If Your Character Was Racial Leader

What are the actions they would seek to pursue in the world? Are they going to be the one to take a step to say “Maybe establish actual communication guys?” or would they refuse at every turn and become a dreaded ‘Warhawk’ and risk leers and souring opinions?

What actions do they pursue? Do they make war on some minor (not-in A/H group) faction? Decide to focus more internally for their people? Modernize where their people have fallen behind? Possibilities are endless!

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Umm, inform the rest of the Draenei that Azeroth is an exceedingly dangerous world full of violent loons and we need to load up on the vindicaar, take everyone back to outland, and close the dark portal behind us.

Then we put all those artificers who worked on the vindicaar to work with the consortium to establish eco-domes across the entire planet in areas that have become totally dead to re-establish some sustainable farmland.

This was our home for hundreds of years, and it is our responsibility to heal it!

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Kattani would like to see Darkspear at the forefront of a resurgence of Troll power. Seeing them pave the way to rebuild and unite the tribes, and make the world safe for them again. Erasing any possible evidence that night elves are related to them, while reclaiming ancient lands from even older enemies. (Eversong going back to the Amani, arathi going back to the whitherbark, zul drak being returned to frost trolls, darkshore in conplete control of the shatterspear,)

She would seek peace between the tribes to prevent the infighting that has wrecked their entire civilization. And she would wage an all out encompassing war against the Naga for what they did to Sen’jin (though with nazjatar I don’t know how powerful the Naga are anymore).

After that she would seek a loose alliance with the horde for trade and mutual living. And allow the alliance to operate, if they stay out of the way. There is a lot of bad blood between humans and trolls After all. And having one of your heroes be literally named for the process of WANTONLY KILLING TROLLS FOR BEING TROLLS as well as developing a “sacred” weapon to commemorate it keeps them firmly on the kill on sight list.

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Loh probably gets regarded with suspicion from some and praise from others.

For the most part, he would take a page from Zul in aiming to unite and consolidate troll kind… the difference is he would not appeal to ‘de’ old ways’ like Zul. He’d be the type to just sort of bring a Zandalari army up to Zul’Aman and explain they are going to formally join the Horde willingly or be brought to compliance. He’d figure this is a solid first target since it would be him addressing Amani aggression against Sindorei allies. Given that a lot of Amani have already been migrating to Zandalar anyway, a strong arm would likely bring them in check.

Same thing would happen with the Gurubashi, but with a much different reasoning. Rather than making it a bid to stop aggression against some party, it would be to establish a strong presence in the south of the Eastern Kingdoms where Human Imperialism could be checked. If force is used to bring them to compliance, he’d likely offer it as a capital to the Darkspear.

For the two tribes now subjugated, they get the offer to become proper citizens of the Horde. From there, the various scattered lesser tribes get a similar ultimatum. Only exception is those in Alliance lands. He cant exactly move an army into their regions without issue, so they get the offer to surrender themselves to the Horde and vacate those lands or be left to their fates whenever the Alliance gets annoyed with them.

At home, Loh would probably focus on rebuilding and modernizing Zandalar. Given that they literally have a whole continent to themselves, there would not be too much issue in securing resources and what not required. First and foremost though is a rebuilt and modernized fleet. You can be sure there wont be a BoDA 2.0

His end goal would be to regain Troll-ish power on the world and put them on par with the other 2 main global powers in the Orcs and Humans.

This theme is also likely used.

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Enyetof has been known to just disappear for long stretches of time. He would make a terrible racial leader.

The standard then would be… is he better than Malfurion?

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Non-commital noises.

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Seymers would be pretty bad at that.
Though I’d probably throw a few troublesome worgen I know into jail before I gave up my power back to Genn Greymane.

I know Sint isn’t a worgen! She’s still going to lead them, whether you like it or not. I AM NOT gonna go through hwat the ding dang hell of a messs being High Queen of Stormwind and mankind would be like for our little dragonslaying warrior.

Right off the bat! “Hey Anduin, I’m going home.” Gilnean army walks home, gives the night elves a large swath of forestland the Gilneans didn’t even use, and gets help from the druids and priesthood to clean the blight out of the city. We see another huge boost to the friendship and alliance between Gilneas and the Kaldorei. Sint repairs the Greymane wall, builds a new port, and the naval power of the Alliance skyrockets. Between Kul Tiras, Stormwind, and Gilneas, the Eastern Kingdoms just looks like a big ugly wall that nobody wants to attack.

