Let’s be honest, if Anduin and Jaina existed when she wrote Lord of the clans, they would be there as well.
Edit: I meant Lord of the Clans, not rise of the horde. I was tired when I posted this.
I remember reading somewhere way back in the day that Jaina reminds Thrall of Taretha… so… yeah.
Honestly though, to give Ol’ Golden a bit of credit, she actually did do well with Sylvanas in her novel. Much better than I ever thought she would after “Before the Storm”
Ei, Jaina was in the book(or more precisely talked about in the book). To be precise it was Jaina who launched the expedition to find the draenei at get them to join the Alliance.
Though, I wouldn’t mind if book lore was regularly put into the game as an in-universe play, especially for character interactions or politics that would be challenging (though not impossible!) to make into an in-game event. At least it gets that lore into the game, and gives in-game characters a chance to react to it.
It’d be pretty fun to have a theater in Org/SW that ran in-universe plays of past book and expac events, so the audience can react to show what the faction rank-and-file think of those events. Plus it’d be a fun opportunity to show how each side exaggerates the lore events to make themselves look good and the other villainous.
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Cho’s story is accurate. Baine received help from Jaina. Plus Gazlowe. It was good seeing him on the storytelling stage too. All said, Baine had to roll his own revenge posse because Garrosh’s Horde wasn’t helping him.
As for it “making sense” … the tauren have traditionally been the kindliest of the Horde races. Jaina and Anduin have traditionally been the most accepting on the Alliance side.
Funny anecdote… the battle for Thunder Bluff against the Grimtotem was set to be an in-game event. There were some assets made for it but it was scrapped early on. The only mentions of it at the time were in the Shattering novel.
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When I said rise of the horde I meant Lord of the Clans.
I was tired.
Didn’t we actually do the opposite and help Magatha? In Thousand Needles or something we help her take some elemental power from the locals.
That was more of a lesser of two evils. We helped her foil the Twilight Cult from using a WMD.
However she takes the WMD in the chaos for herself.
Only for the Legion to take it years later. Hence her appearance in Legion.
I adore that Cho is over here judging Thassarian when he’s literally within earshot.
“CALL YOUR SISTER, FOR REAL.”
And Koltira is just standing there like “??”
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Cho brings up the Might of Kalimdor, but doesn’t mention Saurfang, who led it.
All of these stories are so heavily Alliance bent.
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I can’t believe that one of the stories is just Cho explaining at length why it’s actually okay that Magatha’s head isn’t on a pike
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What about the friendly grimtotem?
OMG YES! I love this idea. Blizz needs to build us The Royal Stormwind Opera House. Peatri would be there with season tickets and popcorn.
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I’m kinda disappointed. No one but me seems to remember that an entire Forsaken company of soldiers showed up to honor the Tauren’s role in the Forsaken’s induction into the Horde. Baine could hardly believe it himself, but the Forsaken Captain told them they were there to repay Cairne’s unique kindness given to the Forsaken people.
Makes sense that any event or moment when the Forsaken are shown to be honorable or human is tucked away in these damn books to be easily overlooked. 'Bah.
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Cause Magatha is AWESOME!
I would like for Jevan and his lot to be in-game.
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So much judgement being thrown at Thassarian, and rightfully so! How did Thassarian of all people get singled out for a play? Did Cho run into Leryssa at some point and listen to her complain about her brother not keeping his promise? Did Leryssa ask Cho to tell her brother’s story? Is the whole thing a complicated plot by Leryssa, Cho, and Koltira to make Thassarian stop talking nonsense?
I love it! I don’t love that Cho’s retelling of Thassarian’s history has some significant discrepancies with his comic, most notably claiming that he participated in the Culling of Stratholme and that Arthas killed him. As per the Death Knight comic, Thassarian only joined Arthas’ forces as they were preparing to sail to Northrend, shortly after Stratholme. Arthas is responsible for Thassarian’s death, but he didn’t directly kill him; instead, Thassarian had the misfortune to be the first soldier Falric encountered after becoming a death knight.
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If they can’t remember the leader of the Might of Kalimdor, they aren’t going to remember a nameless but rad NPC like that.
Horde lore = no lore to Nu-Blizzard.
i genuinly had never heard of that happaning, then again i never read the shattering
Not sure if someone said this already, but there is a Troll Druid (assuming Darkspear) during Cho’s retelling of the Ahn’Qiraj War. Darkspear trolls as a whole learned druidism from Gonk right before Catacyslm, right?
Suppose nothing saying an outlier couldn’t learn druidism earlier, but it is a weird stand-in for the player characters.
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