Actually the daughter could already be on the scene without our knowledge. Neither she, nor anyone else has to know who she is, and every human female of the right age might fit. So I wouldn’t really be surprised if it suddenly turned out that Taelia or even frickin’ Vanessa van Cleef was somehow the Menethil heir all along, considering the quality of Blizzard’s usual setups.
Apart from that, the Scarlet Brotherhood claims to have Calia’s “son”, the true heir of Lordaeron. It seems quite likely that to challenge that, we will try to find the real heir sooner rather than later. So when it comes down to a decision the heir will probably on the scene, if she isn’t dead.
Why assume that Blizzard would want the region to be “under control” anytime soon? They don’t have to finish Lordaeron’s story, they could just continue it. What they kind of have to do is to redefine the Forsaken, and give them a “home”. And that will probably play out in Lordaeron. But they certainly don’t need to settle all disputes over the land to do that. Indeed, Blizzard told us repeatedly that Horde and Alliance identity are very important to them, so I find it hard to believe that they would essentially take all reasons for future conflict between humans and Forsaken away.
They might. Or they might not. The church of the Holy Light was accustomed to dealing with priests, not with having the Light actually interject its opinions through Naaru. And if people can accept that the Light can be used to do wrong, like when the Scarlets used it, I don’t see why they couldn’t see Calia’s existence as an affront to the Light as well.
That’s certainly true. And I am sure Calia will have a central role in a future plot about the Light’s ambitions. That doesn’t necessarily mean the villain bat, but that is a possibility as well. I’m much more certain about her being used in that Light-plot than I am about her playing some role in leadership. Remember that Golden deliberately made her incompetent in political matters, naive and undereducated. They pretty much had free reign on defining her background. And they settled on an unimportant princess that was kept away from matters of government and that eloped with some footman.
Sure. But to be fair, the writers can pretty much push any character in any direction they like, and it will work if they want it to work. So yeah, we can construct scenarios in which Calia will unite Lordaeron. But if we are looking for likelihoods, meta-reasons like dev intentions are actually more important than the history and optinions of the characters in the world. Especially in WoW which has a history of not exactly caring much about continuity.
And with Calia, I am just not seeing it. If the devs wanted her to lead the Forsaken, she would already be doing so. If the devs wanted her to be a likely ruler, they would have given her a background that qualifies her. If the devs wanted her as the sole heir of Lordaeron, they would not randomly have invented her offspring.
What they did do is give us reason to think that Calia is easily manipulated and has some part in a Naaru’s plan to play. I see her as a pawn rather than a queen at the moment.