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  1. #521
    Quote Originally Posted by Rozz View Post
    What's weird is that the WQ and Elune are possibly twins or not the original eternal ones of the weald/dream. Maybe they're one being split into two? And why can Sylvanas handle Jailer Juice, but Elune's magic is too potent? Elune's power/position fluctuates too much for proper speculation.
    The real reason is because of the needs of the plot, but if you want an in-story reason it comes down to how their powers work. Elune's power is overcharging the body to breaking point and the body is the one who has to bear the burden of that. Sylvanas on the other hand has her powers on loan from another and her body isn't under as much strain. Plus, said powers are from a type of magic specifically based on control, to the point where it's literally the name (domination magic). On top of this Sylvanas being undead has a more resilient body and one that doesn't have many of the needs of a living one.
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    I'm gonna be honest; I actually LIKE the idea that Elune willingly sacrificed her worshippers, to save her sister. Elune is essentially a "god" in the Warcraft mythos, and I kind of like the idea that she is less loyal to her followers than her own personal whims.

    What I *WILL* say is this; I don't like seeing Tyrande "purged" of the Night Warrior stuff, and I hope this doesn't go the route of "everyone getting along". At the same time, however, I would like to see Tyrande choosing "vengeance", without just making her an antagonist. I'd love to see Tyrande reclaim control of the Night Warrior and Elune's power, but when Elune is like "I was just trying to save my sister", Tyrande essentially respond "I don't give a FUCK, you let all of your worshipers die when they needed you the most, I'm TAKING this power you loaned me, and if I ever see you again, I'll find a way to kill a god for what you did".

    That would honestly be a pretty dope evolution for her character. Not that she be driven SOLELY by vengeance, but essentially saying "I'm putting my people first, by any means necessary". That feels congruent with Tyrande as a character, and would be a tragic but believable transition to her rejecting and even hating Elune.

    Also.... HOLY SHIT does Tyrande look awesome with the whole "starry skin". Not even gonna lie, I would legit be excited about Night Elves all over again, if they could unlock some kind of "upgrade" like that. And also, the more blackish-blue Night Warrior eyes she had when fighting Nathanos (the in-game eyes players got just don't look great, imo).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Super Dickmann View Post
    The real reason is because of the needs of the plot, but if you want an in-story reason it comes down to how their powers work. Elune's power is overcharging the body to breaking point and the body is the one who has to bear the burden of that. Sylvanas on the other hand has her powers on loan from another and her body isn't under as much strain. Plus, said powers are from a type of magic specifically based on control, to the point where it's literally the name (domination magic). On top of this Sylvanas being undead has a more resilient body and one that doesn't have many of the needs of a living one.
    Quote Originally Posted by sighy View Post
    Shooting from the hip it could have been the improvements from her deal with the Val'kyrs. We don't know the exact details for it outside of the general quality of life of no longer being a spirit posessing a rotted carcass.

    Or that she was more reserved about using it than Tyrande "assbalst grunts with a conjured moon" Whisperwind instead usually relying on her regular powers most of the time.
    You both raise some fair points, but I still dislike it haha
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  4. #524
    Quote Originally Posted by KOUNTERPARTS View Post
    Omnipotent god-like being
    Citation needed.

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    wasn't aware of what was going on in the afterlife.
    This is like complaining that Thrall doesn't know what Varian is thinking about. Elune isn't a member of the death pantheon and has no idea what they're doing. Apples and oranges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    More and more i am awaiting the day for a radical "atheist" (for the lack of a better word) movement, whose sole goal is to eradicate the influence of any "divine forces" from Azeroth.
    Well that would be both impossible and stupid. Azeroth is a titan egg (order) and in the realm of the living (life). You could turn the titan into a fel titan (demon) or void titan... or maybe a light titan or death titan (unclear if those even exists) but in each situation you'd still have another set of divine forces to deal with.

    Non-existence is the only way to eradicate divine forces.

