How does your character feel about those on the other faction?

“she’s comfortable thinking of all of them as bad” - I hate this racist remark so much. I don’t like your character’s views, I think that thinking leads to evil acts like genocide, and I hope Tyrande turns her gaze on your character next.

It’s RP, your characters are allowed to have prejudices, so long as they’re rooted in canon. That’s kinda the running theme of WoW: the fallout of old wounds that never healed right.

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Humans (including Kul’tirans):
She never fully healed from the disaster that Arthas brought upon Quel’thalas, nor the persecution of her people at the hands of Garithos. Years later, Jaina’s purge and attempted genocide would reopen those festering wounds and the assault led by the archmage against the Horde while docked in Zul’dazar further cemented her hatred of the race. She seethes with anger towards humans, holding them all responsible for the sins of Lordaeron and for the blood of her people spilled in the streets of Dalaran.

Dwarves:
As opposed to humans, she finds herself much more amicable towards dwarves. Always impressed by their architecture and their craft with stone as well as their fondness for drink and seemingly relaxed attitudes, she finds herself being less hostile towards dwarves and instead takes on a more forthcoming-yet-reactionary mindset.

Gnomes:
The small stature of a mature gnome disturbs her greatly, causing her to reaction, often times, to be in equal amounts of disgust and disbelief. “Something that intelligent shouldn’t be that small” is her general mindset around them.

Night Elves:
She knows of the history between the kaldorei, and their hatred of the arcane, and her people. Despite that, she grieves with them over the loss of Teldrassil, knowing the feeling of being ousted from home all too well. Beyond that she feels fairly neutral towards them, harboring neither hostility or amicability, and sees them rather as equals that fate & circumstance nudged down “another path”.

Draenei (including Lightforged):
She sees a duality to them not entire dissimilar from her own people’s history. On one hand, she recognizes the struggles in coming to a strange new land and trying to survive. On the other hand, she sees a tyrannical fanaticism lurking beneath the surface that aches to be free. She generally approaches draenei with cautious respect and reserve - confident in her ability to handle herself yet wary of what having to do so would entail.

Worgen:
The burning hatred towards humans she feels is tempered somewhat in the presence of a worgen, if naught but out of pity for their suffering of their curse and the “second nature” it brings (she very vividly remembers the “curse” of magical addiction she and the rest of her people suffered under the final days of the Sunstrider dynasty). That said, she prefers to keep her distance from those suffering the curse, as their perceived instability could likely lure her into a false sense of security.

Pandaren:
For the most part, she sees them just like those who chose to join the Horde, but with something off about them because she cannot fathom why they would join the Alliance when her own people - in all their excesses and opulence - have found a home in the Horde and managed to thrive. There is no outright hostility towards the pandaren of the Alliance, but rather a mild contempt at their decision - was the Horde not good enough for them?

Void Elves:
The ren’dorei are traitors. That is how she copes with the feelings of hurt and betrayal at seeing faces she once knew well, tainted and fully given in to the Void’s corrupting whispers, proudly bearing the standard of the Alliance. That said, part of her holds out hope that any given void elf will see the error of their ways and return to the Horde, to Silvermoon and Quel’thalas, whenever she encounters one. She likens the animosity she feels towards the ren’dorei as being similar to confronting a longtime close friend after learning about their sinister betrayal.

My backstory and lore for this character… well he absolutely hates Draenei to where it is killed as quickly as possible…

Any allies deserve no less

Mechagnomes didn’t join the Alliance until the war was over and both factions helped the Rustbolt Resistance in pretty equal amounts, so she really doesn’t know what all the fuss is about.

Most of my characters view the Horde the same way, except that some came to view the tauren just as bad as the rest due to in game interactions. Their view is that, despite the propaganda, taurens’ real reason for joining the Horde is that they would have been just as willing to drink fel blood as the orcs, if they’d had a chance.

This character is a little different. She doesn’t personally hate the Horde; she just kills them because her leadership had determined that they are the enemy. It’s not any different than her feelings toward, say, the old gods; they’re the enemy, so they exist to be defeated.

He doesn’t mind them that much, mostly because of the blood elves. But! He hates humans. He don’t even know he joined the alliance in the first place. Those humans ultimately caused the downfall of the quel’dorei

Since Darak here is scourge, i will say what he sees in both races faction.
Starting off.

Humanity: it is known Darak favors humans over others, but it is only because they are more numerous and more likely to follow him willing or otherwise.
Orcs: He sees them as savages with a broken concept on things, honor maybe a thing inspired in life, but it is often bloody and misleading, much worse is said for them in his opinion.
he finds them annoying and unworthy of free will if they shackle themselves too a warchief so willingly.

