Oh she isn’t, she is as per the devs “one of the true gods of WoW” but we just lack development of any other true god 
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Funnily enough Anduin believes that both An’she and Elune are not actual beings but just different interpretations of the Light.
An’she: “You got that backwards kiddo!”
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I’m fine with An’she being a thing, in fact I have a tauren RP character who’s whole thing is spreading An’she and Mu’sha to other members of Azeroth. But in my mind, the problem with the concept put forth by the OP is that they’ve made An’she a bit too all encompassing. If we want him to be an Elune parallel primarily for the horde then do so! Just don’t make him the god of everything light to the point that he swallows up the alliances primary religion as well; elune doesn’t even do that to the horde. We know Elune has strong ties to things like nature magic and the like, so do the same with An’she. Give him strong ties to light/solar magic, but don’t make him BE light/solar magic. At that point it’s basically saying the horde = the light faction and the light will now favor them.
I would also say that, like Elune who is the only deity capable of granting lunar light magic to individuals to use (a fusion of nature/arcane nature energies). Do the same with An’she at least as far as Azeroth goes and make him the primary if not the only giver of solar magic (which is a mix of fire/nature energies).
Then give him some of the same ‘extras’ elune has been given. Have it turn out that the solar magic used by the Arakkoa was a gift from An’she. Allow him to ‘multi-school’ the same way Elune can in other magics, and attach him to some other cultures a bit. For example he already has a light connection to the undead in that the Tauren only vouched for them because An’she whispered to them. Which also, coincidentally paints An’she as a sort of all loving god, possibly to a fault. He shines his light down on everyone regardless of how bad they are after all.
If the night elves get the night warrior an avatar of vengeance that self-destructively empowers the user, give the tauren a sun warrior an avatar of love that fights relentlessly to protect both themselves and… self-destructively their enemies to some extent.
Then play with the fact that some wildhammers dwarves and some other alliance race worships An’she to some small extent so the alliance isn’t totally left in the dark just like the horde isn’t totally left in the dark on Elune thanks to the nightborne, luna’lai and to some extent Mu’sha.
Also, definetely take the chance to make An’she anything other than a basic native american god. The whole problem with the Tauren in the first place is that they are ‘just’ native american. Whereas other races like the night elves and orcs take from a ton of different cultures so you can’t fully peg them as just one, tauren take pretty much exclusively from native american cultures from what i’ve seen. Trolls suffer a similar problem that way; as in my eyes they failed to rectify in Bfa.
Also retcon/reveal that the only reason the centaur weren’t able to fully genocide the tauren was because of some intervention from An’she, like idk, maybe he made tauren disappear from centaur eyes for like 10 years or something (he’s a sun god! play with the visuals). Also, also, since the tauren would be right about An’she they could be wrong about something else, make the something else be the idea that An’she and Mu’sha lovingly chase each other across the sky, and that they are instead locked in eternal battle for the sky in a sort of mirror to the alliance and horde’s constant fighting.
Oh! and instead of doing anything with the blood moon or some such, just… give An’she some sort of ritual down the line where he becomes a blue sun that is invoked by someone. No clue what that’d do, but it’d be nice for him to have an equal on that front, presumably invoked by some alliance god whilst the blood moon was invoked by a horde god.
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An’she walks into the room: “HELLO LITTLE LION you are horribly wrong, the sun is literally right there man”
(this is Apedemak, Egyptian lion headed god, I just added him to OP)
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You know, there’s this theory that much of the Native Americans got much of their culture from contact with extraterrestrials.
What if we were to steer into that?
Oh god, please no. That would be awful. Mu’sha and An’she should NEVER be a metaphor for this stupid Faction war.
I like my idea of An’she being the childlike, free-spirit type and Mu’sha chases after him to get him to tend to his responsibilities.
Dunno if he just got drowned out by all the activity, but we can’t neglect our poor Scarab God, Khepri! He who rolled the sun across the sky!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/c2/9a/27c29ac4b6a7e7c6d52b5b0db6e4eadc.jpg
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Hmmm doesn’t she?
If Elune is the mother of the Winter Queen and Eonar, then all Wild Gods are tied to her, both their power (Emerald Dream) and their resurrection (Ardenweald). So there goes Troll Religion, Tauren Religion, Vulpera Religion, Pandaren Religion, etc.
The Shadowmoon Clan learned their ancestor-shamanism and their runic magic from the Moon and stars. Elune. There goes half of Orcish Religion (the other half being elementa-shamanism)
Elune is tied to the Well of Eternity, the source water of the Sunwell. There goes Blood Elf Religion.
An’she as the Smith of the First Ones, as the Blood Warrior of the First Ones, and as Shamanistic-Elemental Solar Deity is perfectly reasonable.
It gives Humans/Dwarves/Gnomes a hand in An’she, it gives Draenei a hand in An’she (if Elune + An’she together made the Naaru), etc.
Brings everyone together really.
What lol
Nah. Elune in-game runs along “Multifaced Moon Goddess Motifs”. Having an in-game deity that relices on Amerindigenous and African and West Asian themes (read: Tauren/Trolls/Orcs/etc) is not only fine, but good.
