(Shadowlands spoilers below)
The saddest part to me about Anduin not wanting to come back to Azeroth and wandering the Maw, is that he is doing it because he feels guilty of his actions when it was not his fault. He hates what he became and can't face himself. And the issue is, if he feels this guilty about how he behaved while under someone else's control - imagine how upset and torn inside he will be when he realizes, in the future, that by not coming back to his throne there are also negative consequences. And I'm just going to call it right now, because we all know that now he is not he returning, shit is going to go down in the alliance under the new ruler. No one is as passive as Anduin is with wanting to see things equally and being hesitant to kill when it isn't warranted, and we all should know by now that war and genocide is going to be construed one way or the other. If you look at it from any of the remaining alliance leader's point of view, each one of them has an issue with some race and I wouldn't put it past any of them to take advantage of a situation and go too far even in a time of peace. Plus you know it's world of warcraft, the war always starts again somehow. So um, that kinda sucks. Because whatever drama we about to face and that the alliance is way overdue for starting, you just know that when Anduin finds out, he gonna blame himself internally for that too. And by that time, it will actually be validated. All actions have consequences, and by thinking of himself and running off to leave the throne to others, Anduin doesn't realize he is taking a key peaceful figure away from a party of leaders that may otherwise go south. So yeah. I hear two sides of stories so far: people who hate Anduin's decision because it seems like a quitters way out, and then also people who are just glad that Anduin is going bc he was too peaceful in the throne. I'm sure that's exactly why Blizzard made him run off, (poor writing aside and how they portrayed that), because we all know that unless every leader in the alliance disrespects or overpowers Anduin, while he is on the throne there is always that voice of reason, and if we want the Alliance to do something horrible to match the Hordes former actions, it'll go way further if he is removed from the picture all together. But damn, I'm just so sad already thinking how he will blame himself for that too- leaving and then letting everything go downhill because he wasn't there to speak up. But maybe at least then if he does decide to return in the far future in the aftermath, he will have some sense of his role in things and confidence, that he is unique in the way that he is there for a purpose as the voice of reason.
