To be honest she should have died after the Lich King did at the end of WotLK, everything else has just been…bland, but even by then, the damage had been done. “She’s hawt!” Umm, no, by definition she is not, she is a walking corpse. At best the exterior is room temperature and it just gets worse from there, but it is always really, really, really creepy when people say they find her sexy, and pray Gods they never find work in an Undertakers or Morgue. It’s like…where else in the world would it be considered ‘normal’ to say “Yeah, I’d totally do the ‘no pants dance’ with (Insert Supermodel of choice here) if they were dead?”
That’s not normal.
She then went all Pantomime villain,
The Burning of Teldrassil was hilariously bad writing. Everybody knew her plan was to invade and occupy Teldrassil, heck, even Tyrande knew it, and tells the Alliance player character to make the Occupation as ‘tolerable as possible’ and then one dying elf gives her a reminder of what she was (Bear in mind Sylvanas had already ordered the boats readied to invade Teldrassil in that very same Cutscene, and Sylvanas wigs out.)
I’m sorry Sylvie, what was that? You wig out because an Elf said something to you that you haven’t shut up banging on about to the Horde hero ever since Cata? And this? This is what sends you over the edge? How old are you? You’re supposed to be some genius tactician who is playing 4d chess (She really isn’t, she’s tactically as gifted as a stunned kitten) This is Steve Danuser’s doing, not Afrasiabi’s by this point, he even got a new model for Nathanos so he too, like his internet waifu can look nothing like a normal Forsaken. Whoever the new Forsaken leader is, and it is not Calia, or Lilian, they better actually -look- like a Forsaken this time, or they might as well just scratch the whole idea of the Forsaken altogether, if their leadership contest is a beauty pageant.
Oh, and before that even, way before that, it was always subtly implied that she had -some- feelings for Nathanos, but she was the one remaining hope, the flickering ember of hope that not all the Windrunner’s were trailer trash.
I mean look at it. Alleria and Turalyon. Ok, we get it, you wanted to do an Aragorn and Arwen copy from Lord of the Rings. Lame, but fair enough. Then the really dodgy one, You see there were only two Windrunner sisters in lore originally, Vereesa never existed. So not only did Knaak write Vereesa into existence, despite her not existing, just so -his- self insert could have a hawt Elven chick , but they then went “Oh, and they have -two- children” (Because one upmanship is cool) and even worse than that, when Rhonin and Vereesa set off on their escapades, doing the wild thing during said time, the only reason Vereesa is not fighting in the Second War, is because she is too young to start Farstrider training. So Not Yet Adult
Yeah…let that settle in. Knaak wrote a whole Lolita scenario, where his character got a minor pregnant. Wow…
At this point Sylvanas is our only hope, surely the rumours about her and Nathanos will never be confirmed, surely they wouldn’t go three for three and do a retread of a retread of a retread.
Then out comes ‘Dark Mirror’ written by…Shock Horror, Steve Danuser. In it, we discover the real reason why Lor’themar and the other Ranger higher ups don’t like Nathanos. Because unlike them, he never earned his rank, he was just ‘with’ the Boss. Even then, he can’t hack it, and runs off home to sulk, and Sylvanas deserts her post to come and persuade him to come back, we then learn, from the Thas’dorah Artefact knowledge in Legion, that -Sylvanas- herself didn’t earn her rank either. So all three Windrunner sisters have a human kink. It is incredibly rare that three siblings in the same family have a thing for having relations with a different -Species- In fact, no, it’s just stupid. That Novella hammered the nail home in the coffin of any credibility either character had.
Then Sylvanas Forsakes the Forsaken at the gates of Orgrimmar, you know things are bad when even your own standard bearer looks at you and gives you a “You wot?” squint.
Then this is the best, “Life is a Prison, and I will set us Free”
Then runs off in cahoots with a guy called The Jailor.
For someone supposedly smart, she is as thick as two short planks. Did they not have a dictionary in the Windrunner household? She does realise the correlation between Jailers and Prisons, doesn’t she? I mean she can’t be that stupid, surely?
Apparently she can.
Now they want her to be Kerrigan 2.0? Gimme a break.
Let’s not forget the hilarity that was Blizzard releasing a shot of Teldrassil burning.
“You’ll never guess who burns it!”
Playerbase “It’s Sylvanas isn’t it?”
"Hah, you think it is Sylvanas, but -is it-?
Playerbase “Yes, it is it’s Sylvanas isn’t it?”
“Ahh, but she is playing games at a higher level, she is very clever”
Playerbase “She still burns Teldrassil though doesn’t she?”
“You’ll have to wait and see, all will be revealed”
Sylvanas burns Teldrassil.
“You see! You see how clever it was, nobody saw -that- coming”
Playerbase “No, Blizz, -everyone- saw that coming…”
“But it was a surprise? No one could have known Sylvanas would burn the world tree! aren’t we clever?”
Playerbase “The Only surprise here you buffoons, is that any of you are allowed to write anything of more complexity than a book for a three year old”
Sylvanas is an embarrassment of a character, and she needs to either be destroyed, or left behind in the Shadowlands, she has no more story, no one will trust her again, she is just a weakly written character kept in existence by one crazed Dev’s belief that one day she will be real and notice him, and fanservice, let her at least be written out with dignity, instead of the embarrassment she has become…
Glad to get that off my chest…
it’s bad, I’m not going to waste my time trying to get invested in it. Whoever’s responsible for writing Shadowlands’ lore needs to go.