With the nelves moving in, however, space needs to be opened up. Sint lays claim to Silverpine. It’s likely that new cities and settlements would be built in the years of her reign. Aggressive efforts to locate new goldmines and whatnot are made, as well as the support of the Cenarion Circle being used to cleanse the land of undeath and blight.

This new Gilneas shrugs off it’s intolerable stance on outsiders, continues to improve upon human tech, helps re-establish a Kaldorei community, and actively allows both halves of the Eastern Kingdoms to be solidly blue. Lordaeron’s reclamation and reparation look brighter with a new Gilneas. Gilnean and Kaldorei refugees would probably be brought in after things are clean, or when things are safe enough under military supervision.

Edit:
This is all aggressively done, of course, and might fly in the face of Anduin’s methodology. Any remaining Forsaken will be pushed out. Tol Barad now belongs to Gilneas, since it’s been abandoned for so long. Any vessels of the enemy will be captured or sunk if spotted in Baradin bay by the Gilnean Blockade (lovingly called the “Dagon Wall”.). There are no Horde emissaries allowed within the Greymane Wall. The Gilnean Army will be prepared to march, at any time.
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Now Stormwind isn’t the heart of the Alliance. The entire Eastern Kingdoms is, if you ignore the stinkin blood elves.

This is, of course, if nobody begins another land war on Azeroth. Do not give Sint an excuse to put on her wargear and stab zombies. Edit: Because if a war does break out, Gilneas should be forgotten for a while. Using the symbology of a broken nation, Sint builds a new generation of Greyguard and Greywatch named “Break Squad”. Turning the fall of her nation into a symbol of strength, Sint marches to battle with her soldiers. She grew tired of Greymane’s inability to join his people when he decided to become Anduin’s lapdog. If anything, Anduin should be worried that a new warlike mindset has grown in the absence of King Greymane.

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Vote for Sairelle, and I promise to you that my first action as Regent-Lady of Silvermoon will be to finally remove those creepy green Fel crystals that are still floating on every street corner and replace them with pretty Sunwell lamps

(also I will marry Liadrin)

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All I’m picturing is Sai walking up to Liadrin, - who’s minding her own business - picking her up and saying “This is mine now.”

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If Zawi was placed in charge of the Dragonmaw? Well, I knew we were hard-up but -DAMN-. First, insert joke about Horde leader’s life expectancy on top of a joke about Dragonmaw leader’s expectancy and she will die in 5 minutes.

JOKES ASIDE:

Economy:
The Clan’s has quite a few uh… Setbacks in recent days. So during peacetime (Assuming it continues) She’d have the clan focus on building and restrengthening it’s economy by furthering trade with the Horde and non-hostile factions. Dragonmaw port is basically the only port in the Forbidding Sea, making it a decent option for trade along that coast all the way from Silvermoon down to Booty Bay.

Navy:
There’s no reason the Masters of the Sky cannot have a navy. Proto-drakes are excellent deterrents to hostile ships. Yet they’d still need a navy for anything beyond their borders, as well as economic growth and security.

Diplomacy:
We suck at it. Lets try to suck a little less. Strengthen ties to the most immediate (And also a coastal ally) the Revantusk Tribe to the North, the local goblins, as well as try to continue boosting relations with the Horde.

Looks, things ain’t ever going to be ‘friendly’ with the Dwarves. But peace is peace, lets try not to poop on the peace so we can not die for a little bit.

Culture:
Preserve the older ways and traditions while trying to marry them with the new era. It won’t be easy. Darn stubborn orcs.

Military:
Boats, wolves and dragons oh my! A conventional army is nice, but for the near future speed and (if needed) guerrilla options continue to be the best. 'kay?

Zawi should never be in charge.

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First order of business is to start rebuilding stuff. Every crumbling ruin from the Kaldorei Empire is getting rebuilt; and if the alliance wants to keep getting Sentinels the other races better start donating resources and labor.

Once we’ve got a few cities going we’ll focus on their defense. The future of the Kaldorei comes before the wants of the Alliance. Once we, as a nation, can look upon what we have with the belief that the Alliance needs us more than we need them, that is when we start contributing again.

