As if the Humans of Stormwind weren’t shoehorned enough as the “alpha” race of the Alliance, he has the right to appoint Turalyon as his acting of supreme commander of the Alliance forces.
Literally where does this garbage nonsense come from? Who suddenly decided that the title of High King = equal to the title of Supreme Commander of the Alliance, which makes it a military title, but it’s also now apparently inherited and easily appointed by the commander himself?
Is this even an Alliance? Because the council of the Horde actually has more of a resemblance than whatever trash and garbage this made up title is supposed to be.
Anduin is literally acting like the Warchief of the Alliance right now, with an “Alliance twist” given to it.
The writers doing once again as they please. Yes I know this is a reoccurring problem since Cataclysm.
Who decided to give the Humans so much power that they’re THE bastion of the Alliance and the bulk behind its forces.
Also how come the other races never seem to catch up on the powerhouse that is Stormwind?
What the hell is this nonsense, just a clustertwist of writers doing as they please, without bothering to correct themselves even once and to suck up things out of their thumbs in the moment.
We know Blizzard, you want to shoehorn Anduin as much as possible. Because he’s so well liked by a certain writer. Even the Horde doesn’t miss out on Anduin. Don’t worry, Thrall is equally worried about the leader of the Alliance being kidnapped. We’re all best buds now and we’re sad that Anduin got kidnapped.
Amusingly enough, this would be within his rights as the High King.
As noted before, the High King is basically the equivalent of the Supreme Commander of the Alliance, and as such as authority of the forces given to him. He then named Turalyon, Lord Commander to use those forces in the field as he sees fit. A minor difference but checks out.
Now as this thread is purely to whing on humans, I will agree it would have been more interesting if someone else was named Lord Commander, but supposedly they need Turalyon in charge for some far flung plot. If anything i’d at least hoped Lightforged draenei would be posted up in more places around Stormwind now that their faction leader is in charge.
Also the fact that he’s the Lightforged faction leader…
I had to actually double check that. I’d always just assumed it was Fareeya, since she’s the one still on the ship, directing the Lightforged, and overseeing the Lightforging process.
Wowpedia is of a split mind. The Lightforged Draenei page lists Fareeya as their racial leader, but her own page talks about her being Turalyon’s underling by the second sentence.
Gnomes… still rebuilding their losses after Gnomeregan and the war of liberation of Mechagon and Mekkatorque in a coma.
Gilneas Genn Greymane’s title of King is mainly an act of courtesy by Anduin as Gilneas no longer exists.
Ironforge let by an uneasy council of three clan leaders rife with suspicion, the appointment of one of them as the Alliance leader isn’t going to go well with the other two and may just fracture an uneasy peace.
Night Elves Tyrande at her best is focused solely on the welfare of her people and has major problems relating to non-elves. And she’s far from at her best at the moment.
Valen He messed up the situation of his own people 25,000 years ago and he’s still in recovery from the death of his son.
So who does that leave to make decisions with anything resembling a level head and the neccessary respect from more than just their own race? Faults and all… that’s King Wyrnn.
Yes it is an Alliance. That word is not synonymous with democracy.
I had considered it. But we haven’t really had a racial leader that was subservient to someone outside the Warchief/High King before. Though, I suppose the Lightforged are a bit unique in that they’re not a true race, they’re the elite military of the Draenei.
Not to mention that Turalyon was already the Supreme commander of the Alliance of Lordaeron.
And now, we have this little boy giving commands to one of the founders of the Silver Hand, one of the biggest human paladin heroes, a man with the experience of 10k years and tells him what to do or not.
Seriously, Anduin should kneel in front of him and kiss his boots. Asking him for advice every minute. Who am I kidding tho, I’m sure we will end up with Anduin being more powerful with the Light than Turalyon and Velen combined.
It’s also funny that they completely destroyed any independence and power the Night Elves ever had, now they just need to do the same to the dwarves and the Alliance will basically only be humans.
They already destroyed the dwarves. The Council of three Hammers ensures that the dwarves will be ineffective and require outside aid to do anything.
What Varian did to them was textbook power consolidation and marginalization of a potential rival without the body count typical of regime changes. The Council exists solely to remove Ironforge from being the cornerstone of the faction like it used to be.
It’s…incredibly convoluted as far as I can gather but Fareeya so far as the game is concerned is the Lightforged draenei racial leader, but because the Lightforged are literally just the Army of the Light that makes Turalyon their actual leader, despite you know not being a draenei. Them technically being draenei should make Velen their faction leader because I mean it’s bloody Velen, but as far as I can gather similar whenever there have been meetings of Alliance top brass with the allied leaders present, it was Turalyon that represented the lightforged.
There’s a similar problem with the void elves and their racial leader being Umbric, despite Alleria being their face and their rep. But at least in this case, Alleria is a void elf.
Are… are we supposed to be identifying with Stormwind Humans? They’ve been generalized to the point of being as dull as watching paint dry. Beige paint. Are people really that basic?
Like, they’re vaguely shaped the same as us, I suppose. If a bit caricaturized. But it’s not like being the stunted mutant spawn of space robots is especially… relatable.
Most of us play Fantasy games for…you know the fantasical parts. I didn’t pick a Worgen to have Human Potential and God King Anduin shoved down my throat every moment the dev thinks we forgot about the precious perfect boy king and Stormwind.
Most of us want LESS HUMANS and more of the elves, dwarves, worgen and gnomes to have to center stage. They’re the ones that make the alliance interesting.