It will boil down to one word:
Drugs.
I mean drugs is what got us the Elder Scrolls franchise.
But yeah drugs too as even Metzen was consuming a great deal of the white powder.
The Light threatened to take over one alternate world. It’s the worst.
The void has devoured countless things… its just balance!
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You’re leaving out the Light’s greater sin: anduin wrynn
frankly until that problem is amended the void is clearly a force of good, in comparison
I’m placing that firmly on humans.
I place that on Golden who made the most milktoast of goodest of boy who then became the basic template for everybody else sort of.
And what is Golden? HUMAN!
But yeah, people who IC say Light is as bad as void need to get in the bin. Same with the balance narrative. It sickens me.
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I’m surprised when y’all are talking about Light bad, you haven’t mentioned Mommy, pardon, Calia Menethil yet.
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She who shall not be named must not be mentioned for even speaking the enemy’s name grants them power.
I actually mean Light being evil as opposed to meh story writing involving it
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I know, I was merely jesting, and I agree with you. It already does not help that Blizzard seems to be pushing this narrative of “Every cosmic force is suspicious, including the ones that have so far only did good.” without players starting to spout that rhetoric aswell.
Especially when humans or draenei do it IC, both races to whom the Light has played an important role in multiple facets of their life. Heck, I’ve even met a -Lightforged- who told me that, using what happened between Illidan and Xe’ra as an excuse.
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Just wish the cosmic chart didn’t happen.
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Even with it, suddenly going “everything can corrupt and all things are equally bad lol” is lame and boring.
Things can be opposing without being balanced in their badness.
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to be fair, it’s in blizz own lore (thats often stupid) that naaru undergo cycles, light>void>light>void.
It implies that there is a semblance of greater cosmic cycles, and that the mortal universe is really an anomaly in this eternal spinning coin of light and dark, the lore states that the light and shadow(void) has been in constant opposing battle for times eternal, but one day a spark happened and the mortal universe was supposedly created, a plane that is the result of all cosmic forces in balance. I cant even begin to try to understand where the first ones fit, the titans, realms of death, fel, demons, order, arcane, that some planets in this mortal plane is titan eggs etc etc. given how the scarlet crusade functions i see light and dark as a ying and yang duality (in very liberal remarks mind you), sadly blizz has set the stage that these spheres, light, void, order, chaos, death, nature all have stakes in this mortal universe, the meddling of the titans in it, the double meddling of the old gods curse of flesh, creating many of azeroths sentient races etc etc, it was according to a prophecy of light that X’era was to purify Illidan and make him the new star child to blaze away the legion and bring eternal light to the universe or something, he said “nah man, i aint a pawn” and won anyway without that grandiose prediction.
i get your irritation, but it is sadly set in stone that these forces want’s followers, how they gain those followers is either through obvious domination and enslavement(void) or the more “persuasive” approach to domination(light) Theres no way AU Son of garrosh would be willingly lightforged, and thats canon, Realms of death have domination magics… realms of nature break you down into compost to grow you anew to their design etc etc.
It’s an obvious attempt to copy 40k and the chaos gods, as blizz often do, it’s not much but it’s what we have to work with.
Atleast take solace that the Azeroth versions of these cosmic forces are not extreme, due to how the world functions, being a titan egg aswell as having a literal god Moon orbit it, Elune.
I am afraid they kinda retconed most of it by introducing the First Ones and those wierd Zereths.
Blizzard/Americans cannot help being rampant Centrists and ‘Both Siders’ on the stuff that’s actually really, really simple.
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Terminal California syndrome.
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Side 1: “We want to eat babies!”
Side 2: “Uh, we’re going to stop Side 1, by force if we have to.”
Centrists: “Wow, you guys really need to find a compromise here, Both Sides Matter you know!!”
'Murica…
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Every time we see a Void Naaru they are evil and, like I previously said of the Void, trying to blow the cosmos up. Even the Void Naaru in the Priest Hall had to be chained up and secured and then turned back to its Light form so it wouldn’t want to murder everyone and everything.
I can’t really say the same of T’uure who decided to yeet themself into the cold vastness of a dying world to explode in a holy nuclear bomb to stop the Legion and Void from killing a bunch of Draenei. I donno, just seems like one of those is objectively good.
I just enjoyed the Tolkien-esque theme of a Pantheon of distant Gods and then the clash of Light (good) and Dark (evil) for the souls of mortal races so much more than I enjoy this Cosmic Trash bros, where did we go wrong 
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