I haven’t finished the book yet, but wanted to share some things I noticed.
Slight grammar issues. Like here and there, we have sentences that seem to be missing a word.
Blackhand survived the boat attack by swimming to Nagrand and reuniting with the Iron Horde.
The Bonechewer clan is mentioned as rejecting the Iron Horde, alongside the Frostwolves and Laughing Skull, but get no other mention. I was expecting the reveal they turned to Gul’dan, since Tagar Spinebreaker was amongst the AU Shadow Council.
Thrall encouraged Varok Saurfang to lead the orcs in Legion.
Rokhan is called Chieftain and referred to as a Horde leader when the Horde break the Zandalari out of Stormwind, when he became the Darkspear Chieftain at the end of BFA.
The Speaker of the Hords title given to us by Rastakhan is reframed as being given to us by Rastakhan, Baine, and Thalyssra.
The Lightbound are confirmed as to have started the Lightbound - Mag’har war.
AU Grom is confirmed to have been killed at the end of the AU Mag’har recruitment scenario. Its implied Yrel may have killed him.
Honestly.
The story is only divisive because some players are being silly.
Jaina did kill Sunreavers through MoP, she killed Aethas’ guards. She also killed Sunreavers by proxy. She also ordered non-involved Blood Elven shopkeepers killed, for the sole reason of not joining the chaos, at all, as per. Vereesa’s own words.
And she did so unjustly.
Her actions were understandable considering what she believed… thing is, what she believed was wrong.
And that is the fact of the matter.
For some reason, people also believe Aethas was directly involved with anything that had happened. He was not involved with Thalen or Fanlyr or any other Blood Elf who did anything. At worst, he only realized what was happening quite late and didn’t do anything about it for whatever reason, as per Jaina’s own words. But he never orchestrated it, as per. Jaina’s accusations.
The worst thing you can say about Aethas, is that he is an incompetent leader - which is not a false accusation as far as I am concerned. As Rommath says it: “That is why I am the Grand Magister, and you are not.” He may be a decent mage… but he sucks as a leader.
The only thing I really want to see, is Blizzard admitting to the fact that the war Garrosh started back in Cataclysm was wholly justified, situation considered. But he went too much off the rails at the end of Cataclysm.
I would say Cata for Anduin but they removed his little investigation as the lead in to Twilight Highlands when Legion came out.
You know, I wonder who those four characters Erevien thought were “from the start of the franchise” out of the 5 main cast for The War Within. Considering two of them are WoW original characters. Unless he does not consider Xal’atath as a main character, despite being the main antagonist of the expansion. So then who is the 5th?
The Venture Company attack on the Dark Iron is incorrectly referred to as a Horde attack. Mogul Razdunk is said to have been slain by the Alliance, when the Goblin Way short story gave the kill to Gallywix.
Also, I’m not sure raising undead just to increase your population is morally sound…
Like, I get it, thats part of the forsaken package, doing some questionable stuff to survive and thrive, but maybe there is another approach? Imagine you’re chilling in some afterlive, and suddenly you’re pulled to a rotting corpse.
But at the same time, we have a leaderless scourge right now, those can be recruited eventually, and their numbers surpass anything the factions really need.
You also have individuals like Sir Zellik who don’t want to die and want to remain in the living world. Those kind of people can also be willingly recruited.