wisepowder: World of Warcraft fans don’t trust the game’s zombie mommy

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For World of Warcraft fans who have been playing through Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands, Calia Menethil is always popping up in the background of the story. If there’s some kind of big lore event about the Horde, the undead, or the end of the fourth war, she’s there to preach love and acceptance. She seems benevolent, except some World of Warcraft players distrust her — and every time she shows up, their concern grows.To get more news about safe wow gold, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

It takes a bit of work to figure out who Calia Menethil is, because her backstory is hidden in books, the priest campaign from Legion, and a little knowledge of Warcraft history. She’s the sister of Arthas Menethil, the prince who ended up murdering their dad, killing his way through their kingdom, and raising an army of undead.

In Legion, she wants to be called “just Calia,” which makes sense. It’s pretty common to disavow relatives for crimes like a string of consecutive genocides and mass necromancy incidents. But while working as a priest, she meets King Anduin, and helps set up a meeting between humans in the Alliance and undead Forsaken in the Horde.

Calia’s first big active story decision is pulling a solo stealth maneuver to get a bunch of Forsaken to defect from the Horde and join the Alliance in the climax of the novel Before the Storm. Sylvanas, as the leader of the Forsaken, is not OK with this, and kills all of the fleeing undead and Calia.But in World of Warcraft, death isn’t super permanent. Anduin is upset that his new friend is dead, so he brings her back to the Netherlight Temple. With the power of holy magic, the priests manage to bring Calia back as a whole new kind of undead. Calia’s resurrected body is powered by the light, not by the usual method of necromancy.

Fans don’t know what that means — and no one in World of Warcraft knows what it means, either. It has fueled tons of speculation, with players noting that we could get an undead Allied Race for the Alliance.

Calia has since shown up to meetings with the Horde, but she’s not a political leader. That would be a tricky move. Fans have been concerned since Before the Storm that Calia is being set up as a replacement for the Leader for the Forsaken. The former leader is Sylvanas, who is currently wearing the villain hat alongside the Jailer in Shadowlands. Sylvanas may be a future raid boss, but she’s one of the game’s most beloved characters.

&ldquooes ‘Calia’ being undead suddenly give her legitimacy to lead the undead?” asks Emsrelda, a World of Warcraft lore fan, who spoke with Polygon over Twitter. “Who even let her into Orgrimmar to hang out with the blood elf leader for a bit? Will the undead faction suddenly be buddy buddy with the rest of the Alliance? Like, her part in the larger story leaves me with more questions than answers.”