With all the talk about Sylvanas being convinced to join the Jailer due to the unfairness of loved ones being separated in the afterlife, I have to ask - again - how do we even know he's telling the truth? How do we even know he's not just telling her exactly what she wants to hear?For all I know, had it been Garrosh who made first contact with Zovaal, the Jailer could easily have told the orc that the afterlife is unfair due to the fact that limp-wristed, cowardly fools are granted a perfect paradise in death, while strong leaders, warriors, and those who make the hard choices are often times punished, disproportionately so.
WoW's narrative team has always had a problem of telling their story in game. Tides of War is another Christie Golden novel that does a fantastic job explaining why Jaina acted the way she did through Pandaria and why she absolutely hated the Horde and refused to work with them through Legion and Warlords of Draenor but the game did a terrible job explaining it to players who didn't read the book which doesn't make sense when an RPG's main focus is story telling.
Hope she's paid handsomely when the knuckleheads don't allow her to take charge of the story and publish these books before the relevant expansions are pushed out. The story is such a cluster!@#$ i'm amazed any professional would keep up with it and try to salvage it for future endeavours.
Maybe instead of delivering the poor woman a turd every two years and expecting her to polish it into a mirror shine, Blizzard should bite the bullet and actually have her in charge of the story going forward.She is rather good at what she does, and she certainly cannot mess up any harder than the current crop does, after all.
Pretty sure the challenges were mentally related... and from her end.
At some point you have got to throw the do's and don'ts into the trash in order to make the story work and screw what that Hack Danuser thinks is right. I'll give credit where it's due for Golden to try and write this into something coherent, but even Golden has some problematic quirks in her writing. But she certainly towers over Danuser in talent and she should be the one in charge.
Didn't we have this same exact issue with Illidan? TBC Illidan bad. Why? We don't know just that he is bad and does bad things and we must stop bad Illidan.Then the Illidan novel comes.out and provides all this back story and logic that was never in-game and it's like sooo he wasn't really that bad. Sure he did bad things for a good is reason. Even the Narau didn't think he was bad either yet we just do what we are told and that he is bad.