My Deal with BfA is that I -want- to hope for Nice Things but god fuckin' dammit Blizzard has just -consistently- abused and toyed with my trust as a Troll Focused RPer. Like jesus christ of nazareth I want Vol'jin back and alive but I Don't Trust Blizzard One Iota Anymore.
Exactly. We are presented with trolls being Very Important to the story (at least at launch, further patches probably won’t continue the troll focus which is OKAY as long as they don’t make trolls seem useless or completely forget about them again), but until I see how it plays out I don’t trust Blizzard to handle it well at all.
Considering how Vol’jin was our only troll representation in the entire story and how much respect they gave him, I don’t have very high hopes. Trolls have been the punching bags of Azeroth, even our greatest hero reduced to a joke.I also basically won’t accept anything that happens with Vol’jin unless he straight up comes back to life. Don’t want spirit or loa Vol’jin who will disappear into the ether forever.
People might say resurrections always are bad and always hurt a story, but I have a couple rebuttals:
Killing him didn’t raise the stakes of the Legion. Everyone scratched their heads wondering why the WRITERS (not the Legion) killed him off right after going through so much development time to put him in the position of Warchief. It was, as I like to call it, a plot cul de sac. If the position of Warchief had been left open after Siege of Orgrimmar, nothing would have changed.
It wasn’t a tragedy, because his death was so cheap and paled in comparison to Varian’s. Death should be treated differently with different narratives, and now high body count, shock value, and “gritty realism” are in (thanks Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. /s) Vol’jin’s death by trash mob clashes thematically with the stories WoW tells: epic, rockin’ fantasy of heroes doing heroic things. What an underwhelming send off to the Warchief of the Horde in his first major appearance… It stank of writers killing him off as a means to an end. And that end was Sylvanas as Warchief, and they are trying to sell it HARD.
Vol’jin, more than any character in the lore, has reason to come back. Not only was his arc cut off right when it was becoming most interesting, but he has escaped death before at the hands of Garrosh’s assassin. Thus spawned, “Darkspear never die”. Vol’jin is on at least decent terms with Bwonsomdi, who we know will be making an appearance.
A questline with his resurrection would be so much more powerful than him ascending to loa-hood. What a moment for trolls, especially the Darkspear who’ve gotten so precious few victories, to say “your empires cannot stop us. Your tyrants will not break us. The Legion cannot taint us. Darkspear never die!” and have our Chieftain be reformed.
As a spirit/god, Vol’jin can only be so involved in the story before he simply fades into the background. If he comes to life, he can become an active agent in the story again. His story was so unfulfilling, it should continue, even if he doesn’t get to be Warchief again. While, that is on paper a proper send off for Vol’jin…
It won’t feel earned. While Vol’jin was a badass who REALLY didn’t deserve to go out the way he did, we last saw him doing well, anything, in Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria. To be promoted to godhood for something that happened over 5 years ago in the story… hm.
I have some more expanded thoughts here.
and I’ve ranted A LOT on social media in the past 1.5 years or so now about it. Previously, not having any troll characters was a big part of this argument too but we’re going to be getting some in BfA. Whether they are used well or not is to be seen. This new development should be very, very exciting but I’ve been betrayed by Blizzard too many times.
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