A baseless assumption. You have no idea what or how she feels.
Also false. She is there upon request from Lilian Voss. Before that, when she reemerged, she was a neutral character who helped both Alliance and Horde priests in the campaign against the Burning Legion.She is technically an alliance character with zero connections to the other horde leaders.
Irrelevant. Once upon a time, Sylvanas Windrunner was a member oft he Alliance, also.Like she is literally on BFF status with both Anduin and Jaina.
Another baseless assumption. The Forsaken are a race of beings who have been raised into a state of living that is unnatural. Many see them as monsters. Many more assume their resurrection is of an unholy nature. With that being true, it is not unreasonable that being shunned might bring those feelings to the surface, but that is not the meat and drink of their existence.The Forsaken are all about melancholy and shadows.
So are undead holy priests, what's your point?Calia is fully absorbed with the holy light.
Let's say you are a 13 year old awkward kid in school. No one likes you, except people who are like you, and those who are not like you make fun of you for your differences. You have the cause and effect reversed. Forsaken are abominations to natural order, and hence, find themselves casted out. They are not cast out and become abominations as a result.Being a Forsaken means you are rejected and cast out.
Also not relevant. Being a good leader requires two main components. Ability and desire. Sylvanas was a leader before she was defeated and turned into the unique form of undead she was (sounds like a similar theme is afoot), and I can assure you, it was not because of her suffering, or her past history with Arthas, or the conditions upon which she became undead that made her the leader that she became.Nobody rejected Calia.
And oddly enough, Lilian Voss reached out to her, after Sylvanas abandoned the forsaken, and the Horde, as a whole. When you are abandoned by the only leader you have known since becoming undead, and for the reason Sylvanas did, two things come to mind. The first and most obvious one, Sylvanas was a bad and selfish leader. Her concern was for herself. It did not matter to her how many others would need to die so that she could be maintained. The Forsaken does not need that form of leadership. The second, and most relevant fact is, Lilian Voss recognized this fact. She also recognized that the Forsaken needed to find a new way; one that had the hopes of bringing the Forsaken to peace with their position in the world, as opposed to being expendable commodities for a tyrant leader. Lilian herself stated this in a very serious and unambiguous way with her first meeting with Calia.Infact she was welcomed with open arms by her friends in the alliance.
Interesting that this is brought up, and yet the first thing focused on is her decision as the de facto leader of the Forsaken to bring in help, as if it was somehow wrong.Lilian Voss is in my opinion a much more fitting candidate for leadership...
Uhh.... So, the fact that many of the people who ARE the Forsaken are people who she knew before their change. These are mostly her people. Calia was not unpopular among the people of Lordaeron. In fact, she was well known, and well-liked. And you speak of pain, so, how's this for experiencing pain? Her kingdom was brought to ruins by her own brother. Her father was taken down by that brother. She got to watch helplessly as her people were dying to some mysterious plague and come back as mindless undead. She died trying to help her people, and likely, the biggest reason for her hiding was because she was the rightful heir to the throne of Lordaeron, and ultimately, the one who slew her was the one who would be threatened by that claim. Calia may not be a military leader. At no point has she ever made her goal to lead the Forsaken to victory over the alliance. It is to help her people come to terms with what they are and help them carve out some new purpose for themselves that doesn't involve them being an expendable tool of war for a psychopath tyrant....and I hope Blizzard will not just hamfist her onto the forsaken without any ingame connections for Forsaken players on her side.
Done. It's unfortunate that you will not be able to respond, but ultimately, I'm not sure that discussion would go anywhere but in circles, anyway. All I'm going to say is, I don't think Blizzard's plans for Calia will be anything short of in an advisory role for Lilian Voss as she edges her way to step out of her own uncertainties, and be the leader the Forsaken truly do need. I also believe at some point in Shadowlands, Calia is going to be revealed as Taelia's mother, and Bolvar Fordragon's wife.Leave your 2 cents if you want to.