That hasn’t happened though…Someone’s fan art doesn’t make it a thing… 
Uhh, they’re like…Elves? That is like…umm, how these things normally work? The Windrunners are trailer trash who need to die in a fire, they are all tired knock off’s anyway.
The pair of them need getting rid of. Bland unimaginative characters, with no actual depth anymore. They have become plot devices, not actual characters. They had one job…One Job with Sylvanas, which was not to make her Hawt Elven eye candy to hang on a human male’s arm. Then look what happened. Then they try to claim she is all cunning and this is all her plan when it blatantly -wasn’t-! We saw that in Game! How also, even assuming the burning of Teldrassil was her plan (Which it wasn’t, as the Warbringer’s animation shows us!) How does that make sense? “Oh, I am scared of the Darkness that awaits me, that I saw for like two seconds before Deus ex Val’kyr, I know, I have a cunning plan, I will make that darkness even -more- powerful by sending it more souls!” That’s not cunning! That’s not being a master tactician, that is being a complete idiot. She should die this expansion, the only reason she still exists is for bad narrative, Steve Danuser to think she is actually real and his girlfriend, and for lusty fanboy’s to hanker after her (without realising that…uh…she’s dead…there’s a name for people that fancy dead people…)
As for Jaina, she makes no sense in lore. So let’s just take BfA into account here, and leave her other inaccuracies out of it. So there is this boat, right. This -Wooden- Boat, that has been at the bottom of the sea for years, it had cannons on it. -Metal- cannons.
So right away, we are talking about a set of decayed and rotten timbers that would not really look like a ship anymore, and cannons that would have been degraded, and essentially be unworkable. That ship is kaput. It is gone. Absolutely unsalvageable, yet somehow she manages to levitate it out of the sea, despite not actually being able to see it, and has magically done some Chronomancy on it to return it to it’s former glory! That’s not a thing! Or rather it is, for the Shal’dorei, who rather famously are not part of the Alliance. It also isn’t her bag, Frost magic is her thing, so we’ve already got power creep to do something impossible. Of course we have! Christie Golden went on record as saying that Jaina was her favourite character, and she’s now on the creative team, so of -Course- Jaina will be all powerful.
Then Jaina makes it fly. Because that’s totally a thing. She couldn’t sail it like a normal Kul Tiran, oh no, it has to fly. Because that is totally something that Frost Mages can do. Then, when she gets to Undercity, by a really weird route from the north that pretty much would have sent her ship hurtling to the earth as Ban’dinoriel just ‘Noped’ her magic, She opens fire with these destroyed cannons, firing arcane shots, whilst -also- keeping this thing flying. I mean I assume it isn’t flying on happy thoughts and, Gods forbid -Plot Armour-? Right. Mages can’t do that. Then, and this is even better, She’s doing these two Arcane things that she can’t do at the same time, and -then- starts casting Frost magic at the Blight to nullify it!
This makes no sense! The first time Blight was used in war was at the Wrathgate, a place that was rather famously cold, snowy, and dare one say, frosty! It seemed to work pretty well then! Frost magic should have Zero effect on the Blight, but of course, this is Jaina Me’dan Proudmoore.
I mean she is indirectly the assassin of Varian Wrynn. She could have teleported his backside out of Broken shores, we know she was there. She presumably chose not to. She must also really hate Worgen and Gilneans. If she can just finger wave and Abradabra, the Blight disappears, then why the everliving heck has she not done that to Gilneas City!? If I was Genn I would want her stupid head on a plate!
Ahem
But yes, they are both awfully written contrived plot devices that need ditching.
I’ll you for why. Alleria and Turalyon happened, and it was like, fair enough, they’re doing an Aragorn and Arwen copy from Lord of the Rings. Then suddenly Knaak goes full on copy mode, and Rhonin needs an elf chick to hang off his arm, from the same family no less. Vereesa never even -existed- in lore until Knaak wrote her in, she literally did not exist. Now the really creepy thing here, That Blizzard have tried to avoid addressing, is that at the time her and Rhonin got together, she was a minor. We know that Elves are considered adult at the same time as humans are, and she was too young to fight in the Second War. Ergo not old enough to fight in the Armed forces of Quel’thalas. That’s right, Rhonin was a ‘wrong’un’ So that is really creepy, as well as being a Retread of a Retread. Well we thought, at least Sylvanas doesn’t share the family kin-Oh wait, she actually -does- share the family Kink, thanks to Danuser. So all Three sisters, one of whom never existed, all have to hang on the arms of human males, so this is now a Retread of a Retread of a Retread.
The Windrunners are a -joke-. Any Sin’dorei with pride would regard them as degenerates of a family, trailer trash, and kind of like inbred hillbillies.
Zero originality.
She really isn’t.
Thing is…they’re not. The Nightborne are the same species, and bizarrely have more in common with the Quel’dorei and Sin’dorei than they do with the Kaldorei. They’re basically the Grandparents of the Sin’dorei, possibly even just the parents in some cases. They’re Highborne basically, the ones that the Sin’dorei came from, just they were immortal until the destruction of the World Tree that cost the Kaldorei their immortality. For all we know, Thalyssra may have been an eternal 20 year old, or 40 year old, after all, Tyrande was actually pretty young, immortality wise, until it all stopped. Chances are high that Lor’themar is actually older than Thalyssra in terms of life experience.
Only Dark Ranger RP’er I have encountered was a complete douche, and broke up a group of people RPing, simply because they had to show how dark and embittered they were by being contrary to everything said. So everyone just left and went somewhere else, so more Dark Rangers? No thanks.
