It’s especially bad because the whole storyline of redeeming and rehabilitating former enemies was done reasonably well (they fumbled the beginning to the extent that I don’t think anyone understood why they were hostile to us) with the Sundered Flame.
Basically the title of Dragon Queen now belongs to Scalecommander Emberthal
Project zomboid is a pretty neat game.
Most whelming antagonist since zovaal. Oh, you lost your purpose like the rest of us? Starting a new faction with blackjack and ho… oh, ok. You’re just going to kill everyone for reasons.
Nice to see that one questline in azure span where even one of his own goes “I didn’t sign up for this” and starts babysitting instead of weird unrooted violent extremism.
It’s the blooming Forsworn all over again.
“Ah, no, see, the people fighting to overthrow a blatantly failed system and pointless ‘we’ve always done it that way’, along with a cruel and needless erasure of peoples individuality are Baddies, actually. Because they’re a Little Bit Mean and fighty.
Therefore you must crush them, utterly.”
Devos was done dirty, Blizz, you cowards -thumps table-
The backfilling to explain that Scalecommanders faced a great deal more conditioning and Sarkareth is more on the ‘yes I will follow Neltharion into the Abyss’ path helped a great deal, but I do remember questing through Azure Span and being very confused about why this guy I was explicitly helping out becomes a dungeon boss I have to kill in order to protect…the secrets of a dead blue dragon? the guys who locked us in stasis?
Just once I would have wanted to see an utterly unrepentant but not mawsworn kyrian rage and fight over how the Path robbed them of their family and all that they were. Death didn’t end their old selves, the Path did!
Furthermore, the erasure of the past destroys the beliefs that made them worthy of being kyrian. All those virtues, all that faith in a cause? Inconvenient. There is only the Path. Uther’s faith in the Light? Silly soul, the Light doesn’t matter. You’re kyrian now.
Then they had to actively learn that demanding loyalty like dummy authoritarians didn’t work and Uther’s Lightbased big C Compassion is what plugs the hole.
Great system. There’s no way this worked for aeons until recently but I guess the kyrians scrubbed every other memory of every other regular insurrection in the past eternity too.
Organised resistance gets the job done 
I have Some Issues with pretty much every single covenant, especially given how GOOD the pre-release story trailers were, and how they just… Did not follow that up quality wise, what…
But narratively I have a special circle of “Well F this” reserved for the Kyrians. WoW’s writers are attrocious for ‘enlightened centrism’ somehow being The Way instead of the useless garbage it actually is, but the Kyrian stuff just Makes No Damn Sense. My brain creaks just trying to put my abhorence for how dumb it all is into coherent words.
I always assumed it was an allegory for acti-blizz union busting their code monkey slaves attempts at socialist rebellion. A cry for help from one of the peons.
Was that not the Vulpera AR questline? Literal unionbusting, after all 
Appeasing the enslaved workforce with fake promotions to “senior peon” and such as we do in the quest seems an oddly specific example of exploitation.
I’m god awful at it, but I’ve enjoyed it every time. I always just mess up on the stealth mechanics and get chased down until I’m so exhausted I have to hide in a random house in the woods for several in-game days.
I’m also very sad I missed the vulpera pee conversation.
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lol
lmao
go read a book
or get sued
whatever you prefer
I will have you know that my shaman is cute tyvm.
there I was foolishly thinking that since the first two wings of LFR had three bosses, that the third wing released this week would also have three bosses, including Sarkareth.
Stupid, stupid Elly. Of course they would give Sarkareth their own wing, released a week later. Of course!
[strained evoker twitching]
Annoying for people who don’t do normal yeah but personally I’m all for it. Makes it easier to avoid getting stuck in the 16th group stuck on just him in LFR.
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I just need another chance to hit the Cracked Titan Orb slot machine I’m okay it’s okay I’m FINE
I don’t mind him having his own wing, I guess, but it’d be nice if they were released at the same time.
But then what are you going to do next week???
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I WANT TO HAVE A TRIUMPHANT ROAR FROM THE SEAT OF THE ASPECTS
I’m fine it’s okay it’s chill