If Your Character Was Racial Leader

Heh, Xins is Huojin leader would be fun… mostly because he is that type of goober who plays to win and would have titanic ambitions.

Opening Moves

Well, first and foremost, there is going to be some need for real-estate shopping, to put in gently. While he wont be leaving the Horde, there have been 2 tyrants since the Huojin joined and he wants his people to have a place outside of Orgrimmar to cut down the risk to his people in the long run. He’d still keep it in Kalimdor, however, for security reasons since it would better help the horde secure the continent -and- he’s heard plenty about the growing disgruntlement towards peace in the Alliance.

Capital Creation

More than likely, Xins would make a move to have the Huojin create their capital in Dustwallow Marsh, most likely on Alcaz Island since it has a position that it is close enough to the mainland it can be supplied easily enough and ships aren’t strictly needed to secure access to the mainland. Given a new city is being built, he’d flat out invite investors from the Horde and Pandaria to take part in it’s construction. Alcaz Island is also likely renamed since it’s no longer a prison. Xins also likely encourages his Tushui kin to do something similar in the Eastern Kingdoms. Given that the Alliance sort of also is not present, Xins claims Dustwallow and the resources within it formally for the Horde and Huojin.

Economy

Given it is simply physically closer than Orgrimmar, Xins fully intends to use this new capital as a trade hub/port to his Homeland and Zandalar. Among other things, he’d make a bid to make this place a sort of food capital of the world to further bring in more people. He’d also allow Non-Tushui Pandaren to establish business in the place (Tushui not allowed strictly for security reasons). If able, Alliance -might- be allowed to visit for trade during times of peace. Times of war understandably change that.

Military

Xins, shockingly, would seek to establish a professional army of his kin that are aligned with the Horde. It would not likely be anything in large number and focus on quality over quantity. Given navies are super expensive, he’d make it something initially meant to secure their new region and ward off foreign aggression. He’d also likely look into bringing over ruby cloud serpents to bring to have something resembling an air corps.

Diplomacy

Xins would very much follow Real Politik. He’d try to keep solid positive relations with the Tushui, but would not bank on it. He’d seek to improve the general image and prestige of Huojin on Mainland Pandaria as his main bid since, in turn, it would lead to more migrants. He’d also likely make moves to strengthen and improve trade ties and relations with the Tauren, Orcs, Zandalari, Nightborne and Sindorei since, frankly, he can read and has seen the Alliance is unreliable unless you’re one of their toadies. He’d also seek to have the Huojin further influence the orcs and zandalari to further ensure that they wont ever threaten his homeland again and, if needed, can be called upon should the humans do so regardless.

Stance on the Alliance

Very simple here, it’s that the Huojin and Horde will be seen as and treated like equals, or there wont be much talk. Xins will not allow people with a venomous victim mindset try to domineer him or his people, especially when he and the overwhelming majority of Huojin likely had no involvement in the war of thorns.

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Altielle is no leader. Nor does she care much for the people of Suramar. But if she were forced to lead, she’d do a small number of things:

  • Encourage education on fel magic and responsible use of it. Burying your head under the sand and pretending it doesn’t exist is just as enabling to its abuse as using it to obtain power.

  • Open up ties with the night elves. She’s really, REALLY guilty about what she helped do in Darkshore. The war has opened her mind to unifying elves under a peaceful banner.

  • If the Nightwell can still be saved, she’s doing that. Literally no reason to let a good font of power go to waste.

  • Build an enormous mansion overlooking the city with statues dedicated to her glory.

  • Programs aimed at helping the homeless and orphans of Suramar. She won’t let anyone go through what she went through ever again.

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9:00am
Versca walks into Orgrimmar ready to start her first big day as Warchief.

5:00pm
Versca walks out of Orgrimmar annnnd Versca got fired, literally, she’s on fire, everything is on fire, Orgrimmar, Kalimdor, Easter Kingdoms, massive fires, everythings dead, they’re all dead, everyone I’m sorry why did you give the keys to versca. All of it, the whole multiverse reduced to ash and dust. In just a few short hours Versca achieved what Sylvannas could never do entirely by accident

Edit

I resized I mistook racial leader for faction leader

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5:05pm: Goblins immediately swarm on Versca and want to know what she was taking, so they can refine and market it.

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Ji is what you’d call an easy act to follow

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Xins: Alright what are my standards here…

Secretary: None sir Ji literally did nothing aside from nearly be executed during MoP and want to punch dinosaurs.

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My serious answer is Versca would establish a council to represent the Forsaken. She might make an effort to appoint a few individuals but Versca’s paranoia would prevent her from staying in the spotlight for long. She does not like the attention and a council of trusted individuals would be better suited than another absolute ruler.

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Alright, serious answer time I suppose.

Vanndrel Starstalker finds himself leader of the Ren’dorei. Things are about to get loud, as the Humans phrase it.

