It does seem like the “Any child of Arathor” comment was pretty on the nose.
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With this fanbase you kinda have to be, any subtlety might fly over someones head
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7th Legion has been multi-racial since at least WotLK, as their ranks in Dragonblight included night elf, dwarf and gnome veterans from the Might of Kalimdor.
They likely were before as well, since they fought at Hyjal, and Jaina’s forces were mixed from numerous Alliance kingdoms, including dwarves and elves who’d been in Lordaeron as part of the Alliance’s coalition armies. In fact fighting at Hyjal means they specifically weren’t a Stormwind division, as that’s the one human kingdom that wasn’t involved in fleeing the Scourge.
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We did get more confirmation that Thrall still can’t Shaman.
Oh, and confirmation that Jaina’s messenger pigeons can travel at Mach 5.
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I was rereading the story and apparently Jaina was afraid that it would make the situation worse.
"She hoped it was the right decision—she’d felt compelled to write to Danath,
outlining her concerns about Marran and asking him to make haste his return. But Jaina
was aware that summoning Danath back could well throw fuel on the fire of an already
volatile situation."
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This is about her contacting Danath at all, but eventually she decides summoning him is worth it anyway and thus arranges the courier. Why she didn’t just teleport instead when she made this decision I don’t know.
Also she says she sends a raven because she worries the courier will get caught or betray her…
So why did she send the courier at all? Why not just send the raven by itself? The entire situation and plot makes absolutely no sense.
So we have racist human squabbling with racist orc. Can they just kill each other?
The mag’har moving to Arathi Highlands is such a weird choice.
I see the draenei weren’t informed of the summit again, but at least it’s not 100% humans like in the past.
Baine Bloodhoof, the tauren High Chieftain, towering over the slim form of Thalyssra, First Arcanist of the Nightborne
I’m sorry, but are the nightborne not as tall as Tauren anymore? They’re huge. Did they get shrunken down in lore because the player models had to be shrunken?
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Between the orcs, Revantusk trolls, and any allied ogres, the Horde should probably just functionally annex the easternmost third of the zone.
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The both of you put more thought into the horde’s presence in Arathi than literally all of Blizzard.
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I would think the overgrowths in The Barrens would be more similar to Gorgrond than Arathi. Closer to friends, too. Still happy to see some friction being depicted somewhere, though. Hopefully more of that is in the works.
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Where was this even suggested? Tauren have been stated to be 9’-10’, a Night Elf 6’6"-7’6" and therefore about the same for a Nightborne.
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In game models aren’t actually lore, wowpedia.fandom com/wiki/Height this link has actual lore heights.
Lore wise night elf’s males and female are 7’ and Tauren are 10’ for male and 9’ for female
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Nightborne are quite a bit taller than night elves.
Tauren are quite a bit taller than Tauren.
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Have you people never been to Suramar?
Definitely the ground work is set for Xal to feed off that rage conflict to built up a chore…
However I have to agree, I almost stop at that point but I had to see to the end… glad I did it was very nice!
Most if not all my hardcore Horde friend told me the either stop listening when Thrall got hurt, others when villagers were saying “beware the daughter of the sea or when” or when Marran mention how easily she could turn the Battle or how they are not prepare to take on the full Alliance if they killed her… One got almost to done but could not after hearing the narrator said that she was the most powerful wizard alive.
My friends are extremely divided about their factions more than ever after hearing the Novela, but one thing they all agreed was that the plot armor Jaina has with the narrative is excessive and clearly shows that Blizz is building her up for something or maybe for “someone” like Xal…
They wonder how would she fair against someone who literally feeds on any magic. Kadgar has always been crafty and survive the encounter barely because of that trait, but Jaina has been shown specially in-game to just use her God-tier levels-power to overcome everything, the Novela was not shy to let us know that… so they and I assume this specific theme with Jaina is being built up for something.
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In any case, the Alliance’s victory in Arathi was absolutely meaningless. After all, the Horde/Mag’har and Kor’kron outnumber the Arathi by a ratio of 1 to 3, so it’s questionable how the Alliance could formally claim a “victory” in the Highlands.
This is what has been repeated many times, a statement on Twitter is not worth the bit used to transmit the message.
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It wasnt meaningless. Their victory was successfully defending Stromgarde. Which they still hold.
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Pretty sure the implication was that the mag’har/kor’kron would easily win against the troops present, but an Alliance response would be a one sided steamroll. The kor’kron were a deterrent.
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I like how she called the Stormwind humans a bunch of hicks.
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