Vanessa VanCleef: Anduin offered pardons and reparations for former Stonemasons and their families. I lost almost all of my best people that day.
Vanessa VanCleef: The ones that remained in the Defias were the rowdy ones. The angry ones. The ones that enjoyed robbing anything in sight.
Seems to me Anduin did pay them back. At least those not interested in continuing to rob and kill.
As for the title at hand, Stormwind was effectively the last bastion of human power and de facto center of the Alliance and that trade for most of the Eastern Kingdoms flowed from its ports. Not to mention it relatively fertile farmlands and resources now that it isnt dealing with the Defias.
The House of Nobles didnât need an excuse to do what an aristocracy does, Onyxia just exploited a power imbalance already present to expedite the process.
A solid union contract would have been the best solution.
Considering that warships, and especially airships, likely cost more than a thousand suits of armor I think those would be a better indication of wealth.
She clearly did considering she had to actively sabotage the work. And from what we have see in the human heritage questline not every noble out there was some conniving scum. Example:
Ah yes, a few good apples freshen the barrel. Generational wealth is divinely ordained and everything will sort itself out in time. Those fine young folk worked very hard to inherit their wealth, and they will make decisions than surely benefit the greater good for all of citizens of Azeroth. Stormwind remains polished with shining steel and gleaming white stone. Truly, a beacon of shining light.
all nobles are scum outside the glorification of monarchy like Blizzard does it for unknown reasons. I thinkl GRRM portryal of corruption inside feudalism is much more accurate.
However, the nobles of Stormwind ran up a huge debt by expanding the kingdomâs military presence through Elwynn and into Stranglethorn. The massive debt crippled the kingdomâs economy and stripped VanCleef and his Stonemasons of their promised rewards. [S]
They have like 15 guards in Elwynn. Quite expensive.
In Classic, they always said that the other guards were fighting on some distant front, but that front didnât actually exist.
I thought you were all in on that capitalism trip? Nobles love it because you can turn lots of money into even more money. You hate Gazlowe and love Gallywix. What do you really want for the Horde, Erevien? Just more of the same?
Steel production is far more industrialized on Azeroth than it was during the height of steel plate armor use on Earth. The rate of mining and mass production available to the Alliance and Horde may well make refined metals significantly more available and affordable than they would have been in real-world medieval Europe.
That might be the most unrealistic part of the game.
It is a fantasy game, after all. We suspend reality to imagine a better world where people with power actually care about those under them. That is the point of fantasy, imagining things that never existed in human society.
Some folk would say that fantasy is about huge pecs and even huger bazoombas with some steel thrown in for flavor, but Iâm fine with my own bazoombas so I like your idea better.
