My take on the Warbringers: Azshara cinematic in which Queen Azshara makes a deal which changes the course of Azeroth.
- Remember I said I was expecting to see purple in Azshara? Boom. Red and blue. N’zoth and Azshara. When N’zoth and Azshara are seperate but coming together we get purple. We see purple when the fish is reflected in her eye, and when she is waiting for N’zoth to make his decision. Purple becomes uncertainty, neither red nor blue. It is also N’zoth and Azshara together
- The fish gasping for air – the great empire brought down by the most insignificant of beings – the fish becomes N’zoth, a god. Never underestimate an advisary. This idea comes back when N’zoth underestimates her.
- This is not quite the same story as Jaina and Sylvanas, but it has a similarity. Azshara does a thing. She makes a couple of deals. One with Sargeras – the one she refers to when she says “This is not the deal I made,” and another with N’zoth in the cinematic. Like Jaina and Sylvanas, she makes a decision that affects her people. How do her people feel about this? How does she feel about it now? Could this be a set up for a potential redemption storyline? To be clear, I don’t expect her to get a redemption storyline, but her story can be held up in contrast to Jaina and Sylvanas’, will she gain the realization that they do, that she needs to do something?
- A parallel is drawn with Prince Farondis in Azuna – her dead people blaming her for what has happened to them
- N’zoth is like a fish out of water, helpless, only she can save him. At the same time, she is an elf in water and would need to become a fish to survive.
- Let’s go back to blue and red making uncertain purple. Blue is the Alliance, red is the Horde. Purple would be those great factions coming together. In war: Who will win? Who can win? In peace: What would that even look like? Even in this look at our joint (together, purple!) adversaries our conflict is reflected.
TL;DR: the themes continue, the storytelling is lovely.