We’ll never know.
I’ll concede this, regardless I can’t imagine feeling any pity for him if Xe’ra was successful.
I don’t really feel terribly bad for Xe’ra either to be fair because she did idolize him so…
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Let’s not forget how terrible the story was in TBC.
Killing Kael’thas was the worst mistake they ever made.
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It was actually okay, just told kind of weirdly and quite poorly.
Fans are too invested in their fan favourite characters to have a proper narrative understanding of the character. The logical conclusion here is then getting all pissy for years on end about how the lore was bad.
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A big part of why it was terrible is exactly that; it was poorly told and written weird.
The antiheroic Illidan who we left off with in WCIII feels like a different guy from the actual villain slaver weirdo we got.
Kael’thas just suddenly being all kinda of evil and siding with the Legion felt pretty abrupt.
The cover villain, the guy who sold the expansion, who was hyped as the big bad of TBC, was defeated in the penultimate raid, only to get shown up by Sunwell as the real finale.
A couple zones just felt disconnected from what was going on everywhere else, and the overall story told in all the zones felt disconnected from everything else. Which, like, makes sense since Vanilla was much the same and storytelling via zone quests only became a more cohesive thing with Wrath and moreso Cata.
I have a whole lot of love for TBC, but objectively speaking from a storytelling perspective, it’s one of the weaker expansions. Even if you ignore the weird shifts with Illidan (which, to be fair, is a smaller issue) and Kael’thas (this one will always bug me), the story’s legs were broken compared to most of what came after and it just kinda hobbled along until the end.
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