Genn's dual timelines

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Nah.

He doesn’t have a personal problem with Rastakhan, so coming in that aggressive rings false. And bow down before your new master is so ridiculously hammy and doesn’t reflect the character of the Alliance or help their goal of getting him to surrender peacefully. Genn can be a bad dog, but he’s not quite that ignorant.

… I think Genn was more polite to Sylvanas in Stormheim!

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Not necessarily. As you say he didn’t have personal problems with Rastakhan or the Zandalari, yet when Bwonsamdi starts raising dead minions to defend the city, he was quick to judge. “They’re all just like Sylvanas and deserve their fate”.

The “Bow down to your Master and surrender your daughter” stuff is pretty campy, but I still find the Alliance dialogue “Too Nice” for Genn Greymane.

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Do not feed the troll.

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Genn can be a good doggie sometimes!

I could see him giving the no mercy line, but I don’t think the Alliance version is out of character. It’s more resigned, which is fair, because killing the King wasn’t part of the plan. It also works well with his later conversation with Anduin, Jaina and Shaw, where he discusses the duty of a king. It strikes me as partly to reassure Anduin they’re in the right, but also highly respectful of Rastakhan’s decision.

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Whenever are they not?

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When they’re not.

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Such as when?

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Stormheim.

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Oddly enough, Steve Danuser recently talked about how things said by characters in-game actually have less canonical standing.

Steve Danuser at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpGvgXyi-U&t=44m01s :

    It's easy to look at the things that characters say within the world, and you click on an NPC and it says "Something about this" that happened or "this that happened" [or] you find a book. Think about it that someone had to write that book - in the world - and they might not have had all the information. You've got this world of people who might say, "Oh, yeah, well, Turalyon, well he's eight feet tall and has red hair and he has all this stuff-" and they're just completely wrong. It doesn't become, you know, some canon just because a character within the world says it. They have an impression. And so I think that sometimes people get fixated on the idea of like "Well its in this [in-game] book and it says this or and then so and so-" Well, that doesn't mean that everyone in the world knows that, or that it's even true.

So, according to Blizzard, just because Otoye said that Genn said something doesn’t mean it’s even true or that Otoye’s telling of the story becomes canon.

Incidentally, Steve Danuser was the writer for the RP scenes in Battle of Dazar’alor.

Steve Danuser at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpGvgXyi-U&t=49m09s :

    It was a lot of fun- the Battle for Dazar'alar was really cool. I got- I had the treat of- Sometimes I get to write lines for the raids and things like that, and so I got to write a lot of the RP scenes in between some of those fights. So I hope you like them. They're kinda fun. A few of them are a little over the top.
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This part right here is what makes me believe the Alliance version is more authentic to the actual events. I can basically see everyone BUT Genn saying this.

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All of you are overthinking this.

Genn is clearly a secret bronze dragon, and he knew rastabro was gonna die either way- so he decided to push his buttoms in the alt timeline for kicks and keks

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Nothing to do with the topic at hand but im loving your new mog!

Its an easy 9/10

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Thank you! ^w^

Yours is pretty snazzy too, full on iron tyrant :3

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It does not matter which side is canon, because Blizzard is going to keep presenting the story like this to keep us angry and arguing with each other since it’s obviously a successful tactic to keep us “engaged”.

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i think the alliance version is the canon will just because alliance players experience it in real time, while the horde are merely told about it, horde players are essentially playing through a flashback narrated by the scout

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Yep-yep

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I just did the invasion of Nazmir questline on Dreadmoore, where you set up for the raid and I have never been more crestfallen. They even gave Tellaarn the Chirrut lines from Rogue One. “I am with the Light and the Light is with me.”

I guarantee you we’ll be seeing him again. Another fistpump moment for the Alliance.

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I have not played on my horde toons in a while but im pretty sure he is killed by the horde players and rokkan?

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who? telamoon?

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I guess.

That might be true. I haven’t done it at all. I just assumed we’d think he was dead and he’d show up as the ultimate fist pump alliance loses no heroes ever moment.