Instead, Burning Crusade had Kael’thas turn on his people and betray them. People really, REALLY wanted to play as these guys. Players speculated throughout vanilla World of Warcraft and in the run up to the first expansion, Burning Crusade, that the Illidari might even be their own faction comprised of Broken draenei, blood elves, demon hunters and Nagas.
Illidan and his allies were portrayed as an island of misfit toys, anti-heroes who were trying to get the Burning Legion off their backs while trying to save their people. After the whole Naga incident, Kael’thas found himself working with the demon hunter Illidan and his Naga ally, Lady Vashj. Kael’thas was one of the biggest characters in Warcraft 3. He tried to work with the Alliance, but his commander was so supremely racist, he found that the legitimately better option were the serpentine, Old God-worshipping snake people known as the Naga. He renamed his people from the High Elves to the Blood Elves, because so many of them had been massacred, and that level of extra would go on to define Kael’thas until both of his deaths in World of Warcraft.
That is the last kind thing Blizzard ever did to Kael since then, he’s been bounced around from tragedy to tragedy. Kael’thas Sunstrider, the heir to the kingdom of Quel’Thalas, was out of town at the time of the Scourge invasion back in Warcraft 3. It’s worth noting that all data-mined content is subject to change before it hits live servers, and there is no current release date for this scenario. Players are asked to shine a lantern and start the memories of the fallen, which triggers an event where we hold the line against the Scourge, face Arthas, and see what happens to the Sunwell when the crown prince returns home. This data-mined scenario set-up, found by Wowhead, shows us that we’re not just seeing Arthas again, but we’re also getting our potential last glimpse at a Warcraft legend: Kael’thas Sunstrider. The Blood Elf heritage armor scenario has us revisit that part of history from the eyes of those defending Quel’Thalas. Arthas needs it as a battery to bring his lich buddy, Kel’thuzad, back to life.
Fall of the Sunwellīack in Warcraft 3, the Death Knight Arthas destroys the entire city of Quel’Thalas and 90 percent of the population, so that he can reach the civilization’s font of power: the Sunwell, an arcane well of immense energy. With patch 8.1 for Battle for Azeroth, we’re getting a glimpse of Kael’thas in the past, and that cameo re-opens some old wounds for lore fans. Some of those characters, like Kael’thas Sunstrider, are set up to have an excellent story, and then end up becoming raid bosses - and a bit of a joke in the World of Warcraft community. World of Warcraft is all about a world of generational warfare, full of fantasy races led by bigger than life heroes.
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