Originally Posted by
Skeppio
Partially true. I mean, it makes sense that he had this anti-Legion plan all along. Pretty much everything he did in Outland originally was one big insurance for when Kil'Jaeden comes to rip him a new asshole. But what is being swept aside is that he did a lot of unjustifiable dick moves (attacking Shattrath, enslaving the Broken, draining Zangarmarsh, etc) and seemingly never made even one attempt to explain his plan to anyone. Like, there's a big nice city with nice crystals who also want to fight the Legion. And for some reason, instead of contacting them, Illidan decides "welp, they gotta die". I mean, those are not the actions of someone we're told is the biggest grandest noblest hero in the cosmos.