Well, they had to go all the way back to Classic WoW for a description other than ‘Irredeemably Bloodthirsty Morons Constantly Engaging in Self-Defeating Cycles of Violence’
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And Arthas lol. For the record i’m perfectly fine accepting both Arthas & Garithos as Alliance characters/villains. It’s just the double standard with them i find funny.
Lordaeron has nothing to do with the Alliance unless it can be used to demonize the Alliance over Arthas, Garithos or the Internment Camps.
This i also find funny too. That we always have to find some way to justify High Elves being part of the Alliance or why they made sense to be playable. High Elves are the only race i’ve seen people bring up them being “irrelevant” just because they may not have played a big role in the last expansion or two. For some reason only they’re held to this odd standard.
Arguably they’ve received more love and spotlight than most of the Alliance’s playable races. Even before they were (At least somewhat playable) in the form of Void Elves. Especially in WOTLK, MOP & Legion.
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I don’t get how the writers, when gazing upon the state of the race pages, don’t realize they have profoundly screwed up and functionally doomed the narrative
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Plus, since Thrawn’s an alien, a little makeup and Lars would be good to go.
What does he do on the show? Congratulations to him and tell him keep up the good work 
I know Zahn has written for atleast one Starcraft book
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Even more reason for Blizzard to get him on to save WoW. I’ll check that book out, which book was it?
Starcraft Evolution
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Here’s the Description of the novel, which takes place after the Nova campaign.
Award-winning author Timothy Zahn pens the latest chapter in the stunning StarCraft saga, building on the game’s rich legacy to create an unforgettable new story.
After nearly a decade of brutal warfare, three mighty factions—the enigmatic protoss, the savage zerg, and the terrans, humanity’s descendants in the sector—have entered a cease-fire, but the peace is tenuous at best. When the sudden restoration of an incinerated planet is brought to light, tensions erupt. Neutrality swings back to hostility, and old enemies are accused of developing biological weapons to reignite the bitter conflict.
An expedition of terran and protoss soldiers and researchers is deployed to investigate the mysterious zerg planet and its inhabitants’ intentions. But the lush alien landscape is host to other denizens, creatures shrouded in shadow, and should they be unleashed, they will change the fate of the entire galaxy.[4]
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He mainly did cloth and fur simulations for characters.
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I can’t resist this digression.
I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan, but my husbot is and has been working me around on it. I played SWTOR during the years we were up in the Arctic, because it scratched the MMO itch but would still somehow run on North Slope internet (which WoW wouldn’t, see, vaguely relevant). I loved the Chiss and the lore. Which gave him an opening to buy the new Thrawn novels for me… which I have deeply enjoyed. I usually avoid novelizations unless they’re Dinotopia novels, but I’m coming around to that concept as well.
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So I guess one of the character he worked on might’ve been Black Krrsantan (the wookie).
Blizz really wants this to be the case without actually doing anything to show this.
The closest thing is muh goblin miners. How dare you oppress our right to mine a highly volatile material for the purposes of creating weapons of mass destruction that we will most certainly use to wipe out the Alliance?
I really wish it was the case that the Horde did have to fight against Alliance oppression because then maybe I wouldn’t feel like a bad guy for playing Horde.
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I know this is abit of a necro but this is probable the best place to put this:
And there we go, the L symbol is definately Alliance in nature. note the Blues didn’t even mention the Forsaken.
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Symptomatic of how little they know, understand, or care about this game.
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I disagree, it means they do know their players and they choose those who most associate the symbol with their faction.
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Izhkari is right. It does show how utterly out of touch they are with the fan base. There’s like a handful of people obessed with the old lordaeron. The rest of us could care less.
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It is literally part of Alliance history. You may not care, others do, like myself. Long term fans, fans who have been with the series since the RTS days. I’d also point out Genn happens to be part of said old Alliance. Hell, Stormwind, Ironforge, Gnomeragan and the fact even now alot of people want high elves shows the tradition and old school lore is still important.
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There’s a lot that’s part of the old lore…and it’s exactly that, OLD lore. Is it a nice little call back? Sure, but that’s all it is. 
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Just because something is old does not mean it does not have value or that people don’t treasure it. “Nice little call backs” are important, because it reminds people this is one continuous story, a story that has roots in the RTS.
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I don’t think it excludes Forsaken, as they are also very old school members of the Alliance.
The Forsaken are old school members of the Alliance, as well, they just are not in it anymore. As Sylvanas said, they fought and died for that banner.
Pete Best is still an old school member of the Beatles, even though he left before they hit it big.
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