Do you think Wrathion is Deathwings redemption?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Neltharion, an overly cool name for a pretty unfleshed character, even with a second chance at doing so. This is a video game, I'm not gonna buy the extra books cause you're too lazy to convey his lore in the game.

It's very challenging to get a character's lore ingame and make us relevant.

OT: I don't know if Wrathion will redeem the Black Dragonflight but I think he'll make them not "insane Old God serving Dragons"

[mjolnir1122]

Hardly, he is his own man.

If you look at his origin story, that he was taken as an egg by the red flight and 'cured' of the madness that inflicted the black flight by a titan artifact before he was born... what does Deathwing have to do with that?

Wrathion has forged his own path inspite of his father, not because of him. The concept of vicarious redemption is pure nonsense, Wrathion's deeds in no way redeem his fathers.

But they do actually, just not directly. No matter what, he is still the son of Neltharion, and assuming they flesh him out even more and bring him into more of a good guy role, he will have undone what his father did. Depending on the magnitude of what he does in the future, that will be even moreso.

If his true motives are protecting Azeroth, then he will have done what his father could not. Remember, Deathwing wasn't inherently evil, and thus in a way can't fully be blamed for the atrocities he committed.

Either way, he is forging his own path in spite of his father, and in doing so will either redeem his father or continue his legacy, depending on where they take his character.

[Redmage]

But they do actually, just not directly. No matter what, he is still the son of Neltharion, and assuming they flesh him out even more and bring him into more of a good guy role, he will have undone what his father did. Depending on the magnitude of what he does in the future, that will be even moreso.

If his true motives are protecting Azeroth, then he will have done what his father could not. Remember, Deathwing wasn't inherently evil, and thus in a way can't fully be blamed for the atrocities he committed.

Either way, he is forging his own path in spite of his father, and in doing so will either redeem his father or continue his legacy, depending on where they take his character.

No, they don't. The concept of vicarious redemption is ridiculous, the idea that if you murder a dozen people, that I can redeem you is just ridiculous. If Hitler's son cured cancer, ended world hunger, and personally apologized to every person even remotely affected by his father's actions would that make Hitler any less of a monster?