Originally Posted by
Hitei
I feel like everyone voting for Sabellian has forgotten that he has done all the same shit as Wrathion, but for actually villainous reasons and as an "older" and "more mature" dragon.
This is a guy who has zero problem manipulating and exploiting everything around him, who was actively on the side of Deathwing and still openly talks about upholding his legacy, and who spent all of his time in self-imposed exile obsessively seeking revenge--during which helping other Black Dragons was a secondary concern he outsourced to his assistant to outsource to whoever they could find because he had "larger issues" to deal with.
Like you dorks are worried about Wrathion being rash in trying to stop the burning Legion and Old Gods. But are picking someone who was rash, trying to help Deathwing fuck up two entire worlds. You're holding the fact that Wrathion chose the Alliance against him, but then picking a guy who also sided with your enemy against you, and was only friendly because he needed a stooge willing to go risk death for his revenge plot after trying to exploit and manipulate the Cenarion Circle didn't work. A guy whose response to people "not bending the knee" is, literally "destroy them".
Christ, Onyxia was also good at politics and being a figurehead, had experience with leading other black dragons, knew how to get things done and didn't act rashly or young. Might as well elect her while you're at it. Why would you ever pick a literal villain over someone who's royally fucked up several times attempting to save the entire world, and then also has helped save the entire world, who is also the only Black Dragon in the past ~10,000 years to actually manage to do the job they were assigned?
"Wrathion is a bit too young and hot-headed, so let's give control of the Black Dragons back to an old and hot-headed Deathwing-loyalist who has done nothing but lie to anyone nearby." Insane.