Is Sylvanas Depressed?

Friday. Yes here we are at the end of the week wondering what the weekend is going to bring us. Now I was reading through a bunch of Reader Posts which I was going to pick when I came across this one by Snowraven who has an interesting take on Sylvanas. So sit back and maybe these points will make you think.

Now, at first I thought it's probably not true, but then I stood to think more. What if Sylvanas acts the way she does because she's lonely and depressed?

I mean, think about it:

• her sister Alleria disappeared during WC2. She was not found in the Burning Crusade anywhere.
• She was made a banshee by Arthas and forced to kill her people, friends, family. 
• When she managed to free herself, the feeling that controlled her most was revenge but she saw how humans, blood elves (at that time) disliked her and looked at her like at a freak 
• She was so lonely she made friends with a dreadlord (who later betrayed her), well, ok, she forced him to be her friend. 
• She did want revenge but saw how the forsaken are also shunned by their people, their former friends and family, like she was, so she made a faction with them and made an alliance of need with the Horde. Because she wanted friends too and Thrall offered to be friends. But the forsaken were still treated with mistrust and seen as outcasts. 
• Later on she played a vital part in rescuing the blood elves and inserting them into the Horde as surely her sisters and brothers would understand her, right? But they didn't really, they just saw her as some sort of freak and when she asked for help in her plight to Northrend, Loth'remar first refused her, she had to coerce them into helping her. Why didn't anyone want to help her she wondered? 
• She made the idea of a plague to finish the Scourge but have it ready to be used against others who would attack her and her forsaken and befriended an apothecary named Farnell who had found an anti-plague but even he betrayed her and ousted her from her city, treating her like a meaningless junk. 
• In the end, after WotLK, her final goal in life was done. She had killed the one that brought her to this state, now she could finally rest as there was no reason for her to remain alive so she tried to kill herself as she was now depressed, having no point in life. 
• She saw what awaits her in the afterlife and started feeling fear, in the end it would just be her, alone, cold, in a void of darkness and her pets, those she bunched up together after she thought they felt the same, wiped out by Garrosh. 
• She came back, but Garrosh forced her to obey him and attack Gilneas. Still, she started raising new friends from graves, but it wasn't really the same. Some of them even betrayed her again and shot her. 
• She became paranoid when Koltira made friends with Thassarian, what if another would leave her? And this time a blood elf too, who should understand her! So being scared at the thought she dragged him to have a chat with him, so that he'd never leave her. 
• During the War Crimes novel she reunited with her sister Veressa and was so happy! Finally someone whom she loved! She would feel happy and loved again, and she would ensure Veressa would never leave her and they'd lead the forsaken together like best sisters forever! She'd only have to kill her and raise her as forsaken and all would be amazing again! 
• But Veressa betrayed her too. Sylvanas was so angry and depressed, she just went to kill animals as she could no longer even cry and she felt so much rage at how lonely she was. 

Think about it? What if the whole "tough spiteful bitch" is actually just a façade and she's just lonely and depressed and she uses the façade to hide that. And she's become so lonely and depressed that she's psychotic, willing to kill others to have friends, willing to force others to be her friends as her pets and constructs are loyal, not like the living?

There you have it this week's Reader Post. What did you think? Is it possible? Guess Legion will tell the tale.

Ask Gauss

Sunday! Yes it is here and we are left wondering where the weekend has gone off to. That and how we have now entered March people got tons of plans already in the making. All that planning aside though do have some questions to answer. So let's get to it.

Did I hear we are going to get Sylvanas in Heroes?

Apparently yes! She will be a ranged Specialist from what I am hearing. Also will be here as a Dark Ranger probably with a High Elf Skin. Without knowing her specific abilities hard to comment, but I don't doubt in her being a favourite.

So with The Order:1886 released. What do you think is the next biggest new title coming?

Well that would have to be Bloodborne. Game that I can't get enough of every time I see it. That plus the Dark Souls type difficulty it plans on bringing to the table I don't see how I couldn't be excited for such a game. I know it won't be for everyone though, but I believe those who do get it will be the ones who will talking about it for a long time. In both a good and bad sense.

