…is that its power is not with you just because you are righteous, but because you believe what you do is right.
At first, I found the concept a bit boring, but this little detail changed my mind on it.
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Thank the lights my child, you have chosen the right path!
It also works the oppesite way too. A Lightwielder can easily lose their light if doubt manifests.
Thats how we ended up getting the Scarlet crusade. Who despite all their evil actions refused to accept their actions and clung to their faith no matter how deep and zealus their rabbit hole went, Letting their faith drive them insane, Rather than face their actions for what they where…
“In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side.”
Yoda
EDIT: Holy cow… a good man gets twisted into following the dark side, he became evil following a superior dark lord, he commit atrocities, and at the end is slayed and he coverts back on the brink of death, asking for forgiveness…
Darth Vader… Anakyn… The Lich King… Arthas…
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Renee Lauer was once a Scarlet Crusader i remember reading about in Warcraft legends.
Her faith in her actions and in her light drove her to commit murder and atrocaties all over Lordaeron as a Scarlet captain.
Her Nephew Stefan repeatedly pleaded to her morals to stop falling down her zealus path… And boy was that ending the saddest thing i ever read in a Warcraft comic.
The weird part about her though, is that she has been in-game since WoW release. So the timeline doesn’t really apply to her.
Think of the comic as more of a preqel to her story before you see her in game:p Or don’t… Wether its cannon or not is up to the reader i guess.
Still the lore about the dark path of Zealus light is a recurring theme even in the game. As seen in the Lightforged. The ingame Scarlets. And of course Arthas.
No, I mean - in the comic the blood elves are part of the Horde.
She was in-game before that.
No way he’d speak an eleven word sentence without weird syntax.
…Is that it is bright
It’s really vague how the Light works, as though it doesn’t have a will of its own. For example, one of the original horsemen of Naxxramas was a Death Knight (former paladin) that could still use the Light as undead in favor of the Scourge.
Or the Scarlet Crusaders, who are a bunch of crazies manipulated by Dreadlords, both Balnazzar and Mal’Ganis, can still very much use the Light.
Or what about Benedictus, who joined Deathwing who was basically serving directly the Void, but he used Light and Void equally when we fought him.
Put your face in the light!
Well damn… When i am wrong i’m wrong. 
The Blood elf part really ruins things doesn’t it.
The Mangaka who made that comic had to send his work to Blizzard for approval too and it still got released with a lore mistake like that.
Yerp - it’s super weird…
The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night’s embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in the day’s harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it’s the day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
The dark is generous, and it is patient.
It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt.
The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.
The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.
The dark’s patience is infinite.
Eventually, even stars burn out.
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It always wins because it is everywhere.
It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
In the Darkness we are One
My favorite thing about SL lore is that it doesn’t matter if you have dedicated your entire life to the Light you are still sent to the Shadowlands. Mograine going to Maldraxxus was the biggest slap in the face for all paladins.
The question is now where did crusader Bridenbrad end up?
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