I don't really blame them it was shady true, but given the additional information we received later on, Muru wanted to save these broken, desperate souls and the only way he saw he was able to do it was the way he did things. But maybe that is just me, I myself believe after all the cleansing of stratholme was necessary, simply because I let Malganis win once and was overrun by super Zombies^^
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Though the new sunwell directly contradicts that as well every blood elf can now tap into the light even if they don't believe, though if this exposure to the light will change them in the near future remains to be seen, blizzard themselves said the blood elven society will change slowly.
It is only hypocritical if you want it to be.
I don't see anything hypocritical about a force being powered off of "will", or what have you.
Just because he predicted their actions through their power lust, does not mean the power lust is not an issue.
To be honest, I'm not really sure how the physics of the new sunwell work. Sure we know it's a beacon of light, but does it inherently attune all blood elves to wield holy magic? Will it "imbue" them with light over time? I really don't know, but I think that if so, the sunwell then would work like a "cheat code" for using the light in lieu of more established metaphysics explanations. I don't really like this idea that much, but I can see it happening.
Why hypocrisy? The "Greater Good" has always been a subjective idea, never an absolute; and a group's own line of justification is righteous as long as it doesn't contradicts itself, which would be required to be hypocrisy.
Velen was the one who foresaw what would happen, Muru just acted accordingly. Their power lust really isn't an issue, since at a certain point they have no interest to gather more power or to advance their territory, which is why they lived in isolation for thousands of years.
I knew that Muru sacrificed himself to reignite the Sunwell and to redeem the Blood Elves, but that he willingly let himself be tortured by them is news to me. Because that doesn't make any sense. Why would he let the Blood Elves force him to aid them, if he could've just actively aided them.
It was in the dialogue between Liadrin and A'dal if I am not mistaken.
Lady Liadrin says: I've come to realize our path was a false one. We were betrayed by the man we called our prince. In his lust for power, he sent the felblood to attack us, and spirit M'uru away to the Sunwell.
A'dal says: Both our peoples suffered greatly at the hands of Kael'thas and his agents, Lady Liadrin. Your people were not the authors of their own fate, but they will die if they do not change.
A'dal says: M'uru accepted his role in this long ago, knowing full well what would happen to him. Will you accept your own?
Lady Liadrin says: I... I don't understand. You -- and M'uru -- knew all along that this would occur?
A'dal says: It wasn't I who foretold it, but Velen of the Draenei:
A'dal says: 'Silvery moon, washed in blood,'
A'dal says: 'Led astray into the night, armed with sword of broken Light.'
A'dal says: 'Broken, then betrayed by one, standing there bestride the sun.'
A'dal says: 'At darkest hour, redemption comes, in knightly lady sworn to blood.'
Then it depends on what "his role" means. If his role was to die in order to reignite the Sunwell then that makes sense. If Muru knew right from the beginning his powers were going to be drained by the people he was supposed to help anyway, why didn't he just actively help them. "Hey guys, I know you want to use my power, let's just make this all easier on everyone involved"
In the case that Muru really willingly let himself be tortured by them, I still think what the Blood Elves did was wrong. Simply because they didn't know Muru was playing along and accepted his role in the whole thing. They still thought they were bending his will to their plans.
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But basically you are putting under scrutiny the nature itself of prophecy and fate, and in a universe like warcraft you shouldn't do that. M'uru's fate was written and he just played the part it was assigned to him, how do we know how much sense this made to him? he was a creature millennial old, elves but mayflies to him, a ripe fruit. How do we know what he feels to be reborn as a beacon of light, eternal? maybe he will outlive the blood elves, who at the end are just soldiers for the Army of Light (theres some manipulation in her, but does it matter for the good of the universe?)
The themes here about life and death and rebirth and eternity are just to great to be affected by what might be considered "practical" to the younger races.
Prophecy all fine and good, he can still sacrifice himself for the Sunwell, but why play it out like that on the way there. It just would've made more sense if Muru would've aided them.
That I totally get. But it still doesn't make any sense that he didn't just actively fight the Scourge in Quel'Thalas. He basically made it harder for the Blood Elves, when the whole reason behind drawing from his powers was to make it easier. In any way it's just not believable. It doesn't make sense that a character would act that way.
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What battles against the Alliance? The ones they fought after they turned their back on the Alliance and joined their mutual enemy?
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A great deal of things in wow universe make little sense, take Sylvanas actions for example, she knows she is pretty much doomed instead of laying low, maybe even disappearing for several hundred years, until most young races have forgotten most of her cruelty, she risks her neck on the battlefield.
My guess would be killing Garithos men, while escaping their prison.
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