#cyclorn

Me, doing the peanut butter jelly dance in a yeti costume:

So with all the Old God bullshit going on I thought I’d put together a dark shaman-esque mog for shits and giggles, like if things go bad and N’zoth manages to corrupt poor Cyclorn in a moment of weakness.

Can I just, talk about how there’s these two yaungol riding their yaks swimming around in a lake while in a panic.

So this is like, a year late but it’s been in my mind since the BFA pre-launch and I just haven’t written anything out properly because I’m bad.

I had in mind that Cyclorn did canonically participate in the War of Thorns but... when Sylvanas just spontaneously decided to nuke Teldrassil his first reaction after the initial shock was to just run out onto the ocean using waterwalking and attempt to put out the fire by calling waves up from the ocean and rain (in fairness, if the catapults could reach the tree from Darkshore then it can’t be that far, unless those are some super fucking tweaked catapults.)

Now, his abilities as a shaman have improved quite a lot especially after Legion but he’s nowhere near the level of say, Thrall. As my girlfriend put it, he’s not just gonna pull Neptulon out of the ocean and call it a day. But whether he’s capable and would succeed or not didn’t cross his mind in that moment, he just felt he had to do something. He had to try. And then his efforts literally came crashing down on him as a flaming tree branch fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious and he woke up later after having drifted onto the beach.*

This next part I’m still on the fence about and may or may not keep but, Nathanos had witnessed the whole thing and threatens Cyclorn for trying to go against Sylvanas’ order. He goes as far as to do some digging and learns Cyclorn’s elderly parents are living in Thunder Bluff and uses their lives as blackmail to make sure Cyclorn accepts and complies with any further missions he is given.

There’s a few holes in this now with the bullshit that’s happened in 8.1 and 8.2 but I could just say as one of the horde’s “champions” Cyclorn has too much potential for them to just off over trying to douse the tree, especially with whatever plans Sylvanas has in store.

*Should I give him a burn scar or something, I mean he did have a giant tree branch that was on fire land on top of him even for a brief moment before he went underwater with it. I dunno.