Rogues in a CGI cinematic and they’re the coolest part of it (rest was good too). THE STEALTH.
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Just wait. It will turn out we’ve all been played by Sylvanas to “subvert expectations” even though she’s been written terribly over the course of BFA.
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Why is anyone surprised that Sylvanas sends assassins to preemptively eliminate one of the key leaders of the last rebellion?
Blizzard may be bad writers generally but this is not one of those cases.
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Hey I was part of the “stealth is not invisibility” crowd but sod it, I was wrong. Not even mad. That was SO cool.
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Because she’s not done anything to the Horde thus far? Thrall only got pulled in to the last one 'cos Garrosh was attacking the echo isles.
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It’s a really cool representation of Outland - not just crumbling apart rock by rock into space, but falling itself apart at the seams, where even the plants are deteriorating. It’s not what I’d assumed was happening, and it’s a very unique approach to it that I wouldn’t have thought of.
The Rogues are also very cool, it’s neat to see stealth finally represented (and methods of dealing with it - either just predicting where they are, or using pocket sand) in a CGI cinematic.
Also Thrall is an absolute DADDY and I need to go fan myself
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Surely she has to be aware that the Horde is close to turning on her at this point?
She can’t be so stupid as to not see it, right?
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It’s been established for ages through various sources (mainly means of magic), so I really don’t know what GoT RPer would think they can’t.
I’d understand that, but a lot has been going on since then and Thrall just wants no part it these days. He hasn’t been a major player within the Horde since Legion and if it were me, I wouldn’t name him a major suspect.
In fact, he wasn’t the first few to join the last rebellion because he was roleplaying as the World Shaman and these days he has that kind of duty going on(?) and spending time with his family, raising his son.
Literally no way that they didn’t just follow Saurfang, unless the stench of Forsaken is that strong that he managed to smell them from another planet then he’s just got speech: 100
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Orcs can smell a drop of blood on the house level below, so yeah, their sense of smell is pretty good.
Yes but not I can smell dead people on another planet strong.
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That is true, but if either of them survived she should be aware that the lid on the entire thing would be blown off as soon as the time is right for open rebellion. It seems like a gamble, esp considering one is/was a legendary shaman and the other a warrior who wiped the floor with small armies before lunch back in the day. The man snapped a spine while the rogue was invisible.
Saurfang lied
Y’know I could buy that as an interesting angle and I’d love this to be the case, really because that would solve a few gripes I have with this even as a pro-Saurfang guy. There’s just one problem:
This is Blizzard we’re talking about. Rarely if ever do characters outright lie to the camera, without some kind of follow up monologue or a close up of a smirk while they walk away like a Saturday morning cartoon. Especially “good” characters, or characters being blatantly poised as being the good guys.
That and the Arthas fall, while pretty good, was forshadowed and made increasingly obvious as you follow Arthas from start to finish. You see him show anger against the orcs, then the undead, then after the Culling he starts going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.
I do genuinely wish there’d be some clever twist, but we were promised one with Darnassus and the Undercity and instead got the most cookie cutter outcomes possible. I will be genuinely surprised if they do any kind of twist at all regarding Saurfang and his intentions.
ngl I think a council is the best call. Two corrupt Warchiefs is too many and I could see Saurfang or Thrall putting an axe in the throne as a reminder.
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It’s not necessarily impossible. If he has friends within the Horde who come across such information, he could plan his journey accordingly.
It’s unlikely, but not impossible. And since when has the unlikely been unlikely in WoW?
I always thought of stealth as being more… not sneaking and sticking to shadows, but it wasn’t straight invisibility. A vague outline or shimmer would be visible, but evidently not.
I must have not have been the only one that… even though I know it’s dead and all, that Thrall was gonna draw Doomhammer from that hole. I understand entirely how impossible that must have sounded, but I had a small shot of hope.
That depends on the Rogue, though. Deathstalkers have been using magic for it for a long, long time.
Thrall was just playing hard to get but he loves himself so much he defo would have ended up trying to oust Sylvanas sooner or later with or without being pushed if not taken off the board. Fact.
I don’t think anyone was seriously contesting that you could stealth yourself by using magic.
Very true. It’s one of those bad habits I got into from my early days of Stormwind roleplay, where bad rogue roleplayers would stab you in the neck then vanish into thin air. I’ve yet to see a Deathstalker roleplayer do that though.