Tauren: he finds them strange, but with how much muscle mass and potential, he sees a use, but not much.

Gnomes/goblins: small, useless in combat safe for casters, he only values them as a work force, anything else, he finds them irritating.

Dwarves: Strong but not numerous, he will rarely recruit them, potential is there, so long as undeath is not alcohol dependent

Trolls: they are resistant, but they are nice to experiment on, blight effects them slightly different but non the less they make interesting test subjects, The amani trolls however darak can respect.

Pandaren: this confuses him and warrants more study.

Draenei: they have the potential and strength, but they remind him too much of the demons he face alive and undeath.

Forsaken: Traitors to the scourge, and the rot brained fools thinking they are both free of will and there own fate, they are blind to think the living will accept them at any time.

Night elves: he dislikes all elves, but he will accept these more than the other kind…
nightborne: all they do is remind him of his hatred of the sin’dorei.

Blood elves: he hates them too the very core and vowed too end the entire race, all because those who betrayed him, so everytime he kills another one, it thrills him that he’s one step closer too his Final revenge.

Void elves: in the words of darak,
“The high elves made me who i am, and they join the alliance as Void tainted mongrels?”
“i spit on the alliance, for they are no better than the demons, the savages, and the monsters defeated. they are all blind and will one day see the madness they wield in this false hope of peace.”

“Character”. That’s how Vanaelia, the elf, feels about trolls. Which isn’t a departure from the lore the game provides. Draenei, for example, probably have similar feelings about orcs. Back when Burning Crusade was launched, one of the developers said “the Draenei outright hate the orcs”.

It’s game related animosity. I have no issues with the humans who use the computers.

Unless you’re response was in character, as well. In which case, I’ll let her respond:

"Yes, darling. I’ve seen enough to make an informed decision. Your people have been a nuisance to us for some time, starting when Azshara had to grace your little ‘empire’ with her presence long enough to tell you to leave elf lands alone. It was only her magnanimity that kept her from wiping you all out at that point.

But, really, you’ve been nothing but an uncouth, uncivilized nuisance that we’ve had to bring to heel time after time. Vile, villainous, and violent. Though when your Zandalari overlords were able to get you to stop fighting amongst yourselves, and provided you with arms and magics and demigods, you were elevated from ‘nuisance’ to ‘pest’. Then we taught 100 humans rudimentary magic, and wiped that empire off the map. So, yes. Nuisance. The Guribashi, the Drakkari, the Farakki…do your people even know what ‘peace’ means? Your reach exceeds your clumsy grasp.

If self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you would be wise to not invoke Tyrande’s wrath right now. She’s not in the best of moods, and wiping out the trolls might be something she does on a whim.

Or you can keep pressing me. I’ll sic a group of murloc on you, and nearly wipe out the Darkspear. Again."

That’s what she’d say, more or less.

Me?

I have Really Sticky Glue on a character, so–

No. only male dwarves in drag. Tolkien says so, I think. :slight_smile: :grinning:

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Well it’s funny in a way for Fal’therin because until quite recently he WAS Horde. During the last war the Alliance were actually his enemies. So I’m going to actually post here how he feels about the Horde, then post on the good old Horde version for how he feels about the Alliance.

Orcs: Distaste, but a certain admiration as well. He can respect their ferocity and their code of honor. He also thinks it can be totally silly and inconsistent at times.

Darkspear trolls: Wariness. Fal spent most of his life fighting the Amani trolls, and so isn’t 100% inclined towards friendship with their variants. However he does not hate the Darkspear. He just finds their practices distasteful, and their religion ridiculous.

Tauren: Positive. Fal quite likes the Tauren, although he thinks they’re somewhat naive. Almost too pure for this world, in some ways.

Forsaken: Positive. The Forsaken brought the Blood Elves into the Horde and helped them defend the Ghostlands against Dar’khan Drathir. He holds a degree of wariness for their apothecaries and valkyr but realistically he knows they’ve simply adapted to their condition in the same way as the Blood Elves used fel to adapt to the Sunwell’s destruction. So overall he’s fond of undead… as long as they’re not acting like Scourge.

Blood Elves: Positive. They’re his people and in his mind he’s still sworn to protect them, even if they exiled him. He bitterly resents their current leadership though, as well as how far the Sin’dorei fell from Kael’thas’ teachings. He thinks that if Kael never defected to the Legion, he’d have not exiled the Void Elves - he’d have celebrated and welcomed them. A more inclusive Quel’thalas is his dream.

Goblins: Amused wariness. Money-grubbing rascals. Wouldn’t trust them as far as he could throw them, but he finds them entertaining.

