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New Merithra Visage Form and Ysera in the Dragonflight Loading Screen

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Merithra, Ysera's daughter, has a new Visage Form in the Dragonflight expansion and it turns out it's not her but Ysera depicted in the loading screen.

In the Dragonflight loading screen, we see the four dragon aspects, namely Alexstrasza, Nozdormu, Kalecgos, and Ysera, not her daughter Merithra as I had initially anticipated.

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Merithra has a Night Elf Visage Form in the Dragonflight expansion, which does not line up with the Elf we see on the Dragonflight loading screen.

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You can read more about Ysera in Dragonflight here. Please note the post contains major spoilers that were not available for testing on the Beta because Blizzard most likely wants to hide portions of the story from players, just like they did with Calia Menethil.

Back in August, we covered a mysterious empty area on the map of the Dragon Isles. For further reading on Ysera in Dragonflight, you may also want to read the following post.

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1 hour ago, Teufel said:

Why do you keep referring to Wrathion as "Aspect" though, even in-game you can 'choose'a formal one.

Good catch, thanks! I completely forgot.

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3 hours ago, Teufel said:

Why do you keep referring to Wrathion as "Aspect" though, even in-game you can 'choose'a formal one.

You mean him and Sabellian? It seemed like we are able to farm both reps, so our choice might not be an actual choice.

It looks like Ysera's return is expected, if they haven't changed that dialogue with Malfurion. No consequences for her death in Legion, but Shadowlands already invalidated it.

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2 hours ago, Arcling said:

You mean him and Sabellian? It seemed like we are able to farm both reps, so our choice might not be an actual choice.

It looks like Ysera's return is expected, if they haven't changed that dialogue with Malfurion. No consequences for her death in Legion, but Shadowlands already invalidated it.

I mean, if we get technical, the was only one instance of dragons choosing an actual Aspect and this came with a certain astrological event being required and empowering a dragon with the full strength of one - which should be impossible now. 

So at best Wrathion and Sabellian could be nominal leaders of their flights should the plot settle on one.

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4 hours ago, Arcling said:

No consequences for her death in Legion, but Shadowlands already invalidated it.

If Blizzard is good at one thing, it's constantly reviving characters that died. Everytime, a dramatic cinematic about someone's death and a (few) xpac(s) later... SURPRISE!

Death has long since lost its finality to it in any Blizzard lore.

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On 9/24/2022 at 9:32 PM, Yridaa said:

If Blizzard is good at one thing, it's constantly reviving characters that died. Everytime, a dramatic cinematic about someone's death and a (few) xpac(s) later... SURPRISE!

Death has long since lost its finality to it in any Blizzard lore.

Like whom, besides Ysera?

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20 hours ago, Cham79 said:

Like whom, besides Ysera?

Nefarian. Onyxia. Varian. Medivh. Kael'Thas 2x. Whitemane.

Arguably also Archimonde and Mannoroth considering Blizzard decided to retcon and "reveal" demons resurrect in the Nether when not killed in there.

Cenarius is also alive in Legion for some reason even though he got killed by Grom...?

 

I'm surprised you're even asking. Won't be too long until we see Tirion back either, I'm sure.

"No lol, Legion just setback!"

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2 hours ago, Yridaa said:

Nefarian. Onyxia. Varian. Medivh. Kael'Thas 2x. Whitemane.

Arguably also Archimonde and Mannoroth considering Blizzard decided to retcon and "reveal" demons resurrect in the Nether when not killed in there.

Cenarius is also alive in Legion for some reason even though he got killed by Grom...?

 

I'm surprised you're even asking. Won't be too long until we see Tirion back either, I'm sure.

"No lol, Legion just setback!"

Varian came back? 

Onyxia and Nefarion were used only as undead raid bosses, the main expansion end boss was literally their father?

All the characters mentioned have decent fanbases so why not?

Cenarius' spirit is the only thing 'living' in the emerald dream and has been the case since WC3?

How was twisting nether a retcon? What did it replace?

5 or so Characters seems fine to me for 18 years not including WC

I will say the alt universe trash in WoD is a good argument atleast as much as I like Gul'Dan.

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On 9/27/2022 at 9:09 AM, Cham79 said:

Varian came back? 

Onyxia and Nefarion were used only as undead raid bosses, the main expansion end boss was literally their father?

All the characters mentioned have decent fanbases so why not?

Cenarius' spirit is the only thing 'living' in the emerald dream and has been the case since WC3?

How was twisting nether a retcon? What did it replace?

5 or so Characters seems fine to me for 18 years not including WC

I will say the alt universe trash in WoD is a good argument atleast as much as I like Gul'Dan.

Varian was dead, Anduin resurrected him in the Cataclysm book, back in 2009 or 2010 I believe.

Demons were killed for real back when wc3 was released. In WoW they retconned that by stating they just revive in the Nether.

Cenarius being killed by Grom would have 0 impact if it was immediately revealed "it's k bro, he still exists in the Emerald Dream so no worries"

And yeah sure, Onyxia and Nefarian resurrected as undead. Good luck with their head being chopped off and hung in the city.

Might as well have called their father Lifewing for having capabilities like that.

I didn't mention Lei Shen either because there's so little information available regarding the method. Trolls having a deep lore with their special gods makes it more difficult as well. But it's yet another point on the "Death is just temporary" list for Warcraft universe.

"Was just setback!" Is an infamous quote in Warcraft for more than a decade for a reason.

"Oh no Tyrion died a horrible death through his paladin bubble!"... The event is just so much less impactful knowing they can just come back in a few xpacs. Ysera is just the latest example. Blizzard couldn't keep a character dead for more than 2 xpacs.

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