get em out of here
Where are the Worgen going, are they accompanying the Night Elves to Amirdrassil or somewhere else?
That's cool, I wonder if forsaken is going to get something like this as well in 10.3 or maybe they'll have to wait a little longer and it'll happen in like 11.0.5 or 11.1
I swear, we better have a questline involving the Worgen reclaiming Gilneas. Been waiting on that one since as far back as Cataclysm...Also, wtf didn't Gilneas get anything done during Battle For Azeroth? The Forsaken had been cleared out of Lordaeron, and the only other Horde presence besides Quel'thalas was a scattering of outposts owned by The Revantusk Tribe or The Defilers; neither of which would even boast enough firepower to take on the reunited Gilneas Liberation Front with the Horde focusing all of it's attention on holding Arathi and Darkshore.
They got Stonemasons Guilded kekw
So, this gave me a random thought, what if all this is setting up for the main city hub(s) in the next expac? Each faction getting a new/reclaimed City? Amirdrasil for Alliance and New Undercity for Horde? Tho I'd rather Undead build the new City above ground in that massive area around the old Castle. So much better than the cramped and sometimes confusing undercity of old
There should be cool characters visiting and even npc "adventurers" it's the capital of the entire alliance. It's immersive to have a city have more population and was kind of cool having nelfs even if they just had camps. It would even make a neat quest/WQ helping train npc adventurers who you later just see in a zone like throw them in a random world quest area or show them at dungeon or raid stone occasionally since the world outside cities is super barren of normal npcs. It could even be a cool way to introduce new players to types of content. Personally, anything that makes wow feel more like an actual lived in world instead of a hub based game is a plus imho.
I still think that Amirdrassil, a raid zone in an expansion that is going to be obsolete in November (because that’s how the community works) as the new Night Elf home is a really tonally deaf decision on Blizzard’s part. The way I liken it is if Blizzard moved the Forsaken to Icecrown. Because that’s pretty much the analogous development: obsolete zone that is designed around a raid and is nowhere near the ancestral home of the race in question - but has some thematic connective tissue to make it not be completely absurd. I get the idea that some Night Elves may want to make their homes there, but the entire population that survived the War of Thorns, as well as the Worgen? When the Forsaken, who were part of the aggressors got everything restored to them, including Gilneas (apparently? I may be wrong) is just a really distasteful take. Sometimes I feel that the sites and influencers are more concerned about being “right” than in whether the narrative choice makes sense and holding Blizzard accountable. The Night Elves were Night Elves before they had a Tree. Their home lands are a quarter if not a half a world away from this new World Tree (depending on if the current world map is all the planet or half of it). If “off Kalimdor” was even a thing, the Broken Shore makes more sense since at least they are Night Elf lands and while Suramar belongs to the Horde, Aszuna and Val’sharah do not.I guess my frustration is that the community plays hard and fast with the Night Elves just as much as Blizzard does. On one hand, it’s “cheating” and “not real" to give back the location that was Teldrassil (even though you can absolutely grow a new Tree from a dead stump) but on the other have the Night Elves cheerfully set up shop nowhere near their ancestral lands, as if they always lived in Trees and don’t care about the rest of the lands they call home in some fashion. If you want consistency it can’t be both ways. And it’s outright hypocrisy to be salty about the Night Elves possibly getting their original home restored and then be gleeful that is exactly what happened to the Forsaken, including amazingly being able to undo the Blight itself.In an ideal world, thematically both races would have their capitols restored, but changed, and the new racial start zones reflect the current state of that race. And if Amirdrassil was always supposed to be the new Night Elf zone, at the very least Blizzard should have put the Dragon Isles North of Kalimdor. That, at least makes sense and puts Amirdrassil closer to Northern Kalimdor. And if the decision was to always consign the Night Elves to an obsolete zone with a raid, then Hyjal made much more sense (though is fraught with complications).At the end of the day, the decision to make Amirdrassil the new Night Elf home is narratively disjointed and hypocritical in light of the Forsaken having everything the happened to them unwound. And it puzzles me, since for years Blizzard has been smacked for not doing right by the Night Elves. And while I will always be a fan of the art team, and usually have deep trust in Anne Stickney, I am just floored that Blizzard just keeps “Mr Bean fixing Whistler’s Mother” with the Night Elf storyline, to the point that if all my assumptions are wrong and the resolution of the Night Elves is something profound and unguessed, I would still be angry for having gone through years of distress to get to this point. That’s not good storytelling, and I certainly wouldn’t wish any other WoW race to go through anything similar. For those of us who enjoy the lore, we should have stories that end up being worth the journey. Being consigned to a dead zone in an obsolete expansion, where the aggressors win all is not a good story, and I cannot imagine a resolution that makes having gone through all the awful narrative decisions to date worth it.
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They'll still visit.
So, Night Elves are going to the rebuilded Kalimdor, or they are leaving Azeroth to live in Emerald Dream?P.S. Where are Worgens going to live? They had a couple of villages in Kalimdor...
That area is going to feel so empty now. Hope they do something neat with it down the line or it will just feel rather dead now
