wow Game Rant Interview About Key Characters in Patch 9.2

[Staff 1,410]

Game Rant talked to Steve Danuser and Morgan Day about some key characters in Patch 9.2. This includes Anduin, Sylvanas, and Tyrande.

Interview Highlights

• The Sylvanas-Anduin-Jailer triad were pivotal to Shadowlands story-telling.
• Anduin has replaced Sylvanas as the Jailer's hand and now joins him on his journey to unmake reality.
• Sylvanas will be grilled for information, as she knows much of his schemes. 
• Uther will prove integral to the story of "Eternity's End".
• We will learn about the fate of Anduin and Sylvanas in Patch 9.2. Can Anduin be saved? Will Sylvanas pay for her atrocities and Teldrassil?
• Tyrande will come face-to-face with a very different Sylvanas than she battled in Chains of Domination.

You can read the full interview at Game Rant.

[Prophet001 552]

Bring back Sylvanas as the humbled leader of the Forsaken.

*dodges rotten tomatoes and other vegetables*

[Dejo93 997]

23 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

Bring back Sylvanas as the humbled leader of the Forsaken.

*dodges rotten tomatoes and other vegetables*

Boooo

 

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad

[darkgreenwax 410]

31 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

Bring back Sylvanas as the humbled leader of the Forsaken.

*dodges rotten tomatoes and other vegetables*

Ah, the good ol' days, when she was in that crooked hole in the Royal Quarter of Undercity. She was actually enjoyable then.

[Arcling 887]

50 minutes ago, Staff said:

 

• Tyrande will come face-to-face with a very different Sylvanas than she battled in Chains of Domination.

So it means Tyrande is likely going to spare her, because Sylvanas is now a different person and deserves another chance. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it looks like Tyrande is not getting her vengeance.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Arcling

[Skayan 52]

41 minutes ago, Staff said:

• We will learn about the fate of Anduin and Sylvanas in Patch 9.2. Can Anduin be saved? Will Sylvanas pay for her atrocities and Teldrassil?
• Tyrande will come face-to-face with a very different Sylvanas than she battled in Chains of Domination.

Anduin - most likely no. The Anduin we know should be gone because 9.2 took Blizzard way too long. But honestly, if they want to "bring back" Anduin to his BfA state then everything that happened to him in Shadowlands was just wasting Anduin's time. Middle ground would be making Anduin slightly insane and unable to be the king.
Sylvanas - in my opinion she should be interrogated and immediately killed. There is no excuse for all the bad things she did and what she might have done if we did not stop her.
And what about her changed exactly? Sylvanas only recovered missing part of her soul. So what? When the next Jailer appears she will not serve him willingly? Her place is in Torghast, until everything she is turns into soul ash and stygia. Morally grey btw.
But this is all my opinion, i don't have any benefits from keeping sylvanas alive.

[Badadada 184]

32 minutes ago, Skayan said:

Anduin - most likely no. The Anduin we know should be gone because 9.2 took Blizzard way too long. But honestly, if they want to "bring back" Anduin to his BfA state then everything that happened to him in Shadowlands was just wasting Anduin's time. Middle ground would be making Anduin slightly insane and unable to be the king.

Shadowreaper Anduin confirmed.

[Teufel 331]

1 hour ago, Skayan said:

And what about her changed exactly? Sylvanas only recovered missing part of her soul. So what? 

Pretty much the entire Kyrian chapter of 9.1 campaign is dedicated to that.

[Starseed 113]

2 hours ago, Skayan said:

Sylvanas - in my opinion she should be interrogated and immediately killed. There is no excuse for all the bad things she did and what she might have done if we did not stop her.

i dont think so is she an angle? god knows she is not but can the other faction leaders maybe see a reason why she did what she did? i think yes cause we dont know all the reasons yet but we saw that the jailer put something back into her right befor he left end i think thats maybe the good part of her that got lost when arthas killed her cause frostmourn eats souls so i think now she is able to see what she had done and that not all of it was right and to be fair if she only was all the bad sides of her cause arthas didnt needed anything good in her as a tool then we must say she wasnt in her right mind its like condeming someone to death that was possesed by an old god its not her fault then

[Steveson 193]

Arthas:

[Bobbis 208]

11 hours ago, Arcling said:

So it means Tyrande is likely going to spare her, because Sylvanas is now a different person and deserves another chance. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it looks like Tyrande is not getting her vengeance.

