Winter Queen's Sister Reveal (Spoilers)

[username993720]

I liked how Elune looked in the official WoW RPG(though it's not considered as canon)

And now she looks like a children's book character:

Could this be how Azeroth looks like?

the tiatns look like the race of their own planet, like argus looking like an eredar.

How the hell did you reach that conclusion?
They look nothing alike (except for the blue skin):

[TheFirstOnes]

@username993720

That Elune design is simply of a Folklore book. May not even be her real design. Tyrande's design from the recent 9.1 Cinematic leak looks VERY much akin to the RPG Elune design. Not to mention the Titans kept their RPG designs mainly.

[Hellspawn]

@username993720

The big one is Elune, the small one the blue child (small moon of Azeroth)
The other Person is the Earth Mother and its pretty clear in the book that the Earth Mother is not Azeroth (Titan)

I think the fairytale book should be taken with a big grain of salt since its an unreliable narrator and that is probably true for the art aswell.

[username993720]

@username993720

That Elune design is simply of a Folklore book. May not even be her real design. Tyrande's design from the recent 9.1 Cinematic leak looks VERY much akin to the RPG Elune design. Not to mention the Titans kept their RPG designs mainly.

What 9.1 cinematic? can you link it here? i might have missed it...

@username993720

The big one is Elune, the small one the blue child (small moon of Azeroth)
The other Person is the Earth Mother and its pretty clear in the book that the Earth Mother is not Azeroth (Titan)

I think the fairytale book should be taken with a big grain of salt since its an unreliable narrator and that is probably true for the art aswell.

Isn't the Blue Child supposed to be the Winter Queen? because she said they were sisters.

Can i get a quote? haven't read the book, so i don't know what is said about the Earth Mother.

To me, everything they release is meant to imply and hint at something in the future. So, i'm not taking it with a grain of salt. I believe it was very intentional.

[Raetary]

Isn't the Blue Child supposed to be the Winter Queen? because she said they were sisters.

No, that was only speculation.

Each folktale in the fairytale book portrays the blue child as Elunes daughter.

What 9.1 cinematic? can you link it here? i might have missed it...

https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated...ematics-322917


It's just one scene that they forgot to edit out from one of the promos, not the whole cinematic.

[username993720]

No, that was only speculation.

Each folktale in the fairytale book portrays the blue child as Elunes daughter.

Oh, she has a daughter now? cool... i wonder who it is (and with whom). So, Cenarius has a sibling? Winter Queen is their aunt?

https://www.wowhead.com/news/updated...ematics-322917


It's just one scene that they forgot to edit out from one of the promos, not the whole cinematic.

She looks nothing like her (to me):

[Aucald]

This is the full cinematic, which is currently the background of the 9.1 reveal page on the official site:

[Raetary]

Oh, she has a daughter now? cool... i wonder who it is (and with whom). So, Cenarius has a sibling? Winter Queen is their aunt?

Sorry, i was wrong.
In 'Eyes of the Earth Mother' the blue child is the Earth moms Tear, which essentially makes them Mu'sha and An'she's sibbling.
In 'The Embrace' she is Elunes daughter, born of Elunes love for Azeroth.

Wowpedia has summaries of each story
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Eye...e_Earth_Mother
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Embrace

[username993720]

This is the full cinematic, which is currently the background of the 9.1 reveal page on the official site:

They just painted her with starlight.
Do you think it will be a customization option for a Night Warrior class?

Sorry, i was wrong.
In 'Eyes of the Earth Mother' the blue child is the Earth moms Tear, which essentially makes them Mu'sha and An'she's sibbling.
In 'The Embrace' she is Elunes daughter.

Wowpedia has summaries of each story
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Eye...e_Earth_Mother
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Embrace

Two different sources?
Which one is canon?

[Aucald]

They just painted her with starlight.
Do you think it will be a customization option for a Night Warrior class?

Unsure on that score. From what I can piece together from the PTR, it seems Tyrande isn't fully de-powered or stops being the Night Warrior, she's only stabilized by offloading the power she can't control among the other Night Warrior souls. It seems possible, even likely, that something will happen with this in the same vein as the Night Warrior customization Night Elves got previously, although what that will be and to what extent I can't say.

[Raetary]

Two different sources?
Which one is canon?

Same source, they are both short stories of the same books.

The Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth is a collection of short stories from all kinds of in-universe cultures.

[username993720]

Same source, they are both short stories of the same books.

The Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth is a collection of short stories from all kinds of in-universe cultures.

So, who is she? a sister to the Sun and Moon or the Moon's child?

[Raetary]

So, who is she? a sister to the Sun and Moon or the Moon's child?

We don't know.
Hence why @Hellspawn said to take them with a grain of salt.

They are just folktales.
Literally bedtime stories Night elves and Tauren (and other cultures for the other stories) tell their children or smaller cultural ongoings like the dragon's visage day.

[username993720]

We don't know.
Hence why @Hellspawn said to take them with a grain of salt.

They are just folktales.
Literally bedtime stories Night elves and Tauren tell their children.

Maybe there's some incest involved

Just kidding.

[huth]

So, who is she? a sister to the Sun and Moon or the Moon's child?

It's literally from an in-universe fairy tale book. For all we know, both are bogus.

[username993720]

It's literally from an in-universe fairy tale book. For all we know, both are bogus.

They won't go to such lengths to write bogus.

[Frontenac]

So, who is she? a sister to the Sun and Moon or the Moon's child?

Both and none. Read the title carefuly: Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth. It's like Azeroth's Mother Goose Tales.

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They won't go to such lengths to write bogus.

Why not? I believe it's good world building.

[huth]

They won't go to such lengths to write bogus.

It's an in-universe fairy tale book. It's primary purpose is showing us how the people of Azeroth see their world, not what that world really is like.

And, if we want to get technical, the entire game's story is bogus. So, er, of course they would. They don't really have any other option.

[username993720]

Both and none. Read the title carefuly: Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth. It's like Azeroth's Mother Goose Tales.

Yea, but it's meant for a fantasy game. It's fanta-ception

Why not? I believe it's good world building.

How? if it's not canon...

It's an in-universe fairy tale book. It's primary purpose is showing us how the people of Azeroth see their world, not what that world really is like.

And, if we want to get technical, the entire game's story is bogus. So, er, of course they would. They don't really have any other option.

As i already wrote, it's a fantasy story inside a fantasy game. That's a paradox
They probably don't want to commit anymore, since they had to retcon their Chronicle books.

[Aucald]

How? if it's not canon...

As i already wrote, it's a fantasy story inside a fantasy game. That's a paradox

WoW has always been full of perspective-based internal fiction - you can find books sprinkled all over the in-game world that make wild suppositions, outright fabrications, and any number of erroneous conclusions by Azeroth's denizens like Brann Bronzebeard. It's not a paradox for a fantasy game to contain unreliable narrators or characters who put their own perspectives ahead of factual information due to bias or a desire to deceive.