Stormwind more or less controls 4 zones. In spite of direct attacks over the past 20 years by a variety of enemies, it maintains one of the highest and most diverse populations of any city on Azeroth. The same with itâs military.
Meanwhile, Stromgarde controls⌠2/3 of Arathi highlands? I never did the Warfront, please tell at least that the Ogres and Bandits got killed out of the rest of the city itself?
When Marran made that speech about Making Arathi Great Again, I understood why Jaina diplomatically held her tongue but the Horde in my LOLed.
From my understanding, the entire city of Stromgarde reclaimed by the Alliance. Iâm not completely sure on what territory that they hold, other than it does include farmland and that Marran felt it wasnât enough since she sought to claim the GoâShek Farm from the Horde.
In fairness, it wouldnât necessarily be surprising if the northern kingdoms traditionally saw Stormwind as more of a backwoods, rustic frontier kingdom, especially prior to the First War. Lordaeron and the rest seemed to have pretty much tamed their wildernesses centuries prior, having faced no real existential threats since the Troll Wars on the mainland and beating the Drust in Kul Tiras, while Stormwind still had armies of gnolls and then jungle trolls threatening and besieging its capital city as recently as the reigns of Llane and his father.
This whole sharing Arathi doesnt particularly sit well with me but I wonder if the tables will turn and the Horde will then be forced to finally share either Quelâthalas or Lordaeron with the high elves/Lordaeron survivors?
Silvermoon will probably be neutral in midnight. Lordaeron though? Lol no. You tried and failed. Itâs ours forever.
If Alliance didnât want to share Arathi, maybe donât park an internment camp there. Simple as.
Given how often Blizzard likes to reuse enemies after we, seemingly, completely destroyed them I would be unsurprised if they hold Elwynn pretty well, maybe Westfall, but Redridge and Duskwood are little more than dangerous frontiers still. Remember Redridge was attacked by the resurgent scourge in Shadowlands (sorry for saying what should not be named) and if I remember right, they mentioned Duskwood was crawling with undead again for the same reasons. So while still the best off by virtue of being the playable raceâs home country (maybe KT has it better off?) it wouldnât say they really control 4 zones, let alone presume theyâre holding them well.
Itâs worth mentioning the only reason the Horde was attacking Stromgarde in BfA was so the Alliance couldnât use it as a staging ground to advance further into the continent. In this the Horde were successful because the Allianceâs main forces never broke out from the highlands during the Fourth War. It would be more accurate to say the Arathi warfront ended in a strategic victory for the Horde.
Maybe the Horde shouldnt have started a genocidal war. As for Lordaeron, if we keep up this whole kumbaya nature of WoW there is a chance it will become neutral.
What??? They wanted to use the Highlands as a staging ground to attack the Alliance.
And this would mean it would be the ALLIANCE who also succeeded in their goal thus making Arathi a net neutral for either faction.
Someone correct me if Iâm wrong, but in Shadowâs Rising when Alleria and Turalyon are âenchantedly interrogatingâ a couple Horde civilians theyâre from a refugee caravan thatâs leaving the Highlands right? Implying, if itâs not outright confirmed in the book, that the Horde had to abandon their holdings in the region because the Alliance had won it in the war. But now Hammerfall is under Horde control and the Magâhar have moved in permanently? Things went from the Horde being forced to leave, presumably a condition of the treaty, to moving back in less then an in-universe decade?
So it seems either the Horde really shouldnât be there at all, which is not the tone the story takes, or they were allowed back in at some point. Maybe to help try and stabilize the region since itâs mentioned a few times that Stromgarde itself didnât have the manpower to do that alone (and I guess the Alliance at large didnât want to foot the bill). But even that feels like a really weird scenario.
Yeah Iâm sure thatâll be reflected in a possible revamp at some point and isnât just throw away text for the mission table that didnât even have the barest oversight by the story team.
Idc if the mission table was in-game. The missions arenât canon, arenât shown to affect the world in any real way, arenât mentioned in any other sources, and wonât be followed up on anywhere.
Aerie Peak is quite literally north of it and Alliance held. Plus Alliance took Soutshore and Shadowfang (not sure if Shadowfang is still canon though, considering lolFenris situation).
I still donât buy it. Not until I see it represented physically in-game. Those exploring Azeroth books are infamously full of silly stuff. I donât take them seriously either.
