Dragaros wrote:So they're emphasizing that Azshara serves N'zoth but isn't a mindless puppet or fanatical cultist. She's still her own agent. At least to a point.
Some petty, minor nitpicks:
Regardless of which version of events you go with--the story in the W3 instruction manual, the War of the Ancients novel trilogy, the account in the Chronicle lore books--Azshara was in her palace when the imploding Well of Eternity flooded the city. Not outside.
Its a little odd the sky is so clear and full of sunshine in the beginning scene. Again, regardless of which version of events you go with, the sky should be wracked by storms from the efforts of Malfurion, the magical collapse of the Well, and the residual magics of the Burning Legion that just got banished seconds ago.
She got taken in entirely by N'zoth there. She agrees to be his servant for the cost of him letting her be "his queen," which is nothing, she learns her place by being allowed to drown a moment before he saves her, and he knows her weakness of pride intimately. N'zoth got everything he wanted there.
Man I hope the Black Empire is an entire expansion.
But yes, it should've been a nightmare sky with bodies everywhere, her in the palace with what's left of her highborne retainers, chaos and destruction, etc. She's not getting whitewashed per se though, so I'll let it go. On that note, apparently the Alliance overarching storyline is
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Jaina being very sad, being forgiven for everything, then getting a third nation-state to rule and more powerups
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