This is one of those Things where I’ve had to sit on my hands to stop from myself from suddenly materializing in the middle of other people’s conversations like the Sha of Fanrage. I don’t think I ever outright said this here, but Rommath is my favorite character, the one who got me interested enough in lore to become fannish about WoW. Even if you don’t like him, how does it not make sense for him to be bitter after getting stuck in a cell to be murdered by racists? Of all character motivations in WoW that might be called nonsensical or OOC, why pick on that?
I also think it’s not too hard to tell that Rommath’s grudge is so personal because he felt betrayed by an organization/people he’d once loved. It’s a pretty big deal for him to say that Dalaran, a mostly human-run nation, had been just as much of a home as Silvermoon to the blood elves who lived there. OK, I know not everyone keeps up with tie-ins, and needing extra material to understand the plot is an issue in its own right. But even in WC3, wasn’t one of the guards a Kirin Tor soldier who had known Kael before? So the idea of surviving Kirin Tor members being complicit in throwing their former friends under the bus didn’t come out of nowhere.
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Date: 2013-08-17 04:09 pm (UTC)I also think it’s not too hard to tell that Rommath’s grudge is so personal because he felt betrayed by an organization/people he’d once loved. It’s a pretty big deal for him to say that Dalaran, a mostly human-run nation, had been just as much of a home as Silvermoon to the blood elves who lived there. OK, I know not everyone keeps up with tie-ins, and needing extra material to understand the plot is an issue in its own right. But even in WC3, wasn’t one of the guards a Kirin Tor soldier who had known Kael before? So the idea of surviving Kirin Tor members being complicit in throwing their former friends under the bus didn’t come out of nowhere.