I couldn’t really find an answer beyond the human kingdoms discussed it and agreed on internment, why did they do that instead of executing the Orcs? At that point wasn’t the most they knew of them that they were bloodthirsty brutes hell bent on conquest? Why lock them up and risk another war one day?
they didnt want to genocide the orcs, and they were hoping the bloodlust would simply fade away, they just didnt know it was demonblood making them bloodthirsty
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The king of Lordaeron was aware of Blackmoore’s gladiatorial games and allowed them personally, as long as the royal coffers would see the proper percentage of his earnings.[3] The enslavement of orcs has been practiced among the internment camps, Lorin Remka keeping Greekik as her own personal slave while Lord Agrovane[4] bought Rehgar and used him as his gladiator. After the events of the Third War, few cases of humans using slaves remain.
Aiden Perenolde and later his son Aliden Perenolde planned to take the orcs as slaves.[5]
According to Thrall, the Alliance and the kingdom of Stormwind does still practice slavery. However, this may be an exaggeration elicited by Thrall’s past experiences with the orc internment camps that were ran by humans. [ https://wow.gamepedia.com/Precious_Cargo ]
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pretty much this.
There were pretty strong voices to kill them all once and for all.
Especially the High Elves.
Sparing the orcs and the costs of keeping them alive was one of the reasons the first Alliance crumbled.
@Treng. You are kind of off topic.
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It was a moral issue for Terenas iirc. Didnt wanna mass execute an entire species although i guess in hindsight it may have saved Azeroth a lot of bullcrap in the future. Especially when they had just got done with a genocide on Draenor.
it wasn’t the only reason. the issue of who would get alterac after they turned treasonous also caused some strife in the alliance of lordaeron
I said one of the reasons. Not the only reason.
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my bad, im tired
Some members of the Alliance pleaded that the Orcs should be exterminated like animals, while others opted for a sentence of life imprisonment.
Having discussed the obvious benefits of a treaty with Doomhammer, King Terenas fervently hoped that the Orcs could be kept pacified long enough to eventually lose their lust for conquest. Thoras Trollbane of Stromgarde and Genn Greymane of Gilneas both disagreed vehemently with Terenas, resolving that the Orcs were too great a threat to leave alive.
After months of debate and frustration, both leaders withdrew the support of their nations from the Alliance. Azeroth alone stood fast in its commitment to the Alliance. Even with the dynamic young Varien Wrynn seated upon Azeroth’s throne, the distance between the kingdoms of Azeroth and Lordaeron made their union a hollow one.
WC2 Manual.
The question of what to do with the captured orcs became a subject of bitter debate. Gilneas and Stromgarde argued for the execution of the prisoners. Yet Lordaeron was against putting the orcs to the blade. The capacity for mercy proved that the Alliance was more civilized and honorable than the Horde. Rather than execute the orcs, Lordaeron wanted to lock them in internment camps - prisons to be funded by Alliance members.
Dalaran’s Kirin Tor also lobbied for imprisonment. After the First War, the Council of Tirisfal had faded from existence. The Kirin Tor now took charge over matters that the secret order had once specialized in, such as investigating demonic activity. Dalaran’s magi wished to study the orcs and their strange magics, as much for the pursuit of knowledge as for strategic purposes. The Kirin Tor argued that by better understanding the orcs’ strengths and weaknesses, they could defeat them if war ever broke out again.
The Alliance eventually came to an agreement. The member nations would fund the construction of interment camps, which would house the orcs. One of Stromgarde’s most celebrated soldiers, Danath Trollbane, would oversee these crude prisons. If order could be maintained, the camps would remain. If not, the Alliance would revisit execution the orcs.
Chronicle 2
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The King of Lordaeron agreed with slave fight pits because it made him money. That’s why he was okay with not killing them.
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He was ok with the fighting specifically because it made money. He was fine with the camps initially because he believed mercy showed them to be better than the Horde.
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That’s a really expensive thing to pin your hopes on. That’s a lot of prisons to run for an unknown amount of time(Orcish lifespans being unknown) and could easily tank a kingdom’s finances. But as others have said it wasn’t a popular choice so I guess at least some of the original Alliance had some sense.
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The right thing often isn’t the easiest.
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tell that to the dead king of lordaeron and as someone else stated, the right choice often is not the easy choice
not everyone was against it, but quite a few were.
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The problem I see with that is, if you cure them, are you not still left with the kind of people who were willing to drink demon blood for power in the first place? See WoD. They were still bent on conquering and fighting everyone else. Like maybe they could have argued it wasn’t a choice but it’s a reasonable thing to consider.
Terenas? The undead killed him. I’m not sure what point you’re making with that one.
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Genn and Trollbane wanted to execute them all but were outvoted.
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Too bad eh? Could have saved us a lot of trouble.
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The world would have ended a few times without the Horde.
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If we’re talking about the Alliance’s decision, no. They didn’t know the various history of pre-Orcish society. It didn’t factor into the decision.
From a meta-perspective? Rather grim to sentence a race to genocide and probably extinction. I prefer reformation when possible, personally. The Orcs lived 800 or so years in relative peace prior to the manipulation of the Legion that was extensive. And from a meta-perspective, it was probably a good thing far as saving the world goes.
3 things.
- the orcs were slowing down, getting lethargic and depressed. They likely didn’t see it as moral to slaughter them because of the fact their threat level was rapidly diminishing, going from invading army to being as a small force of brigands, the demon blood was wearing off by that point.
- The Orcs weren’t gonna respond to genocide nearly as well as imprisonment, and it would likely just lead to the war lasting a lot longer, Terenas in particular was constantly trying to get Orgrim to sign papers to end the war
- Free Labor.
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