We can't trust her because we are all innately familiar with the quality of the games story, not because of some crazy nuances to her character. The story is an inch wide and an inch deep.
Never did trust her. She's not even Forsaken. She's just some shoe-horned character that the Horde is forced to tolerate. That seems to want to do more for the Alliance.
personally I am of the view that its just another attempt to sow distrust of Calia. certain factions of the horde player base was FERVENTLY against her from the jump when she has done nothing but fight for the forsaken.
as if Blizzard writers would have the balls to make her evil in any way
After following World of Warcraft lore for nearly 20 Years, I've come to the conclusions that these "conspiracy plotlines" created by the community always end in a dud.The storyline of World of Warcraft has always been incredibly flat and straight-forward. Major plot twists are rather rare, beyond suddenly teasing a completely different "content theme for the next raid" during a raid end cinematic.
Of course you can't trust Calia, just like you can't trust anyone IRL, not even your family.Everybody has a different agenda. Even your best buddy will have different agendas on some issues.And politicians like Calia... Obviously you never can trust her, or any other politicians in any universe.
People tend to not get the nuance of why the lore of this game is the way it is. The real problem is that for a very long time, Blizzard has done everything either off the cuff or by pantsing their whole way through the writing process.Most of the early Warcraft lore was originally just either pop culture references, aping Warhammer/DnD, or just anything to get the player to keep going in the game. Things like the Old Gods, the Light, The Titans, and so forth really didn't get much thought put into them when initially created because back then all they wanted was to get the game done and give it just enough fantasy flavor of it's own to stand out against the competition. Most of the original creators never thought this game would approach a 20 year anniversary.So now we have all these retcons, nostalgia baiting moments, characters who seem to appear out of nowhere to provide context for a thing that happened years ago, and so much more... The current writing team is scrambling to get things put together to "make sense" so that we have a bit more solid story going further other than "hey, X is cool, let's do a cool thing around X idea".As for this theory, well, it's fun and all to discuss, but at the end of the day, it's still just a fan theory that may or may not come true. As for my opinion on Calia and being someone who's pretty much been a Horde main for the past two expansions, I don't really have much to say nor do I feel "threatened" by her presence within the Horde. Then again I don't really focus on the affairs of the undead or elves of the Horde as opposed to it's more "ugly" monster races... In which the only real development I've seen is just whatever little we get for the dark talon dracthyr and the taurens' relationship with the centuar of the dragon isles in this expansion.
Don't trust her because she is part of the Horde. There you go, saved you an article.
As she should.The dusty crusty desolate council is boring, and I prefer each nation/race in the game to have a singular identifiable and iconic leader. Calia is perfect for it, she ties them to their heritage and provides a path to return to that heritage to some degree, albeit changed.