    Ironically, Sylvanas's goal (remake a new reality where we are in charge and have free will) is very close to what you asked for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOUNTERPARTS View Post
    I'm starting to buy more into the fact of a "Pantheon of Life" with Elune being apart of it.
    How much more on the nose and dumbed down do you need it to be? That's literally what you were told in game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lorgar Aurelian View Post
    It’s stupid as it means she knew there was a drought so souls weren’t going to ardebweld yet she didn’t stop to think what was causing the drought and instead just figured the souls would end up there when others weren’t instead just sending them to the Maw. Instead of you know figuring out why there was a drought and keeping her “favoured people” alive.
    Because the concept of "alive" is moronic if there is an eternal afterlife to go to. Death is literally meaningless in WoW.
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  5. #525
    Quote Originally Posted by Super Dickmann View Post
    The real reason is because of the needs of the plot, but if you want an in-story reason it comes down to how their powers work. Elune's power is overcharging the body to breaking point and the body is the one who has to bear the burden of that. Sylvanas on the other hand has her powers on loan from another and her body isn't under as much strain. Plus, said powers are from a type of magic specifically based on control, to the point where it's literally the name (domination magic). On top of this Sylvanas being undead has a more resilient body and one that doesn't have many of the needs of a living one.
    Does Sylvanas even have that many abilities from the Jailer? Tyrande has noticeable changes in spades, whereas Sylvanas just has those chains as something definite she didnt have before. Could be something as simple as Tyrande getting ALL the powerups, which is what is killing her, whereas Sylvanas just got some abilities. She was afterall said to have joined the "Maw" covenant, and when the players joined a covenant we also got some tiny improvements to our base toolkit.
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  6. #526
    Quote Originally Posted by Nagawithlegs View Post
    Why are people complaining that lore characters don't know the game's plot as much as the players do?
    Mostly due to reading comprehension stagnating at a grade school level.

    Even if someone had directly told Elune that the Shadowlands were messed up and all the souls were going to the Maw, she would have just said "that's impossible" and kept doing her thing. Because it had literally never happened before and was impossible, until it happened. And she has no way of knowing it happened.
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  7. #527
    Quote Originally Posted by bullseyed View Post
    Well that would be both impossible and stupid. Azeroth is a titan egg (order) and in the realm of the living (life). You could turn the titan into a fel titan (demon) or void titan... or maybe a light titan or death titan (unclear if those even exists) but in each situation you'd still have another set of divine forces to deal with.
    Imagine to simply reject the worship of comic forces and actively fight any influence of them on the world.
    Quote Originally Posted by bullseyed View Post
    Ironically, Sylvanas's goal (remake a new reality where we are in charge and have free will) is very close to what you asked for.
    Sylvanas allied herself with a cosmic force, so no.

  8. #528
    Quote Originally Posted by geco View Post
    So it is canon that Elune let the Kaldorei die to save her sister.
    Looks of souls who worked hard to serve him discarded as cannon fodder to achieve a goal.

    Now it all makes sense Blizzard and Elune are the same entity.


    My question would be.
    Also why did I kill the wardens in W3?
    Did you and i watch the same cinematic? She said "I heard your cries, felt your pain, and in the wake of tragedy, sent forth cascade of souls to sustain you." Meaning she normally turns the night elves into wisps when they die but now she turned them over to the winter queen to sustain her... Like where does she say that she let the Kaldorei die? LISTEN to the characters before you cry about something.

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  10. #530
    Quote Originally Posted by runepower View Post
    Did you and i watch the same cinematic? She said "I heard your cries, felt your pain, and in the wake of tragedy, sent forth cascade of souls to sustain you." Meaning she normally turns the night elves into wisps when they die but now she turned them over to the winter queen to sustain her... Like where does she say that she let the Kaldorei die? LISTEN to the characters before you cry about something.
    1 Elune does not make them fancy fires.
    2 Then according to your logic Elune did not let them be faut fire and made them die. Therefore I literally kill them like faut fire so that they go directly to SL?
    3 Eluna herself says that I condemn them so she did something that she made that ended in SL and therefore in the jaws. LISTEN to the characters before you cry about something? It is up to the interpretation of each one where they had to go instead of to SL.