Pandaren: Positive. Fal fought in Pandaria, mainly in Krasarang Wilds, Kun Lai summit and the Isle of Thunder, in the 5.1 & 5.2 sorta period. He developed a great affection for Pandaren, and their cuisine, during this time.

Highmountain Tauren: Neutral leaning towards positive. They seem alright. He hasn’t had much to do with them.

Nightborne: Positive. They’re kindred spirits of Quel’thalas. He served in their liberation when he was still a Blood Elf, during Legion. He holds them in affection and overall supports them.

Mag’har Orcs: Wariness. He’s all for them hating the Light - he’s not a fan himself. But he thinks they’re too warmongery, and for a variety of reasons he wants peace.

Zandalari Trolls: Negative. These bastards recently tried to unite the troll tribes, including the Amani. He fought against them and their damned empire multiple times in recent years. He doesn’t trust them and has no idea why the Horde would either.

Vulpera: Neutral. He literally doesn’t know much about them.

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Humans: Distrust after the Garithos and Jaina purges of Dalaran. Still regards Jaina as a war criminal.

Dwarves: Neutral to positive. He finds dwarves entertaining, if a bit stupid (he’s totally patronising about them)

Gnomes: Positive. Clever little dudes. Less greedy than goblins. He can respect that.

Night Elves: Negative. Their backwards views on magic saw his ancestors exiled, and their continued distrust of his people is something he deeply resents. He does however really feel for them, after Teldrassil. He doesn’t hate them. He just… isn’t a huge fan of their societal values.

Draenei: Positive. They restored the Sunwell. For a variety of reasons Fal doesn’t think they should have. But they did so, even AFTER all they suffered at the hands of Kael’thas’ forces. Fal totally respects that, and so generally looks at the Draenei favourably.

Void Elves: Totally supports them. Their search for darker magics to survive is what SAVED Quel’thalas. Over-reliance on the Sunwell nearly destroyed it. In fact he supports the Void Elves so much that he is actually one of them (see above)

Lightforged Draenei: Neutral. Defeating the Burning Legion? Good. Soldiering? Good. Fanatical devotion to some dumb naaru? Ehhhh

Dark Iron Dwarves: Much like the dwarf section, really. He’s quite neutral to positive about them.

Kul Tiran humans: He liked them when they disliked Jaina. He dislikes them now that she’s their leader. :stuck_out_tongue:

Mechagnomes: Neutral. They seem quite clever and resourceful. But they need to STOP offering him upgrades, he’s fine as is damn it!

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Humans: Complicated. Mishras grew up in one of the orc camps in the Arathi Highlands and saw the worst of their cruelty, but in many cases also the best of their ability to show kindness. After the exodus to Kalimdor and the Third War, she greatly admired Jaina Proudmoore, in part since she was a human willing to look past racial differences and seek peace with the Horde, and in part because Mishras harbored a desire to be a mage. (Which she eventually pursued, of course, after Cataclysm.) The debacle that was the purge of Dalaran really let her down on that front. These days she’s rather fed up with the apparent inability of humankind to leave the races of the Horde alone and is tending to lean more negative as she gets older.

Dwarves: Mishras has not had many personal encounters with dwarves, except a few on the battlefield. Their skill in warfare is admirable, but the fact that they’re such close buddies with humanity means they’ll likely always be “the enemy”.

Gnomes: Fairly neutral. As an enthusiast of technology in general, Mishras admires their track record with engineering. A little too welded to the fabric of the Alliance for her to ever not be wary of them, though.

Night elves: Their power and wisdom are definitely admirable, though Mishras wishes they would be a little less precious about their silly trees. Cenarius came back, right? Right now she feels a good deal of pity for them and believes what happened at Teldrassil was a bridge too far. No people deserve to have their home taken away from them.

Draenei: The draenei have a good track record when it comes to the causes that Mishras values, such as their aid in defeating the Legion and the Scourge. They’re good people, she thinks. But they and the orcs will never, ever be friends. It is what it is.

Worgen: Concerning creatures, those worgen. In old orcish veterans, Mishras saw the toll that animalistic impulses and rage took. The worgen seem to revel in their wild side, and she doesn’t trust it a bit. She does, as with the kaldorei, sympathize with the fact that the Gilneans have lost their home twice over.

Tushui pandaren: Mishras has no particular opinion of the Tushui. It’s a pity all the Wandering Isle pandaren couldn’t have been swayed by the Huojin is all.

