Skoll Shorties

It's very VERY easy to make this "middle ground" that non-Forsaken players want without outright inserting Calia on the throne. Calia doesn't represent a middle ground. She represents the polar opposite. People like Lilian or Faol are a middle ground.

Faol and Voss don't want to take up that position at all and that's where Calia comes in. Calia doesn't want the throne either but Forsaken NPCs express that they want her to lead and be there for them. She has Voss and Faol as advisers so that's how this can all work.

Honestly it would be super easy to write a situation where Voss decides she's needed for leadership. Waaaaay fucking easier than fitting the square peg that is Calia into the Forsaken's round hole. They're just examples, anyway. Quite literally almost any Forsaken character-

-fits better than Calia.

Calia's whole character is to finally be what can heal her people. Sylvanas focused way too much and way too long on the negatives of being undead. Finally we have a character who can focus on the good and help them out.

Good luck selling that to the Forsaken playerbase, who got into the race because of their dark, pained edge. You can't just try to 180 a player race that's been thoroughly established since vanilla and expect it to go over smoothly. No matter how hard people try, there will-

-be vast swaths of the Forsaken playerbase that will never like this shift. Not an insignificant vocal minority, but the bulk of us. Because, all technicalities aside, the entire theming and aesthetic of Calia is diametrically opposed to the product that the Forsaken are.-

-It will never fit. Anyway, rant aside, I still have a powerful suspicion that Calia's being put on the throne as a setup for the Evil Light expansion on the horizon. Despite what the rant may imply, I'm not actually that angry about Calia. Mainly because I've been so-