Which she was eager for.
It matches up with the descriptions in Before the Storm where the Alliance people believed it was a betrayal and even Anduin didn’t know what to believe until he asked Sylvanas directly. But, a joke I’ve made before, I’m just waiting for Alex Afrasiabi to retcon it so that Sylvanas admits she intended to betray Varian all along.
Which the Alliance technically does, at least the Night Elves and Blood Elves in Suramar. Though, at the same time, Sylvanas and Genn still were going at each other at every Warden Tower they could.
But even then, we know that there was not peace, and Anduin states in his invitation to Arathi in Before the Storm:
- Do not mistake this for an offer of peace. It is only an offer of a single day's compassion for people who were cruelly torn apart by a force that was neither the Horde nor the Alliance.
When this peace was broken is what we are quibbling about, as we do not have any definite answers on what the treaty was or when it was considered broken. If Genn broke it, Anduin kept it broken. Or it was broken by the fittingly named Broken Shore, and then Genn was simply acting on Varian’s words to end the Horde (or at least their Warchief) for not upholding honor in his eyes by putting Sylvanas of all people in charge. Again, Varian said “From here on forward, the Alliance will be proactive. Never again can there be another the likes of Hellscream.” And Sylvanas was worse than Garrosh.
Question at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd-yRVtNBuI&t=34m47s :
- How are you going to differentiate between what Sylvanas is doing and what Garrosh did?
Alex Afrasiabi’s answer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd-yRVtNBuI&t=35m20s :
- If I were Sylvanas and looking at what Garrosh had wrought across the world, I'd see- I'd probably think Garrosh was an amateur.