And yet, you rejected them when they sought help simply to survive. ![]() "The Forsaken were once members of the Alliance. The Alliance and Horde leaders met briefly in Dalaran after Khadgar's warning before the Battle for Broken Shore, and Anduin told the others that it was wrong for them to initially reject Sylvanas and her people. Nathanos knew of Sylvanas's plans to bring Vereesa into the Undercity and part of the Jailer's plans, but opposed them, telling Sylvanas that Vereesa still had joy and laughter in her, but agreed to support Sylvanas if she really wanted to go through with her plans Vereesa's rejection hurt her deeply. The faction war, and even raising more Forsaken, meant very little to her in reality. Sylvanas's goals of raising the Forsaken by enslaving Eyir, and convincing Saurfang that war between the factions was inevitable, were basically mostly falsehoods - her overeaching major goal after the Legion attacked was to help the Jailer destroy the cycle of life and death, and that meant feeding more souls to him. She also never really trusted the orcs, and never forgot or forgave them for her brother's death, merely using them as a means to an end after the Alliance rejected her people. ![]() Sylvanas did not intend for the Wrath Gate incident to occur as it did, and did indeed narrowly escape from the Undercity with her life, BUT she still would have considered the attack worth it, if Arthas was killed. Only after several months did he finally agree to allow a small group of representatives, including the Horde leaders and Sylvanas, to visit Silvermoon. While the blood elves were grateful for Sylvanas's gestures of aid, the Horde had done too much harm for Lor'themar's people to see them as allies. Lor'themar and the blood elves were at first VERY wary of the Horde's overtures. Sylvanas did indeed try very hard at first to reach out to Varian and the Alliance, even sending barely deteriorated Forsaken representatives who came from Stormwind, Southshore and Lordaeron with living family members to sway them, but they were killed as soon as they stepped close to Stormwind. His death, and that of their parents all in quick succession, had a very serious emotional impact on all of the three sisters, and all the high elves. Vereesa was actually shockingly indirectly responsible for Lirath's death - and this created a deep rift between her and Sylvanas. She loves, and has always loved, Lirath far, far more than she ever loved Alleria or Vereesa or her parents. The bond between Sylvanas and Lirath, her little brother, is implied to be the strongest of all the Windrunner family's relationships, and plays a major role throughout the novel, including its ending. She also heavily favors Alleria over Sylvanas, and is very upset when she is forced to name her younger daughter as her successor, with Alleria shirking from the role and preferring to join the Farstriders. Lady Lireesa, the Windrunner sisters' mother and Ranger-General of Silvermoon, is portrayed as a very overbearing and strict parent, in contrast with Lord Verath, their father, who is one of Anasterian's chief advisors. Sylvanas's early years and childhood are heavily featured in the first part of the novel. I do NOT wish to spoil most of the content, but I do wish to provide some very few basic points to anyone who does not want to or cannot yet purchase the novel, but who are curious as to what it contains: I strongly recommend giving the book at least a chance, as well as listening to the audiobook, voiced by Sylvanas's voice actress: I have always mostly enjoyed Christie Golden's novels and writing (I very strongly dislike the direction Blizzard has taken the story in general, but I do not think it is fair to blame that on her, a new employee in fact, I kind of feel sorry for Golden, as she has actually been threatened online for some of the story's unfavorable lore developments), and I actually liked it much better than the Shadows Rising novel. I just finished reading the Sylvanas novel very recently, and I have to admit, it was a very well-written novel.
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