Ignoring the lore you JUST established in BFA?

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Curiosity here. A Stormsong Incursion spawned for alliance an hour ago and I stumbled on it before bed. So I decided why not do it.

All was normal until I got to one of the quests. You took a mole machine to the horde base in stormsong where you’re greeted by…

An army of Mag’har Orcs. And your goal is to wipe out the Mag’har forces.

Now, last time I checked only a couple dozen Mag’har made it back from Draenor with Eitrigg and the player, and unlike Void Elves where we can just say “maybe Alleria and Locus Walker found a way to make more,” there’s no way to make more Mag’har.

So where in blazes did this mass amount of disposable Mag’har come from?

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Don’t read too deeply into population numbers in WoW.

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They’re actually green normal orcs, we just paint them brown so you feel bad for killing them, as there are very few :rofl:

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High elves were splintered off in the first place. They further got splintered after Arthas and turned to blood elves. Yet somehow all of a sudden void elves are one of the most dominant races on the alliance?

Okay…

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Where did it say only a handful made it? My understanding was all but one.

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AU orcs are garbage.

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Were you never given “the talk”?

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Maybe our dear Maizou is celibate and thinks everyone else is? /moo

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dude, you are forgetting rule 1 of fantasy populations, there will always be “enough” as the plot demands

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There are still active garrisons across Draenor, including one helmed by Drakka. The Mag’har and other Breakers that joined the Horde were just those that flocked to Grom.

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But it didn’t say a number, right? There could’ve been a lot more there than we saw.

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Blizz had a sale on server transfers and those Mag’har orcs took full advantage of it.

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Void Elves are also comprised of Blood Elves as well. In the starting area you see Locus Walker talking to High Elf and Silvermoon (blood elf) Wayfarers.

So Blood Elves seem to have an issue with some of their people defecting to the Alliance (and not just the original group.)

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Exactly my point. Blood elves are already an insanely small population, yet somehow the small fraction that splinters off from that is now one of the most dominant races in the game just because they were able to copy paste blood elves / high elves with small aesthetic modifications to the alliance…? Point is if this person is going to complain about horde lore, they should point out how flawed alliance lore is as well.

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Fair enough. They never have handled lore vs. ingame population well.

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Which is completely fine with me. Which is why I think giving allies all these insane bonus rewards to try and tempt people to play alliance is just ridiculous.

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Except there’s no indication at all that the ritual that created the void elves, by partially turning them into ethereals, has been replicated or even can be replicated. The normal Thalassian elves are scholars there to study the Void, not converts.

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First off, it’s established lore that Orcs are like rabbits. Unless you’re not that kind of orc.

But also, the portal to Outland has been open for years. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that a lot of the Maghar from BC Outland made their way to the Horde. At least that is how I RP my Orc.

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when i finished the quest to unlock Mag’har it was quite literally a small army that followed us back, so being able to fill an entire camp with Mag’har isn’t that surprising

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The Mag’har from Outland are the only good Mag’har.