I recently read an article about Sylvanas Windrunner. The author told Sylvanas was killed as a character by Blizzard, she has no motivation except she died. Okay, the woman wanted to say, and she said something like "she died years ago, not a big deal, nothing to whine about, I can't feel for her". What??? It's a very interesting example of understatement someone's suffering. So, did she remember Sylvanas lived among picturesque forests of Quel'Thalas and magnificent elven buildings, she was surrounded by beautiful elves, she also was a beautiful woman, everyone respected her, she had her beloved ones close. She had almost everything, and of course she worked hard to achieve many things in her life. And after all of this she lost everything. After her death she can't look at the mirror and admire herself, because now she can see a putrid ugly corpse in reflection. And everyone who is near is a putrid ugly corpse too. It's just a game for us, but we consider characters there as real people with real reasons to do something or have different thoughts and opinions. I don't think anyone wanted to be revived to be undead, who's peaces of meet fall of and skin peels. And your ex-friends and relatives will think you are just a monster, so they will hate you. In real world people try to accept themselves after some operations or accidents, and there are some movements which try to help them. Sylvanas used to have a lot of attention, she liked it, she could love someone and be loved, she could do what she wanted to do and enjoy her life. And now she can't. No one supported her like "we are your friends, we are your close ones, we still love you and we will do everything for you to make you feel better". And it also offends and hurts. After death she can't feel a lot of positive emotions, because becoming undead affects everyone. Sylvanas had a lot of problems such as giving home to the Forsaken, trying to survive and save them from the Scarlet Crusade, making some choices and decisions. She had to be strong ruler for her people and she didn't have time to regret, to cry, to accept herself. All she felt were wrath, pain, hatred and mourn. I'm sick of someone doesn't consider it as a deep wound and trauma. I have to remind, Sylvanas HELPED Arthas to kill her own nation, to destroy Quel'Thalas, and she felt her guilty. Everything she wanted to protect and failed – she destroyed it by her arms. She remembers it. About 90% of high elves died in the Third War. It's a big wound for blood elves, even if they rebuilt their kingdom, they didn't have home and the Sunwell. They can see it physically, because Arthas left the road of death through Silvermoon to Quel'Danas. Sylvanas' sisters came too late and even they didn't try to understand and support her, to speak and share pain, cause Alleria was too principled and Vereesa was to busy by feeling sorry for herself. Sylvanas wanted to end her existence in such body, when she was on the top of the Icecrown Citadel. She felt all her pain, rage and didn't want to suffer more. She decided to kill herself, even Val'kyr couldn't stop her, she hated everything and she didn't get her revenge for breaking her life. She just wanted calm, but the Jailer met her when she felt all this shit and was weak. Her suffering continued, she couldn't die and rest in peace. Isn't it another trauma? If her goals are like "I want to rewrite the history with my death", or "I want a good ending of my story", or "I want only the calm in death", or "I want to become a fair leader of the Shadowlands and rebuilt this system to make everyone including me happy after death", I will not surprise. Everything you want, I do think she has motivation to want something good for herself and become satisfied. The means she uses – it's another question. We are talking about her target.
The author of the article told everyone liked Sylvanas before due to she was usual and understandable. Okay, what's wrong now? She's still Banshee Queen, she is the Dark Lady, she called her people Forsaken, she is a mysterious, cruel, tricky, arrogant, wise person... What else you want? She has ALWAYS been such kind. Since WarCraft 3 events. She wasn't "usual". Never. She has always had her own opinion and point of view, and it wasn't usual like "good is good, bad is bad". Dreadlords asked her to join them, she refused and started to think about her own plans. Her campaign in WarCraft 3 can be completed by possessing enemies, she won Varimathras without a big army in the beginning, she possessed ogres, rogues and undead, she had only ghouls and banshees. She used Garithos for her plans to get Lordaeron, so she is a good tactician. She has always had dark thoughts, after death she become more prudent, ruthless and indifferent. I'm not surprised.
And about the Horde. They killed Sylvanas' brother, so she still MAY not love the Horde. She HAD to join it, because if she didn't, the Forsaken would be not exist more. She just wanted to survive and it's okay.
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