What the hell? Even Alliance leadership isn’t in lockstep (see Tyrande and Genn versus general Alliance sentiment). There’s plenty of rough patches between Alliance races. They’ve just banded together a bit more closely because in the past (as recently as BFA, even), the Horde was literally trying to end the world.
Also, if an ally is responsible for another ally’s past, the Amani trolls struck at the Stormwind humans because the Orcs razed it to the ground and then the Amani looked at that and said ‘yeah we want in on that action’.
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Because the Alliance and Horde aren’t total polar opposites? They have as much in common as they do in difference, only their methods divert radically; The Alliance prefers diplomacy and negotiations, The Horde prefers fist and blade in honorable glorious combat. I simply prefer both, more deadly is the arrow of the bow longer and farther held back in discipline and sharpened by focus.
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Yeah i don’t blame the Amani trolls for wanting in on the action against Stormwind. The Humans stole their land.
Are there any sources for this land stealing?
Peace with the Alliance is possible. But, so long as warmongering idiots are in charge, its not likely.
Baine understands the consequences of long protracted wars and is trying to avoid them if at all possible. But, he’s hamstrung by the people in charge above him.
And from what I’ve heard about the Horde Council they have planned, things won’t get any easier for people who believe that peace between the two factions IS a real possibility.
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Thrall was great
Vol’Jin got the biggest shafting in the history of WoW. Could have been such a great WC if not having to destroy all of WoW for the Sylvanas fan club
I would love Baine to take up the mantle. Cairne would have been great too.
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Exactly. All the reasonable members of the Horde either retired or were simply killed off. Because these people were in the way of “Must Have Hot Explosive War All The Time!”
Insert shades of William Shatner there.
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Seems a bit “sins of the father” doesn’t it? The troll wars happened YEARS ago, maybe a handful of humans would still even be alive to be punished, and they’re not even normal people I’m talking like Khadgar and Turalyon where they’re super old but light or time magic or something keeps them alive.
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Forsaken are evil and thats ok.
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While I never understood the genocide claim. In almost every military campaign, when the enemy is marching on your capital. Your goal is to delay the enemy advance until you can evacuate your city. This idea the population waited in the tree while the Horde advanced, is a bit stupid.
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I don’t think they ret-conned it…I think they’re trying to sweep it under the rug.
Semantics aside, this should be protested.
I know they are trying to show the HOrde turned over a new leaf and perhaps regret some of their storyline decisions…but too late.
The Scourge genocided Quel’Thalas…divided the elves there afterwards.
Sylvannas’ goals towards this have been the same since Vanilla…it was only since becoming Warchief she got the authority and power to pull it off. They went down the road and now seemingly regret it.
Too bad. You made one faction do undeniable atrocious acts. Need to own up to it, not hide it.
Then that should be done through quests, not the intro blurb that most people skip.
BFA was simultaneously the most cinematic expansion and the most vile story. If you are into lore, your character will canonically forever carry the taint of being a willing participant to genocide. Blizzard really screwed the pooch on this one. Oy.
Now it it safe to say that it was just so that Saurfang could be sad - and that the writers dislike Night Elves so that burning them alive and sending them to hell makes you a noble hero…
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I remember hearing that Ion wanted Teldrassil and Lordaeron intact for new players so people could know what it is to be a Night Elf or Forsaken before losing their home.
This does get complicated in Shadowlands which drops people directing into BfA where those two zones get got. They might be still working out how to best deal with this.
So I’m getting my tree back? Hoowoo!
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No new information, Blizz likely won’t address it until it goes live, then they’ll also pretend that protest to it doesn’t exist.
The tree burned and mages made alot of gold that day.
If a tree burns in the woods, and there was nobody alive to hear it, does it retcon genocide?
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