I can broadly agree with this, but I also like the narrative that Azeroth's gift is free will, or rather, the gift of choice, agency, and a freedom from destiny to make it our own. Azeroth, at the most meta level, means writing our own stories in alignment -or even, despite- our natures. - ThreadSky

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thesmall001.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I can broadly agree with this, but I also like the narrative that Azeroth's gift is free will, or rather, the gift of choice, agency, and a freedom from destiny to make it our own. Azeroth, at the most meta level, means writing our own stories in alignment -or even, despite- our natures.

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thesmall001.bsky.social•2 days ago

I feel this can be distinct from the interesting potential aspects of the Void (and maybe Fel's) natural alignments. Those can still be interesting whilst predetermined to their instincts and biases.

duneblessed.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think it dilutes the capability of free choice within the other forces and their contradictions and flanderises them into teams of hooligans.

duneblessed.bsky.social•2 days ago

I see it as weirdly bringing free will as an alien psychosomatic that doesn't exalt personal stories for freedom, but appears to disrupt any sort of establishment from before, excused in the fact fantasy is not reality.

I feel it ultimately kills gravitas and writing in favour of anti-mindcontrol.

duneblessed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Free will, more or less shaped by our surroundings, is not something exterior to the situations we are at, not even for the longest time for the forces as they were written. I believe that to make it a force on itself defeats the purpose of the agents themselves as the actuators and creators of it.

duneblessed.bsky.social•2 days ago

And to write something that was part of an internal nature of another force for a while already, and its part in the cosmos, to then put it elsewhere as some people are suggesting hurts the possibility of having different flavours of choices and decisions coming from different places.

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