Genn's dual timelines

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A bit heavy on the Anduin compliments, but I could easily see old Genn calling the Horde savages to be slaughtered.

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Oh grow up. You know the Human Paladin meme isn’t just whatever happens to irk you at the time, right? You’re being disingenuous.

There’s absolute certainty, why wouldn’t the actual present Alliance witness the canon actions? They’re not living a retelling, they’re committing the act. Simply because Blizzard has yet to confirm it does not make this any less true.

Blizzard hasn’t confirmed many things in game - which is a given, since I doubt any storywriter needs to go through every individual plot point and say “yup, that happened.” Saying that it’s uncertain is simply just choosing to ignore something that should be obvious.

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You know what the sad thing is? Horde version has the more accurate portrayal of Genn and his grumpy personality when faced against the enemy. It really goes to show you that Blizzard is patronizing alliance, thinking their players can’t take getting a little dirty. :frowning:

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You’ve been embodying it a lot more as of late.

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Define it for me.

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Kinda rude, self righteous, condescending, insistent, uncompromising, pro-Alliance are some traits.

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I’ve always been kinda rude, it’s the state of the story forums. I’ve also always been pro-Alliance, because I’m an Alliance player.

If it feels like I’m embodying it more, well… honestly I don’t care. I’m content to embody it here to say that.

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You call people pedantic for disagreeing. You claim you are right, with only fan theories to support you, while two distinct versions exist.

The only thing Blizzard has confirmed is that there are two versions.

You simply pick a fan theory that backs your narrative. And you call others pedantic for pointing out Blizzard itself created the inconsistency on purpose, and they will be the ones who clarify it. Not fan theories based on which version they choose to believe.

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I get that Human Male Paladin type people typically don’t care about being nicer or considerate, yeah.

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That’s a true troll king ¿why the hell Blizzard killed this guys? he was an awesome character.

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Those were cases of canon-conflict. This seems pretty cut and dry. The Alliance is witnessing the event as it happens whereas the Horde is being told about it after the fact.

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There aren’t two versions.

There is what actually happened.

There is a story some rando is telling you happened.

If someone told me X happened at a party, but I was there myself and witnessed Y firsthand, why on earth would I think “Well maybe X is what really happened because that other guy said so.” ?

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There are two versions. What the Alliance witnessed and what a Zandalari witnessed. Neither has been confirmed as canon over the other by Blizzard in any form yet. Blizzard intentionally displayed the two versions. That is plain.

Again - Blizzard has not said one is canon over the other. They are both equally valid tellings of events, regardless of who you want to believe more.

While many here will dismiss one side (the one where the Alliance looks bad) and cling to their preferred version based on popular fan theories, I instead will see both sides as displayed by Blizzard until Blizzard says one is canon.

All I have seen in this thread is posters list reasons why they guess the Alliance version is canon, or reasons why it should be. With no factual evidence that one is correct and the other is not.

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Not what she witnessed. What she’s retelling.
There’s a big difference between the two.

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For the love of–

It is not “what the Alliance witnessed” it is what the Alliance PC actually experienced.

It is not “what a Zandalari witnessed” it is what a Zandalari tells the Horde they witnessed.

One of these is a firsthand event.

The other is secondhand gossip.

You are essentially arguing that gossip has equal value to video footage.

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Anyone know if there are differences between the Horde witnessing of the last three fights vs the Alliance retelling of it?

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You know, neither sound exactly believable. The whole concept of trying to force Rastakhan’s surrender by submitting him a formal ‘request’ then siccing the murder hobos on him when he declines seems like the thinnest of veils for an assassination.

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If there are any differences than the Horde version is correct. Because they are the ones actually there. The Alliance version is just hearsay.

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Two timelines were a bad idea.

I can now have no opinion on Genn’s interaction with Rastakhan except he wanted him to surrender. I can’t hate him for acting like an aggressive bigot because its as canon as him politely requesting a surrender.

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He’s Schrodinger’s Dog!

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