Skoll Shorties

I'm honestly sick of the story focusing on only a handful of characters because it comes at the cost of making a zone's story compelling to your character. Silverpine isn't great because of Sylvanas, it's great because you were invested in the minor characters of the zone.

The Alliance story languished for years because it was pretty much "Varian's story". Heck, to this day, a handful of white humans are the primary focus of the Alliance narrative outside of cameos. It's a big part of the reason why Alliance ARs were hard to write.

I think that Legion and BfA are enough evidence to support that new and old characters can co-exist. But then again I play World of Warcraft not for my own character, aside for RP purposes, but for the existing characters of Warcraft 3.

Thing is though... the recurring older minor characters aren't really the same characters. They're just old names chosen to fit a new role, and their old personalities don't come intact. This ranges from the new personalities being close to completely off.

I get the feeling that these characters could have been interchanged with some other named NPC, and it wouldn't have changed anything. Heck, besides the first few seconds, is anything in the newest cinematic video distinctly Draka? She easily could have been Garona.

But Garona is alive... that really wouldn't work out at all. I think they chose Draka because she was one of the lesser developed characters that they wanted to focus on. Plus they wanted someone who's existing with a highly established character to interact with later.

Other than being alive, is there really anything keeping it from being Garona? Draka didn't have the most set in stone personality, but what little was known about her is... well, largely absent. A silly point but - apparently she also changed classes from warrior to rogue.

I think that was the whole point of the story to demonstrate that. She even points out how it's weird she was put into a House meant for spies rather than the house meant for warriors. She's essentially now both a warrior and a rogue which is why she's valued in the Shadowlands.