Why do some abuse victims/survivors identify with Sylvanas?

[Aderyn-antonidas (Aderyn)]

@Izhkarl-khazgoroth

Until blizzard says otherwise with a massive retcon this is incorrect.

People were given the option of accepting the ‘valkyries gift’ or not. Some accepted it, some rejected it and either couldn’t be raised or returned to death. Some had 2nd thoughts afterwards, went insane fled into the woods to howl into tree boles, or simply became mindless zombies.

I’m thinking specifically of the revamped Andorhal quests, where Sylvanas sends her val’kyr to raise the Alliance troops and civilians fighting in the city. They were forced into undeath and used against their former comrades, and there was nothing - at least in game - to indicate they were given any sort of agency at all.

While I’m not a big fan of Garrosh, I’ll give him credit for questioning what the difference between Sylvanas and the Lich King really was by that point.