HotS: Dev's comment about Tassadar - Page 6

I don't know about you guys, but when it comes to Sc2 lore, I feel that when it comes to Tassadar we are at a point which is relatively untouched.

If Tassadar was one of the first Protoss to combine the powers of both the high and the dark templar, then doesn't it make sense that something could happen which is completely unexpected in regards to his death?

Somebody mentioned earlier that because protoss normally become one with the Khala (or something like this) when they die, and because Tassadar's death was him giving up his chance to do so - that this is what makes Tassadar's sacrifice so important and moving. Said person said also that to bring Tassadar back from this kind of sacrifice is like a 'slap in the face' the the Khalai Protoss.

Now, I'm no lore hero, but it seems to me that all of these Protoss associated with the Khala have no links to the Dark Templar, who forsook the Khala, and that this division between normal Protoss and the Dark Templar is the primary, most central division that exists within Protoss society.

If you think about it like that, then it's not such a huge step to then say that Tassadar, the Protoss who was able to transcend both the primary physical difference between the High and Dark Templar Castes (that is, to gain mastery of both sides of the fence, which apparently stem from either being part of the Khala or not), and transcend the primary societal difference that splits apart an entire highly evolved, highly philosophical race, (sorry for all the commas, it's convoluted), Tassadar is basically the Protoss who transcended Protoss differences.

Does it not seem also possible that Tassadar could then achieve a higher existence, higher than what either the High Templar (normal protoss) or Dark Templar separated could have achieved? I don't know, it's not a crazy stretch.

To me though, it still feels a bit lacking. But I don't think that this is because of a weakness in the story points or the lore or some such, I think that the weakness lies in the tool they used to tell us something that we didn't know already.

In fantasy or sci-fi storytelling, one of the big problems that can easily crop up is a problem of the audience not knowing enough about what you are telling. I expressed that akwardly, but in longhand what I mean is. . . In sci-fi, and in fantasy stories, what makes them both sci-fi and fantasy is that the storytellers alter something fundamental about the setting of the story.

I.e. Magic is possible, or Telepathy is possible, or we have technology so far ahead it seems like magic (etc).+ Show Spoiler +

So what I am getting at saying is, the problem for me isn't that it was cheap to bring back Tassadar, rather that it seems cheap because they are using an as yet unexplained lore-based tool to do so. High and Dark Templar, and their unification of all their junk is as yet unexplored, Tassadar led the way and died as a figurehead for a new way of thinking in Protoss society. He knew things that no Protoss knew, and his death (assuming thinks like normally Khalai Protoss become one with the khala) ought to similarly transcend the things which he transcended, otherwise his transcendance of all that junk was flawed, fundamentally, because Protoss normally transcend life in some way when they die, so if Tassadar the Transcendant Protoss (^^) didn't manage to transcend life in some way, then what has he transcended?

Now, I don't honestly imagine that I've managed to sway anyone with this, there's probably some key lore point from chapter five of book seven in the appendix of a book about warcraft one, in a preview of the story about starcraft hidden in hindi script that I've missed, but I don't mind.

Also, think about it, Zerg are perfection of form (right?) and Protoss are perfection of essence (i think), anyway it's something along those lines. However, Protoss which are supposed to be perfection of essence are though united, are still split in two in a big way. Perfection of essence to me basically means 'soul', so if I'm right about what that means, then from soul to what Tassadar is in Sc2 isn't that big a deal, because perfect of essence implies afterlife in some form if it means something like soul.

So, Tassadar the Unifier is one of the only Protoss to achieve perfection within his race. The Zerg, which are implicitly unified, have no such problems of division (when led by the Overmind, which apparently occupies the same space as Tassadar anyway). What's the difference between essence and form? I say soul because if it weren't something outside of the physical, then it would be hard to nail down to precise difference between those two concepts, which is why I jumped to soul.