People think the reason Blood Elves joined the Horde is because of Garithos.
Garithos is of no consequence.
He was just one guy. From Lordaeron. Currently a Horde nation.
The real reason why the Blood Elves joined the Horde is because when they needed help to reach their promised land in Outland, the Horde sent help, troops and ambassadors.
The alliance sent spies and infiltrators.
It’s not really fair to blame the entire Alliance for the actions of the Night Elves.
Was Garithos mentioned by name in WoW?
edit: I do agree that Garithos and Fandral led the blood elves into the horde.
Uhhhhh what? Kael’thas and Lady Vashj didn’t join the Horde in Outlands, my dude. They joined Illidan whose goal was to betray the Legion and destroy them.
The Horde (Old Horde) was another detachment of the Legion that Illidan, Kael’thas and Lady Vashj had no affiliation with.
The Blood Elves led by Lor’themar joined the Horde out of necessity as the old history between the Blood Elves and the Alliance of Lordaeron were terribly stained and their likelihood of being welcomed with a warm reception was not going to happen.
Garithos was good representation of racism that a lot of Humans have in the lore, but rarely gets touched on these days.
But aside from that, he just served has a driving antagonist for people playing The Blood Elf Campaign.
I’m not sure if anyone reads lore these days… he was one of their biggest allies up until they let his family die.
That was his perspective.
The reality is The High Elves had their own problems going on.
I’m not blaming anyone, I’m just saying what happened.
And what happened was that while the Horde was sending friends to them, the Alliance was sending hostiles.
Who? Lor’themar? Yea, with good reason. His people and Garithos’ had one of the worst severing between them. If I was Lor’themar, I wouldn’t think I’d be welcomed by the Alliance after what happened with Garithos.
Oh lord, ignoring the fact posts. Typical horde.
ROFL 
Of course Garithos was of consequence, just as much so as Night Elf hatred for their kin. He tried to get as many of them killed off as possible…particularly their prince. You can’t discount an important cause for the High Elf defection to the Horde just because you personally want one of the other causes to seem more influential.
He didn’t try, he abandoned them. Every one thinks he went out to go kill him or plotted to get him killed.
He pulled reinforcements away from Kael’thas and focused on the undead threat while also assuming the invading force heading to Kael’thas would wipe him out.
Garithos is literally never mentioned in WoW. The Blood Elves joined the Horde because the Forsaken offered support and the Blood Elves’ new Blood Knights put them at odds with the more traditional Silver Hand paladins
That’s pretty much it
Edit: Oh, and Kael’thas was imprisoned in Dalaran. That may have played a part
He was imprisoned after Garithos saw him with Lady Vashj, albeit it stemmed from Garithos prejudice of the Elves and his reasons why he didn’t like them.
I get why, but Kael’thas was a beloved prince. Hearing that he was imprisoned probably didn’t help relations
It devolved into an eye for an eye basically. But at that time, the Blood Elves were fighting the Old Horde. Only those that remained with Lor’themar stayed while Kael’thas fled to Outland.
Well I guess we can blame the entire Horde for what happened on Darkshore and not just the group or individual actually responsible. After all we apparently hold he whole responsible for the actions of some of them members. Matter of fact that means you are responsible for the actions at wraith gate you dirty bastard!
The guy just almost executed the majority if not almost all of the blood elf race including their prince. Yeah dude, nothing important.
Why would you go back to a group of people thag allowed someone like thag to be in charge of anything? Them sending spies to Quel’thalas was just the cherry on top
.> Lor’themar decided it wasn’t best to join the Alliance because of the interaction between Garithos and the Blood Elves.
They were just as at fault as he was. Whether it was the Blood Elves allowing the Orcs to kill his family while he fought to protect Quel’thalas, or Sylvanas betraying him at Dalaran and allowing Balnazzar to kill him.