#tectonic divergence

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Warcraft: Romancing the Coffer

(49541 words) by

CIIX

Chapters: 7/19

Fandom:

World of Warcraft

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Characters: Neltharion | Deathwing, Calia Menethil, Jaina Proudmoore, Thrall (Warcraft), Alexstrasza (Warcraft), Malygos (Warcraft), Kalecgos (Warcraft), Ysera (Warcraft), Nozdormu (Warcraft), Garrosh Hellscream

Additional Tags: Dragons

Summary:

Um, there is not going to be a celebration after the Sha of Doubt is defeated.

Now, I’ve went into some of this with my editor last night.  And it is possible that Nel 1.0 has gone to celebrations and holidays in his honor. But he wouldn’t be adorned in gold or jewels, instead he would be given food.  And since Pandarens value food and family over gold…that is what they would “adorn” him with, and him enjoying the food would represent his pleasure of them and a good blessing for them.

Denying their offering would be insulting or seen as they are not being satisfactory to him, or honoring him properly.

Well, here’s what I would have done differently.  She wouldn’t be corrupted at all.  Because she knows better than that.  She has been fighting this thing for a long time, knows what the corruption is, seen it corrupt members of her flight, and watch them even be uncorrupted.  She knows what she is doing, and she would never be corrupted by Xavius at all!

So, Ysera’s death just would not happen. 

And by the way, Squishy actually has the power to uncorrupt someone.  If you read the story in detail…he actually does have that power.  He just isn’t aware of it.

Well, it would be a good idea to clarify what you mean by “pure”.  Because Nel is not pure.  He’s a Woobie, but he’s Woobie, destroyer of Worlds sort of Woobie.  And there is a lot of trash he actually deserves.  And like I said, you need to read the other stories to get why.

Oh, there’s a reason why he’s able to function after 10 thousand years.  And if you actually study the stories, and also read my journals on Deviant Art and some of the discussion blogs i write here, you would have figured it out as to why.

There’s only 3 people so far who have guessed the nature of Neltharion and Deathwing and how they relate to one another. 

Most haven’t.

“very uncomfortable site on all platforms.“

I have no idea what that means, unless you’re talking about logging in to review.  Which, good news, I keep the Anon review button on because i want to entice more people to review my work without that pesky having to log in and do their capita image thing.

I don’t see how its hard to use since it’s mostly text based and easily read with a computer.  If you have the app, I might understand, but then again, before I got a smart phone, I have computers and I always tell people to just use a computer when going on the internet because it’s just better.  No offense to smart phones and tablet users, but the computer really is still the best thing to use.

But like I said, more people are commenting on my fanfiction.net postings than they are here, so, I take it that it’s not really worth my time to post anything else up and just direct people to the story on fanfiction.net instead.

Rise of the Sha Chapter 20

That is the link to the latest chapter of Rise of the Sha.

I do suggest if you want me to continue posting is to comment and of course share the story around, hell, even reblog if you want with your own comments to show other people on your page my story and do use the appropriate tags when doing so, so they can follow along.

As for your comment on Neltharion being ‘pure’.  Um, he’s not pure the least bit.

Neltharion has done some really horrific things since his freedom from the grasp of the Old Gods.  He’s also not a very good leader.  His decisions has killed off half of his loyal flight.  He can’t seem to get new dragons, especially unrelated dragons, to join him because they can sense how poor a leader he really is.

And yes, that does have to do with his mental disability, but it does not leave him blameless for his actions.  Regardless to his mental handicaps, Neltharion still is a murderer of children (i.e. the Twilight Drakes in The Hammer’s Fall), a murderer and destroyer of the Barrens including lives that had NOTHING to do with Garrosh’s invasion of Theramore or its destruction.  And well, Ironforge.

He also threatened Varian a few times.  And though he apologized for it, he’s still not off the hook from that.  And though they may have an accord right now, that’s far from being trustworthy allies. 

I mean, if you read the earlier chapters where Thrall was in it, he points out valid issues that Neltharion does need to be concerned about, such as the famine he caused.

And while yes, the rule is don’t piss off the guy who controls the very ecology of the planet itself, it still does not leave Neltharion innocent of those crimes.

Granted for now Neltharion is innocent of the crimes that Deathwing has caused, he is not innocent of the crimes he himself has caused recently.

So, Neltharion is NOT pure.

And that is the theme of these stories, a theme that I try to keep in tone with Warcraft itself.

Azeroth may seem like a world of black and white to the Player, but it is not a world of black and white.  It is a world of gray.  And every character is more or less gray, barring a few who lean closer to black, and those who lean closer to white.

But many have committed some horrible act in the name of what they consider their POV of the greater good.

Neltharion is no different from this.

Perhaps to him causing the absolute genocide of the Twilight Flight by slaughtering infants left and right was a greater good, but that doesn’t make it any less terrible of an act.

The same for his literal squashing of Horde forces inside Orgrimmar with his own feet.  Let me repeat that, Neltharion squashed into bloody smears hundreds of Horde guards when he attacked Orgrimmar.  Literal squishing of ants, here.  Yeah, Neltharion did that in Wrath of the Warchief.

There may have been justification for that, but it’s still a horrible act!

He is not pure.  Not by a long stretch!  The Squishy maybe squishy, but he’s done some really terrible things.

And I don’t know if he’ll ever get his happy ending.

I can try to post up more of Rise of the Sha here, but I really want people to comment on it.  I really want to see if people are interested in reading this story here.

My little spot on Tumblr is very small. So, I need people like you to spread the word around about me and Nel and any of the art I do here.

As for the Russian thing.  Again, if you are really willing to be dedicated, an not just drop the ball and forget about it when something else comes up, I’m willing to let you do the translation.

But to be honest, I am very honored that people actually do want to translate my story…a fanfiction actually…into other languages so other people can read them.

I understand that having them translated will get them out to other readers who don’t know English, and I want that to happen, but the last translator wasn’t dedicated to his work.

And he has basically 5 stories to translate.

And this is what you’ll have too.  You’ll have Romancing the Coffer, The Hammer’s Fall, Murozond’s Gift, Wrath of the Warchief, and Rise of the Sha to translate into Russian.

So, that is why I need some assurance of dedication because you’ll have five stories to translate.

Rise of the Sha is the recent story of an on going series.

So, yeah, dedication.

This is why I’m leery of people wanting to translate my stories, because I don’t think some of you realize what you’ll be translating when you do it.

If you want to, great.

Here’s Romancing the Coffer.

I also have it in PDF form on my Deviant Art page. Ghostwalker2061

It’s in the folder in my gallery titled Tectonic Divergence. Which is the name of the actual series Neltharion’s story belongs in.