Trust me on this… age doesn’t guarantee maturity as much a it does stubbornness, a reinforced feeling that you’re right and everyone else is slow.
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Because Blizzard never game any real thought to implications. They put down that races are ancient and then forget about it when writing them.
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Red Dragons can use their fire breath to harm if they choose to. The Red Dragons used it in the Battle of Wrathgate as both weapon and cleanser.
We also see Alexstraza use it as a weapon in-game during her battles with Deathwing and Razageth.
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To be fair, this isn’t National Geogrpahic, it’s just set up for either a C&C game or the next set of dungeons and raids.
A character’s age has been shown to be irrelevant in this setting multiple times. If a character’s age actually mattered in how knowledgeable and experienced they were, 10,000 year old elves wouldn’t need lessons from and/or cower in fear before middle aged humans. If age and experience mattered, an 18 year old boy wouldn’t have been put in a leadership position over races that have been alive since before his people even existed.
It’s rule of cool, just like everything else in WOW.
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All the dialogue ive seen recently suffers from this. The tyrs guard questline is a glaring example of this. Blizz writers cannot write dialogue for camraderie amongst hardened soldiers or ancient beings or anything. Everything sounds like its a step off being in a tumblr fan fiction.
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Generally, I agree with you… just pointing that out.
This assumes that Night Elves “learn” like humans do. It’s possible they don’t. It’s also possible that once they get “good enough” they just effectively stop learning and basically go on autopilot. After all, for the longest time they were immortal, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard quite often from my elders about how… “It was good enough for their grandparents…”
This is the most likely answer though.
We also have the opposite case with Wrathion, where a baby dragon managed to make his own order of super elite rogues and do all kinds of weird stuff.
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I wonder if perhaps dragons have something like the old idea of genetic memory?
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Confirming my belief that dragons emotionally age in reverse. Especially with Wrathion; he went from being a hyper-capable emotionless manipulator to a pouty brat as soon as Sabellion also tried a manipulate.
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I feel like most writers make their characters behave like angsty teens, whether it’s in games or TV shows or whatever. Maybe it’s always been that way.
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Because they need to be written for a modern audience, continuity be damned.
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There is also the weird thing with Senegos.
He is the only dragon that seems old, which is weird, becauss the aspects, that should precede him all look young, but senegos is somehow old? How old does a dragon have to be to be old?
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Something something Aspect Power something something.
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Excuse me ma’am, but the proper term is…
Ah-Spectral Powers.
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By being a half-decent fantasy writer. None of this is unprecedented.
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You can’t really know what it is like to live for millennia. But you can present interesting possibilities. That is what a writer who takes such things seriously would do.
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I don’t know I ask the same thing about Elves in General or Trolls being like angsty teens.
Because Blizzard is defined at this point by its terrible fantasy writing.
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Nonsense. Modern audiences like good fantasy writing. Just look at…dozens of other successful fantasy IPs.
Do people have low standards? On that we agree. Do people somehow NOT like competent writing? That doesn’t even make sense.
I will never.
Ever.
Forgive Blizzard for “silence, Tyrande”.
Terrible writing, terrible worldbuilding, all in the service of sexism and human “potential”.
It makes me want to vomit acidic blood on whoever wrote it.