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    Bwonsamdi>>>>>>>>>elune

  12. #532
    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Does Sylvanas even have that many abilities from the Jailer? Tyrande has noticeable changes in spades, whereas Sylvanas just has those chains as something definite she didnt have before. Could be something as simple as Tyrande getting ALL the powerups, which is what is killing her, whereas Sylvanas just got some abilities. She was afterall said to have joined the "Maw" covenant, and when the players joined a covenant we also got some tiny improvements to our base toolkit.
    It's kind of hard to visualise and powerscale characters, who are reserved and make a conscious effort to avoid fighting most of the time, at least on even footing and never show all their cards. So i can see it blindsiding a lot of people, when she actually does flex. She's never been a pushover, even when Scourge and has only become more powerful since then, in all likelyhood. I agree that the Saurfang explosion and Chains are the two distinct new abilities we know beyond reasonable doubt were leant by the Jailer.

  13. #533
    Quote Originally Posted by geco View Post
    1 Elune does not make them fancy fires.
    2 Then according to your logic Elune did not let them be faut fire and made them die. Therefore I literally kill them like faut fire so that they go directly to SL?
    3 Eluna herself says that I condemn them so she did something that she made that ended in SL and therefore in the jaws. LISTEN to the characters before you cry about something? It is up to the interpretation of each one where they had to go instead of to SL.
    First of all Elune does turn them into wisps when they die, like how would night elves turn into wisps but troll don't since night elves are just evolved trolls.
    Secondly when the night elves burned in the tree she decided to turn the souls over to the shadowlands instead of making them wisps however she didn't know that the arbitor was out of commision and the souls were going directly into the maw. And how would Elune even know that the arbitor is out of commision since not even the winter queen and the archon didn't know why there were no souls coming into their realms. That was all explained when we the players went into their realms.
    And lastly Elune did say that she condemned the souls of the night elves after hearing from the winter queen that the souls went to the maw instead.

    So again you haven't actually listened to the characters and the words that are coming out of their mouths. Neither did you actually read the things i said to you.

  14. #534
    Quote Originally Posted by runepower View Post
    First of all Elune does turn them into wisps when they die, like how would night elves turn into wisps but troll don't since night elves are just evolved trolls.
    Secondly when the night elves burned in the tree she decided to turn the souls over to the shadowlands instead of making them wisps however she didn't know that the arbitor was out of commision and the souls were going directly into the maw. And how would Elune even know that the arbitor is out of commision since not even the winter queen and the archon didn't know why there were no souls coming into their realms. That was all explained when we the players went into their realms.
    And lastly Elune did say that she condemned the souls of the night elves after hearing from the winter queen that the souls went to the maw instead.

    So again you haven't actually listened to the characters and the words that are coming out of their mouths. Neither did you actually read the things i said to you.
    Then Elune took away the possibility of being wisps. It's like God doesn't let you go to heaven or like he murdered them in their second life (and now they have 3 lives).

    And secondly, Elune never really says something like let them become Wisp. What's more, There is Wisp in BFA and Maiev can summon a few souls. So all those mechanisms seemed to keep working.

    I think maybe the problem is that you hear things they don't say. Elune says only that he did something that condemned the Kaldorei. How that is is not clear. Do I condemn them to send them to SL? So the Kaldorei don't Normally go to SL?

    PS: There are sources that say that the wisps come from the forest or Aessina herself. Is there one that says "they come from Elune"?

  15. #535
    Elune did to the nelves the same thing she did to ysera. Intervened at the moment of their deaths, only she wasnt aware of the maw situation.

    Idk why some of you think she is some super omnipotent being that knows everything that's happening in the cosmos and it's 6 realms.

    She also didn't "allow" the nelves to die. She not going to interfere with everything bad that happens to the nelves, otherwise she'd intervened for a lot of other nelf related events. War of the ancients, ashenvale, fucking death of her lover and son by the hands of the horde. Come on guys...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Super Dickmann View Post
    She can also cheat the system and fast-track people to Ardenweald like she did with Ysera successsfully and tried to do with the Teldrassil night elves.
    She didn't fast track Ysera or Ursoc. It's implied that both spirits went to Ardenweald naturally, and that the mechanism of Death only broke sometime late into Legion and before the start of the War of Thorns.

