Originally Posted by
Ivion
The final thing I've come to realize, is that people don't know who Sylvanas is. You think she cares an iota about the Forsaken? Never. Not from their first day of freedom, to now. She views the Forsaken as her own personal cannon fodder. They exist to serve her whim, they exist to protect her. She doesn't give half a crap about the 'rights' of the Forsaken, how Lordaeron was once their home. She doesn't care about them finding their place in the world. She cares about her army. You think she cares about the Blood Elves? Of course not, because she asks to raise them up as her own Forsaken when they die, to the point where Lor'themar, her former second in command basically tells her that he'll kill her if she tries it.
Sylvanas is now a character, driven by fear. When she killed herself at Icecrown, she went to the Void, or, Hell if you prefer. She saw torment, agony, pain, all that jazz. And then the Val'kyr pulled her out. Her every action now, is driven with the goal of avoiding going back to Hell for as long as possible. Her selfishness is beyond legendary, she is raising corpses out of the ground to serve as, in her own words 'my arrows against oblivion', with no care to their mental state. It's pretty clear that, by the Western Plaguelands, newly raised Forsaken don't have free will (they get raised up and immediately shrug and say "For the Horde", despite fighting the Horde just seconds ago). Her endgame is to keep herself 'alive' as long as she possibly can, and to do that, she rips people who may have been in paradise back into the world, shoved into a rotting body and forced onto the front lines to serve her twisted immortality.
THAT is Sylvanas Windrunner. Give up your foolish notions of a loving being who treats the Forsaken like her children and still harbors warmth for her Blood Elven neighbors. Give up your image of someone who has the best interests of literally anyone beyond herself.
That is Sylvanas Windrunner.
And I personally can't wait to send her back to the void.