First thing’s first - moving the Ren’dorei flag from a Voided shard of a world within the Twisted Nether to something a bit more “mundane”. To that end, Duskwood and the recently depopulated town of Darkshire are now Ren’dorei land.

Once this new homeland was established, Vanndrel would start seeking out Kaldorei counsel and teachers. The ways of the Void are terrible and its easy for his people to get lost to the whispers. Re-establishing a connection with nature via Druidism is a means by which to keep his people grounded. Also research any means by which a potential “Void Well” could serve to ease the Whispers in the same manner Night Elf Moon Wells serve to ease the pangs of magic withdrawal.

With that now established, Vanndrel unveils the new mission statement for the Void Elves - to be the sentinels on the wall against extra-dimensional threats. To this end, in addition to Duskwood, he’d exert Alliance influence on Deadwind Pass and specifically Karazhan. Karazhan would be key to his efforts of establishing a bulwark and Khadgar would be welcome to lend his aid to the initiative or get out entirely. He’s free to relocate the tower’s content elsewhere, but the structure itself - and the leyline nexus it sits upon - is now Ren’dorei property.

With the mission in hand, now comes the part where Vanndrel might lose a good portion of the Alliance. Vareesa Windrunner and any remaining members of the Silver Covenant are brought into the fold - willing or not. The High Elves are a people with no future, content to live in the past. The Sin’dorei, for all their faults, were the Phoenix that rose from the ashes of the High Elven failure. But they are a Phoenix blinded by its own light. The Ren’dorei are the shadow cast by that Phoenix’s great wings, and they serve to stand sentinel against any that would oppose it.

The High Elves oppose that Phoenix by simply existing. They are what was, not what is (The Sin’dorei) or what will be (The Ren’dorei). If they doggedly refuse to become the former, they shall become the latter. Either way, they will be made to serve. Neutrality is a luxury, one Elvenkind can ill afford.

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This sounds exactly like something a leader would do.

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Juspion would go back to space and take all the Draenei with him.

Juspion pulls up in the Vindicaar :rocket:

Get in nerds, we’re going to space.

All the Draenei get rolled up into a big ball and get taken away to space :stars: :star2:

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Mersea would make everyone have a pet cat.

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Considering Myst has been an outlaw her entire long life, it would probably go something like the ending scene in Chronicles of Riddick where everyone is kneeling before her and she’s going all “Wait, what?”

Because the only way she would take power is if they had a Keep-what-you-kill succession system, and she managed to actually kill a lore character.

That and she’s basically female Riddick minus the surgical shine job on her eye that lets her see in the dark,

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Vin Diesel breaks down the door

You keep what you kill!

Would that make me have to be the Tushui leader? That won’t end well, Taran is way too impulsive for that lol

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Kina lead the Horde?! Bwwahhhahaaaaa. She couldn’t even lead her own Tribe. yeah, no… it would be weird.

Depends on how broad your definition of “racial leader” is.

If he’s the leader of the Wildhammers:

He accomplishes nothing, because Wildhammers don’t really believe in things like “central authority” or “rules.”

If he’s the leader of all dwarves:

He’s going to rebuild that dam and refill the Loch.

Then he’s going to go fishing.

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I can almost assure that Taran would likely be a more approved leader than Xins would :stuck_out_tongue:

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now if Sint were made High Queen because she’s not technically a worgen… WrA, strap in, this is gonna be a long one.

The Wrynn dynasty came to an end in an instant. In a bloody coup, some of the old soldiers in the Alliance decided their “weak” king had ruled long enough. Laying siege to his city, they forced him to lay down his life to save the Alliance. With no heir and no obvious heir, the Alliance fell into chaos. That was, until a Warrior was singled out from the crowd. Sint Dagon, in her service to the Alliance and for her noble blood, was given a chance to lead.

Until a new King might be found among the willing, the High Commander of Stormwind would stand in his or her place. Being granted emergency powers by the surviving nobility of Stormwind, Sint’s first action is to destroy the renegades and secure Stormwind. Which she does, unfaltering. Stormwind is burnt and deeply wounded, but it was saved by a person chosen by the people.

With the High King of the Alliance dead, a supreme leader of the Alliance’s armed forces was lost. No sole military leader left, the Alliance returns to the way it was, merely an agreement between independent nations to defend one another once a great threat arises. Mankind, now no longer heading the Alliance, seems to finally be able to focus on itself once again.

The High Commander chooses many efforts that might seem as selfish, for humanity. Mankind has suffered ever since the Dark Portal opened. Their land has slowly decreased over the years, until only Stormwind and Kul Tiras remained. Seeing large swaths of now unclaimed or empty land, a re-organized Stormwind sets out to reclaim the land their people lost. Stormwind is a kingdom of refugees who long for home, home that now lies in their grasp.

Humanity focuses on technological innovation, true progression of the social order, and the end of nobility. Sint’s rule very much proves that mankind has no need for Holy Kings anymore, as she is nothing more than a warrior. With military presence decreasing across the world and increasing within the lost human kingdoms, many question whether Stormwind grew weak from the loss of their King.

