Can't say the book is ticklin' my fancy a whole lot after reading this.
That is the lamest catalyst ever. Wah, someone showed up to a peace negotiation, let me just slaughter everyone here including my all important people. What the heck. How do they go from the Pandaria storyline to this gobbledygook.
Kinda sick of Christie completely rewriting everything ni her own "image". Its kinda trashy. :(
So yeah... Sylvanas painted into a hardline villain corner... heir to lordaeron becomes a "special undead." Guess y'all better start placing bets for a new warchief.
Interesting parallel to the last peace conference where everything was going well until the Twilight's Hammer arrived and both factions assumed the other was springing a trap (especially with Garona setting off Varian, only now it's Calia setting off Sylvanas).
See guys. Syl isn't evil.She's just a paranoid tyrant willing to kill her own people who choose their living families over her.Seriously though. Even Syl's number one in universe fan Nathanos thought she went over the line with what she did at the meeting.
My own headcannon says this " holy undead " crap is likely foreshadowing things to come, combined with the light on AU draenor forcing people into it's service, now raising the dead, I got a feeling the next expansion will be a war with the light and the void and us caught in the middle.
Everyone scapegoating Christie. You know she's writing this with direction from blizz yeah?
Ah cool I was hoping that more WoW plotlines would be excluded from the actual game!Why do they keep doing this @#$%? Why do I have to buy books to know how expansions are connected?I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE MISTAKE THAT LEGION WAS SUPPOSED TO CORRECT.
So essentially they are setting Calia up as the new Forsaken leader. Problem is, wouldn't she bring the forsaken back into the Alliance? Maybe the Forsaken that join the Alliance (not as an allied race) change their name back from the Forsaken and the remaining sylvanas loyalists flee, remaining in the Horde?
oh christie golden.... your writing leaves so so much to be desired... "half-human, half-undead"... christ almighty, what a nightmare... she was brought back to life, thats just called undead
So the only way for undead to reproduce is using the Light? Sylvanas is going to slave a naaru, oh my god.
So, definitely some Light ^&*!ery going on. Calia, while staying at Netherlight, has been having repeated nightmares about her missing family, and feels an intense urge to try and find them. This leads to Anduin inviting her to come along, and once he does so he gets a bizzare rush of confidence. I think the Light is arranging things to take over the Forsaken.
I'm more concerned about the relationships Sylvanas has to the factions of the Horde rather than the events in Arathi with Calia. For example as someone playing a Goblin currently, reading that your warchief "did not much care" about your race and then to discover that your characters original home was destroyed by Gallywix and your own mining operation and not Deathwing makes me wonder how playable Goblins will react to this news in-game. Did we already know of this? I know Goblins are often seen as a comical relief punching bag within the lore but I really wish Sylvanas is going to be removed from the Warchief position soon even if she just quits the role herself because just flat-out being told your leader doesn't care about you is just de-motivating to play in an expansion themed around faction conflict, it's obvious that she isn't suited for the role as she's not even pretending to care about loving each race within the faction and the first few pages of the horde chapter just makes it painfully obvious.