Originally Posted by
Super Dickmann
We know that Dragonflight is an expansion of backsies for Blizzard where they'll be doing everything in their power to raise the profile of dragons and backtrack on all of the reduction they've had in prominence since their Knaak-era heights. Of course, said reduction has happened on the backs of many characters who've been raised to either directly oppose dragons, get one over on them or criticize them and generally be correct. No expansion is complete without its strawmen, be it everyone who criticized Illidan in Legion, everyone who criticized Anduin in BFA or anyone who doubted nodding along with Sylvanas in SL. So which strawman will get the worst deal in Dragonflight?
Will it be the Dragonmaw? A clan already basically written out of the game who's only dedicated out of game story has been about how much they regret beating dragons. Working against them is that their entire gimmick is based around enslaving, fighting and killing dragons and their vigorous Alexstrasza struggle cuddle in Grim Batol. Working in their questionable favor is that they might be directed towards consensual dragon riding.
Will it be Odyn? A titan keeper who rightly called out the idea of buffing the Aspects to take up the Keepers' job will result in the Keepers becoming useless layabouts while the dragons completely fail, go insane and destroy the world. A position he was vindicated in every step of the way as 4 out of 5 Aspects went evil and Deathwing nearly destroyed the world twice. Working against him is that Twitter has been very vehement about his treatment of Helya and the team needs to signal. Working for him is that so far he's evaded Karma and he's broadly popular, as well as that he's already appeared in two raids and his hall was reused in Shadowlands.
Will it be Tyr and the Titans at large? Distinct from Odyn, they buffed the dragons for solving a dragon-related problem and then made them infertile and took away those powers after they'd done a task that was only generated by buffing the dragons in the first place. Working against them is that the staggering stupidity of that plot point has been a running joke for 10 years, reversing both the fertility and the power issue are virtual guarantees and this is impossible to do without throwing them under the bin in some way. Working for them is that DF is a 'memberberry expansion and the Titans are a part of this and bigging them up may be necessary for Blizzard to make up lost ground by making their SL-era cosmic setup.
Or will it be someone else I'm missing, if so, vote and fill in who you think it'll be. We're in the Scalies world now and all we can do is bet on who gets fucked the hardest.