Or was he perhaps knightblind? I am sure some would argue he was rightblind.
Also, given that one of his best friends was a dwarf, he may be been heighblind, too.
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Spiteblind in not wanting MalâGanis to win, he became plightblind towards the citizens and smote the city, making him smiteblind.
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Oh, he was definitely that!
pokes your side with the elbow and laughs
idk weâve yet to see light blindness as a literal condition like a orc who is bloodlusted.
I would sooner argue it was his trauma that caused it, stratholme broke him to the absolute core, from having to kill his own people, to knowing there was no actual solution beyond the killing while abandoned by probably your closest confidant and child sweetheart, as well as your mentor who happens to be seen as the greatest in the order youâre a part of and he just scolded at you for even suggesting doing the work you are now doing.
He knew what he was doing in northrend, he wasnât blind to it, he simply desired vengeance more.
Atleast thatâs my 2 cents.
No, because those things didnât exist back then and werenât really plannedâno one could have guessed it would become such a massive franchise with the biggest game in the world, one that would still be going strong 20 years later.
Now, to say in hindsight, âThat was back then,ââno, thatâs bs
And Arthas had two choices, between a rock and a hard place: either quarantine and let the plague spread, the city be overrun, and MalâGanis take overâwhich would only ensure that Arthas, his troops, and possibly the Silver Hand would be overrun at the gates in the end.
Or to grant them a merciful death since they could no longer be saved, and thus at least deprive Malâganis of the foundation for an army so that they wouldnât be overrun.
Morally, his decision was certainly wrong, but logically, not intervening would have only made things worse.
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Obviously not, âLightblindâ is just the direction the writers are going for once it was time to write Midnight and thatâs painfully obvious, it came from literally nowhere after decades of wow fiction that included the Light, probably to keep going with this garbage trend of making âgoodâ look bad and âbadâ look good, similarly to how they have been heavily pushing the friendly âparasiteâ races with the gnolls, centaurs and kobolds.
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No, itâs a poor storywriting developed later in wow
thatâs why Arthas was such a gigachad while new charactersâŚmeh, boring
or better to sayâŚhe was a CHARACTER, not an NPC
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No, because the âlightblindâ nonsense didnât existed back then.
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It also just sounds silly. Like it was something someone about to be accused would say off-handedly before an arrest.
âNo sir, it wasnât me! It was Light Blindness!â
Arthas wasnât lightblind, he was arrogant and inexperienced. He dismissed Utherâs judgment despite his war experience, believing his position as a prince (and future king) gave him the authority to decide. Stratholme was less about the Light failing him, and more about him trusting his own judgment too much.
Practically from a literature standpoint, Arthas fits a ânepo babyâ archetype; not because he achieved nothing, but because his royal status gave him authority he hadnât fully earned through experience. That position likely reinforced his belief that his judgment outweighed that of veterans like Uther.
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Arthas did nothing wrong.
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Exactly! I can pay 100k gold, if someone will proof that Arthas knew anything about a Stratholme!
StratâŚholme? is-⌠is that an excuse you can fake out a disease to skip an appointment? 
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