Trollish culture combines as many cultures as Night Elves.
Night Elves have Japanese + Hellenic + Roman + Korean + Western European New Age + etc
Trolls have Afrocaribbean (Haitian Voodoo, Bwonsamdi, etc) + Southern Amerindigenous (Aztec, Nahua, Inca, Chibcha, etc) + West African (Yoruba, Ebo, etc) + South African (Xhosa, etc)
Tauren are North Amerindigenous, but they are specifically Sioux (Tipi use), Lakota (use of “How”, likely inspiration of Anpo for An’she, the Spiriwalkers), the Cheyenne and Cree among others (the use of the war bonnet) and the Anishinaabe (the use of bull, bear, and moose totems), as well as a number of cultures that use the Thunderbird and totems.
Them being “exclusively Native American” isn’t a problem my dude lol
Added!
That is not a theory, that is a pseudoscientific delusion of weirdos. “Ancient Aliens” crap.
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I’m admittedly only going off of bad memory, but wasn’t she earlier described by cdev or something as the only true god at an earlier point in the franchise’s history? That they’re widening it to include the possibility of more than one god at all would be a retcon on that status, if true.
Nah it was “one of” not “only”.
Everyone misremembers that lol
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What you confuse here is the statement from the encyclopedia, which says one of the true, and from Metzen, who said only true deity.
As always Zahir, citation needed.
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have fun to search, is a interview, from a blizzcon i think…it was in bc i think? Or early wotlk…its over 12 years ago^^
Cursory google search does not find anyone quoting Metzen saying “only” regarding Elune, and in fact the wowpedia Elune Talk Page that has conversations saved from the mid-2000s only mention “one of” even when discussing what Metzen has said.
The statement that is floating around, why this statement with Elune ended up in the encyclopedia at all, which was in BC/WOTLK on the website at that time, was because of the statement from BC, I don’t know when exactly, but I can still remember that one just like Sarm. There was something, from the devs.
This is WoW’s Mandela Effect lol
If nobody brought this up in the unreasonably long Elune Talk Page for Wowpedia nor Wowwiki since the inception of both, I really think it just didn’t happen and it’s a Mandela Effect.
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Ok, sorry. “Hypothesis” then.
Still funny to think about and I love some cultures for seam to have a connect to “people beyond the stars.”
We need some “cliff dwelling” Pueblo-like Tauren tribes who revere the stars.
Metzen (at least for now) is pretty clear about Elune being the only true known deity in Warcraft. He gave her power ranking as 97 (virtually omnipotent) whereas the next highest level was Sargeras’s (a mere 72 IIRC).
Also I’m pretty sure that at the moment the Old Gods have nothing to do with Sargeras’s corruption.
I even find the context, he ranked the characters by Powerlvl on a scale of 100 at the time
Elune got the 97 back then, Sargeras got the 72. . Holy fu**, its many years since then…
https://forums.scrollsoflore.com/showthread.php?t=7580&page=3
That’s from 2010, and doesn’t have a source.
The Wowpedia has a conversation saved form 2006 where they discuss Metzen’s words, and use “one of”
The Wowwiki page has a conversation saved also from the same period (2007), and this is the EARLIEST instance of someone saying “Only true god”, but they’re saying the RPG says it (when it doesn’t, it says one of)
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Elune
I am 100% convinced someone read it wrong and it just spread via Mandela Effect.
That first one is an IF fair point, but it is an IF.
The shadowmoon clan learned from the stars and moon, but elune does not = every star and moon. If she did this whole idea is pointless as every sun is a star which would likewise cause An’she to fall under Elune’s dominion.
Not necessarily. The sunwell is light and arcane magic. If An’she is in part light then he would have some if not more pull with the sunwell than elune and based on the blood elves reverence of belore it might even make sense to say the light is a bigger influence than the arcane.
As for the rest your tie-ins, at least to me feel too direct. Elune’s relation to the naaru isn’t known yet but your directly saying An’she and she should have crafted all of them. It’d totally marginalize the draenei if everything they were came down to tauren and nelf gods made your gods. And for humans/dwarves/gnomes it’d essentially be saying that the Tauren were the light’s chosen children even though the light has been the alliance’s primary theme for over 20 years now. Which is a totally different thing from the night elves being revealed alongside elune and being her chosen children from the start.
On the cultures bit, i’ll concede to you there! haven’t done enough research on it all. But if what you say is true and the tauren really are just based on north amerindigenous and the trolls are entirely afrocarribbean… blizzard’s treatment of those groups is seriously screwed up in game. Like, pushing borderline white supremacist fantasy messed up. But that might be getting off topic so i will speak on it no more.
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The RPG never said anything about one true deity, Elune was described there as a moon goddess, yes, but not the one true deity. Titans were also considered divine at that time 
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I remember differently, may of course be the Mandela effect, but does not change the fact that I still knew the context with his list that he made at the time.
Old gods received a 64 for example . ( funfact, aspects got a 63XD)
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