Maybe he's simply too busy to travel to stormwind and they wanted the focus to be on the ALLIANCE leaders reacting to the news. There was really no time to shove Rhegar in there. His absence is hardly a huge gaffe, if anything it would have been nice to see Valeera and Broll there since they were his companions, I would expect to hear complaints that we don't get a reaction from Valeera to his death more than I would complain about Rhegar not showing up.
I still can't get over Valeera not being acknowledged at all.
I'm pretty sure Valeera or Broll would kill him because they aren't fucking insane and didn't decide they loved being enslaved because reasons.
Rehgar's character really makes no sense. He went from slaver to being highly respected shaman in both the horde and the earthen ring for no reason at all.
I don't own a copy of the comics to verify but WoWpedia states Jaina gave him the blades.
http://wow.gamepedia.com/Shalamayne
EDIT: Oh wait you were probably talking about the Varian thing not the sword thing, my bad.
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He's most likely dead, I don't know what makes you think he's alive. Nobody, not even Anduin, is saying anything about Varian being missing or any ambiguity about his fate at all. Is it possible? Sure, but while you're free to theorize that he MAY be alive, at least until we see the cutscene which may or may not verify his death 100%, there's sure as hell no reason to ASSERT that he's alive, especially with so much emphasis being put on Anduin getting character development. Story wise it makes perfect sense to kill Varian here.
Despite Rehgar fandom, him being at Varian's funeral is totally inappropriate. And makes little sense even if the Alliance and Horde were on good terms.
Being a slave to someone is a pretty hard thing to forgive.
As others have pointed out, Valeera and Broll's absences are the more serious ones.
First - we didn't saw his body and still don't know for sure was it in the coffin or not. Second as i said Broken Shore is Wrathgate 2.0 so Bolvar = Varian. And back in WotLK we all was sure hes dead for good. Except one dragon talk - legion have same trick - Goldrinn spirit and crying Tiffin. Ofcourse we need cinematic but i'm sure blizzard don't show us his death and left mystery.He's most likely dead, I don't know what makes you think he's alive. Nobody, not even Anduin, is saying anything about Varian being missing or any ambiguity about his fate at all. Is it possible? Sure, but while you're free to theorize that he MAY be alive, at least until we see the cutscene which may or may not verify his death 100%, there's sure as hell no reason to ASSERT that he's alive, especially with so much emphasis being put on Anduin getting character development.
Or make us and Anduin believe what hes dead. I mean Varian can be "dead" whole Legion and shows up in one of the next expansion.Story wise it makes perfect sense to kill Varian here.
PS At blizzcon when they announced Legion IIRC blizzard said what they wanna put Varian's character progression in new different direction. King is dead - Hello Lo'Gosh.
It's fine to speculate, I'm not saying your theory is impossible, only that it has no evidence to assert that it's the truth or even likely. Sure, it's possible he survived. But making him go Logosh again wouldn't be a 'new' direction it would be regression. Varian put that life behind him when he realized he had a son and kingdom to take care of, and I think it would be rather bizaare to have him go Lo'gash the Barbarian. We'll have to wait and see, but so far there's no indication he survived. If the cinematic comes out and we don't see him die etc, then yeah the theory may hold some weight, but right now it's just speculation. And I'm not saying don't speculate, I'm saying don't act like said speculation has more weight behind it than it does.
Son is grown. And now when BL can destroy whole Azeroth i believe Stormwind need more warrior Varian than king Varian. Lo'Gosh was mostly in comics not in game. And this Shalamayne split have some reasons...But making him go Logosh again wouldn't be a 'new' direction it would be regression. Varian put that life behind him when he realized he had a son and kingdom to take care of, and I think it would be rather bizaare to have him go Lo'gash the Barbarian.
BTW when blizzard will release cinematic? At pre patch?If the cinematic comes out and we don't see him die etc, then yeah the theory may hold some weight, but right now it's just speculation.
It's possible, what I'm saying is don't inflate the likelihood of said speculation beyond what the evidence shows. So far there's no actual evidence of it. Him being able to swap the sword between dual wield and two hander isn't evidence that he's surviving. And we don't have the cinematic yet that actually shows his 'death.' I'm not saying the theory is wrong, we don't have enough info yet to disprove it. I'm saying it's not substantiated as of yet and won't be either way until we get the full story.
I don't know when we'll get the cinematics. It will either be at launch or shortly before launch.