
Originally Posted by
Koollan
Merithria is a night elf dragon with green hair. Ysera is a night elf dragon with green hair. Considering Ysera was an aspect, one could also assume that similar fixings / clothing would be used for a new aspect. Just because a night elf with green hair has similar clothes to Ysera doesn't really prove a whole lot, especially with the facial markings.
People got it wrong because it was very simple to get it wrong through the context we were provided. Ysera was dead. Merithra is not. We had no reason to believe Ysera would magically come back from the dead through deus ex machina.
But Blizzard is Blizzard. People who 'obviously' knew that the art was Ysera also 'obviously' had intricate knowledge of how she would be resurrected. Do you see the logic?