Aresh'Felo

At all.

To explain/further my point, literally nothing has been resolved after both Shadowlands and Battle for Azeroth. It’s all been a vague finger wiggle of “stuff happened, but there is more stuff on the way~” sort of shit storm. And honestly it all began with the concept and idea of tying a storyline to an action of a supposed “main character” of sorts. Where Mists of Pandaria managed to pull it off by having it be more-so a player driven action (While Garrosh did order it, the Players were the ones to put the pieces in place and in essence “pull the trigger”) where as with Battle for Azeroth it just was kinda done.

Though that sort of ties into the pants on head stupidity that seems to keep happening with the writers constantly painting the Horde as “bad” or “evil”.

In fact, you know what, fuck it. Varian and Vol’Jin shouldn’t have died. Or at least they shouldn’t have until like close to the END of Legion or so on.

Having those two characters die when they did only created more story problems than it solved. Because it’s one of the things that kinda gets put into the “Ah yes, the Jailer is a fuckin’ 5D chess champion and planned this shit from the get-go” playbook. Which is stupid. And while i won’t say it’s the “only” reason why they came up with such a stupid-ass character to begin with, it’s one of very MANY reasons why they did. Killing off those two characters created such a limbo/vacuum that i think the writers had a problem getting themselves out of that hole.

Because they never thought of the characters outside of the main faction leaders. Or at least this group of writers never did. I mean if you sit and think about it, how many of the characters outside of a select few have been butchered for the sake of “story” reasons? Sure, Tyrande was starting to go off the rails during Mists of Pandaria (for some reason) but didn’t go too hard into “my vision is red, i want nothing but revenge” sort of character writing. They also did Jaina pretty fuckin’ dirty in Pandaria, but it wasn’t something they couldn’t have fixed up a little. I never played the Alliance side story of BFA but i honestly think it did more harm to Jaina’s character than any good. Or rather made it more contrived than anything. But boy oh BOY did they do poor Baine dirty.

Our poor beefcake got the shortest end of the short stick and got beaten to shit with it.

I’m not even going to touch the absolute Schizoid job that is Sylvannas’ character, or literally  A N Y  of the Windrunners, cause they’re all a complete fuckin’ joke now. Even Magni is well … poor bastard has been reamed up the ass story-wise. So pretty much BFA and fucking Shadowlands are absolute 100% mistakes. Like the only thing BFA gave us that was a weird blessing in disguise were the trailers. And maybe Zappy boi, but that’s a bit of an “eh” area.

In fact i’ma go on a bit of a ramble now. If i had the reigns of control on the story, this is pretty much what i’d do. Now most of Legion is pretty well “okay” storywise. If anything i’d make it to where Varian and Vol’Jin retreated or were dragged away from the battlefield after being put out of commission for a bit and have the rest of Legion up to Argus play out as normal. With Argus i’d have it to where Varian and Vol’Jin tag along and help out as best they can. Hell i’d have them come back during the Broken Shore and have them just redo their initial push. Make it more to where the players and both forces are fighting for ground in a more prolonged fashion and state with help from the rest of the Broken Isles. Give it a nice bit of “payback” before getting to the Argus plotline. Now as far as Argus goes? Again they’d be doing their thing, helping out as best as they can, really puttin’ in work and showing why they are complete badasses. And at some point close to the end, the two would probably fight off waves of enemies in order to buy the players some time. This would lead into Varian nearly getting killed but is saved by Vol’Jin and the two actually fighting almost as though they were one person.

I’m not sure on keeping Azeroth being stabbed. That’s a bit of an “iffy” territory on my end. But i would have it to where they both pretty much bite it. Probably have it to where Vol’Jin gets stabbed first, followed by Varian, and then they both get “saved” by Alleria and Turalyon. Both witnessing their fight and both getting them out of there in time. So pretty much the Legion gets its’ shit kicked in, Sargeras is put into baby jail, and everyone goes home but both Varian and Vol’Jin are dying. Pretty much a pseudo “Optimus Prime funeral” sort of thing. That sort of faint glimmer of hope that is just precariously there. And of course they die but that’s where things go a little sideways.

Instead of Vol’Jin outright naming Sylvannas, she names herself and tries to rally the Horde into a state of “perseverance”. That yes, the Legion are gone, but Vol’Jin died on the watch of the Alliance. Meanwhile you have Anduin vouching more for peace and unity with the Horde but you’d have Genn Greymane or someone else on the side of going to war with the Horde. I’m not going to say Tyrande or Jaina. Sure they’d be absolutely wary, but they’d be more willing to “broach” the idea. Essentially i’d rather have the Alliance start to fracture into smaller factions again.

