wow Reclaiming Gilneas in Patch 10.2.5: Who's Behind Everything?

[Staff 1,196]

Even though the "Reclaiming Gilneas" questline won't be available for testing on the 10.2.5 PTR, we have solid evidence who's behind everything. This post contains spoilers.

Some NPCs are currently labeled as "Unknown" in Gilneas, which means Blizzard is encrypting stuff until the patch hits live servers, but MrGM discovered dead Scarlet Crusader bodies in the area.

So not the Undead but Scarlet Crusade is responsible for the Gilneas takeover.

On top of that, a thread related to the individual questlines of the Gilneas Reclamation storyline appeared on MMO-C but the font looks finnicky, so take it with a big grain of salt since it's most likely fake, but it hints at Calia's involvement in the questline, which honestly makes sense.

[Arcling 823]

This seems so random to have Scarlet Crusade there. We've already destroyed them a couple of times, yet they somehow still have an army that is capable of holding a kingdom?

[Ragnorak 2]

Somehow, the Scarlet Crusade has returned....

[Q 87]

5 hours ago, Arcling said:

This seems so random to have Scarlet Crusade there. We've already destroyed them a couple of times, yet they somehow still have an army that is capable of holding a kingdom?

It isn't too random, sure we destroyed what crusaders were left in the Eastern Kingdoms but there were still a ton of them in Northrend. Add the fact that many humans were livid after seeing what the Forsaken have done over the years and suddenly they're meant to just let that all go because Sylvanas manipulated them all and you have a resurgence. That said, I doubt they actually considered any of this and just thought to bring in a familiar enemy since attempts to make new ones haven't really worked well.

[profion85 3]

 We destroyed Legion, we'll probably destroy Void, but Scarlet nope... 🤣 

[blacktiger1974 24]

4 hours ago, profion85 said:

 We destroyed Legion, we'll probably destroy Void, but Scarlet nope... 🤣 

There problem of The Scarlet Crusade is that they are in the "grey zone". They are not completely wrong also they are not an absolute evil. Just a mold which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Edited November 20 by blacktiger1974

[Arcling 823]

15 hours ago, Q said:

It isn't too random, sure we destroyed what crusaders were left in the Eastern Kingdoms but there were still a ton of them in Northrend.

We also destroyed those in the Northrend (there were quests related to them) and their force there wasn't that big. If there were some survivors, they shouldn't have any force that would pose a significant threat, especially they shouldn't be capable of holding Gilneas. Besides, it seems random for them to be there, where there were no undead (Forsaken pulled out years ago). Also, Gilneas was supposed to be already retaken in the lore (I think it was in some book or some short story), but it seems they walked back on it.