Upcoming WoW Quest Involving A Character's Abuse Has Players Demanding Change
Content warning: The following contains mentions of sexual assault and abuse.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's upcoming Fractures in Time update will have players traveling back in time to preserve the timeline of the Warcraft universe, but one quest related to ensuring a major female character's abuse takes place has players demanding it be changed.
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A quest titled «A Missing Soul» recently appeared on the game's public test realm, where players can try out upcoming features and changes to Blizzard's MMO. The quest transports players to the time of Warcraft II, where the dragon queen Alexstrasza is enslaved by the Dragonmaw orc clan. A powerful relic, the Demon Soul, is responsible for keeping Alexstrasza in chains, and she is forced to give birth to an army of dragons for use in the Dragonmaw war machine.
In the quest, the Bronze dragon Chromie informs players that the Demon Soul has gone missing and needs to be returned to the Dragonmaw clan before Alexstrasza notices and «breaks out too early.» Players are then tasked with bringing back the Demon Soul to ensure the timeline of the Warcraft universe remains intact.
Chromie tells players that the grim task of aiding in Alexstrasza's continued enslavement is a «tough one» and that they shouldn't tell Alexstrasza in the present about what transpired. When turning in the quest, Chromie says to keep what happened «on the down low» and that «no one needs to know about it.» Later, when
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