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A Sylvanas Redemption Might Actually Be Good - Arlee In Azeroth | MMORPG.com
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A Sylvanas Redemption Might Actually Be Good - Arlee In Azeroth | MMORPG.com
Robin is back with her latest installment of Arlee in Azeroth, and this time she's talking a little Sylvanas Windrunner, and how a redemption arc might be a good thing.
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If they pull it off, it'll be legendary
Along side Alexandros, Varian, Tirian, Draka......fk'n hell. Exploring death is like opening pandora's box.
Watched the video and there was a excellent point made, the platform is not only an entrance, but also the exit to our reality. Hmmm?
It's time to turn Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson and Uma Thurman loose on them... and enjoy it
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Illidan and Grommash....so I dont think a lot of people would be surprised with Sylvanas. The thing about Sylvanas though is that she's always tried to do stuff like this, just on a smaller scale. From her perspective, it makes 'sense' because how else is her 'race' supposed to 'pro-create.' Her race essentially 'dies' in wars for the horde yet her own faction is disgusted with the idea of raising dead enemies and/or allies to replenish her ranks. So essentially, the undead were always seen as 'tools.' I'm not saying her motivations are 'right' or 'wrong' but it does add a bit more depth to her character than probably others. Keep in mind too that undeath is something that BOTH light and void fear. Again, the real problem is that half of this stuff isn't really provided in game and some of the stuff that is, you kind of need to go out of your way to find.
Her actions made me think she still had a link to the Lich King's mind. But that is Bolvar...he has no malicious plans, just maintenance of the scourge...
But, being the Ranger General, stalker of stalkers, scout of scouts, what if she could see in this mind link that Bolvar was fighting something else...that he was not the only other entity involved in that link. Then using her skills she found The Jailer was tormenting Bolvar, and he was resisting like the badass he is. At some point, some small window of time when the link with the Jaileror the Maw or whatever was down Sylvannas revealed herself to Bolvar and together they orchestrated a plan, a ruse;
How do you get Anduin and Tyrande to show up to fight the Jailer and his forces without tipping your hand that you know the Jailer's plans? How do you bring an army of the living to the afterlife; assuming you don't know "The Champion" can open gates to allow this?
Burn Teldrassil to conscribe scores of Night Elves to an Undead army; Piss off Tyrande to become a fabled, legendary Night Warrior; make Anduin the "conduit" of the Jailer, also proving his resolve to be on the right side by giving him a choice;
Choice, choice, choice. She can't tell them or explain to them; it must be their individual choice...
Nathanos has been interdicting those scores of Night Elves; perhaps hidden among the thralls (sorry pun lol) of the Jailer's army;
At just the right moment; everyone is there; Sylvannas reveals all perhaps sacrificing herself, Bolvar coaches Anduin how to break free using his experience in mental battle with the Jailer, Tyrande takes command of the Undead Night Elf army;
The Jailer is there alone against an Undead army Sylvannas commands, An Undead Night Elf Army Tyrande commands, Anduin and Bolvar, and the Four sigil-holders and their forces.
WHY?
Because they exhausted the existing story that concluded in WC3 and now they had a successful game where they had to continue the story. But a game is considered successful, mostly due to its mechanics, story is secondary. I even know people who can't speak English and were more addicted to WoW than I was, they gave jack shit about the story and just enjoyed the game for what it was - leveling, PvE, PvP.
So story is obviously secondary in WoW and this can be perfectly seen since WoTLK and CATA and onwards to the latest expansion.
Simply put the story is developed around gameplay mechanics, not the other way around. This makes for one massive mess of a story that stopped making sense more than 10 years ago, it just keeps on going - back and forth, copy-paste, back and forth, copy-paste. A couple of expansions' themes were literally the same thing:
WoD and Legion feel like TBC 2.0 and TBC 3.0 with the stupid demon theme
BfA was literally like Vanilla 2.0 due to the theme of Alliance and Horde fighting each other being the main focus
Shadowlands feels like WoTLK 2.0 with how it involves the Lich King and Anduin also becomes something like a Lich King
The story is simply put a shitshow. They just can't come up with anything new anymore and it shows left and right.
I just keep wondering what kind of people still pay for this game, it's like kept on life support at this point with nothing new or interesting happening to it. I expect at one point when subscription numbers get so low that nothing they do will increase them, they will make WoW F2P, probably in the sense of ESO, where some of the newer expansions still have to be purchased.
See.. that's exactly the sort of redemption of Sylvanas I wouldn't at all be ok with. To have killed so many just to manipulate people into this would be terrible. It would make all the terrible things she's done worse, not better.
They'll probably do something lame like bind her and rest her character from plots for a bit. Then she'll be unbound in desperation in a future storyline... which will give her an anti-hero arch.
IKR, It is the most redeeming scenario I can dream up otherwise it is some other weird nonsense where she is killed and that's that. A complete waste of a decade of her story and character arc.