This is incorrect. In fact, if not for Sint’s goal in reclaiming lost ground, she would be the most aggressive leader of mankind in many long years. She is not a quiet and contemplative leader who dwells deeply on every moral dilemma, she is a leader who knows that she has an opportunity to make some real change and that she needs to work hard for it. Any holdouts of the Horde or any old enemy are forced out of land that is now seen as Blue Territory. Anything that bites back is obliterated, and a new moniker is given to this “High Commander” of Stormwind by the Horde.

The “Golden Demon” marches, her zealous army burning a path for her people. If war comes to Sint’s door, she will not back down. She will spare no expense in war. Even if the Alliance chooses to leave this new Stormwind in the dust, they will have a newfound enemy in Dagon. War becomes man’s new God, as the Light now guides Sint’s actions. A salvation for mankind will be won, at any price.

In time, a new Legion of Kingdoms will rise from the ashes of the old order, to once again lead the Alliance.

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The venerable old strokes his beard in deep thought, nodding affirmatively as though he’d thought of this question before.

"The path of atonement is one that we orcs have strayed far from. Our savagery is only a generation separated from today, and we have made unbelievable progress forward as a people considering this. Some would say orcs are still the same savage people who murdered and pillaged, but I feel that disgraces our ancestors who drove our people’s actions before the age of war arrived some three decades ago. Still, we could stand to push forward and take our next step towards the path of atonement. The world at large fears us, our enemies hate us, and they have good reason, yes… but maybe given enough time and enough effort, even they can be made to see that we too have what it takes to be worthy of being called children of Azeroth as well.

Efforts would be made to restore the pride of the orcs while finally integrating properly into Azeroth and earning our keep. Outreach efforts would be pushed for in this post-war era, not only to atone for the past sins of orcish kind, but to help plant the idea in the eyes of all that orcs are capable of more than just war and bloodshed. Peons and grunts would be tasked the world over to aid in the restoration of various Alliance lands, both in repairing them and helping to reel them back in to their people’s command.

The efforts would start with our longest standing grievance on Azeroth proper; With adequate supervision from the military as not to provoke Stormwind, Sentinel hill would be rebuilt and fortified according to the Alliance’s wishes, and our forces would aid theirs in clearing out the gnoll aggression to the South. Moonbrook would be basically demolished and rebuilt into a thriving town, and the mines - which by now are basically stripped bare, would be turned into a thriving steel plant, with a sea port already available from the Defias occupation and ready for use. Once Westfall is up on its feet again and thriving, our outreach forces would move along, aside from a select few who will stay and aid with local work, becoming employees of the facility as a way to bookmark our efforts. Only those whom I personally believe show the best qualities of orcish kind would be chosen for this task, and they would have to be ready to leave everything behind and make a new life here.

We would move then to Duskwood and Deadwind pass. Our forces would aid the Night Watch in a total purge of the aberrations that wander the woods, and our best shamans would commune with the spirits to guide us towards restless haunts and cleanse them with the aid of Stormwind’s paladins and priests. Once primary and known threats are dissipated, our grand scale reparations force of orcs will move to help Redridge, and a small elite force would be stationed to live in Duskwood and aid the Night Watch in patrols and escorts of merchants and caravans.

In Redridge, we will clean out the Blackrock remnants that still pour out from the Steppes, and aid in the expansion of Lakeshire. We will fortify the routes humans typically take, and coral the murloc populations to the far Southeastern end of the lake so that it becomes safe for fishermen to venture out once more. Like with Duskwood, a portion of our forces will remain to aid the local guards and keep their citizens thriving and happy, as well as aid in further labor and expansion of the town.

The process would take perhaps two years, but the three foremost vulnerable lands of Stormwind would in time be improved better than ever, and with luck, the people will grow to tolerate the presence of our men left in these places. Then, perhaps the seed of peace will be planted, and our best and most capable will leave a lifelong impression upon the humans. What was done cannot be undone, and there is nothing that can change that, but moving forward is possible, I just know it.

There is a plan for every foe in the Alliance the orcs have made in my mind, but for now, this is all I will share. My wish as leader of orcish kind is to take the path of atonement that Thrall preached, but instead of it being a punishment, use it as a means to better both ourselves and our former foes, and allow the qualities of an orc that shine brightest; loyalty, diligence, undying passion, and above all the qualities of heroism, be made to benefit those who fear us.

It may take generations, but with the start of this idea, this path of atonement, perhaps one day when I am long gone, both our youth and the children of humans will be often seen playing in the fields, and our veterans old and grey sharing ale and stories. In short, my plan is for orcish kind to step out of our age old habits of tribal isolation, keep away from the dangers of conquest and supremacy, and join the rest of the world of Azeroth as a people whose pride drives them to do great things for others, and to be a valued asset to all."

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Force everyone to watch the lion king

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