Lightforged draenei: Fanatics, she thinks. They embody the worse tendencies of normal draenei. Beyond an iota of gratitude for their role in the Argus campaign, she has little positive to think about the Lightforged. Stories brought by the AU Mag’har have left a very sour taste in her mouth about this type of Light fanaticism.

Void elves: If they were orcs, she’d be a little more riled up about them betraying the Horde. As it is, Mishras only feels a vague disappointment about them and their willingness to side with the Alliance. She has a personal dislike of Alleria Windrunner, which doesn’t help her general attitude toward them.

Kul Tirans: No love lost here. They hate orcs, she doesn’t much care for them either.

Dark Iron dwarves: Same deal as their Bronzebeard cousins, basically.

Mechagnomes: Again, same deal as for ordinary gnomes, for the most part. Maybe with an added twinge of regret that they didn’t just stay neutral.

Lethie hasn’t really been played IC since Wrath, when mages asked her to torture someone for information because they didn’t want to dirty their hands and the undead proved they were no better with free will than they were when controlled by a monster, so …

Tauren - a great deal of respect, sorrow that their choice of ally has lead to conflicts in which they are deemed the enemy

Orc - wariness, disgust at how destructive to nature they are, some xenophobic sense that they do not belong on Azeroth

Trolls - curiosity, awareness of the rumors of a shared ancestry between elves and trolls, wondering what could have made their cultures so different if it was true

Undead - pure revulsion, unnatural abominations, difficulty seeing them as anything more than animated corpses denied release by foul magics. Her entire experience of them has been trying to repair the damage and destruction left in their wake, so she sees them as only capable of creating more death and pain.

Blood Elves - addicts led by an arrogant narcissist, guilty as arcane magicians of the first demonic assault on Azeroth and the horrific events that led to.

As a whole, she cannot see the Horde without an awareness that they did not clearly act against the use of deadly plagues at Wrathgate, and the undead still walk among them. She would act to heal any but the undead, just as she works to heal the land, the animals, and the plants in whatever land she finds herself. If she crossed paths with an undead, she would try to slay them as quickly as possible and torch the body to free their soul from that prison.

Draenei - Call then what they ARE. Eredar. The Eredar were central to the creation of the Burning Legion, they brought death and destruction to every world they touched. She feels absolutely no reason to have any gratitude to Valen who was clearly working for his own selfish interests to checkmate a rival from his own kind. The actions of their Lightforged brethren on AU Draenor have shown their true character.

Dwarves accomplished craftsmen, but too pig-headed and stubborn to be tractable. Their slaughter of a Tauren tribe just to dig around for Tittan artifacts proves that they hold very little value for life.

Gnomes Properly tamed, they make very useful and sometimes adorable servants. She however has no use for their unsightly and noisy mechanical cousins.

Humans Stormwindian or Kul Tiran, as far as she is concerned they are both members of a treacherous ungrateful species the product of a mistaken attempt at Quel’dorei uplifting of a savage race. She will never forgive them for their actions of a Human prince who almost destroyed them and another Human leader who tried to finish the job.

Night Elves The Shal’dorei say it best. Low born is what they are. many are barely more than the subelven animals that they emulate. They rejected the strengths of their Imperial heritage and are surprised to have that decision bite them in the face when the Legion returned. She blames them for the privations her ancestors suffered from the Exile, and while she regrets the Burning of Teldrassil, she feels that the Night Elves brought it on themselves.

Void Elves These have replaced the Night Elves in the top of her hated list. There is no crime that is more unforgivable than betrayal.

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Necessary context: My character is more of a civilian trying to mind her own business. She does not work for any military forces, and is at least somewhat neutral in this regard. I will be listing her thoughts on both the alliance and the horde as a result.

Humans, including Kul’Tiran: She’s a little wary of them. Every encounter with a human feels like a gamble. Is she going to meet Anduin today, or Garithos?

Dwarves, including Dark Iron: She likes dwarves a little. They’ve got this whole beard culture and they’re pleasantly alien to her.

Gnomes: She does not like gnomes. Or more accurately, she doesn’t trust their inventions and finds their obsessions tiring at best and creepy at worst. They’re unpleasantly alien to her.

Night Elves: She enjoys the company of Night Elves a lot. Too bad the feeling often isn’t mutual. Personally though, there isn’t a whole lot she actually disagrees with Night Elves on culturally speaking.

Draenei: She feels ambivalently positively towards Draenei. She finds them a tiny bit intimidating in practice, both because of how they look and because she actually doesn’t know what to expect from them.

Worgen: She is liable to mistake worgen in their natural forms for predators and prepare for combat immediately upon seeing them. She doesn’t trust them, and would prefer they keep their distance. She’s like… 50% sure she’s a snack to them. Maybe.