    The story is supremely poorly told.
    Yes and I think Blizzard has always struggled with this. You've got a 20+ year-old story being delivered via multiple mediums, many players who have tuned in 'mid-season' or miss in-game content altogether by not playing every patch cycle, and who frequently skip quest text or otherwise ignore any lore that isn't presented in a cinematic.

    The characters in the story didn't actually know the Maw was responsible or that the Jailer was involved until far into the story and we're meant to come away with the impression that the Winter Queen didn't specify as she didn't know herself so Elune helped her out upon being called. We as the audience though know that the Jailer did it as the premise and other gods like Bwonsamdi, who is implied to be on a lot lower level, know and act accordingly. Elune is thus a patch late and off-topic.
    When we first arrive in the Shadowlands, nobody knows what is going on. The realms are all isolated from one another so all they know is that souls have stopped arriving in their realm for some reason. Apart from the parties involved in making it so, the attendants in Oribos are the only ones who know that the Arbiter is offline and that all souls are pouring into the Maw, but contacting the other realms is not part of their Purpose so they just don't.

    It's a supremely demystifying, pointless cutscene, redeemable only if the intention really was to depict the gods as fickle, manipulative morons.
    The running theme for some time seems to be that all the cosmic forces suck because they're all dedicated to a Purpose that compels them to screw with the lives of those who dwell in the material plane. We've seen in past expansions that Nature unchecked can really ruin things. Order and the machinations of the Titans are frequently shortsighted and useless. The Light is fanatical and seeks supremacy just like every other force in existence.

    Azeroth is the third-world-country rich in resources that the global powers squabble over, never mind how many lives they destroy in the process. Sylvanas thought she was a freedom fighter until she realized that the guerrilla general she fought for just wants to establish himself as dictator.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    And the Jailer is still a cosmic Force, hence it doesn't fill the criteria.
    A deposed cosmic force, stripped of his position/purpose and replaced by the Arbiter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by geco View Post
    I think maybe the problem is that you hear things they don't say. Elune says only that he did something that condemned the Kaldorei. How that is is not clear. Do I condemn them to send them to SL? So the Kaldorei don't Normally go to SL?
    Elune: I did not spare them so their souls would pass to you
    Winter Queen: Death machine broke, they went to the Maw instead
    Elune: Shit, then I guess I condemned them

    It literally could not be more clear what she meant.

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    Maybe beating the dead horse a bit, but putting the spoiler tag and then spoiler itself immediately after in the title is a bit counterproductive. But thanks I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Does Sylvanas even have that many abilities from the Jailer? Tyrande has noticeable changes in spades, whereas Sylvanas just has those chains as something definite she didnt have before. Could be something as simple as Tyrande getting ALL the powerups, which is what is killing her, whereas Sylvanas just got some abilities. She was afterall said to have joined the "Maw" covenant, and when the players joined a covenant we also got some tiny improvements to our base toolkit.
    we havent seen many examples but id say shes been given a fair bit. for example. the blast she killed saurfang with. ppl said "they have never seen that kind of magic before". we just havent seen her use much of it, outside in cinematic or story form. However. In her fight she literally does tear shit apart. Id wager a guess that is not her banshee powers given thanks to frostmourne raising her, but the Jailer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhlor View Post
    Bwonsamdi>>>>>>>>>elune
    right? he saved his people!
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    Quote Originally Posted by vondevon View Post
    Elune: I did not spare them so their souls would pass to you
    Winter Queen: Death machine broke, they went to the Maw instead
    Elune: Shit, then I guess I condemned them

    It literally could not be more clear what she meant.
    Sorry. spare?

  20. #540
    Quote Originally Posted by Claymore View Post
    I'm gonna be honest; I actually LIKE the idea that Elune willingly sacrificed her worshippers, to save her sister. Elune is essentially a "god" in the Warcraft mythos, and I kind of like the idea that she is less loyal to her followers than her own personal whims.
    I feel the same. Whether it was Elune sacrificing the Night Elves into the cycle or just not keeping them as wisps and letting them go to her sister, this makes Elune feel much more god-like. Though I don't think of it as being less loyal: Elune is more like a farmer that decides to sacrifice her cattle to feed a starving relative. It doesn't mean she doesn't care for her cattle, just that the needs of the "gods" outweight the needs of the cattle/worshippers.

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