Where Was Elune You Ask?

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Picture a light blue, translucent female elf face, starry background behind her, peering down smiling at a planet. Her breath gently stirring the clouds. Her translucent hand gently caresses the surface of the water, the other softly brushing the tops of the trees. All manner of fauna and wildlife skitter about happily unaware of her loving gaze… the picture fades and she is now a purple skinned night elf, long ears, and smallish, delicate antlers tip toeing through shallow waters, adoringly gazing down at fish swimming below her. Suddenly she doubles over in pain!

“Whaa… what has happened?”

A male voice from behind her jolts her from her distraction, she turns… a tall, thin man holding a long gnarled staff crowned with leaves and antlers drifts down from the starry night sky. A greenish aura surrounds him.

“A terrible lesson for an upstart goddess. In your naive, impulsive desire to create life, you failed to remember that a god also nurtures and protects it. And now your favored children have paid for your impetuousness.”

“Azeroth… my Kaldorei? NO!” the woman cries as she takes to the heavens like a shooting star, a dusting of twinkling starlight trailing behind her

“Now you will learn Elune… there are consequences… even for gods like us.” he mutters under his breath as the ancient Wild God watches her exit, an emotionless expression on his weathered, aged face.

From her throne high above in the night sky, Elune peered down at the burning husk that was Teldrassil. Already gathering about its base, wisps… those souls of her favored Kaldorei perished in the flames by the thousands. Tens of thousands.

Choking back the tears Elune spoke

“They cannot remain here, there is nothing left for them… but sorrow and pain.”

She stretches out her arm towards Azeroth, her hand open flat far above Teldrassil.

"Elune no! You mustn’t send them…" cried out Aessina, ‘mother creator’ of the Wild Gods

“But I must for they will know only suffering here now and my sister may yet have absolution for them in Ardenweald.”

With a slight wave of her hand the wisps were gone. And with that so too Elune was gone though her tears remained to fall like rain upon the burning tree under the light of a suddenly dimmed moon.

“…to the Maw…” Aessina finishes futiley

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So, instead of putting on her big girl britches and coming down to help, she just tosses them aside, hoping that they can be milked like cattle for their Anima.

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How is an Eternal One supposed to help exactly? She thought she was sending them to Ardenweald. Why did she think this? Because that’s how the system worked when she left Oribos in the first place. Are you assuming she has some telepathic link to SL that let’s her know exactly what happens there?

Or are you expecting the gods of WoW to be omniscient and omnipresent instead of the fallible gods of mythology that fantasy games base theirs off of.

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For being her ‘favorite children’, I would have thought she would have stepped in to save their lives. I never said she knew they were going there for sure.
shrug
All she knew, she was sending them to Ardenweald. imo, to be milked for their anima.

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They may be her “favored ones”, but there is sill an entire universe out there full of life she is paying attention to. She cannot be expected to ignore everything else and be hyper focused on one race out of the entire universe.

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I don’t quite buy that.
She was so busy elsewhere, that she couldn’t leave a few things for a few hours?
I cannot imagine that a very powerful being couldn’t let their other creations alone (even just a few of them) to their own devices to help her favorite kids. For a few hours.
What could possibly be more important than one creation thats about to experience genocide (not just another creation, but her favorite one, too!)?
Im still convinced it was genocide. While, yes, there are still Nelves, they don’t reproduce very often. Tyrande and Malfurion have been together for how long and still don’t have kids of their own?
Elune didn’t do enough, knowing full well that her favorites are doomed to die out on Azeroth, so that her sister can milk them for Anima.

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I don’t understand why you think she would even know about the attack. Again, she’s just an Eternal One. She’s not omniscient. It wasn’t even until the WQ somehow sent word to her that she knew anything was wrong.

How would she know that Teldrassil was under attack?

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I never said she foresaw the attack.
Im trying to question why she couldn’t have teleported at least some of them out of Teldrassil. Instead, she let them all die.

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How would she know she needed to. How does she know they are in trouble?

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She knew enough to put them all to sleep in Teldrassil to ease their pain.
She knew enough that everyone still in/on Teldrassil was in that much pain.
But instead of removing them from the cause of this massive pain that everyone in Teldrassil was experiencing, she left them there.
If that much widespread pain doesn’t trigger a red flag, I don’t know what would.

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Remove them how?

You’re assuming she has all these powers. She arrives in time to put them to sleep (which is something I think is iffy but I’ll run with that since it ties in with the Emerald Sleep (which wasn’t her doing but still, we’ll run with it). But what lore precedent explains her being able to “teleport” and estimated 70,000 elves even if she was able to arrive in time to do so.

EDIT- also she only knew that they were dying after the actual burning of the tree began when the priestesses started praying for her to take away their pain.

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She could have removed them via teleportation. There are many places she could have sent them to. Hyjal, Moonglad, Winterspring, major Alliance settlements…

And there wasn’t a single prayer to Elune for help during the entire time of the burning?
Sure, the tree was being bombarded with fire, it was chaos… but not one prayer up until it was too late?

I know I’m sounding like a total D-Bag, but the writing for these last couple expansions has just been unsettling in a few places.
Please do keep bringing up points! Quite possible I’m missing a few details. With how fast the lore changes, its hard to keep up.

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I don’t think you read what I say, because I ask you how she would know they are dying and you respond with:

Later I ask you how she would teleport 70,000 elves and you respond with:

HOW would she teleport 70,000 elves?

I mean, I’m not arguing that the writing is less than stellar. But regardless I still see no reason Elune should have been able to save them unless she happened to be on Azeroth in the days leading up to the attack, which is just not reasonable given that she has an entire universe to keep her occupied.

For all we know she could have been busy “saving” someone else at that time.

Remember, she is NOT a goddess. She is an Eternal One.

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Im not so sure youre quite reading my responses as well, so this will be my last.
We never actually see her appear on screen, yet she somehow put everyone to sleep. I don’t know where you’re getting the 70,000 number from, so I’m going to assume you mean “everyone on Teldrassil.” If she was never there, how would she have put them all to sleep? If she never had to be physically present for everything she has done, I doubt she would have needed to be present to shuffle a few thousand elves at most to other parts of the world.
As I’ve tried to mention before, she couldn’t have saved SOME of them? By the time she got her butt around to responding, they could not have ALL been so far gone. that they ALL had to die. Teldrassil is a big place.
We also don’t know how much of the universe she oversees. Having the “entire universe” to watch makes me think she is more godly than being an “Eternal One.”

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Because her powers are specific and finite and such a thing was beyond them.

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Exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to him. :woman_shrugging: People seem to think “goddess” means all powerful, everything possible.