Lightforged Draenei: From what little she knows about the lightforged draenei, she finds them unsettling and prefers not to keep them as company.

Void Elf: Given that Arle is neutral, she views them about the same as Blood Elves. It’s her experience that she can usually trust them.

Pandaren: She likes the pandaren a lot. They’ve always got thoughtful things to say, good food, and tend to be unusually friendly. It’s hard to argue with such good company.

Orcs, including Mag’har: She’s wary of orcs. It’s her experience that a lot of them have fightbrains or are generally kind of annoying? She prefers to avoid their attention as a result.

Tauren, including Highmountain: She feels about the same toward them as she feels toward Night Elves. She likes them, she doesn’t actually disagree with them on much.

Darkspear / Zandalari Trolls: She likes trolls. Trolls are fun company. There are a few things she doesn’t like about trolls, but they’re mostly things that are none of her business anyway, so she pays them no mind.

Forsaken: She is pretty uneasy around undead due to events in her childhood. She tends to think of them as unclean and predatory, and prefers not to keep them as company.

Blood Elves: She’s not here for that snooty, high class nonsense. That’s a tiny bit annoying and pretentious to her. Buuut live and let live right? Her opinion of her own race is at least somewhat positive.

Goblins: They’re always so helpful when she needs to sell some treasure she scrounged up! She’s not a big fan of their tech, though. Generally positive, though she prefers not to keep them as company.

Nightborne: She can empathize with a mana-eating habit. Otherwise, see Blood Elves.

Revenwyn worked for the Argent Dawn and Argent Crusade too long to hold prejudices based on race alone. That said she cannot stand Sylvanas loyalists.

She prefers not to attack Horde but will do so in defense of an Alliance settlement. She assumes all people are neutral until they prove otherwise.

(OOC: I actually also check if Horde that shows up on local defense channel is merely interacting with us or actually killing us.)

All my characters have varying reactions to the opposite faction,

My rogue has greatly varying feelings involving them, will work with them and is even an honorary member of the explorers league thanks to a recommendation from the argent dawn who he worked for as a tomb diver stealing old relics out of places the living could not safely enter, and personal interactions with Brann due again his explorer and tomb raider roots, however because he is an undead and some of his actions most alliance do not trust him, though he is not a forsaken he was a pirate who washed up in sen’jin village where they thought he was one of the new boney brethren and took him in and trained as a rogue for the shadow hunters, so because of this early days training and as a result of his rotted nature he’s not exactly stable and will work as an assassin for his home faction of the horde when needed, but this was for Vol’jin not garrosh or sylvanas, and during BFA only acted as a bounty hunter/spy and would not kill innocent targets, eventually abandoning his faction all together and picking up his old profession as a pirate again, and partially getting possessed by n’zoth after getting to deep into some lost ruins in naz’jatar who might be why he wound up in the horde to begin with, till the war ended with him only working with the horde when given gold, but he would prioritize pirating alliance vessels due to their discrimination on undead and trolls, and would sell his plundered goods to the horde and their allies, most of his crew ended up being vulpera and zandalari trolls with a few other races rounding it out.
He was also present at both burning of Teldrassil and bombing of Theramore but felt nothing but shame and heart break during these events and began plotting the downfall of his own warchief during these events, though he was planning that for Syl when he learned she was raising forsaken against their will.

My Shaman however despises the alliance but she has no love for sylvanas. This is due to her being a member of the frost wolf clan since a baby when they saved and raised her, her a deep seeded hate for the blue faction comes specifically from the dwarves for invading Alterac valley and trying to drive her family out of their homes constantly and has known nothing but war and conflict with them all her life. She will work with fellow shamans begrudgingly though she heavily distrusts any dwarf she meets. When the war broke out she was on the front lines fighting the alliance on behalf of the frostwolves following Usha out of the valley, though she was not at the burning of teldrassil, and during the sacking of undercity she was fighting specifically to rescue and save her faction not using the plague spreaders. She eventually returned to alterac when Syl’s tactics became too dishonorable causing her to fear for her clans safety and only returned when saurfang and thrall called for aid, mostly hoping to get peace for alterac again.

and one last character though I do have more my warlock, being a vulpera she should absolutely hate the alliance given what they have done to the vulpera during bfa, but she doesn’t she’s a strange exception to the rule of all warlocks are evil and infact is trying to use her magic to do good and wants to help anyone and everyone she can, mostly due to thinking she was a mage after first learning the basic fire magic. This happy to help anyone nature can lead to annoyances of my shaman though, and moments of pure rage from my lock when that trust is betrayed showing why she carries the flamekeeper title.