![]() ![]() Illidan was shown, or at least we assume, to be able to control the demonic impulses such that they did not cause him to act in ways he wouldn’t otherwise (he was already being a murderhobo before he became half demon). It’s a very arrogant and flawed assumption, but in most cases it is probably true. The only reason that a Naaru would justify this would be under the fact that demonic energies cloud a person’s better judgment, and if they were thinking without that handicap, they would certainly desire such cleansing. Say we were to get any random Demon of the burning legion, and forcibly cleanse them of fel and make them be normal mortals again. Not everything has to be a corrupt facade, when did we become so depressingly jaded? The whole ‘haha gotcha, good was evil all along!’ trope has been beaten to death over the past decade in particular and just isn’t new or, at least to me, remotely interesting anymore.Ĭall me naive, but I like the idea of a force of good existing without some morally bankrupt catch to it. I really hope the developers don’t use Xe’ra to ultimately paint the entire Light as some morally bankrupt dictatorship. This seems to be directed towards a singular purpose true, but how it’s done seems to be different for each of them. I’m personally glad such a Naaru was introduced in canon because it not only shows that Naaru don’t just blindly follow one path but in fact have their own thoughts and desires and, in the case of Xe’ra, can stumble and fall just like everyone else. I don’t think the Naaru are evil, but I do think Xe’ra in both her incarnations has become evil by slipping into fanaticism as a result of her obsession about prophecy and control. We already know awful people who do awful things can use the Light to do them if they really think they’re right, and few people believe themselves more right than Illidan Stormrage. He’d just be forced to use the Light to do so. We’d have just ended up with the same callous, ends-justify-the-means Illidan, ever willing to sacrifice as many innocents as it takes to attain his goals. So unlike purging the fel corruption from a normal demon, had she cleansed him with the Light, she wouldn’t have been creating some better, more stable and morally upright Illidan. He did such things anyway, but it was because he deemed them a necessary evil, not because he actually derived pleasure from causing harm as most demons do. Consequently, he was driven entirely by his own personal ambitions and goals from before his transformation, and wasn’t governed by the generalized desire to inflict destruction and suffering that sets in when demons are normally made. He had no demonic personality embedded in his mind and soul, so in spite of his power being fel, Illidan’s mind and personality were still 100% his own. He never went through the rituals they did to become demon hunters he was just outright empowered directly by Sargeras, then further empowered by consuming the fel energies that the Legion had pumped into the Skull of Gul’dan. Unlike the Illidari, Illidan never had an actual demon in him to remove. She could very well expect him to continue doing the exact same sort of things he’d done up to that point he’d just be doing them with the Light instead of the fel. Xe’ra also wasn’t doing it out of morality she was doing it because as far as she was concerned, fate dictated that his conversion was the correct (which isn’t the same thing as morally right) course of events that needed to happen in order to fulfill the specific prophecy that informed her actions. The fel didn’t actually drive him to act as he did. Becoming a demon was just a means to getting them done, not the cause, so cleansing the fel in his case wouldn’t really be “getting rid of the evil” in him. He didn’t do any of those things because he was a demon. He did terrible things, but they were all squarely calculated actions as part of his preexisting fixations and priorities rather than a result of him becoming a demon. Illidan never changed who he was, and his misdeeds were never arbitrary. So changing a normal demon back into a mortal form straight-up amounts to cleansing all the nasty thoughts and motivations that make demons so generally malicious and arbitrarily cruel. In the same vein, when Illidari finish their training, they literally have a demonic soul taking up residence inside them and always trying to supplant their own identity. Under normal circumstances whenever a mortal becomes a demon, much of their personality is replaced by a lust for power and destruction for their own sake, meaning that cleansing that amounts to erasing the imposed identity to free the mortal that’s underneath. ![]()
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