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On October 20 2015 17:36 Holybouseman wrote:
Zeratul is responsible for Kerrigan becoming Queen of Blades once again - after all, he's the one who told Kerrigan about Zerus. This fact alone is way more than enough to have the other Protoss hate Zeratul and see him as a traitor. Let's be honest here, if any of you had an extremely powerful enemy that suddenly lost a great deal of her power and then one of the people you considered to be a friend went and helped that enemy regain all of the lost power or maybe even become more powerful than she was before, you'd see this as a treason too.
If it is so, some of the Protoss might look at all Zeratul has done differently and for example question whether he really didn't know killing Zasz would reveal Aiur's location to the Overmind or whether he wasn't in league with Kerrigan when it came to killing Raszagal (after which he suddenly disappeared). After all, if one believes Zeratul is a traitor, he has every right to wonder how deep does his treachery go and whether some of his actions weren't a part of an evil plot.
As for why Talis and Karass didn't act hostile towards Zeratul - well, Zeratul met Karass before he helped Kerrigan, so the High Templar didn't have any reason to be mad at Zeratul and Talis... One logical explanation is that the Protoss knew about Zeratul helping Kerrigan because they've had some observers on Zerus... and, either Talis was too far away from Shakuras to hear the news or Artanis decided to keep this knowledge a secret to avoid pissing off the Dark Templar by accusing one of their heroes of treason just before the invasion.
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It can all be explained one way or another, but... If they come back to this a bit later and explain why and how the Protoss hate Zeratul - I'm fine with that little mystery being there, but if they just leave it as it is, that's just poor writing.
Zeratul is responsible for Kerrigan becoming Queen of Blades once again - after all, he's the one who told Kerrigan about Zerus. This fact alone is way more than enough to have the other Protoss hate Zeratul and see him as a traitor. Let's be honest here, if any of you had an extremely powerful enemy that suddenly lost a great deal of her power and then one of the people you considered to be a friend went and helped that enemy regain all of the lost power or maybe even become more powerful than she was before, you'd see this as a treason too.
If it is so, some of the Protoss might look at all Zeratul has done differently and for example question whether he really didn't know killing Zasz would reveal Aiur's location to the Overmind or whether he wasn't in league with Kerrigan when it came to killing Raszagal (after which he suddenly disappeared). After all, if one believes Zeratul is a traitor, he has every right to wonder how deep does his treachery go and whether some of his actions weren't a part of an evil plot.
As for why Talis and Karass didn't act hostile towards Zeratul - well, Zeratul met Karass before he helped Kerrigan, so the High Templar didn't have any reason to be mad at Zeratul and Talis... One logical explanation is that the Protoss knew about Zeratul helping Kerrigan because they've had some observers on Zerus... and, either Talis was too far away from Shakuras to hear the news or Artanis decided to keep this knowledge a secret to avoid pissing off the Dark Templar by accusing one of their heroes of treason just before the invasion.
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It can all be explained one way or another, but... If they come back to this a bit later and explain why and how the Protoss hate Zeratul - I'm fine with that little mystery being there, but if they just leave it as it is, that's just poor writing.
It's worth pointing out that 'high'-protoss are likely to mistrust Dark Templar because 'high'-protoss share all their thoughts via the Khala (collective conscious and all that) while the Dark Templar no longer have a connection to the Khala so their intentions are never truly known.
But let's be real, Zeratul was instrumental in bringing down the Overmind, saving the Aiur refugees, defending Shakuras and generally putting in work to uncover the mysteries of the universe. Moreover note that Artanis is implied to be the player during the SC1 (not BW) campaign so he fucking knows all of this. Artanis man, you dun goofed on this one.
