Xal’atath is a void creature possessing a corpse of a blood elf. She is not a void elf.
Stopped reading there.
I can’t take your post seriously if it gets something as basic as that wrong.
But, I suppose I could humor this absolute nonsense, especially after reading this:
Several key things I wish to note here:
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Alexstrasza (DRAGON ASPECT, yes there IS a difference!)
Honestly, that irked me more than it probably should have, but once again: if you can’t get that right in a lore discussion, then no one is going to take you seriously. -
Illidan
Yes, he’s a night elf. No, he’s NEVER been part of the Alliance as he was already sulking around in Outland by the time the night elves officially joined the Alliance between WC3 and Classic. When he returns in Legion, he clearly doesn’t care about your faction. -
Xal’atath
She’s a void entity that’s puppeteering the corpse of Inanis.
And no, Inanis is NOT a void elf. She was a high elf cultist. -
Arthas
The fact that you counted Arthas as a “Horde related race” merely because he’s undead is beyond laughable, and as he’s fallen to the Scourge, became one of their agents, and eventually their leader, you couldn’t even call him Alliance.
Taking ALL of that into account, it would be far more accurate to say the art features three Alliance characters represented by Anduin, Jaina, and Alleria, and three Horde characters represented by Thrall, Sylvanas, and Gul’dan (and Gul’dan himself is a stretch as he always served the Legion first and was never technically a “Horde character” at any point in WoW)
Going off of those six, there’s equal representation among the factions, but this whole topic is a sad joke to begin with.
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It gets worse, read the 6th line.
We’re really, really stretching what counts as “Alliance favoritism” if we’re whacking Xal’Atath onto the least purely because she uses the void elf model.
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To be clear, it’s 3 Alliance characters to 1 Horde character, and that one Horde character takes orders from the 3 Alliance characters in TWW. Thrall literally takes orders from Jaina, which is a very interesting choice that makes no sense.
The rest of the characters are neutral or faction adjacent, but don’t actually belong to the factions.
For all the dunking everyone is rightfully doing on Luma, this is actually the first post that makes some degree of sense regarding the artwork, and I’m actually embarrassed over the fact that I didn’t pick up on it sooner.
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Absolute lmao of a post.
Yes, OP, you’re absolutely right. Blizz has decided that the Horde is boring and they’re going to delete it. There is no hope that you’ll ever get more of whatever obvious mistake in their writing process unintentionally attracted you in the first place. Now can you please move on to a game that you actually like and leave the rest of us in peace?
I mean, I don’t like any of the factions in FF14 either, but I don’t sit on the Square forums all day whining about it.
Alleria was barely represented in Legion.
No way, a vulpera player spewing utter nonsense, color me shocked.
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No Tyrande/Malf is criminal
I don’t think it’s quite that 1:1 because some are very obvious (i.e. Arthas, Xal, Thrall, etc), a lot of those characters were fairly minor in each of those respective expansions, like the obvious choice for MoP would be Garrosh or Taren Zhu, not Jaina (she would be BFA) and the obvious choice for WoD would be Grom, not Gul’dan. Plus, Alleria was practically non-existent in Legion, it was really the Khadgar and Illidan show.
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The Alliance bias has always been a thing.
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Jaina would still be MoP consider it was the destruction of her city that trigger the entire war and it was the start of what would ultimately be her journey.
Similarly I would say Alleria is significant for Legion because that is where her journey began and she will be instrumental to TWW storyline.
Exactly. It’s disturbing that all these Alliance hypocrites think there’s no Alliance bias at all.
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I dont see anything wrong here. Horde favoritism was a thing for nearly 2 decades.
She herself is a great dragon but she is queen of all dragons (and thus dracthyr; there’s even a sidequest for Dracthyr PCs where she has a little chat to welcome you home), so in terms of which player race she’s more iconic to it’s mostly accurate. It’s just not the reason they picked the people on these posters (it’s mostly characters who headlined an expansion, although it’s missing Chen)
This is false.
From top to bottom:
- Neutral, and a dragon (not Dracthyr).
- Alliance (but currently functionally neutral), positioned in the “secondary main character”-position of these types of posters.
- Alliance, positioned in the “primary supporting cast”-position.
- Antagonistic non-factionalized character.
- Alliance background but neutral oriented, positioned in the “main loner/mercenary/romantic interest/wingman”-position.
- Antagonistic non-factionalized character.
- Horde, main character position, uses his traditional armour and weaponry, invoking a main character AND mentor presentation. → This makes him functionally neutral.
- Antagonist, main “Big Bad Guy”-position, unaffiliated with either faction.
- Antagonist, side “Big Bad Guy”-position, unaffiliated with either faction.
- Antagonistic Horde character.
So the list consists of 3 Alliance characters, whereas only one is actively aligned and associated with the Alliance. And then you have 2 Horde characters, whereas only one is actively aligned and associated with the Horde.
Sincerely… quit inventing stuff to be upset about. Just admit you dislike good storytelling and instead want shirtless human-and-orc action on each other. The amount of “but mah faction isn’t the favourite” is a whole load of nonsense. Blizzard is just trying to tell a story and want to leave factionalized nonsense behind, so factions are included where they make sense.
This is why Baine showed up in an expansion that had a centaur faction, just the same way that Night Elves nurturing a world tree also showed up. Because they both made sense to appear in DF, whereas one got more space because they fit the story and to tie up loose threads a whole lot more. But the displaced and nomadic taurens also showed up for the exact same reason, just a case of that there’s a whole lot fewer of those taurens than there were displaced night elves.
Whether one want to call it good storytelling I’m not going to say yay or nay about, but calling it anything but logical and reasonable storytelling is at best exceedingly silly. So no, the whole favoritism-rhetoric doesn’t seem to correspond to reality.
“Favoritism” posts always remind me of angry kids throwing a fit because they think their sibling got something that they didn’t. It’s like little Tommy getting angry and throwing a fit because he didn’t get a gift on his sisters birthday like she did. lol
Who even has faction pride enough to care about something like this anyway?