We could have planted the tree seed in the Hyjal tree, or under it, or near it, and make it make more sense then having the new Nightelf hotspot be in the Dragon Isles. Are we really just giving up all that land to the Horde? Ten thousand years of history just given up and abandoned? I’m a horde player since day 1 but this just feels so wrong to me; I’m willing to do the mental gymnastics for bfa/SL but i can’t get down with the implications moving the tree has. You’re basically giving the horde free reign in every night elf zone and then saying oh well its ok you got this magic place where you and your families can now live; to me, it echoes another event that actually happened in human history. How about in this fictional universe the displaced people are allowed to return to their home?
It would have made more sense on Kalimdor. Feralas, or even Desolace would have been a good fit.
because… because… hey shut up.
Certainly makes you wonder why we fought over darkshore. Tyrande almost broke up the alliance in her fervor to retake the zone, yet was singing Elune’s praises when those souls we rescued got repurposed as a power source for the dragon aspects in their backyard, rather than returning them to their homeland.
What land are you talking about? Horde doesn’t get Mt Hyjal (where Nordrassil is) and Teldrassil wasn’t 10k years old lol. It was planted and grown after the Third War.
Look, one doesn’t just simply plant their seeds in Azeroth. It takes a little more druid magic then that. You can only do it in your dreams, your emerald dreams that is.
This is my tinfoil but I suspect it’s cause they have plans to make it a neutral hub in the Last Titan.
Hey don’t get in the way of people inventing things to be mad about.
The night elves don’t live on mount hyjal.
neither do Nelves apparently since they were living on the streets of stormwind instead of their ancestral home.
Because planting a tree on top of another tree doesn’t make too much sense?
Tree-ception
The Alliance has been banned from holding land in Kalimdor.
Knowing the Horde they would Mana Bomb or Burn Down any new settlement we establish then blame it on a scapegoat.
Or a real goat. Those Draenei are a sneaky folk.
I know it’s easy to whine endlessly about night elves here.
But lorewise, where does it actually state they are abandoning Kalimdor?
Are we making assumptions so we can have a cry about it?
…because the goal was to hide the tree, a product of the sacrifice of thousands of souls, somewhere it would be safe until it grew? Away from the primalists? And trigger-happy Horde?
Why is “place that’s impossible* to get to” and “arguably the richest soil in existence” and tended to by the greatest masters of cultivation on Azeroth somehow a bad idea?
What can we say? The writing isn’t exactly phenomenal these days.
The worst part is there’s a good chance all of this is years in the making. They’re just writing the in-between details.
You t hink the Night Elves might have felt a tad uncomfotable setting up house a zone away from Orgrimmar?
Why do you guys think anything will be “given up”? Unless Blizz completely revamps old zones like in Cata (they won’t) I assure you, nothing is changing with those areas. The idea that “oh no night elves are now no longer going to be in kalimdor” is ridiculous.
That’s what I’m saying. People are getting themselves into a cry over basically nothing as far as lore is concerned.
When they release another stupid lore book that directly states “all night elves relocated to the Dragon Isles and left Kalimdor forever”, then feel free to open the flood gates.