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Alleria's Short Story "A Whisper of Warning": Turalyon in Silvermoon and Arator's Tattoos - What Does It All Mean?
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A Whisper of Warning
is a short story for the upcoming book,
World of Warcraft: The Voices Within
. The story follows Alleria Windrunner as she spends some time with her son, Arator. We go over some of the more interesting details.
Alliance in a Horde Capital
The story begins with Alleria being admitted to Silvermoon City - the first time we've seen her in the city since the events of the Void Elf recruitment scenario. Back then, Alleria's presence threatened the Sunwell with Void corruption, and it is this incident that causes Lor'themar Theron to instruct guards to watch her while she's in the city - rather than the fact that she is a member of the Alliance while Silvermoon is Horde. In fact, we soon discover that Arator - who up until recently also seemed Alliance-aligned - now lives in Silvermoon. What's more, we find he is being visited by his father, Turalyon - current Regent of Stormwind and leader of the Alliance.
Finally, she stood before the blood-red door. The golden door knocker was shaped like a phoenix, its worn metal suggesting that at some point visitors had been welcome here. Through the open window, she heard a voice that made her heart race and her eyes light up. What was her love doing here? She paused a moment, like a good ranger, to see what
awaited her on the battlefield.
“Did I ever tell you about how your mother and I introduced the elekk to the Army of Light?” Turalyon said. “We’d worked with them on Draenor, and we suspected their tenacity, hardiness, and intelligence would make them boons as mounts.”
“I seem to recall that you’ve mentioned it.”
Hearing that voice, and the subtle but fond annoyance in it, Alleria’s heart melted.
Her son.
Arator.
This isn't the first time we've seen evidence of the growing peace between the Alliance and Horde. Many Alliance members - including Alleria, Turalyon, and Arator - were invited to attend the wedding of Horde leaders
First Arcanist Thalyssra and Lor'themar Theron
. Alliance and Horde players can create and join cross-faction guilds, but it's not just player characters who are learning to work together. At the very start of Dragonflight, we helped Captain Garrick and Shuja Grimaxe - Alliance and Horde characters from Exile's Reach - gently guide their children through the strangeness of working with the opposite faction.
Horde players helped protect Amirdrassil, and were rewarded with limited visitation rights in Bel'ameth. Calia has been working steadily on improving relations between the Forsaken and the Alliance, and even helped spearhead the Horde's involvement in the reclamation of Gilneas. Some Dark Rangers have chosen to return to the Alliance, where they have been accepted despite being undead, while others remain with the Horde. In contrast to the Pandaren, who were once told to cut off all ties to their previous friends who joined the opposite faction, Dracthyr remain free to spend time with their old friends, with characters like Horde-aligned Cindrethresh and Alliance-aligned Azurathel still often seen together.
Surprisingly, some of this seems to be a result of Turalyon's rule. Once expected by some to become a tyrant, Turalyon has shown himself a great deal more tolerant than expected. His visit to Silvermoon is an example of why. While he might have once hated Horde when it was an invasion of Orcs who he believed could never feel the Light, Turalyon left Azeroth before Silvermoon ever switched factions. Coming home to find the Elves he had once known were now part of the same Horde they once fought together must have been quite the surprise. In the same way, Turalyon could not be said to be part of the same Alliance that once purged the Sunreavers from Dalaran - since he wasn't around at the time. If anyone could remind Silvermoon of a time when humans from the Alliance were trusted friends, he could.
There are those who are still clinging onto old hatreds, and not everyone will be as willing to move forward as these characters. There is a worry that peace between the factions might cause a loss of faction identity. But maybe it's time for faction identity to be based on something other than hatred - to show it can exist and be strong without being defined only by war. Horde means more than just, "enemy of the Alliance", and vice versa.
Arator's Tattoos of Light and Shadow
While Alleria walks around Silvermoon with Arator, she notices he has two new tattoos, one on each arm - matching dragons, one dark, the other light.
“When did you get those?” she said, daring to touch the dark dragon twining up his wrist. On his other arm, the dragon’s sunny twin curled in perfect symmetry. One dark, one light.
Arator's father, Turalyon, is infused with the Light, while his mother, Alleria, is empowered by the Void. It's not exactly difficult to see the symbolism. But it does suddenly give an old theory compelling new evidence - the theory that Arator, and not Illidan, is the true "Child of Light and Shadow".
The "Child of Light and Shadow" is a subject of a Naaru prophecy that we learned about during the events of
Legion
. According to the Prime Naaru Xe'ra, Illidan was this "boy destined to end the age of demons". Convinced that this was his destiny, Xe'ra attempted to force Illidan to accept the powers of the Light, but
he rejected the nonconsensual |gift"
, destroying Xe'ra in the process. Despite this, we went on to defeat the Legion anyway - proof that Xe'ra was wrong about the prophecy.
From the start, there has been speculation that Illidan never was never the subject of the prophecy - that Xe'ra just made an incorrect assumption - and that the real Child of Light and Shadow is Arator. For example,
here is a Taliesin & Evitel video arguing as much from six years ago
. Considering Turalyon's associations with the Light, and Alleria's associations with Shadow, Arator is, quite literally, the "child" of "Light" and "Shadow". And while Illidan never wanted the Light's marks as they would replace his scars, Arator has freely chosen to have both these forces represented in his tattoos.
The choice to include the dark dragon is also a sign that Arator feels more balanced between the Shadow and the Light
than I previously assumed
. Arator is a Paladin, like Turalyon, and so it's easy to expect him to be more Light-aligned - but clearly, he sees the value in at least some Shadow to balance out the Light. (Even if that value is just the aesthetics of matching tattoos.) Balance - or, at least, being caught between two choices - is a bit of a running theme for Arator in this story. Both Turalyon and Alleria allude to their son starting a romance with "one of the Breezeblossom twins" - but neither seem to know which one.
The description of Arator's tattoos also reminds me of the marks on Alleria's own arm - it's not a dragon (as far as we know), but dark marks have spiraled down Alleria's arm since her reappearance in Legion. And while Turalyon wears full plate armor, (and, oddly, may apparently disapprove of Arator's tattoos) I do wonder if he has Light marks similar to those seen on Lightforged Draenei.
Of course, the age of demons has already ended - but if Xe'ra was wrong about Illidan, maybe she was wrong about the battle the child would face as well. In this story, Alleria warns Arator that a battle is coming - to warn him to stay out of it, but naturally he has no intention of doing so - he is his parents' child, after all. Velen famously prophesized a battle between the Light and Void - with Anduin leading the forces of Light - and as
The War Within
approaches... with
Midnight
looming on its trail... that battle feels closer every day.
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