Neltharion and Sintharia sketch by Ghostwalker2061 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I'm guessing a few just might like this because there really does need to be more images of these two. And sadly there isn't.

And I see why. She's only appeared in one book, Richard A Knaak's _Night of the Dragon._Yeah, she did appear in the game as a boss for the Bastion of Twilight...but that's it.

So I get it why it's so easy to forget that Neltharion actually has, or had a Prime Consort and why so many shippers love to pair Neltharion up with Alexstrasza.

Because when Neltharion appears in his prime during the War of Ancients Trilogy, Sintharia isn't even named. I'm gonna chock it up to some more of Knaak's hack writing...but there has to be an in universe reason why Neltharion has never mentioned by name his Prime Consort.

Or we could just chock that up to Knaak rushing and not really focusing that much on the dragons outside of, welp, Nel's evil...so there. Damn you, Knaak.

I try to rectify that with Tectonic Divergence and having Neltharion pretty much mention her A LOT!

She even gets her own scene in Rise of the Sha. Though it's in the past and a memory brought on by Neltharion's exposure to the Sha, though that ONE scene has shown more depth into the relationship of Neltharion and his fucking second in command as well as pretty being his main wife in the polygamous relationship than any other canon source material written on the two.

Yeah, I'm calling Knaak out again, what a surprise?

And why is Sintharia in her Blood Elf form? The same reason why Alexstrasza was in her Blood Elf form for this image...

I'm not that great at drawing Sintharia in her true form.

And why is Neltharion in his modern version rather than a past version, or looking more like Deathwing? Because I like to think a lot of times when Neltharion closes his eyes, this is what he sees. Because he's haunted over and over that the woman he loves above all others (that also means Calia. Nel loves Sintharia over Calia) is dead. And it's all his fault for not being strong enough to prevent the painful rape of his beloved Prime Consort Deathwing did, the first rape where she had been scarred for life, both physically and mentally. And all subsequent rapes that followed during the Cataclysm when Deathwing used Neltharion's beloved Prime Consort as a womb with no soul.

Neltharion is haunted by that. Is there any wonder why the first thing he does when he awoke from 10 thousand years of torment was to go weep over Sintharia's lifeless body in the Obsidian Dragonshrine? No, there isn't.