel energy and that Illidan had withheld them from him because he did not deem them worthy, only tools in the war against the Legion. In return for teaching Kael’thas, Kil’jaeden simply asked him to abandon Illidan. The prince refused, but doubts began to plague his consciousness.[26]
Kael’thas sent Voren’thal the Seer and his forces to attack Shattrath City and the newly arrived Sha’tar. Kael’thas had requested that demon hunters would join the fray, but Illidan refused him, greatly angering the prince. Before the battle even started, Voren’thal threw down his weapons and defected. This betrayal was a devastating blow to Kael’thas, as Voren’thal’s ranks included some of the most gifted magisters and scholars he had led into Outland. The prince saw Voren’thals betrayal as a sign of his own failures to his people and a rift began to grow between him and Illidan that widened as the demon hunter had only eyes for his planned assault against Legion worlds. Believing that Illidan planned on abandoning the blood elves and enticed by the demon lord’s promises of salvation for his people,[6] Kael’thas turned to Kil’jaeden as his new benefactor.[27]
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It was BC writing. It ruined everything in warcraft lore. We spent the first 2 patches of legion retconning aspects of it.
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