This could end up going a similar route to the Klaxxi. Likely not, but it’s possible. The paragons and the Klaxxi were definitely not good people, but we did develop a solid mutual respect for each other while working towards a common goal. However, they did straight up say that if the old gods returned, they would join them (and they did).
The old queen refused the old golds and the severed threads seem follow her line of thinking while the Klaxxi were upfront about their allegiances, but they could still make a push for power in general to restore the glory of the nerubian empire. We might have to fight the severed thread leaders in the future.
Nerubians were set aside from their other Aqir members back in Wrath. They don’t want anything to do with old gods.
That said imagine a divine empire showed up and started expanding right next to your kingdom, around the same time Nerubians in Northrend got in hot water. Think the two would have a very difficult time existing next to each other.
It’s mostly because people saw someone mention Hanlon’s Razor on Twitter and since it’s very trendy have adopted it as a worldview.
People are quite hesitant to accept that real evil and malice exist and it’s much more comforting to attribute it to incompetence, poor leadership, or being “hoodwinked” into doing bad things.
When the reality is that some people, and in this case nerubians, are just evil.
This too. If you can convince yourself that evil isn’t a thing and that bad things only happen by accident, then the evil you are deliberately doing can be dismissed as accidental.
All while still having a very objective and non-relative interpretation of the actions of your “rivals” or “opponents” because they, of course, are truly evil.
That was actually Anduin, and well after he disappeared at the end of Hallowfall he conveniently reappeared singing a different tune about Nerubians.
Somewhat similar to how Archmage Drenden conveniently reappeared prior to the fall of Dalaran. And we know who was behind that reappareance. Might be the same case with Anduin.
Bolstering a civil war is a great way to weaken an oppenent, of course the Arathi would be inclined to support the efforts of the Nerubian efforts.
But provided the civil war ends with Xal’atath getting her Ascended out no longer tied to the former empire, the civil war would benefit Xal as well.
My imagination goes wild when I can’t log in. Please let the servers come back!
I was thinking this, the Widow, keeps calling me a morsel, literally making me feel like I’m a means to an end. and once she has no further use for me it’s like do you want T-bone, or sirloin cause cow is on the menu.
Oh, I’d be so pissed if they reused that plot point. This is a great opportunity for the factions to grow their tolerance of weird cultures and to not just have a race be a slave of the Old Gods.
Side note, some Nerubian NPC called the Mantid feral and that cracked me up.
Basically everything “evil” in WoW is neatly packaged into an enemy force we promptly identity and deal with.
I feel like we definitely aren’t “morally grey” anymore.
Either it’s goody-two-shoes, down-your-throat-Paladin-justice-Superman-good, or it’s outwardly evil and blatantly wrong ‘just because’.
Anduin/Thrall/Jaina is the former, Xal’atath is the latter.
There were good characters that straddled a middle line, like Saurfang, who agreed to burn Teldrassil but felt bad about it, but they don’t exist anymore lol.
And where the hell is Gallywix even???
We lack interesting, flawed, or even evil characters, save a handful.
because the writers are modern people from modern day southern california with a lot of guilt on their mind so they want to show “all cultures are equal” type thing and write characters with the foresight and self insert of a young California living liberal that studied English and creative writing for 4 years at an expensive uni.