https://x.com/YouthfulCharles/status/1829963577316266405
Assuming this is true now we at least have a name for the current emperor.
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I wonder if they will pull from the life of Charles IX, which was marred by religious tensions boiling over in allowing a rather infamous massacre.
Bonus points if they use the real monarch’s final words.
“Nurse! Nurse! What murder! What blood! Oh, I have done wrong. God pardon me!”
Truly, shakepsear couldn’t of written a better final statement to make.
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There’s a line from General Steelstrike where she mentions that she earned her current position as Expedition head because she put down a rebellion in the empire’s lands.
Whenever we do see the Arathi empire, things are going to be tense.
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Wait wait wait wait wait.
We’re in an underground area with a human colony made up of misfits from a somewhat brutal empire.
One of the groups reveres a giant crystal and does magic with crystals.
There are giant friendly talking spiders.
Guys, I think we’re in Avernum. Someone kill Jaina before she can summon Grah-Hoth.
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I’m honestly excited, with the scarlets basically being mooks it will be fun to have a new enemy to go hog wild on
Ever since the Alliance and Horde signed the Peace Accords, our war machines lay dormant, and our armies grow fat and lazy.
The Military Industrial Complex must be fed. It hungers to end lives. There is only one industry on Azeroth, and its name is War.
Today, the Nerubians.
Tomorrow, the Arathi.
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The Empire of Avaloren is the best world-building Blizzard has done since Kul Tirasn in 2017. The idea of this deeply-religious and isolationist empire is so mysterious and perfectly sets up a new saga in the future, one that will be focused on humans, elves, half-elves, and Arathor. I cannot wait!! 
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I’m certain they’re gonna invade Quel’Thalas for the Sunwell.
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Isn’t Avaloren like a fake name? Thought that whole thing was a hoax?
The Wreckage Analysis Report in Uldaman from Dragonflight mentions Avaloren.
We of course are assuming it’s the Arathi Empire due to Arathi resembling a Human Kingdom and the inspiration for Avaloren the Avalon from Arthurian Myth is well… tied to King Arthur…
Just noticed that the name Arathor sounds like Arthur… More fuel to the theory that Avaloren is the Arathi Empire.
Avalon is also a Fairyland in Myths so if the similarities between the names Avaloren and Avalon are thematically intentional be prepared to meet the Summer Queen Titania’s reference even if it turns out to be Mu’sha or Elune.
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Gotta dust off those Blight throwers. The Arathi assume the kobyss think darkness is their ally? The Order of Night? They merely adopted the dark. We were born in it, molded by it. We’ll show them what real darkness is.
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looks at Jaina’s flying ship yeah last time it didnt work out so well once a flying ship was in the fray. Doubly so with a nation that seems to have a ton of airships and mages.
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And the ballista on the arathi airships can be imbued with light magic as we’ve seen Fae’rin do during the quest were we board one of the airships and fight off the nerubians
(It’s the one just before anduin gets captured)
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To be fair to Jaina, her flying ship ignored the laws of physics and was merely an extension of her will for no purpose than to give her a method to look cool instead of just floating above the battlefield lobbing arcane projectiles everywhere.
The Alliance, Horde, and Arathi airships all explode when hit, and have weak-points that aren’t just “their captain’s concentration.”
As for light-infused ballista projectiles. I’ve taken a few potshots from the Lightforged Draenei’s ship and turned out fine. I think the Spiders just fold like wet paper whenever they’re struck.
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But can you survive Holy Roman Empire light imbued ballistae? 
(Naturally the answer is yes, just having fun with it 
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Power levels are far harder to quantify than the Story Forums makes it sound.
Characters who can level entire cities in cinematics can only tickle me for the first five minutes before suddenly pulling a GG NO-RE out of their repertoire which requires me and the Priest to coordinate to survive.
Gameplay sure, sure.
But I see people in here all the time talking about how Malfurion can level an entire continent if he wanted to, and I’m just like… are people Roleplaying? Or just quoting the ridiculousness of the Knaak books? Because none of the Alliance Powerhouses, nor the Horde’s can match the power of two-score grunts with good equipment.
It’s like the first or second mission of the Undead Campaign, (can’t remember exactly) with Deathknight Arthas. You’re up against Uther who is a level 10 paladin, and you’ve got a 1st or 2nd level Deathknight and a bunch of ghouls. And that’s how you win, by surrounding Uther with 24 ghouls and throwing a Deathcoil at him while you’ve got mana.
That’s why the power-level threads are the funniest to me. It’s like, my brother/sister in Warcraft, they killed Lucifer with 20 people.
It is more that Blizzard has always followed comic book author logic. Characters are as powerful as they need to be for the scene at hand. Superman is Superman except when Kryptonite conveniently comes into the scene.
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Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
20/10 post
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Violence is never the answer.
It’s the question. And the answer is YES!
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