Blizzard's stories are getting more nuanced, to their total detriment

[Iandore-thrall]

Ironically, you are proving my point that the playerbase just goes by whatever in-game characters say as if they are all perfectly honest.

I mean, you’re not wrong on the account that they are claiming those Orcs are ‘brainwashed’ in the manner that you describe. However, you’re wrong to think that Yrel and the Naaru that is ‘leading’ them didn’t just turn in to a fanatical cult of Light worshippers on a cleansing of the entire planet, and unjustifiably were the aggressors that unprovokingly went after the Orcs, who were now practically peaceful without their tyrannical and warmongering Warchiefs presiding over their every action.

Orcs follow their 'chief. That is how it has been, that is how it always will be. Every now and again, once under a blue moon, will you have an Orc that falls out of line and says, “We shouldn’t be doing this.” Broxxigar, Thrall… Hell, you know who they are. But they are probably 1 in of every 1,000 or 10,000 Orcs who develop that mindset.

You have Mag’har left behind after all was said and done that would god-honestly rather not fight a Naaru and Light-empowered Yrel and her newfound fanatical cult of Zealots after they were issued the ultimatum of, “Convert or die” because of the “Greater good of the planet demands it.” BS. That’s shoddy story writing and you know it.

nu-gorgrond is a literal junkyard. The air is permanently orange with toxic waste. No plants have survived.

The first orc you meet in nu-draenor is a laughing skull orc that sneaks up behind you. If you talk to them they say “no, I wouldn’t know anything about flaying people alive I do know how to flay people, and I can give you a demonstration.”

The second one you meet is called an “impaler” and he tells you he wants to slit the throats of the race-traitors.

The other orcs all say the same master race bs that they will kill anyone who challenges their great leader or their traditions. yawn.

you are threatened at the point of a weapon by genderbent thrall to “pay homage” to the orc clan banners. hellscream shows up and says genderbent thrall is a hothead, and WHAT CALMS HER DOWN IS KILLING OGRES; just so happens the ogres at the ogre internment camp are staging a slave uprising. you are then tasked with killing the uppity ogres to put them back in their place. In the quest text you are informed that the orcs regularly have to put these ogres back in their place every few years by killing the revolters.

In the process of killing the ogre king leading the uprising, you kill a lightbound ambassador. A small regiment THEN gets called.

When you wipe out the small regiment THEN the entire draenei army comes.

I can really tell you didn’t actually play the scenario.