If only they made him the smooth planner that took advantage of us fighting the Lich King and thinning the veil, and then dragged Argus’ spirit to the Shadowlands to break free, instead of everything, everywhere, all over the place was actually his plan.
And yeah, some clear motivations why he did what he did would be cool.
Whats the point of making your own guild if you can’t make yourself Grand Supreme Commander Lord of the Realm?
A Titan-centered expansion that gives dwarves spotlight sounds like a good concept in theory, but “Avaloren” is such an uninspired name and Danuser’s previous worldbuilding track record (Shadowlands) hasn’t exactly been stellar.
Hey now, Kung Fu Panda doesn’t deserve that kinda labelling. Tying stuff into the existing world in interesting ways can be good!
Jailer/SL was just… awful, though. Good stuff adds on or fills in gaps or goes on a tangent, it doesn’t try to retcon existing and beloved lore purely for Rule of Cool/Laziness.
Yeah, my massive complaint about the Jailer’s writing was shoe-horning him in to literally everything as some kind of “Just as planned!” villain, which… sucked?
I would even have prefered him to have been a ruthless opportunist who had kept an eye on the Living world and, upon seeing an opportunity caused by us being, frankly, murder-hobos, took it and exploited it. That’s an In that works.
Not trying to re-write canon that has been grounded and established for decades off the cuff…