Need I say more? Put anyone on the Throne. Literally anyone. So long as they are willing to fight the Horde. I don’t care if it’s Captain Cookie and you replace the Throne with his big cast iron cooking pot for him to float around in.
Anduin is an idiot if he doesn’t deserve death he at the very least deserves to be stripped of his nobility and cast to the canals.
High King is a position that should go away entirely. But it’s not connected to the Throne. You could remove Anduin from the Throne, replacement with no one, and still have the position of “High King” as someone who controls the united forces of the Alliance. You’d just need to rename it. The fact the position went to a child is proof of Blizzard’s human favoritism.
If there’s no High King, then there’s no one to screw over the faction they’re leading through incompetence or focusing too much on idealism than practicality.
And instead have the Alliance go back to a council-based system that democratically elects a supreme commander to lead their armies in military affairs.
But that would mean that Blizzard would have to sit down and write a compelling story for the alliance as a whole instead of having one character dominant the narrative. Hell get rid of the Wrynns, and they’d have to come up with a story for Stormwind.
We don’t even know if they can for the Horde, but we know they can’t bother with the Alliance.
There isn’t anything to pay attention to for the same half-hearted reaction to the horde doing anything. Every alliance story can be summarized as picking the default Lawful Good response.
It’s nice if you find that interesting, but I find it banal and worn out.
Oh, the “battle” that had no meaning in the long run due to any naval advantage going away the next patch, drove the Zandalari to the Horde’s arms, enraged their monarch, and squandered the lives of of suicide squads because “they feel bad?”
The only lesson in that was that the Alliance is more concerned with their image than winning a battle.
You’re prolly gunna hate me for saying this but; I think Anduin is fine as Human leader
As ruler of Stormwind, he’s been relatively harmless and honestly Shaw has blundered more for them than Anduin has. If anything, I think Anduin should simply invite respected human heroes like Turalyon, Jaina, and Genn to be a council of nations of sorts to help him lead and govern greater human civilization.
Oh, you’re right, expecting any capacity for world building and character development would be too high of an expectation in an MMORPG like WoW from these “writers”. Why do any of that “garbage” when we can get more gaudy moments and pompous characters.