Beyond his views on his gender as a character, Pelagos also seems to be haunted by strong traumas from his former life - so much so that he's unable to complete the Kyrian rites to purge himself of said memories, and has been unable to for quite some time. He's able to forge a strong friendship with Kleia herself on a personal level and begins to do so with the Maw Walker during the Kyrian campaign as well. So many new WoW characters are written to be overly agreeable and leaves them the same blandness as a litany of other characters.Pelagos is a natural outsider, someone who can't seem to integrate themselves into any social circle, always kept outside the group by some aspect of themselves or some inability to bridge the gap that keeps them separated. He has all the personality of a brown paper bag. I would love to hear how Pelagos is a nuanced, interesting character. At least that's my take on why it's mostly dispised by many. SL was just one of the more highlighted examples of it spinning a little more out of control then normal. Which happens in WOW every few expansions. DF pulled a lot of that back in a lot of ways in a "soft" resetting. But it again cut into the "masses" of average players as difficulty and addon/wa "requirements" skyrocketed. Although if you are a pretty cutting edge player you probably had a good enough time. The arms race the devs tried to fight with world first raiders got a little out of hand. But, if you just liked pvp, m+, or raiding the content was mostly fine. Pick which of the big 3 you want to be optimized in and accept in the other 2 you're going to be at a disadvantage in wasn't hyper fun. If you just did end game the pick a faction boxed you in. the core "masses" of players were simply not entertaining it. Top that off with a story that was I'm the man behind the man that was behind the man villian. Granted this is all MMOs in a sense but in SL the curtain was pulled all the way open and it became very obvious to even the more casual novice players. Then the systems start to interlock thus making the game in a sense a chore list. It happens every 3-4 expansions when they carry forward what worked in pervious expansions and things start to layer up. I would describe SL as a systems upon systems upon systems quagmire. Pretty much every aspect seemed off, except the MAW which achieved it's goal of being a dreary miserable place which mad sense as it was effectively hell. Pelagos is pretty much all of the shadowlands for me, Not sure what they were aiming for, but none of it worked for me. I can see what they were trying to do with him, just a swing and a miss This is nothing new, sometimes in games\TV\movies they make a character that is supposed to be cool and badass and they aren't and sometimes the badass characte proves to be the funnier than their comedian lead. Could just come down to the voice actor, as Pelgoas doesn't talk with confidence. He just comes off he weak, full of doubt, fragile. He basically fulfils the same general role that General Draven does for Revendreth, or Morgraine for NecrolordsI played it a couple of times. He does the more stealthy stuff and goes to meet the other factions. Pelagos is one of your two buddies during the quests. You haven't done the Kyrian storyline, I see
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