Easily my biggest complaint about that final season. Over and over, they told us the war for the throne didn’t matter compared to the one against the dead. The show even opens with rangers going north, which means it’s the central theme, yet there we were at the finale, watching an anti-climatic resolution where it doesn’t even end with one throne but two. It’s like the writers completely forgot what they wrote. Kind of similar to the episode with the three eyed raven telling Bran over and over, “The past is written, the ink is dry,” then watching Bran change the past, present, and future. Or hearing how tough Dorne and the Sand Snakes were, only to watch them get wrecked by a pirate. Or Samwell being told Grey Scale is impossible to cure, then curing it with ease as an untrained maester that read a single book about it.
I’m glad the spin-offs were cancelled. They butchered a masterpiece.
He clearly to clean out the bickering Cosmic Forces and build up his army from scratch not realizing that he is out of time! The Enemy is already on his doorstep and he is removing the defenses to replace them without having enough time to replace them!
He failed to consider that he had no time to face the threat coming for everyone for if he did consider that fact he could have simply just opened the way from the Maw and sent his Burning Legion-sized Army of Mawsworn to Azeroth to help weather the coming storm!
He should have grabbed all the Maldraxxi Allies, Forsworn, Venthyr Loyalists, Nathrezim and Mawsworn, built up his armies and sent them to defend Azeroth the moment the Enemy showed up!
It’s not like anyone ever encountered Mawsworn, Venthyr or Forsworn so them showing up to defend Azeroth from the 7th Cosmic Force the second it began invading would have endeared them to Azeroth!
Instead Zovaal wanted to wipe out all Cosmic Forces and try to build up an army from scratch without realizing he is out of time for that!
Because the Nathrezim claimed that the Void Lords(agents of the Indistinct Shadow) would create a nightmarish world of Torment everywhere just so that Sargeras would target the Void Lords alongside the Light and Life as a test run for a greater army.
Unfortunately as N’Zoth stated: “The Light has struck a bargain with the enemy of all.” and as Il’gynoth has stated: “The Vassal of Life disguises treachery. Beware the eyes of green.”
Once all of that happened Denathrius immediately resorted to aiding Zovaal’s plan as his own plan to use the Shadow as a training target for a united Army of Cosmic Forces ultimately led to the Light and Life siding with the true Darkness: The True Void…
Sargeras of course decided to do exactly what the True Void itself wanted: wipe out all of existence! If the True Void showed up in front of Sargeras and explained it’s true nature I’m sure Sargeras only knowing of the Shadow being a Cosmic Force bringing Torment(instigated by the Nathrezim to make them a training target) would readily side with the True Void just so that he can erase everything!
Sargeras, the Light and Life have all fallen into the schemes of the True Void with those seeking to stop the True Void(I.E. the Nathrezim, Void Lords and Zovaal) shooting themselves in the foot out of recklessness and not thinking out the consequences of their actions!
The only question I have is this… at the end of the Jailer cinematic, the hole above ice crown closed. Does this mean we are now stuck in the Shadowlands?
But would the portals still remain if the rift to the shadowlands closed? I don’t think so.
It wouldn’t make sense based on the lore that was told at the beginning.
They had the opportunity to actually do some good writing. We could have gone looking for Varian in the shadowlands so we could get his help with Anduin. Instead, they had this wacky FFXIV Heavensward scene that didn’t really make sense. Either Varian entered the shadowlands and was there, or his soul was completely destroyed by the fel. Having some spirit show up out of nowhere doesn’t hold water.
There’s a problem, thiks story is being written by the mental equivalent of a 3 year old so linking plots together will never work. They have hyped up void lords SO MUCH that anything less than the entire planet shattering will make it all for nothing.
Void lords will be kamehameha’d to death just like N’zoth, this company can’t even muster a wet fart anymore to try and make you care about anything.
unless… UNLESS… remember the statues of Stormwind representing the heroes who closed the Dark Portal from the other side? what if we now begin and expansion-long voyage home?
What were his motives? It depends on when you drop into the plot.
He wants to escape from the Maw.
He wants to capture Korthia.
He wants to capture and dominate various characters (he’s kinky that way).
He wants to be powerful.
He wants to get the Covenant leaders’ gems as his own gear is lacking.
He wants to get to Zerith Mortis to get something from the Sepulcher. (Which is an odd name if you think about it, because a sepulcher is basically part of a graveyard where you inter bodies, like a tomb.)
He wants to destroy reality and dominate everyone (although how you can do that if everything is destroyed was not really made clear).
He wants to…warn us that if we think he’s bad, just wait till yous all see the Currently Unknown Adversary or Adversaries.
So what were his motives? Bagged if I know. Because it is apparently the right way to write the story of warcraft to be (a) illogical, (b) misleading and (c) rather badly written because nobody with any writing skill creates a storyline which springsa completely untelegraphed ultimate power and expects it to actually work.