Quote Originally Posted by Teraq View Post
I suppose I'm lucky in that while I've been playing Warcraft since I was a 6 year old girl who thought the Trolls with warpaint and big technicolor mohawks were cool
I mean. They are. I bought Warcraft 2 back when it released from one of those Scholastic catalogues, and I was blown away by how cool the Horde was in general, but especially the Trolls and their leader, Zul'jin. You could write out the entirety of his story on a sticky note, but it worked for me back then and it still does now. Even the part where he eventually became a raid boss in WoW: The Burning Crusade, where the Amani (Forest Trolls) were hit hard with the villain bat and Zuljin was made into a raid boss... it worked for me, because it was entirely in line with who Zuljin and his people were.

This, for me, is more like the rapid downward spiral most WoW characters take once they have any degree of prominence. It's not even a uniform drop in WoW's case, and this drop has been sharper and more painful than any of them. But to rattle off a few names: Tyrande, Vol'jin, Sylvanas, Lor'themar, Varok Saurfang, Thalyssra, Jaina, and Wrathion are all characters I once sincerely enjoyed seeing in the story. They were among my favorites. And invariably, each of them has been run into the ground in ways that defied explanation.

My favorite character in Endwalker? It is—or was—Venat. But from what I'm seeing of the Q&A, I was completely wrong about her character, and everything I did like about her was actually a carefully framed lie on the writers' part, made to convince me she was something other than what they intended all along.