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My headcanon is that the reason WoD Draenor is dying is because the timeline is destabilizing, dissolving back into the foam of possibilities from which it came.
And this is why Dragonflight feels hollow to me.
BfA and SL taught us that everything can be retconned on a whim, that the characters are just mouthpieces to give players a reason to go through the raids, and that any and all personality traits are secondary to the current plot (using the term loosely).
Seriously, look at the scene of Sylvanas’s slap on the wrist “judgment”. You don’t even feel the characters. It’s just a kid with a Sylvanas doll and a Tyrande doll acting out dialogue.
So I’m not invested in Dragonflight. I don’t trust the characters to feel like consistent people anymore. Twice bitten, thrice shy.
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https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/A_Steamy_Romance_Novel:_The_Lusty_Draconian_Mage
full book transcription. this is the most ballsy one theyve definetly done so far…
making the big names like jaina and sylvanas a consistent msq presence in wow was a mistake. they can write a decent side quest just fine but other than that…
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Who, they describe women like 9/10 of the roleplayers do!
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ive long said theyve been watching roleplayers for inspiration. now we know which kind 
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“The breath of a red dragoness can bring life as easily as take it. I trust my flame has not harmed you?”
Wonder if dragoness is a thing now?
dragoness
oh no no no
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Kinda like Gnomette, except Dragoness now has a basis I guess
High-larious. Double entendre overload.
It’s now canonically used by hack writers.
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This. And it’s not strong evidence that the term is valid outside its use by a hack writer.
Admittedly I also don’t trust Blizzard writers enough to believe it was a case of deliberately ironic usage on their part.
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The steamy novels are silly on a meta level so it’s possible that it’s intentional.
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I don’t know, I think the Tauren Threesome in Highmountain is still up there. Since you can see him ingame departing the scene.
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casual reminder, now that we know the entire of shadowlands lasted 2 years
it is canonical that the jailer, who planned every major event in known history, predicted every move and set up every line, hook and sinker over countless millennia, was defeated by 25 people whom he somehow couldn’t predict the birth of or prevent from gaining power.
in what is comparatively not even a Millisecond of the time he spend planning, plotting and progressing his end goal.
and when he had the chance to strike his would be killers, he knowingly ignored it.
He was either having a serious case of tunnelled vision or and this is the actual case
he is the worst written mastermind type villain and nothing he has was ever earned.
nothing of this should be news to anyone, I just want to point how how millions of years of planning was foiled in ca. 730 days due entirely to his own incompetence.
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He isn’t even a character. He was just there as a loot-pinata and retro-actively shoved into Warcraft history.
He had so little going for him, they had to shove him into the lore of Warcraft, otherwise he would have had nothing. And even then he is just… There.
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Literally “what if lich king but titan level threat?” rolling two into one in a supreme feat of uncreativity.
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My favourite part is certain elements of the fanbase trying to defend him.
But guys, he’s not a mastermind and he never was! He just sat back in the Maw and waited because he had all of the time in the world. It was inevitable that everything would eventually fall into place! Roll the dice enough times and eventually, you’ll roll ten sixes in a row! That’s what happened with the Jailer, he’s been around for so long that he was bound to get lucky eventually!
The next best part was how many times he fell for the trap of being so arrogant that he let the heroes get away because they could never thwart his plan - at the same time as Blizzard sought to depict him as a mastermind who had fingers in every pie and absolute control over every variable.
If the only reason why the heroes were ever able to succeed is because your villain turned into a fat-headed moron whenever he had defeated them and could’ve killed them for good, you are not a good writer and your story is not a good story.
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This feels like it’s been true for a LONG time.
It’s just eternally frustrating, even as an amateur writer, when you’re damn sure you can see at LEAST a half dozen ways to do things better, that don’t lead to constant retcons and massive holes in lore and character assassination, both metaphorically and literally…
No one will blame you for ignoring Shadowlands or Danuserverse writing.
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I’m going to guess that the rings (in which so much was foretold) manipulating big F Fate from the safety of Torghast had a slightly bigger role in the narrative before the story was WoD’ed.
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