The Alliance seems so human-centric. Culturally religiously. When you start a new alliance character at exile reach, you are surrounded by humans. “Thank the light” “Light bless you”. Human mother and son are the central plot.
I like Draenei but I kind of feel like I don’t belong.
Am I weird? What do you think?
Nah, humans are ugly and stupid.
considering I mostly play dwarves, if I ever hit an alliance/human-centric bit of content, I just think “you dopes wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for our glorious beards…”
I actually don’t notice the human-centrism tbh.
Alliance is very human-centric and Horde is very orc-centric.
It is what it is.
Not really. If anything I enjoy looking at it from what seems to be a 3rd party.
Horde I don’t really have this problem.
The whole idea of the horde was it was ostracized peoples coming together. People who don’t fit in or are unwanted by others, come together in the horde.
Plus we had Tauren Leaders, Undead Leaders, Troll leaders
Never really thought about. When you play Horde everything is about Orcs by your way of thinking.
Not true. Vol’jin was warchief, Slyvannas brought un Forsaken city guards to guard Org, and Zuldazar.
As someone who started this game Horde and plays both sides still to this day, I think the Alliance is a bit more balanced than Horde is. Horde feels like 90% of more of their focus in Orcs whereas both humans and elves get a lot of focus for the alliance. You also got to remember that Worgen and Kul Tirans are basically off shoots of humans too. I think even canonically, humans are a very populous race compared to all the others (except maybe goblins).
I like how there is a “Dwarven District” in Stormwind. Some nice segregation yall got going on here. nonhumans are second class citizens, and it really hurts my enjoyment of the “Alliance”
And where is the “human district” of IF? When the big tree was a thing, where was the “non elf” districts?
It’s no different than the Horde being Orc-centric, as others have said.
I play both factions, but I’ve always loved the bond between Gnomes and Dwarves. Those two races were forged together (along with humans) and have worked together since time immemorial. Dwarves and Humans even have a huge history together.
The Horde, on the other hand, at least the modern Horde, are new by comparison. The Taurens, Orcs, and Trolls haven’t worked together for hundreds of years.
Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes have interacted with each other for hundreds of years.
In Exile’s Reach, you go to help an Orc Mother find her Orc Son. The story is all about the Orcs. Imagine being a Tauren running this island?
You do know that you can start in the race’s starting zone, right?. Even the Night Elf starting zone if you want. If I wanted to play a Tauren story, I would do their starting zone. Not Exile’s Reach.
The whole concept of the “Alliance” was the Alliance of human kingdoms. Lordearn, Stormgarde, Gilneas, Stormwind, Kul Tiras.
To me Org feels way more welcoming, there is the spirit section where there is all troll architecture, the goblin sections, Tauren spirit lodges.
But stormwind is all human white brick.
Not to mention all the non-orc warchief. But there is always a human king - who basically is the de facto leader of the alliance
Then don’t play Alliance. Most people don’t.
Probably because no one else wants the job of leading the Alliance.
I don’t, but I want too. I think I am going to lean into the human-centric stuff, make a human pally or priest and just be a massive Light Zealot, Human, Supremist ! For the alliance!
Yeah the rest of them feel like animals
You have Dog race, midget ,a blue goat , a talking blueberry, a small hairy Yeti … feels weird.
Make of it what you will. The collective time you had non orc warchiefs is like a blip on a radar compared to orc warchiefs. Blizzard can’t even bring themselves to let Baine have his time.
Plus if you want to argue semantics, the Alliance has a lightforged running things. If I understand my lore right, Turalyon, despite having a human body, has been transformed by the light and is every bit as lightforged as a Draenei or anyone else and such reforging has let him live well beyond normal human life spans too.
Anyone can be warchief if willing to challenge and fight for it (which is based in orc culture). Let’s also not pretend like all the alliance races fell in line perfectly too or are we just ignoring Tyrande just up and deciding she’s doing things her way when Anduin didn’t step up in exactly the way she expected and demanded?