Is Rexxar Suffering From A Mental Illness?

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Early into BfA questing, the Horde player is treated to a few worrying signs of early onset dementia in poor Rexxar. Despite having a healer nearby, he murders a beloved pet due to it being wounded in a comically trivial fashion by the standards of the game. How many innocent animals have died to Rexxar’s tender ‘mercies’. Was that even his pet?

Seconds later, Rexxar proclaims that he must fight the Alliance because Jaina has gone too far and killed too many. This is shocking news to everyone, especially to the Horde player character, who can’t feel anything unless the blood of fifty wild animals, natives or soldiers coats their gore-slicked hands. By their standards, Jaina is basically a non-entity in the realms of death-dealing.

Putting this aside, the player squashes their concern for this Horde hero and presses onwards into Kul Tiras. Later, they are sent to the Shrine of the Storm where Rexxar is waiting to assist them.

He says;

Rexxar says: With the power of the Tide Pearl, our fleets will be unstoppable.
Rexxar says: The Alliance must not claim this prize. All who oppose us will fall!

At this point, the player is worried. Not only is Rexxar clearly helping the Alliance to clear out a threat to the Kul Tiran fleet, but he is seeking an artifact he has apparently made up on the spot. Drool hangs from his lips. One of his eyes drifts up into his skull. “Too many” he whispers, driving his axes into a nearby wall over and over “She has killed too many.”

Later, having witnessed the arrest of Baine with literally every other Horde leader and assorted ticket holders, he declares that others must learn of what happened there. He runs off at a brisk pace, and I as well as many other players fear we will find him drowning face-down somewhere in a puddle of bile.

What the hell happened to Rexxar?

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Moral greyness is a hell of a drug.

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He bore direct witness to Sylvanas’ tactical genius in Darkshore and the sheer stupidity of it killed off most of his brain cells.

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My guess it had to do with the planing of BfA, Rexxar dialogue preludeing to Jaina either doing something during Stormsong Valley questing or something that she did before player enter Kul Tiras. But this got all that scrap and Rexxar’s dialogu was not changed for some odd reason.

This inconsistency is added with the Hordes attack on Brennadam, as one the branched quest lines suddenly shifts from Horde attacking it to Quilboar seemly the attacking as well.

Overall, Chuck it up to inconsistencies in Stromsong Valley.

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For real though, the Horde story is full of half-complete chunks like this. Main characters vanish. Characters refer to events that don’t happen. The Alliance NPCs call you out for nonsensical, seemingly imagined Horde behavior. Critical NPCs like Sylvanas and Saurfang have stories about them not telling you where they are or what they’re doing, but the story centers around them as characters. The war campaign gathers items and advantages, only for them to be lost summarily mere moments later.

I was so caught up in how dumb the themes of this expansion are for the Horde that for a long time I overlooked just how technically incomplete the red team experience is. I think half the reason that the Horde story is such a nightmare is that it simply wasn’t ready to ship. I’m actually half convinced this is why the events of the start of the expansion unfolded like they did.

What if all that stuff they promised about greyness and nuance and mystery was genuinely in the works… but they just ran out of time?

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either schizophrenia, mind control or lame / inconsistently weird blizzard writing, take your pick bro

(I mean, Rexxar seems to really hate her with a grudge in the dialogue, like, I want to end her NOW kind of hate, are we missing something??)

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In my evolving ‘Rexxar With Brain Damage’ fan theory, he’s lost dozens if not hundreds of pets to his own degrading mental faculties, even the one he just watched die because a Kul Tiran sat on it, and somehow he thinks Jaina is responsible for them all.

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It’s either this.

Or they’re trying to shoehorn horde champions into situations that make no sense as we had some Horde characters who would’ve been better suited than Rexxar (basically everyone we killed in SoO)

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Rexxar is suffering from a condition called BfA. Unusually for a mental condition, it seems highly contagious, spreading rampantly across racial and factional lines. There’s no known cure, but a few hold out hope that the sufferers may return to some degree of normalcy, with time. Probably around 9.0.

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Or another possibility that will only be revealed later:
The entirety of the Horde eshalon are slowly being driven mad by Old God corruption.

It might explain everything.

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Maybe he had a cousin in Dalaran during her purge of the city. or maybe a friend died in Lordaeron and she showed up to make his death meaningless by bailing Anduin out of his jam, or both.

Or maybe he’s simply slipped into “Red Equals Dead” mode.

Maybe all of the above.

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Well, we know he’s a superfan of Sylvanas now.

Sylvanas wants as many people as possible to see Baine getting arrested to really sell the “Derek is cured” gambit. She does it in Alliance territory, and even sells tickets.

Rexxar declared he wants to help her out and says “Others need to hear of this!”

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Which lines are you thinking of here?

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I always presumed he was referring to the Purge of Dalaran. I don’t get why people are so surprised he doesn’t like Jaina.

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Cause he’s a wanderer who removed himself from the dealings of the Horde.

He may be a Horde Champion, but he’s not one for frontline fighting in Horde conflicts.

Outside of the quest chain involving his heritage, Our Rexxar has seen no real development.

I can only assume his distrust for the Proudmoore name is why he was swayed, because outside of that he has no dog in this fight.

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Pretty sure he also has a line where he states that Kul Tiras is ancestral Horde Land or something to the effect that it belongs to the Horde from the past.

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Only to the extent that he removed himself from politics. He’s always been the kind who would pinch in if the Horde needed him to do so. For awhile it was patrolling the road from Desolace to Feralas, but I don’t remember ever aggroing him when I passed him on the way.

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He was neutral to Alliance, and not seen by the Horde sice TBC (don’t think Legion companions really count since Liandra has no qualms murdering alliance Highlords)

Which is why it’s odd for him to be so gung-ho horde, kill the alliance, blah blah blah without so much as a reason for him to both answer thr Horde (see Sylvannas) call to action, and is so vehamtely opposed to a faction he routinely ignored.

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He didn’t get the title “Horde Champion” for nothing. I believe he got it for his part in taking down Daelin Proudmoore so he might have an interest in adding a couple of more Proudmoore notches to his belt.

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He was clearly red to me on the road to Desolace, but oddly enough, he didn’t attack.