I’ve been wanting to respond to this post for a week now, since it’s great, but I haven’t thought of much worthwhile adding, hence my week late response. I figured I’d toss some images on a few things.
Horde crates basically all share the same model, and are more or less everywhere, but they’re in Revantusk Village with the Horde flag on them.
The crates don’t show something nearly as meaningful like the banners or the quest/speaker dialogue, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
They’re also using a low resolution version of the Orgrimmar guard boots/gloves, but that’s almost certainly a coincidence. It could mean something, though, using a more Horde styled uniform instead of traditional uniforms. Probably looking too much into it tbh, but I again figured it was worth mentioning.
I’m for that, give Horde it’s missing two WC2 races, since Alliance are getting their two missing ones. Ogres and forest trolls are also my most wanted races out of personal preference, so I’m biased. Speaking of ogres, though.
The innkeeper in Revantusk Village is actually an ogre. His clan isn’t specified but considering this is Cataclysm we’re taking about, and that the story in the Hinterlands took place before that of Tanaris, we can conclude this guy is a Stonemaul ogre.
I’ve also seen the argument by an anti-ogre player (who also didn’t show he was very open minded to accepting that he was wrong when he was blatantly wrong) that there’s no Horde aligned ogre in any major Horde city. For one, that’s not true, because there is one in Dazar’alor. But two, even though Revantusk village isn’t a major Horde city, since it’s not a city, it is last we knew, the capital of the Revantusk, so there is both a Horde aligned ogre in a major Horde city, but also another Horde capital.
The Revantusk did probably conquer Jintha’Alor, but we don’t know really what they did with it afterwards if they did conquer it. Military fortress, new city, new capital? We’re not sure, can just make reasonable assumptions. But if Blizzard does ever reflect it in game, I’d like it to be the new Revantusk capital, and hopefully have Lard move over, to further disprove the non-fact that there’s no ogres in any major Horde city. I’d also like to see both ogres and forest trolls moved into all the other major Horde cities, too, to help solidify their existence and membership within the Horde, but that’s a bit of a tangent, albeit an on topic one.
Especially forest trolls. They’re spending resources on developing new assets to give to us, which is great, but what is probably the most requested asset is already here, why not just toss some underwear on the skin and pass it our way?
Man, those beards. The fact WoW hasn’t added beards yet and that they haven’t been datamined yet is a true mystery.