#blightrunner

first, have The Quote (i could never choose the most significant quote for them, but this is pretty damn high up there, and it's the one relevant for this so) in its entirety.

[context: he'd expressed worry over her Jailor-related plans - worry for her safety, specifically - and she'd replied that it's worth the risk to save the world. he...disagreed.]

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"My lady," he said, and his strong, proud, acerbic voice trembled slightly, "you... are my world."

She had not expected that, and stared, mute.

"I care not for life, or afterlife. I have all I need here. This little world that is ours and ours alone. We can walk away, disappear, be forgotten. Be together."

"And be happy?"

It was a cruel thing to say. They both knew that happiness was impossible for such as they. If there were moments when it seemed as thought it was within their grasp, those moments turned to ash, washed away by the waves of anger and frustration or sometimes an utter lack of feeling at all.

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insanely romantic? utterly heartwrenching? devastatingly sad and doomed? at first glance, definitely all of those.

but as we've come to learn: Sylvanas is actually incorrect in her assumptions! she lacks (positive) feelings in her unlife, merely able to remember loving Nathanos (even considering them good as married (!)), but unable to feel the emotion anymore. that's all because of her fractured soul; not a 'fact' of unlife at all!!

[please take a minute of silence for Nathanos never, ever, even once even slightly, correcting her on this assumption; instead bearing this weight alone, even defending her emotionless-ness as a higher state of being to the Dark Rangers trying to convince him she still loves him. literally no one does it like this guy. when i think of unquestioning, eternal devotion, i think of him.]

and now look at that quote... and what we know is coming. Sylvanas returns to the land of the living, and Nathanos..... well if Blizz doesn't intend for him to follow her, why tf are they setting him up as literally following her around all the time in the Maw?? as a mystery, at that. only ultra-loyalist players find out for sure it's him; she doesn't have a clue. (she might suspect it, sure; we wouldn't know if she did. but she doesn't know.) if they wanted to leave him there, she'd say goodbye to him and all, surely! but it's not set up that way, which is why i'm convinced his presence will be some sort of Reveal, and lead to their reunion.

and then, after everything is said and [*gestures to all of Midnight*] all the fighting is done? i know a popular theory is that they die to save the world, for really real this time, and while i don't dislike that (the only way Blizz could truly earn my ire is if they never let them reunite after all, for whatever godforsaken reason they'd do that)....

look at Nathanos' quote again. at his wish for them both to just disappear together.

imagine.