Originally Posted by
Super Dickmann
Sylvanas is a lost cause. None of the three writers write her well. Afrasiabi has her as a strawman to jerk off about muh honor, Golden has her as a strawman to jerk off over human potential and Danuser has her as his favorite's waifu but has more interest in Nathanos than he does in Sylvanas herself. Hence why in the next patch she has all of 40 seconds of dialogue of which half is twirling her mustache and the other half is talking about Nathanos. The best characterization she's received so far was from Brooks, but then Brooks also produced the best (i.e only good) Saurfang thus far by an order of magnitude. It's a crime he's put in the novella ghetto while these hacks get to do their thing.
This would be fine if the writers recognized that the Forsaken had more going for them than Sylvanas and more reasons for their direction than that the Grey Woman told them that humans were bad, but we're dealing with a team completely ignorant of the Forsaken or in Golden's case, actively against their present direction. That and they write characters, not societies. Since Sylvanas is a wash and the Nathanos-stan in this lacks interest in the Forsaken as whole, Voss and bizzarely enough Derek being told he can't go home again are the only signs we have of the living-dead divide staying and by proxy the Forsaken's characterization staying.
While I deeply dislike Afrasiabi's influence in this one, he is less damaging than Golden in the long term in the sense that once Sylvanas dies or runs off or whatever his interest in the Forsaken vanishes and he can just write about muh honor to his heart's content. That and if he really was the guy to do Silverpine, which I think was more Kosak's baby, he knows that he can do both orcs and Forsaken and have them both be in character. Drek'thar's spiel looks like something he'd make and that was really good, ditto the counterpoint with Cromush and Orkus as more positive orcish interactions with the Forsaken.
That said, both he and Golden are pro-unifaction and thus pro-reconciliation, which is irrelevant for the Kalimdor Horde given that orcs are basically a dead race since Mists, so who cares, but terrible for the Forsaken because it leans in a pro-Caiia direction. I think the entire team is either ambivalent towards Calia, since for instance Danuser is only interested in Nathanos and Sylvanas rather than the Forsaken as a whole, or pro-Calia like Golden and Afrasiabi are.