Merithra — The Dreamer on a Budget

Merithra is one of the three children of the Dragon Aspects introduced through Vanilla WoW's Ahn'Qiraj storyline, alongside Caelestrasz and Arygos. As Ysera's daughter, she was essentially the crown princess of the Green Dragonflight—if dragons even have such a thing. By Dragonflight, her deceased mother had somehow received a magnificent new model, complete with a considerably more SFW wardrobe replacing her old bikini armor. Ysera even appeared on the expansion's loading screen. Merithra, meanwhile, looked suspiciously like a generic Night Elf mob with a pair of horns glued to her head. Naturally, this led to speculation that Blizzard was preparing to bring Ysera back permanently and dispose of her daughter as another expendable character. After all, why spend so much effort redesigning a dead character while her supposed successor looks like she was assembled in the character creation screen? Thankfully, that particular narrative disaster never happened. Merithra inherited the mantle of the Dreamer and eventually received a visual upgrade in Patch 10.2. Still, even her updated appearance borrows heavily from ordinary Emerald Dream armor designs. For someone who has been part of Warcraft lore since Vanilla and is now literally a Dragon Aspect, her rather modest visual treatment remains somewhat baffling. Apparently, inheriting the responsibilities of a Dragon Aspect does not necessarily include inheriting the character design budget.