#?? idk its the mostly over the dk campaign thing

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yoshi was talking about the dk campaign ending on her oc sideblog and it got me thinkin about it too and LIKE........ i hate that there’s a perfect opportunity for there to be a change in svet and kas’s dynamic/relationship via the dk order campaign ending but like?? so much of it would be so against kas’ personality and moral compass. readmore because i talk forever

i guess to start, he’s one of those death knights that while he doesn’t seek out his second-death he is in no way going to fight against it. kas doesn’t think he should be kickin around in the first place!! not in an ‘i’m an abomination and disgrace’ sort of way but that he feels he was robbed of rest and peace. and it’s complicated because he appreciates the second chance. to be part of his brother’s life, to have met svet, and to have traveled to all sorts of amazing places are so, so important to him. at the same time, he’s just... really tired. he’s tired and he believes that the dead should just. stay. dead. 

so to be asked to raise these people who deserve to stay dead (for the best or out of respect) to replace the horsemen is a slap in the face to kas. obtaining the twin blades felt like a job he had to do. raising the dead though? he balks at the idea and i imagine at that point he absconds with his artifact and never reports back to the ebon blade. that’s it. that’s the end. 

and it’s when he has to raise the horsemen that possible stories start branching, and there are so many ways i could take his character if i wanted to change him and/or his dynamic with svet. 

kas stays the same, with his morals in tact, and does not partake in the attack on the paladin sanctum. in fact, if he finds out about the attack he will attempt to find a way to warn the order, whether or not that would cause the ebon blade to turn their blades on him.

kas goes against his better judgement and follows the orders of the lich king and raises the horsemen and subsequently leads the attack on the sanctum. his moral compass flips- not from what he does but how he rationalizes it. this is war and he is a soldier. he would have done anything to prevent what happened in silvermoon, and he applies the same rationale to fighting the legion. so he raises his horsemen, he desecrates the crypt at lhc, and he kills dozens of innocent paladins in the process. it’s all a means to the end, and the lives of the many outweigh the lives of the few who had to die. 

kas begins the campaign and hochrot finishes it. he passes the title of deathlord off to her early on, though holds on to the twin blades. hochrot follows the orders of the lk and takes the ebon blade by the fucking balls, ruling it with an iron fist. kas abandons the ebon blade and escapes with his morals intact. 

kas begins the campaign and hochrot takes it over by force. he and hochrot are fairly close- they fought together at lhc and kas is the one who reunites her with svetlana. he tells her the orders of the lk. this particular scenario splits in two. a) he explains to hochrot he won’t go through with it: because of this, she sees kas as weak. hochrot rips him down from the position of deathlord, rallying the ebon blade to her behind his back until the highest members confront him and he steps down/leaves the ebon blade. everything at that point follows the standard campaign. b) he plans to go through with all of the plans. hochrot feels slighted by the ebon blade. this is something she wants, something she deserves! so she murders kas, most likely while they’re in acherus, and takes the title of deathlord for herself. whether the order follows or revolts is another story.

and these are only the ones i’ve bothered giving any thought to!! there’s probably even more i could weave from that point, and there’s countless ways to take the story if i branch off from the main dk campaign later on. but it’s these ways that make or break kas’ character and the dynamic/relationship he has with svet.

their relationship is strengthened by his clear cut morals. she has always loved him and trusted his judgement, but has consistently worried about his involvement with the ebon blade. that he so willingly cast them aside without her pressing him to is a relief. she knows one of his biggest fears is being controlled and to see him take up the reigns of his own fate like this bolsters her own resolve to do the same and stay to fight the legion, despite every part of her screaming to run and hide. if he finds out about the attack, he will absolutely tell svet. in this case, she would warn the paladin hall and pray that they take her word more seriously than they would that of a death knight. knowing he trusts her to do this also helps them grow closer. 

this tears them apart indefinitely. svet trusted him with the information that the priests went to the paladins for help and that they agreed, and he used it against her allies. not only that, she knows how adamant he is against raising the dead. she knows this is something he had to have thought about endlessly, and to come to this conclusion hurts. svet thought he was better than this, better than the people who made him what he is. to know that he turned his back not only on her, but on his brother, is also painful. though they are not terribly close, alveth is important to her. svet wonders what he’d have done if alveth had been at the sanctum rather than fighting at netherlight. kas won’t tell her because he doesn’t know. the fact that he doesn’t know is the final straw, and she leaves him to the ebon blade. 

their relationship remains the same. when the attack on lhc happens, she doubts kas and questions him on whether or not he knew about it. this scenario assumes he doesn’t know because he’s abandoned the order, and he explains that to her. svet believes him. her relationship with hochrot, limited as it was to begin with, is severed. 

a) their relationship is strengthened. though svet cuts ties with her sister, she grows closer to kas for many of the same reasons stated in the first scenario. she is proud of him for leaving the ebon blade, especially for stepping down rather than fighting due to being insulted (which would be more along the lines of his personality). b) at first, things are strained because svet has no idea where kas is. he never returned from a trip to acherus and she suspects the worse as she learns more and more about the ebon blade’s activity. she assumes it is kas running the show and hates him for it. every move he makes hurts...until she finds out it isn’t kas. the deathlord was killed. the new deathlord is her sister. and so she delves deeper into her work at netherlight and with xal’atath, and the dagger convinces her to reach out and create a tighter bond with hochrot to do one thing and one thing only: kill her for killing kas. whether or not svet is being controlled by the dagger enough to trust it to help her while killing hochrot is another story.

basically i need to stop thinking about things bc i hate change and want all of my kids to be safe and happy but also i’ll never write them and even if i did my writing is most definitely not good enough to write any of these things out as well as they could be.