These cut scenes just prove what I've always said: Ebonhorn should lead.
Four leaders of a shattered legacy, each with a viewpoint and reason to fight.
Black Dragon Council. That is all.
I have no doubt Ebyssean will end up leading the black dragonflight, it's pretty obvious.
Interesting
While Ebyssian has definately shown a little more grit and stepped up as a authority figure. He has more of a Velen feeling to him. He can be a leader, but he prefers to council. I think that is where we will be seeing him in the future as well. Counseling whoever gets to become the next leader of the Black Flight.And while we get the weekly of picking our favorite, we stand to see as well that there may be another choice in Scalecommander Emberthal, to possibly become the vessel of the aspectral power. That being said, with how things are looking there is the growing respect between Sabelian and Wrathion. Who knows, by the end of this, one of them might yield to the other.My vote is still Wrathion (which I know can be a hot take, as he can be faulted for the Legion. If you look past the manipulative involvement of the Infinite dragonflight, which most people tend to). But you can't deny the fact that he has worked tirelessly to prove himself worthy and done his utmost best with what little help he had, to protect Azeroth. Even without the powers of an aspect. He knows his flaws and admits to them, uses them even, but he cares a whole lot about the other flights, Ebyssian, Azeroth, it's creatures and the player. Willing to get down and his hands dirty right there besides everyone.And he doesn't expect to get anything for free, but on the contrary pays us back with gold and epic/Legendary items.
Emberthal would be a poor choice for leader of the black dragonflight. There's a reason why they are called dracthyr, not dragons or dragonspawn. It would be like making a draenei the head of the blue dragonflight because draenei are blue-skinned. You could say the dracthyr have the flights' powers, but even if this was enough to associate them with a flight, which I don't agree with, they only have a portion of each flight's power. They are associated with all of them and none of them. And Neltharion taught them to see themselves as his soldiers, not as his children. He never trusted them, which was why he used the titan relic to bind them in the first place, and why he then locked them in stasis as soon as they were free to disobey him.And anyway, whenever Emberthal speaks in game or in cinematics, it's clear her main concern is protecting the other dracthyr. In contrast, Wrathion and Sabellian are focused on the black dragonflight: re-strengthening it, keeping it free from corruption, and leading it in its role of protecting Azeroth.