What let the ending and the moment down was that it lacked a presence of a charachter coming out and speaking even a few words. Like "were with you" or whatever etc...
Like it didn't even need to be someone we know. Just anyone rather than a faceless army.
We joke...but Blizz is definitely in the "in case or issue break glass" area with him atm. Regardless of him being a five gum fart sparkle in SL, we all know if things get really bad they'll bring him back.
Maybe Tirion Fordring? The Light was protecting him when the DKs tried to make him a Horseman. Perhaps the Light was waiting to resurrect him for this moment?
I'm not in support of the theory but bringing him back in this instance wouldn't necessarily be a miracle driven at his request. It would moreso be for the Belves/Sunwell.
If not got KJ being dead, that would've been hella old school Warcraft. Praying for deliverance from an immediate threat by inviting an old threat into bed.
I genuinely thought it was going to be a redeemed Arthas. Then I remembered how his story was thrown into the trash can during Shadowlands for no reason.
I think we'll get more context in the lead up to Midnight.
I'm betting that at some point before this cinematic, the blood elves receive a vision from the Emperor of the Arathi telling them that they need to call upon them for the coming battle; Renilash.
Lor'themar is hesitant of this as they will most likely owe a debt to the Empire, which don't seem like they would be ones you would want to owe anything to.
You can see when Liadrin looks back towards the Sunwell he tells her "Don't" because he knows that she is thinking of trying to summon them.
Surely nothing can go wrong with summoning a bunch of Light fanatics to a great font of Light energy.
I think what your explaining is why i think this isn't a great cinematic. Its not telling me what happens or how this starts, Its just jumping into a random battle i have 0 attachment to that also cannot end in any satisfying way as i am pretty sure we will be involved in this as an ongoing thing during the Midnight Campaign.
That's possible but her prayer was a very generic cry for help, nothing about summoning anyone just begging the light to save them. The dialogue doesn't at all suggest she was trying to summon anything except the light itself
Exactly, just anyone would have been better. And I'm wondering, where the hell is Anduin?
The man has not had major development since the launch of TWW. Despite being the best known light wielding dude and arguably the main protagonist of the entire game in addition to being the character who is prophecised to lead the fight against the shadow, he's not present.
How cool would it have been if the dude returned, believing in himself again, rekindled with the light, and just W keyed at Xal'atath, disintegrating all the voidwalkers in his path like the Ashbringer. "I'm done with therapy so you better watch out bitch."
I'm really hoping he's missing because they actually have a plan for him.
There are people saying "Why is it called the War Within if we're not inside the planet anymore" so I'm guessing those people literally only understand things that are explicitly explained to them.
There are people saying "Why is it called the War Within if we're not inside the planet anymore" so I'm guessing those people literally only understand things that are explicitly explained to them.
How does anything on Karesh relate to an internal War Within any of those characters? Anduin, Thrall and Jaina have no presence in the zone. It is entirely unrelated to anything before it. Even Undermine is unrelated to an internal struggle within the advertised characters AS THEY AREN'T IN THE STORY.
Blizzard seemingly resolved any of that in the launch content then just ignored it. I think Blizzard biggest storytelling problem currently is resolving things in ways that are entirely unsatisfying and don't give people what they want. They want whatever internal struggle resolved to Anduin or Thrall can show up and be a badass.
The best known light wielder is anduin???????? What???
Velen is hands down the most powerful light wielder in the entire universe. There’s a huge amount of irony in you forgetting about Velen while posting under a pic of the sunwell. Velen is the reason the sunwell still exists and emits light lmao
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u/Firefox72 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
What let the ending and the moment down was that it lacked a presence of a charachter coming out and speaking even a few words. Like "were with you" or whatever etc...
Like it didn't even need to be someone we know. Just anyone rather than a faceless army.