Which would lead into the next expansion, of which we’re going to call … “The Darkened Seas”. Instead of the Burning of Teldrassil, i’d have it to where the expansion starts with the wound of Azeroth and Azerite. That’d be the focus of the expansion. How the wound is seeping out the “blood” of the world and how that blood could be used as a weapon. Magni would be more of a “middle” man. Trying to convince both factions to go to the places where the wounds are the most severe and try to plug them before they get worse. So the first place they go would create more tensions between the two. Where both sides would be gathering as much Azerite as possible and also testing out how to turn it into a weapon. So instead of a world tree burning, i’d imagine that by accident they trigger a chain reaction and pretty much destroy the island, creating a Cold War scenario. So the players would be going around, trying to heal the wounds, and make friends. But on the side the factions are starting to fall apart. The Alliance is starting to drift further and further apart, and the Horde would have the side that is for Azerite Armnament and another against it. Which would all come to a head when Nazjatar rises from the sea. There’d be a lot more Old God/Naga shenanigans in the background and instead of a full out “war”, there’d be more small scale conflicts on the various places we go to. Which of course would be Kezan, Zandalar, Kul’Tiras, and maybe even the Dragon Isles thrown in there, or several small islands. But this would all culminate into what i believe would be a beautiful moment. Both sides are about to throw down, the tensions have been rising and they’re about to pull another Pandaria. But then the Naga fully enter into the picture and right as they’re about to hit the Alliance, the Horde step in and take the blow (i’m imagining a Naval battle situation, but it could be a land battle one). So both sides decide to say “fuck it” to the ones trying to create the rift between them and decide to fully storm Nazjatar and take on the Naga. But i’d have it END when they fight queen Azshara. Like it wouldn’t matter if they win or lose (i’d even go as far to say that it’d be a “both” situation), but the plan all along would be to bring both sides to the table and get all that juicy Azerite into one place. Which would trigger the next expansion.

“Gardens of Nyalotha”

That’s right. I’d go full HAM on an Old God Expansion. Literally create a whole new continent, pull out the “what is on the backside of the world?” bit. Make it to where the players have to enter into the darkest and creepiest expansion yet. Just full out Lovecraftian/Gigeresque nightmare fuel. Like the starting part would be this foul forest of sorts, just trees of flesh and bone and tentacles, and all that jazz, and have zones based on all of the Old Gods. Hell i’d even bring all of them BACK in some way. Make it to where we have to go in and make sure they actually DIE this time. Maybe work in a story about how the Old Gods havn’t so much been “planning” for this to happen like some sort of chess game, but have subtly been nudging things here and there. Just small actions that have a much wider range of “possibilities” for them. And weave in a story about how both factions become witness to these horrors and how they have to support each other. Make it to where in order to survive, they have to come TOGETHER for a change.

What happens after that? Well i’d probably make it to where we do “sort of” win against the Old Gods. But not entirely. And we still have a sword sized problem to deal with. So the next Expansion would be focused on how to deal with that. In short “Stargate” the expansion. Just take a page from the Burning Legion and create a portal to go to other worlds. Hell just take the one big-ass portal we have and make it go to other places. I think that’d be cool and expand the scope of things.

Annexious is back on WYRMRESTACCORD and hopes to return to MOONGUARD. DO NOT LET HIM HURT MORE PEOPLE. His presence came to my attention when an unnamed individual came to me asking if the person idling in Org was the same person they had heard so much about on tumblr.

This player is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and has been kicked out of Guild Wars II, MG, WRA, Star Wars Online, FFXIV, Wildstar Online, and MORE for:

Masturbation in public voice chats,

Sexually abusing both women and MINORS,

Psychological manipulation,

Triggering r*pe RP in public,

And MORE.

I shall be reblogging warning posts which date from 2014-2019 to my OOC blog @of-whelps-and-wizards so victims are not triggered by seeing him for 20 posts on their dash! He will be tagged as #annexious and #rape and abuse mentions.

Cross checked via pets on the armory as well.

These are also alts of his on WRA and MG Alliance and Horde.

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/wyrmrest-accord/velathriel

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/wyrmrest-accord/salthireal

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/wyrmrest-accord/voltharion/collections/pets

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/moon-guard/arcturaeus

THE THRONESWORN IS RUN BY ANNEXIOUS.