Are you just going to post your next week's list on Ask Gauss every week now?

No.

There you have it questions answered for the week. Hope you all got some information you can use in one way or another. Thanks to everyone who sent something in if I got to it on here or not as always wouldn't be possible with out all of you.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

What Are We If Not Slaves To This Torment

Friday. Yes it is almost the weekend. Weekend means we can forget about imortant things for a couple days and sit back and do a whole lot of nothing. Before that though we have Friday the day we think about the whole lot of nothing we are going to be doing on the weekend and read this week's Reader Post. This week I have a post from Jokubas who with the release of the patches patch in WoW has some thoughts on what Blizzard should deal with next plot wise.

Ever since the Wrath Gate, trouble has been brewing with the Forsaken. For years Blizzard has been saying that Sylvanas has been following the path of the Lich King. And yet, even Garrosh, who hated Sylvanas perhaps more than he hated everyone else, ultimately let her do whatever she wanted. But it's really coming to a head. Blizzard said a reckoning is coming, at BlizzCon, and the end of Siege of Orgrimmar wasn't very subtle about how Sylvanas felt about the Horde.

I'm really feeling like it's not just a loose end this time, and something Blizzard has plans for (regardless of how far out they are). What I hope to see from it, though, is a new age for the Forsaken. In Frozen Throne, they were introduced as such a unique concept. Mindless undead... who were given their minds back. They were normal, albeit traumatized, people that happened to inhabit decaying bodies. By all accounts, they should have restored Lordaeron on their own. Instead, from day one Blizzard started writing them like cackling mad scientists not so different from the Scourge that they were supposed to have broken away from. I want to see the Forsaken plot culminate in a new age for them, where they're finally shown to be who they were supposed to be all along: the restored citizens of Lordaeron. I want to see an awesome, artistic dissonance between the gleaming spires of their capital, and the decaying, cursed citizens who inhabit it. I want to see a complex society attempting to recover from a horrific tragedy and struggling with a dark shadow that will always be with them, not the one-dimensional haters of all things living we have right now that, by Blizzard's own admission, are following in the Scourge's footsteps.

The way I'd expect to see that happen is after the resolution of a schism within the Forsaken brought about by the conflict. Some might call it a retread of the Darkspear Rebellion, but the Forsaken have been needing it much longer.

Now I do thing this plot thread interesting as I am a big fan of the Sylvanas story, but for me Azshara really is what I have been asking for for years. With that enjoy your weekend!

You Fail At Sylvanas Windrunner Lore If...

Fail Day! Yes, yes it is here once again. The day of the week where you will feel better or worse depending on your "score". As has been the custom the last few weeks we will continue with the Lore edition of fails until I run out of interesting people to do it on or you all get bored of it. This week we are back to the Horde and will have everyone's favourite leading lady as the subject.

You Fail At Sylvanas Windrunner Lore If...

• You did not know she is also refered to as the Banshee Queen
• You were not aware she has two sisters Alleria her older and Vereesa her younger
• You didn't know she is the former Ranger General of Silvermoon
• You live under a rock and didn't know Arthas raised her to be Undead when he finally was able to kill her
• You didn't know she was instrumental in bringing the Blood Elves to join the Horde
• You were not aware her Brother in Law is Rhonin the Leader of the Kirin Tor
• You did not know she allied herself with Dreadlords in an attempt to kill Arthas
• You also did not know she forced Varimathras to "kill" Balnazzar in front of her to prove his loyalty.
• You were not aware that she was killed by Lord Godfery and resurected by Val'kyr
• You didn't know she called her people the "Forsaken" becasue she believed they were forsaken by humanity
•  You didn't know she finds out about the truce between Koltira and Thassarian in Andorthal and sends Koltira somwhere to "fix" his weakness
• You were not aware that she believes the Alliance have no claims at all for Lodaeron

and finally

• You didn't know the Val'kyr now serve her

There you have it this week's edition of Fail. Hope you got at least something out of it. Cannot forget the quote as promised probably her most famous of all

"We are the Forsaken. We will slaughter anyone who stands in our way."

Good luck in your last non nerfed reset!