I don’t find it particularly amusing, but I understand your perspective. I don’t find it funny mainly because almost every time Blizzard incorporates Night Elves into the story, they either turn them into a joke or a victim… or both. Ashenvale was largely deforested by the Horde. Teldrassil was burned down. Darkshore was contaminated. In Feralas, they blocked the thoroughfare, but hey… now that they’ve helped against a common enemy, we should welcome them into our new home! xD
Or rather, I’m all for almost everything becoming neutral, but starting with a race like the Night Elves… well…
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Is anyone else kinda let down that the city is just parked under the tree? I was hoping they’d get some massive treehouse city along the lines of Lothlorien.
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Night Elves would probably be the last race to go full open-door policy to the Horde, and for justifiable reasons. We all know this.
Hopefully they get rid of whatever writer on the team has such a raging hate-bone to pick with Night Elves by TWW/Midnight. I don’t even wanna think what kind of mess we’d be handed in Midnight, otherwise.
Buddy the horde was to blame for the other tree. This is a spit in the face of nelf players again… why would horde be ever allowed in their new home. Because t is being marketed as their new home. The TREE WITH THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO BURNT. Blizzard is way too disconnected from reality.
Just like the garbage we are getting with the “liberation” of guilneas with the help of the horde. Whats next orcs freely roaming in stormwind lel. Trash game
Teldrassil was just as much of a slap in the face to the Horde as it was to the Night Elves. Getting villain-batted right again and being played like a fiddle as if they don’t have their own brains to make decisions. Everyone would benefit from conveniently forgetting that BfA-SL happened.
It could work as well as it did in Val’Sharah where the locals were fine with receiving assistance from my Horde characters. Supposedly those nightelves had not seen much of the horrors of the wars and as such not built up a personal reason to hate the Horde.
And the Night Elves who defended Amirdrassil were almost entirely made up of Teldrassil survivors.
They would, again, have the most justifiable reasons for not wanting an open-door policy to the Horde until literally everyone else did it first.
I’m actually semi-okay with the idea of neutral cities. I just think starting it with Night Elves is incredibly tone-deaf, and just yet more examples of someone on Blizzard’s writing team despising them for some reason. If we open Amirdrassil to the Horde, then they sure better open a Horde city to Alliance in the same patch.
actually, horde were given the most agency players have ever had during BfA.
Granted it was ultimately pointless, but being able to choose to either be “loyal” or “betray” sylvanas is more narrative agency than we’ve seen before or since.
I mean the Alliance have been down a city for sometime now but now they’re getting 2 new ones. I guess Silvermoon’s getting a facelift in Midnight so there’s that.
We could look at how things were done historically and take some inspiration from that. Cities could be three tiered in their areas. A foreign quarter, typically around the harbour area where most everyone is allowed. Then a common tier where foreigners need permission in the form of an invitation to enter, earn this by doing quests. The last tier is a sensitive areas where only top diplomats are allowed in and only under guard. Do not expect your orc to be allowed in the king’s palace without a good reason.
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Meanwhile, Baine and Mayla have been chilling in the heart of Stormwind for several months during bfa. xD
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I’m gonna go step on all the night elf flowers. Eat all the night elf food. Then pet night elf cats🥳
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