That is almost always true, except in this case the whole point of the mission was the church basically. Fighting in a glorious battle in their religion’s version of Armageddon as soldiers of their holy emperor of man would definitely see them push a lot of resources towards the building of something as wacky as that giant church.
They seem to of been dancing around some of the finer points of the empire they wanted seen in game. There is obviously stronger human elements, but I think that is mostly because they have made so much more human stuff to draw from… and honestly I think the Arathi are their Empire of Man with the serial numbers filed off.
Yeah. From what we have on the empire so far, they seem to of basically killed whoever was in the way of the empire’s expansion and took their lands in some version of manifest destiny. They take must make high elven imperialist ventures in founding Quel’thalas look like child’s play if they control most—if not all—of a continent like the Hallowfall Arathi say they do.
And if all we had was the massive church and the buildings around it, I’d buy it as a frontier town a hell of a lot more. Instead we have the church and its grounds, a nearby large town, large farms in numerous areas, some even pretty far from both church and large town, some smaller township/village settlements, the Aegis Wall, the massive light towers, and more.
This isn’t a frontier town. It’s a nation-state, complete with civilians and orphans and workers in addition to its military, a working trade system with neighboring national entities, and their own technologies.
Yeah, I am not gonna sit here and deny they changed gears for sure. I am wondering if the Arathi empire was one of the things Metzen rewired, as it seems like it might of been pretty late on.
But, that is the hand they played, so I am gonna go off appearances and I guess go with the Arathi are also part worker ant to get so much done in so little time.
It is certainly funny this little expedition got more built than full out kingdoms upstairs—Quel’thalas is apparently just now starting to get around to rebuilding.
Stormwind could do with learning some construction tips from the Arathi too. It took 'em six years to give the barn-inn in Westfall a roof, and about as long to replace the stones Deathwing’s claws melted!!
In that same time, the Arathi probably would have built at least three Sentinel Hills and stuck a light tower in the middle of it!!
Even so, that would have to be just a generic catch all term, not an actual genetic percentage.
Are we to believe that the Arathi had some kind of compulsory “you can only marry a person of the opposite race, which we luckily have in perfect distribution according to gender” law?
I just mean that it’s more accurate to say that they are hybrids, but we have no idea what percentage is elf and which is human, even if an NPC says it’s half. They didn’t set out on an expedition with equal numbers of elves and humans that conveniently coupled exclusively in bi-racial pairs.
Yes, but the question is “what does that mean?”. Are you claiming that every single Arathi has an elf parent and a human parent?
Not only is that highly unlikely, given the lore, but I doubt that’s what blizzard means. It’s lazy to call them “half-elves” but we all know what they mean, so it’s no big deal.
