The issue with my main class, Warrior, is that the warrior cultures and traditions of each racial group in the Alliance have hardly been developed or dwelled upon since the early days of Warcraft. What I’d like to get out of this faction warrior hall is something that finally delves into what it means to be a warrior. What separates a soldier from a warrior? Sure there is an army, but that army is made up of soldiers. Military career men. Can a soldier be a warrior? Certainly. But what separates a common man with a sword and board from the seasoned fighters that can call themselves a true warrior?
Unlike the Horde, which is heavy with warrior cultures and conversations of honor, there is very little of that within the Alliance. To better expand the warrior ways within the Alliance races would be excellent. I think warriors are one of the least understood classes in the game, for quite a few reasons, but mostly due to the lack of understanding on what makes a warrior so strong? How do they stand toe to toe with divine heroes, fel fighters, and juggernauts of death and destruction?
Ideally, I’d see Humans getting back to the discussion of Arathor. The early days of humanity was a humanity bound together by the way of the blade, men with swords struggling together to survive. Thoradin, Lordain, and Ignaeus were warriors and leaders. They had no magic. They had no Light. They were merely men brought together with determination and will, and their fight managed to cobble together one of the most fearsome forces in Azerothian history. Humanity’s beginning was founded on the shoulders of barbarian warrior lords. What does this mean to modern man? Does it mean anything? Are they trying to reclaim their lost heritage? Divorce the warrior legacy of mankind from the Light?
This too extends to the dwarves and their mountain kings. We see that dwarves have gotten fairly titanic with their ways, both in their Warrior and Light-wielding worlds, and I wonder if the death of the Titans has finally forced the dwarves down a different path. The gnomes likely follow the dwarves in this discussion.
I can see the worgen harnessing their rage to better hone their bladecraft, a rage that the kaldorei can now find themselves relating to. The worgen and kaldorei find their kinship growing closer as their ways of life begin to meld closer together. The Lightforged are not so distant with their thinking.
The draenei and void elves don’t have much to give to this, as Vindicators are very established, and Void Elves don’t have any conversation to add to anything. Stay in the corner, Void scum. (Honestly I do think the more Arathorian humans might be glaring daggers at the Velves, as the true death of Thoradin has likely become more common knowledge. Zakajz…)
I definitely like the idea that the Alliance’s warriors are seeking to define themselves better, to grasp their own codes and culture separate from the traditional norms. In their disagreement and differences, they find a united warrior order. Where before the Skyhold and the Vrykul dominated warrior discourse, the rather imperious Allegiance’s Blade has risen up.
Their hall doubles as a major military base for the Alliance, so we can finally see how the Alliance military works outside of “WE BOAT AND WE FITE IN LEGIONS”. The warrior hall is technically the whole base, but a large subsection is the true hall, where you can see the more fanatical minds getting together.
The warriors of Azeroth are empowered by willpower, determination, and might. The Alliance’s warriors are greatly strengthened by purity of will, purpose of might, and the determination to protect their homeland.