Patch 8.0 transformed the baby polar bears in Dragonblight into vicious rabbits. The Arctic Grizzlies now patrol around with pet rabbits. (Via)

PRAISE THE LIGHT, I DID IT

@w@ gosh, you draw so fast… but they’re so pretty together. Ice and Fire. uwu

Snow was so happy to have a burning mama bear-adin that she made a flower crown and tossed it on Vestaria’s head <3

Anon1: Aww thanks, Mr. Troll. : ) 

Anon2: You’re right, Anon. I’m not sure where the line is going to end for the plague use and the replenishment “tactics”. I still look at people’s player characters as separate from that narrative, unless you’re like my friend who’s only ever played an undead and enjoys being a villain and watching the world burn. And I’m sure he’s not alone in enjoying that kind of story (kind of like I picked for Elladra). But yeah, I started playing in Wrath and at that time I was only playing Horde so I remember a version of the forsaken that were a lot…different than the current story paints them.

Anon3: Ooooh black dragon OC? Nice! That is precisely what Faeb and Glitzy will be doing. Those girls have a good head on their shoulders : ) Elladra and Kivaa…well…they may have more raw power but they’re not as wise.

And this thought of course spiraled into my own personal sort of dark Cyberpunk AU of Azeroth. Where most of the world is scarred after a hundred years of war, places like Orgrimar and Teldrassil were turned into large craters at the start of said war, one on purpose and the other being an accident, and of course the majority of the world is a gigantic wasteland with teeming void energies from the near rebirth of the old gods. There would’ve only been a scant few places of safety, one of them being a giant city in the sea where all of the races have kinda been forced together, and the one in control isn’t the Alliance but the Humans creating a sort of near fascist police state. Of course technology and magic has kinda mixed in a big way so you have sort of Mana rifles and the like. Now while the later half is a bit of wild wild WILD speculation that may never happen, all of it is the basis for my main characters’ “nightmares” since Warlords of Draenor. A future that he never ever wants to see. So now we have Azerite, a substance of Titan power. And it looks like we’re going to see it’s potential as a weapon of mass destruction. And we’ve already heard Sylvannas drop the “What would war look like in 100 years?” line, so we already have a sort of pseudo confirmation that this war may last longer than any of us will ever want. Ever.

Now my big thing that i want, which i still think may happen, is that i want the destruction of Teldrassil to be a COMPLETE ACCIDENT. To the point where the Alliance thinks that the Horde did something to destroy it, but the Horde has absolutely no full on CLUE as to what the hell went down. I want it to come from an unexpected chain reaction from Azerite reacting with itself. Much like how Plutonium or Uranium works which is what they are basing Azerite off of. I want it to be found later on when we have protective suits of some kind that it was indeed a pure accident and that somebody royally fucked up and caused a reaction that made the entire stockpile of Azerite they had to just go up in smoke. Cause the Alliance has once before thought it was a “good idea” to put a weapon of potential mass destruction in Teldrassil.

At the end of the day, this is not the story i wanted to see for World of Warcraft. This is not what i thought would ever happen and i am sad to see this war brew. And out of all of my characters, my main one is probably in a bit of a furious panic over all of this. Because this is his EVERY nightmare coming to the front. Which will probably lead him further down a path similar to Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid.

But one thing i do have to say is that maybe, just MAYBE Blizzard is pulling a sort of bit of Story Telling from Star Trek with this one. Because the darker tone and some of the setting reminds me of something. The explosion of Praxis.

Elfebruary Day 7: New Hairstyle – my cute lil Snowsnow rocking a playful side ponytail, just like the character that is her predecessor. 

Snow and Yulessa, dreaming . @neflovely 

Today was the first time I checked for entries to my Last Light giveaway, and as I was scrolling through them, I spotted this….

=w= I don’t actually know who you are, because I can’t read IP addresses and I forgot to put in a field to tell me….but I just want you to know that I was in such a dark, anxiety-riddled place today, yesterday, before that…. I felt the tension break at last, in the form of tears. I just… 

It’s not lost on me that there is a lot of hurt going on around me. I try and try, but sometimes I don’t know what to do, so I am silent. I feel such guilt for those days. I wish I could just let you know I’m still here, even if I’m quiet. Even if I’m playing a game, or chatting with the guild, or working on commissions or tending to my IRL responsibilities, I want to be able to always pause and give you at least a moment.