05-10-2006, 10:11 PM
MongoJerry,May 10 2006, 09:57 PM Wrote:No, I understand. I really do. I guess I'm not understanding the degree to which the lore has changed, because I didn't play the original Warcraft series. Are we talking about a few minor details like everyone pictured the Draenei as pushovers when it turns out that they are more than people thought? That's fine, because that just means you didn't have the full story before, so this simply fleshes things out. On the other hand, is the issue that the new lore suddenly makes Sargaras from the ultimate good guy to the ultimate bad guy? Now that I can understand would be counter-immersive.
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Something like the latter.
In the original lore, Sargeras was the chosen champion of the Pantheon of Titans, dedicated to eradicating evil and chaos throughout the Universe (more or less). It was the Eredar who started to turn him crazy, and after that the Nathrezim (Dreadlords) who eventually made him mad and evil. So the corruption happened a long while after he met (already evil) Eredar, and even after meeting of the Nathrezim, where those two races were essentially the source of his corruption.
In the new lore... Sargeras was already evil when he met Eredar, and he was the one who turned them evil, and only a handful of Eredar escaped under leadership of Velen and became Draenei. Which pretty much shatters all the lore about that time period, and makes us question, who was Sargeras, was he ever even good, and if he was, who corrupted him, and what the hell is going on.
Oh, and Dimensional ships?