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- Aug 28, 2020
I figured out another aspect of what bothers me so much about Lily's obsession with Sylvanas.
It's Yrel.
For those that don't know, a few expansions ago in Warlords of Draenor they introduced a new character, a Draenei Paladin named Yrel. Before WoD she was an acolyte in Karabor, and was abducted and enslaved by the Iron Horde. This is where we meet her through WoD's intro, having just taken the life of one of her captors in self defense, the first life she's taken. As the Alliance story progresses she very quickly grows, finding herself thrust into a war and no longer able to be a passive participant. She watches Velen, the Draenei's leader, sacrifice himself to ensure the safety and lives of their people. By the end of the campaign, Yrel becomes an Exarch, a council of members that collectively lead the Draenei after Velen's sacrifice. She aids the Alliance and Horde in their assault on Hellfire Citadel and repelling the Burning Legion from Draenor.
Although Warlords of Draenor was universally panned by the playerbase, many really loved Yrel and how they handled her story. She started off as a nobody, a slave that, when given the opportunity, chooses to take up arms so that her people won't have to suffer at the hands of oppressive would-be conquerors. She watches her beloved leader willingly sacrifice his life and takes his teachings to rise up and very quickly become a leader in her own right. Most people loved her.
And then Battle for Azeroth happened.
In the questline to recruit the Mag'har, the uncorrupted Orcs from Draenor, into the Horde, we find out what has happened to Yrel. For a while the Draenei lived in peace with the Orcs, but apparently at some point the Draenei became fanatical. They've gone full on fascist, forcefully converting or killing all the Orcs that opposed them. And Yrel is the High Exarch at the center of this new fascist rule. This entire development is told almost entirely off-screen, and we only see Yrel leading a force against the last remaining unconverted Orcs on the planet.
Blizzard took a very well-liked character and turned her into an actual fascist despot after only one expansion, completely going against what they had established with her in WoD.
This is what Lily thinks happened to Sylvanas. That she was turned evil on a dime.
Thing about that, though, is that she's been going this way since Cataclysm. After The Lich King's death in Wrath of the Lich King, her motivations changed. She became obsessed with putting off her own death for as long as possible, even forever if she could manage it. She claimed to care about the Forsaken as well, but whatever she did was always more for her own benefit than anyone else's.
Lily claims she hates Blizzard for taking a beloved character and out-of-nowhere hitting them with the Villain Bat. Only thing is she's bitching about the absolute wrong character; Yrel fits that description to a T, the banshee doesn't.
She only cares about her undead waifu cunt (mostly because of all the headcanon attributes she has ascribed/projected onto her). She doesn't give a shit about a character that was actually warped and turned into a villain. Honestly I bet her outrage isn't actually at Blizzard and is more towards the community that has turned on Sylvanas since Legion/BfA. People hate her, therefore the contrarian in Lily requires that she love her.
EDIT: I totally forgot an aspect of Yrel that makes her change to fascism even worse. The Orcs committed literal genocide on the Draenei in the prime timeline. Like, enough to create a MASSIVE road paved entirely with the bones of the slaughter, which they named the 'Path of Glory'. So they're taking a character that comes from a race that were victims of genocide, and making them fascist. Really fucking gross when given any amount of scrutiny.
For those that don't know, a few expansions ago in Warlords of Draenor they introduced a new character, a Draenei Paladin named Yrel. Before WoD she was an acolyte in Karabor, and was abducted and enslaved by the Iron Horde. This is where we meet her through WoD's intro, having just taken the life of one of her captors in self defense, the first life she's taken. As the Alliance story progresses she very quickly grows, finding herself thrust into a war and no longer able to be a passive participant. She watches Velen, the Draenei's leader, sacrifice himself to ensure the safety and lives of their people. By the end of the campaign, Yrel becomes an Exarch, a council of members that collectively lead the Draenei after Velen's sacrifice. She aids the Alliance and Horde in their assault on Hellfire Citadel and repelling the Burning Legion from Draenor.
Although Warlords of Draenor was universally panned by the playerbase, many really loved Yrel and how they handled her story. She started off as a nobody, a slave that, when given the opportunity, chooses to take up arms so that her people won't have to suffer at the hands of oppressive would-be conquerors. She watches her beloved leader willingly sacrifice his life and takes his teachings to rise up and very quickly become a leader in her own right. Most people loved her.
And then Battle for Azeroth happened.
In the questline to recruit the Mag'har, the uncorrupted Orcs from Draenor, into the Horde, we find out what has happened to Yrel. For a while the Draenei lived in peace with the Orcs, but apparently at some point the Draenei became fanatical. They've gone full on fascist, forcefully converting or killing all the Orcs that opposed them. And Yrel is the High Exarch at the center of this new fascist rule. This entire development is told almost entirely off-screen, and we only see Yrel leading a force against the last remaining unconverted Orcs on the planet.
Blizzard took a very well-liked character and turned her into an actual fascist despot after only one expansion, completely going against what they had established with her in WoD.
This is what Lily thinks happened to Sylvanas. That she was turned evil on a dime.
Thing about that, though, is that she's been going this way since Cataclysm. After The Lich King's death in Wrath of the Lich King, her motivations changed. She became obsessed with putting off her own death for as long as possible, even forever if she could manage it. She claimed to care about the Forsaken as well, but whatever she did was always more for her own benefit than anyone else's.
Lily claims she hates Blizzard for taking a beloved character and out-of-nowhere hitting them with the Villain Bat. Only thing is she's bitching about the absolute wrong character; Yrel fits that description to a T, the banshee doesn't.
She only cares about her undead waifu cunt (mostly because of all the headcanon attributes she has ascribed/projected onto her). She doesn't give a shit about a character that was actually warped and turned into a villain. Honestly I bet her outrage isn't actually at Blizzard and is more towards the community that has turned on Sylvanas since Legion/BfA. People hate her, therefore the contrarian in Lily requires that she love her.
EDIT: I totally forgot an aspect of Yrel that makes her change to fascism even worse. The Orcs committed literal genocide on the Draenei in the prime timeline. Like, enough to create a MASSIVE road paved entirely with the bones of the slaughter, which they named the 'Path of Glory'. So they're taking a character that comes from a race that were victims of genocide, and making them fascist. Really fucking gross when given any amount of scrutiny.
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