The next task is Suramar. IC Astrea has some Nightborne contacts whom she had talks with during the rebellion, trying to coax them into joining the Kaldorei. It’s time for those talks to resume in earnest. Through these agents within the nobility Suramar may become a vassal of the Kaldorei nation. If the desired result takes too long then Astrea would likely devise a…artificial incident to help influence their people away from the Horde; I doubt it would be too hard, considering recent events.

With Suramar regained and many other old cities rebuilt we can continue to grow. The warring factions themselves matter little to Astrea and she has no faith in the idea of lasting peace between them. She would simply focus on strengthening her own people. For these reason as well I imagine she would clash with other racial leaders, including the other Night Elf ones (assuming they still exist in this scenario.) Overall as long as Horde doesn’t screw with the Kaldorei again maybe they won’t get the Black Moon beating on Orgrimmar’s gate. Maybe we can spare some salvaged lumber from naturally fallen trees; a small share of game here and there.

Also she’ll probably end up blowing the Naga out of the sea at some point; or trying to forcibly rehabilitate them, maybe a bit of both.

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FREE CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!

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“We had a leader? Oh um… maybe we should help find a new place. Either for the Forsaken or Pandaren. There are vaults Garrosh made that aren’t being used right? Lets make them Undergrimmar!”

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I’m in charge?

Are you mad?

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Loh, no. We’ve talked about this.

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Gen’tarn as the Orc racial leader? Oh boy, hang on to your butts.

  • Every Clan Chieftain, mini-faction leader and important NPC that is an Orc and not from AU Draenor gets called to a meeting. Gen lays it out in a very clear way that Nobody is to even look sideways at the Alliance, and if they don’t like it … get out. You’re done and exiled from Horde territory and we’re telling the Alliance you’re not part of the Horde anymore. If you want a fight, go deal with the Quillboar, or the Naga, the rogue Demons or any of the dozens of threats to the Horde in and around Kalimdor. No more attacking the Alliance because you need a social boost because you’re a chode in every other aspect.

  • Talk to the Wild Gods of Kalimdor and the Loa of Northrend, Stranglethorn and Zandalar and ask them to help keep the Orcs on the straight and narrow. Orc druids to bolster our Shamans and VISIBLE Spirits to help finish the journey of healing and redemption Thrall started us on so long ago.

  • The history of horrors that the Horde, Old, New, Dark and Iron, are all responsible for, carved into the canyon walls where we train our Grunts, so nobody gets high off their own farts like Garrosh and his supporters did.

  • I appoint Naz’grel, Serga Darkthorn and Thura as my personal advisors. Etrigg gets to take a holiday and I make sure he’s spreading the word that the new High Chieftain is prepared to throw you and your family out of the Horde if you risk upsetting the peace.

  • Ask Ji, Baine, Lor’themar and whoever ends up leading the Darkspear to lend me some teachers to educate the next generation, especially the orphans, about the ways of the other races and to inspire admiration and interest in the works of other peoples and nations rather than envy or fear like so many of the current generation seem to suffer from.

  • Get Druids into Azshara and grow some trees. Build a wall of menhirs at the entrances to Ashenvale warning the Horde to stay out or advance at their own peril and the knowledge that the Horde will not come for them if things go badly for them.

  • Stonetalon is ours and I see to it that farms are built there to feed the Horde. Likewise retake the Barrens and claim the new ocean at the Thousand Needles to serve as a new fishing port. Desolace is claimed for the Horde and we induct the surviving Centaur into the Horde as much to stop further conflict with the Tauren as to firmly secure the heart of Kalimdor for the Horde.

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turn storm wind into a party zone for void elves, i for one welcome our new party loving void elf over lords :wink:.

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Above all, Ark considers the Horde a threat. History has shown that all it takes is one bad apple at the top to immediately spoil the lot. So in the wake of Sylvanas, he’d focus on improving relations with the Tauren, both of them, the Blood Elves and the Nightborn, and then just wait for the inevitable internal tensions to let him peel those four groups away from the Horde.

However, if the Horde Council looked like it actually stood a chance of lasting and standing? Start working hard at enmeshing the Horde nations into trade.

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