"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Well the entire narrative is kind of self-serving in Jaina's part, really. Yes, she faced many traumas so her not having a 100% rational recollection of the events makes perfect sense. But the idea that she didndunuffin and the Horde just betrayed her out of the blue repeatedly isn't exactly factual.
It's probable that the comic just shows her perspective and isn't supposed to be taken as 100% objective facts. Or perhaps it's just another bit of retconning on the way to making the Horde baddies in the one story where a human was unequivocally the aggressor. Who knows.
No, you found someone who actually knows how this part of the industry works because I have a functional logic center in my brain:
Blizzard can't just hire a writer and tell them to go apeshit with their lore, that is now how this works... Blizzard plans expansions out years and years in advance, giving a writer free reign in the middle of that does not work - everything that person writes has to align with the lore Blizzard has already written, so they give that person the plot points of the book and that person fluffs it up into a novel, and then Blizzard, the entity which owns the license and commissioned the book, reads it to make sure it's what they want, and if it's not the parts they don't like get rewritten.
They don't pay for things to be part of their lore that they don't want as part of their lore, thinking otherwise is absolute insanity.
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A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.
Considering in golden's book she tries and tell Kalec that she did not leave because of the vote in legion and then in the comic it tells us she DID leave because of the vote. One is consistent with the game aka the comic. One is not which is the book, a book that is written by an author that protects her pet characters. If you read william kings blog detailing his writing process of the illidan novel blizzard does give writers a lot of free rein and control. Golden's bias is clear as day in the novel.
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These two things do not, in fact, contradict each other, she says in the book she's doing it for herself but the reason is still clearly the horde being in Dalaran, like she said, people must be true to their natures, and so must she - the Kirin Tor allowing Horde being in Dalaran is not something she, in her nature, can stand, and so instead of fighting the Kirin Tor over it she is leaving them to their (in her opinion from the comic, over-trusting) nature.
And yet, Blizzard still proofread the book and approved it, if there was something in there they didn't like they would have told him to re-write the offending parts.If you read william kings blog detailing his writing process of the illidan novel blizzard does give writers a lot of free rein and control. Golden's bias is clear as day in the novel.
Last edited by Schattenlied; 2018-05-22 at 04:37 PM.
A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.
Well, she's clearly lying to herself about ending the Horde as she had no problem with Thrall.
Hell, Vol'jin even sent her a letter to let her known that he understood what she had to go through and that there was no beef between them.
And now in her imagination she sees herself icing both of them and Rexxar relishing in Daelin's killing.
This world don't give us nothing. It be our lot to suffer... and our duty to fight back.
That sounds good. I'll look forward to doing the Alliance stuff in BfA and seeing where they go with her. I feel like BfA is really the make or break opportunity for a lot of this ongoing faction conflict stuff, and Jaina's characterisation is a part of that. If it winds up leading to a new status quo it's gonna be great, but if it meanders and repeats things we've already seen it'll really end up running itself into the ground.