Tyrande chose against vengeance in the NF campaign didn't she? So nothing new there. Not that she needs Elune's NW powers now, but can't see it going down well with Elune if she gives up the powers, then shanks Sylv in the prison anyway.

[Znifler 58]

On 11/11/2021 at 11:20 PM, Skayan said:

Anduin - most likely no. The Anduin we know should be gone because 9.2 took Blizzard way too long. But honestly, if they want to "bring back" Anduin to his BfA state then everything that happened to him in Shadowlands was just wasting Anduin's time. Middle ground would be making Anduin slightly insane and unable to be the king.
Sylvanas - in my opinion she should be interrogated and immediately killed. There is no excuse for all the bad things she did and what she might have done if we did not stop her.
And what about her changed exactly? Sylvanas only recovered missing part of her soul. So what? When the next Jailer appears she will not serve him willingly? Her place is in Torghast, until everything she is turns into soul ash and stygia. Morally grey btw.
But this is all my opinion, i don't have any benefits from keeping sylvanas alive.

She should be punished indeed, but lightly handing out death sentences, or killing people at all - isn't something we ought to bring into fiction or reality. Idk about you, but the death sentence they have in the US, isn't a good thing either. I don't feel like anyone has the rights to be an executioner, let alone the 'good' guys on Azeroth. We can imprison her, or if they really want to do something juicy, let her sacrifice herself doing good. That is the only middle ground I can find reason for killing off a character like that.

[Skayan 52]

7 hours ago, Znifler said:

She should be punished indeed, but lightly handing out death sentences, or killing people at all - isn't something we ought to bring into fiction or reality. Idk about you, but the death sentence they have in the US, isn't a good thing either. I don't feel like anyone has the rights to be an executioner, let alone the 'good' guys on Azeroth. We can imprison her, or if they really want to do something juicy, let her sacrifice herself doing good. That is the only middle ground I can find reason for killing off a character like that.

What.
First of all, don't bring real world problems or morals to World of Wacraft, it's just stupid. Bandits? Go kill 20 bandits. Done? Great job, here is your money. Boars? Faction leaders? Burning of Teldrassil? Her punishment should be death, imprisonment simply won't do. Illidan? Imprisoned > freed > slain and imprisoned again > freed. Zovaal? Same.
Sylvanas does not deserve mercy, she has to be the dumbest character with power in lore for many reasons. Trusting a Nathrezim and Zovaal to name a few + there's no proof she won't do anything like this again.
Before someone tells me that Sylvanas was under Zovaal's control, no, that's not true. In cinematic when she heard the trigger word from Zovaal she attacked him which proves that she was working with Jailer willingly. And was dumb enough to ignore all the red flags.

[Znifler 58]

On 11/15/2021 at 11:04 PM, Skayan said:

What.
First of all, don't bring real world problems or morals to World of Wacraft, it's just stupid. Bandits? Go kill 20 bandits. Done? Great job, here is your money. Boars? Faction leaders? Burning of Teldrassil? Her punishment should be death, imprisonment simply won't do. Illidan? Imprisoned > freed > slain and imprisoned again > freed. Zovaal? Same.
Sylvanas does not deserve mercy, she has to be the dumbest character with power in lore for many reasons. Trusting a Nathrezim and Zovaal to name a few + there's no proof she won't do anything like this again.
Before someone tells me that Sylvanas was under Zovaal's control, no, that's not true. In cinematic when she heard the trigger word from Zovaal she attacked him which proves that she was working with Jailer willingly. And was dumb enough to ignore all the red flags.

I'd challange and say 'kill everything we don't like' is lazy writing.