The differences between the approaches and the attitudes taken by Tyrande and Liadrin are important aspect of the story.
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I don’t entirely know if they actually consider “long term” to be any different from how humans use the term. Everything else we see in-game implies they aren’t any more patient or long-term-planning than mortal races. I mean, they talk about Teldrassil as some huge loss as a home, and that only existed for less than twenty years? If they had this ultra-long view of time, that would be talked about like losing their favorite vacation spot, not a thing they have to restore.
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The loss of that “vacation spot” also incuded the loss of many of their people.
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That is correct, and also not relevant to the point I was making.
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Apparantly Tyrande did not fully share Malfurion’s opinions about the place.
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There’s a bit of nearsightedness when it comes to the sanctity of the trees. Nordrassil was the most important thing ever at one point, with Teldrassil introduced as a less than ideal substitute with the aspects dissing it completely. Now it’s virtually treated like the original world tree.
You’d be forgiven if you assumed that staff turnover has given us writers that don’t care about events before the “golden era” of classic WoW, written for people who didn’t play Warcraft before the “golden era” of classic WoW. That can’t be entirely true because we have recently seen some great nods to the floppy disk era in BFA and DF, but the current NElf agenda of “Nordrassil has regrown and that’s alright but hey Teldrassil is where it’s REALLY at” just screams of recency bias and a majority view within the organization that “nostlagia” is pre-Cata WoW.
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Nordrassil was created solely to hide Illidan’s Mistake, otherwise known as the Second Well of Eternity.
Teldrassil was a home and the center of Night Elf culture.
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In WoW. But Teldrassil is canonically created after the Third War. While the NElves probably moved a great deal of their civilization in there they were only there for 0.1% of their post-sundered years.
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Doesn’t matter. it was home and a crapton of elves died there. Nighthaven, the elven city from the RTS now has Horde running through the place.
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it is usually alliance players who bemoan that the status quo of classic wow was broken becuase Blizzard eventually realised this crap was awafully one sided considering the world building.
Sorry, but that’s all wrong. There is no way, it’s not a replacement for Darnassus. It’s also neutral because Horde players can visit it with no issue.
Do you always trawl the story forum looking for minor details to fixate on and then “correct?”
I never said that it was going to replace Darnassus. I have said and still say that no new player capitals are being built.
It’s not neutral because it’s friendly to Alliance players.
The innkeeper, the portals, the vendors, the trainers only work for Alliance players,
Horde players have a cosmetic debuff that reminds them that “they are being watched”.
The city is open to the Alliance population at large thanks to a portal in Stormwind. No such equivalent exists in Orgrimmar so the only Horde players technically welcome are those who helped bring it into being.
It’s questionable whether this place will have any relevance post Dragonflight.
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I’m the one saying this. You’re disagreeing with me, and I’m disagreeing with that.
None of the other stuff you mentioned make it not neutral imo.
And you can be very sure they will turn Silvermoon into another Dalaran but worse because Quel’thalas was Horde since 2007.
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If you are friendly to one side and not friendly to another than you by definition are not neutral overall.
If you offer services to one side and a cold shoulder to another than you are not neutral.
Switzerland is neutral it treats all comers equally. Amirdrassil is not, it offers preferential treatment to one faction over the other.
There seems to be a segment of posters here that are extremely dissapointed by the fact that Horde players who worked to put Amirdrassil into being aren’t being rewarded with an arrow to the face.
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Great, it’s still a neutral city by the game’s definition.
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Tbf to Switzerland, it has become a lot less neutral lately.
It’s actually a fairy unique city as far as the game is concerned. It’s the only city, rather village, which is friendly to one faction and not hostile to the other. However it is situated that the only Horde members that have relatively easy access are those who had a share in it;s founding.
Like it or not… Horde Champions are its co-founders.
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Gilneas is the same. Both are neutral cities. Gilneas even has services for Horde.
Gilneas at the moment is friendly to both… it’s also had practically no work done on it other than dropping npcs into it.
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