they are, pelagos. the whole thing is supposidly the arbiter needs a soul, so someone needs to sacrifice themselves to become the new arbiter. that is what pelagos is doing.
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the whole point of the kyrian is for them to be unbiased, they are literally the people who HELP the arbiter, so one of them becoming the replacement makes perfect sense.
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the shadowlands is flawed, but its better that then everyone going to literal hell.
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except he is the leader of maldraxxus. so he would be biased, and also... hes already a leader...
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who are you talking about? pelagos is a he.
also the whole point is an arbiter needs a soul, its not just some construct, its made using a soul.
Maybe... maybe it's just Blizzard trolling dataminers?
One can only hope...
I have enough of EA ruining great franchises and studios, forcing DRM and Origin on their games, releasing incomplete games only to sell day-1 DLCs or spill dozens of DLCs, and then saying it, and microtransactions, is what players want, stopping players from giving EA games poor reviews, as well as deflecting complaints with cheap PR tricks.
I'm not going to buy any game by EA as long as they continue those practices.
Seems like a hard swerve, like the original plan was Sylvanas but someone finally pulled Danuser's head out of her thong long enough to convince him the playerbase would hate that, so he grabbed the first Shadowlands NPC he could who wasn't too major but also wasn't a complete nobody to do it.
His entire character arc is: "Hi Maw-walker, I'm Pelagos. I'm a little bit useless, and get this: I'm trans. I'm the arbiter now. Thanks for that."
Pretty much expected from the person that said "Well I thought it was brilliant" to the GoT ending...
A bland, dry character with little or not substance as I recall. I suppose that's the right personality for a neutral arbiter.
I'm glad it's not Sylv as well, while expectations are low at this point, that just wouldn't fit. The good news is, whatever they do with her isn't going to fit either.
Guy feels like a hasty plan B Arbiter. Maybe plan A was someone of consequence, e.g. Sylv, but Blizzard realized everyone would hate it so toss in someone nobody cares about.
Now you see it. Now you don't.
But was where Dalaran?
from a 10.0 point of view this is indeed completely standard, without sarcasm. as usual Blizz/wow will move on and SL is just a past xpac/zone that is simple finished. so it makes sense, for Blizzards default model, to do that. they keep most stuff from expansions in that expansions and move on. thats the default way it goes.
Lets be honest... the guy is full of emotions, he constantly struggeling and unsure all the time and he still doesn't strike me as some one worthy of such heavy duty. I mean the emotions will just get in the way.. and it might even danger the progress if you think about it. Why thrust him with such a thing?
I agree on Uther, he has a pretty interesting duty, to make sure there is some one there to lead the newly added forsworn and it suits him.
I was one of the people who thought.. why try to fix that broken system and the arbiter was part of that.
The spoiler could be a carrot on a stick.
If Blizzard does go through with it, that is beyond lazy.
How many dead characters in Warcraft history from Warcraft 1 to Shadowlands? And the best you can use is Pelagos?
How lazy are you??? You literally shat gold for 20+ years and you wanna use a copper turd?
It could have litterally been anyone, since it starts and stops having meaning all at the same time. He gets crowned, before we even fight the jailer, we will never revisit Shadowlands and it will never again be important, and he will be drowned out entirely by whatever big plot twist happens during the jailor fight.
They could have madei t murky and it would have the same narrative effect in the long term.
It is, ENTIRELY, meaningless and is just proof positive they have zero intention on ever touching SL again.
World needs more Goblin Warriors https://i.imgur.com/WKs8aJA.jpg
Honestly they could have left the job open and I wouldn't even question it. I find Pelagos a bit baffling, does he have more to do in the bastion campaign? It's the only one I have not done.
We get a cinematic to introduce us to one of the most important entities. It explains us how crucial the arbitrer is to everyone in our reality.
25% of the players (Bastion) are introduced to one side character that is considered our follower, a sidekick that helps us on "minor" things. His power doesn't amount to anything, nor his relevance to the story
And then, out of the blue (pun intended), he becomes the new arbitrer, the new key-character in the Shadowlands.
This could have been written by a 12 year old that somehow got fixated and obsessed with him. What the hell.
I'm 100% confident that this horribly written plot filled with holes will be excused as WoD was. Even though it surely is a blatant lie, it will go down like this:
"The story we wanted to tell didnt fit in with your (players) reception to the expansion. In order to make Legion, we had to cut corners and the lore kinda suffered with it. This is why you saw Grom apparently being the hero after you killed Archimonde. This is no exception, we had something great planned for the new arbitrer, character development, influence and relevance were all perfectly written but we had to cut it short and skip all of the most important parts"
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Not saying anything bad about Pelagos specifically, but it's hard *not* to associate it with "well, Pelagos is literally a trans character, Blizzard making them the new Arbiter reads as a major social justice move".
This is the truest true in this whole damn thread.
I could personally care less for the most boring covenant in SL and their boring characters.
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And that's the problem here. All the attention this character got was because he was trans. Not an interesting story, nothing. Just hey, I'm trans....so yay.
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To be fair Danuser's writing is like that of a 12 year old. If his story direction was questionable in BFA, it went full teenager in SL which is a God damn shame. 15+ of good lore down the drain.
The best part is that the guy has the gall to boast about his atrociously written concoction being "the end of a chapter that started with WC3" or something. Even 12 years olds are more convincing at lying... Or maybe he's really full of #$&% and he actually believes what he's saying