And the Elves aren't sheep. You shouldn't takie prophecies like this literally.
When you look at it figuratively, it kind of makes sense.
She leads them, as in she's their goddess and the Night Elves revere and worship her, probably to the point of fanatism.Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herd of blind sheep.
So basically more of the above. "Mother Moon". The whole Night Elven social structure is built on the Elune faith.Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady.
So Elune taking the elven souls from Teldrassil. Over tall cliff could imply just the Maw since it's depicited in SL as being below all the other realms.She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupid sheepies!
The Maw, the Jailer and the Maw forces growing stronger. Why would Elune be happy about it? Who the hell knows, but you can expect anything from Blizzard nowadays. Wouldn't shock me if they revealed Elune was working with the Jailer, probably in some overdramatic cinematic.Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laugh as crows eat!
Thank you so much Blizzard, thank you.
Thank you for ruining Elune. You literally had one job.
Elune isn't of the Shadowlands, she's most likely of the realm of Life. The denizens of the Shadowlands don't like or trust her. Even her sister mistrusted her and her "pet," Ysera. That's made even more clear in Grimoire, the new Chronicle-style book.
Grimoire also heavily implies the Elune interferes with the Great Cycle, keeping the souls of night elves from passing to the Shadowlands by allowing their souls to remain tethered to the forests of the mortal realm as wisps. That's the contravention of the Great Cycle.
Whether the souls were all destined for Ardenweald or not (it's likely that many would have been, as "the spirits of nature are tethered to Ardenweald"), Elune was contributing to the anima drought by preventing night elves from passing into the Shadowlands. And it's probable that there are similar cases throughout the mortal realms, as Elune is also worshipped on other worlds.
What Elune did after Teldrassil was simply letting the souls pass into the Shadowlands as they normally should, after "hearing" the Winter Queen's pleas for help. But it's clear that Elune doesn't have direct insight into the goings on of the Shadowlands, as she didn't know the mechanisms of Death were broken and that the souls would be condemned to the Maw.
As for Bwonsamdi and Mueh'zala, they are of the realm of Death. They wield power in the Shadowlands, unlike Elune.
Mueh'zala hoarded the souls of his followers in his own necropolis, preventing them from passing on to the Shadowlands. Bwonsamdi held authority over the Other Side (gained by tricking Mueh'zala), a small spirit realm on the edge of Ardenweald where troll spirits reside.
When Bwonsamdi learned of the breaking of the Arbiter, he started to gather the souls of his followers in his necropolis (in Zandalar) to prevent them from being sent to the Maw. That's why Mueh'zala, one of the Jailer's allies, invaded the Other Side.
But, again, Bwonsamdi is basically part of the pantheon of Death, Elune is not. She only has a window into the Shadowlands in this moment, through Tyrande.
I think Blizzard's issue is they want to write/say all these pontificating lines of dialogue that they think sound "epic" but they don't consider how stupid the context is. Mechanically, it's ridiculous. how could a deity not know what was going on with souls in the afterlife that she was responsible for?... Zero thought went into the background of that.
Ysera died at the start of Legion, and was among the Wild Seeds with other Wild Gods that died during the early stages of Legion, so... yeah? We kind of already knew that.
Everything right now points to it being the death of Argus that broke the Arbiter. Or at the very least that it happened towards the tail end of Legion.
Ursoc's soul was only completely consumed because of how dire the situation was. Just as with the souls in Revendreth or anywhere else, a portion of their anima is normally harvested to nurture the Shadowlands.
As we've clearly established, unless Elune turns out to be a Loki-style trickster deity, Elune didn't have a window into the Shadowlands. She heard her sister's plea, that's all.
Sylvanas isn't "turning bad", is the thing, because we're constantly being spoonfed reasons as to why her actions are justifiable; either it's in service of some Greater Good™ or the Bad Stuff is actually the result of things beyond her control and she suddenly has no agency.
It's very much in the vein of Infinity War trying to force "Well maybe Thanos has a point?
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
And so ends the Nightwarrior Tyrande story.
It came out of nothing.
It achieved nothing.
It ends with nothing.
And „fans“ still try to justify this story telling. I find it hilariously bad.
to me it seems like Elune can only "transfer" so much power into SL, so it could either be used to kill Sylva or renew ardenweald/nelfs
like, "here is ball of plutonium, you can either use it to power your town for couple decades, OR you can nuke some other town, your choice"
I wonder which one of you Mods has it out for me personally and why? Mergin' that thread all smooth-like so it's just drowned out. When it was specifically made to make way for a clean, paced, alternative discussion rather than the spamflow happening in the main Elune thread.
It'd be off the main page in 2hrs tops anyway if it didn't get traction, so what's the point of that?
Don't think for a moment that you're fooling anyone.
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