Originally Posted by
Kathranis
Yes, obviously, they didn't need to do a story where Sylvanas killed thousands of night elves -- I agree. But that's not really what people are arguing.
They're acting like Elune was somehow responsible for it. She wasn't. Period. She was powerless to stop it.
If you don't like that as a direction for the story, then by all means, say that. I get it. I haven't been happy with the Teldrassil arc, either, even more so because I don't care for Sylvanas's motivations, and it's not what I was hoping for with her storyline (which was to rise to the occasion and become a true leader for her people, back after the events of the Broken Shore).
And I get that you and others wanted Elune to be some sort of almighty deity that saves the day or gives justice to the fallen, and instead they're telling a story where Elune is fallible and imperfect and maybe even kind of aloof and uncaring, and Tyrande is going to have to choose between killing Sylvanas or saving her victims, which makes you worried that Sylvanas will be let off the hook.
Personally, I think there's still a lot of interesting stuff to discuss here, with this new bit of context. I don't know if Blizzard can, or is even capable, of delivering on this story. But I'm not interested in just dismissing everything out of hand, because that's just boring.
What's interesting to me about this is what this all means for Elune's place in the cosmology. It now seems very unlikely to me that she is part of the Pantheon of Light, which was always a bit suspect, given the whole aesthetic of Elune's powers. Rather, everything seems to point to her being part of the Pantheon of Life; Ysera, the wisps and their tethering to the forests of Azeroth, and now, what seems to be Elune's role in rebirthing the spirits of the wild in Ardenweald.
And it now makes me wonder if they might reveal that Elune and the Winter Queen have a brother that's part of the Pantheon of Light, given the relationship between Mu'sha and An'she in tauren mythology.
And beyond the cosmology, it makes me wonder how the night elves will grapple with knowing that their goddess isn't all powerful. Will some of them reject her? Perhaps this will lead to some night elves worshipping the Light. I think that would be interesting, too.