That is how you get the job if you are even remotely associated with the Horde.
Sylvanas never wanted to be Warchief, she was not even aware of that part of the plan. She didn’t want to be Warchief when she was Warchief.
Thrall wants to be inhaling wheat dust or something in Nagrand. Instead, he is delivering an official Horde apology to the kaldorei for an event he had no involvement in.
Ebyssian is associated with the Highmountain. Even though he has been largely neutral, the Highmountain are in the Horde. And thus, he is eligible for the draft.
I wouldn’t mind Ebyssian being the Aspect if they had propped him up better in 10.1, but instead of writing him well Blizzard did their tried and true “make one character look good by making everyone else look bad” by writing Sabellian and Wrathion as idiots. It just soured me on the whole thing.
I was looking at the megadungeon boss list again and couldn’t help but a bit disappointed that Grom and Lothar were mirroring each other over it being Doomhammer and Lothar.
I get where your coming from in that regard, but Doomhammer appears as a spirit during the orc heritage armor quest chain. So it’s not like they have to start from the ground up.
Incidentally the Datamined Quests say that Alternate Chromies have stumbled into the Timeline and the Dungeon Journal says Morchie is wanting to stay in the MU and attacks the Players(who have captured all the other AU Chromies including a N’Zoth-aligned one for study).
Models from the Alliance x Horde timeline were data-mined. Interestingly enough the Alliance is called the Great Glorious Alliance and the Horde is known as the Blood Horde. Elements present showcase that the Horde - Alliance war took a darker turn in this timeline and the article notes that instead of just being mobs within the mega dungeon, they might be apart of a larger narrative.
Perhaps we’ll have WQs or a quest chain showing case this Horde vs Alliance timeline.
They are suppose to evoke feelings of being “wrong” and “great glorious Alliancd” just sounds awful and its the normal trope of the Alliance going to the extreme/becoming fanatical.
Took me a hot second to figure out what was wrong with a chemical weapon focused horde but then I realized it would be antithetical to the “Honor” Horde and means they have given up any pretext about trying to be honorable.
I hope there is a little bit more showing off the narrative. The overall story keeps throwing in morals like “The Alliance and the Horde need each other” and “their fighting is what keeps them strong [enough to fight the other threats to the world]”, but after so many years those quotes need some show to back up their tell.
I do unironically want a glimpse into the “Highlords of Azeroth” WoD equivalent, to see what the Alliance would have been if the orcs hadn’t invaded. Because Blizz keeps making the orcs/Horde do stuff that really stretches the “are all these atrocities really the better option” incredulity kicked off by the Durnholde Keep and Black Morass CoT dungeons.
I seriously have a hard time caring about Alternate Timeline Bronze Stuff that won’t ever be mentioned again once the questline is over and so I’m largely unexcited about this patch
HOWEVER
Make a bunch of these chemical warfare-enthusiast Blood Horde nutcases join our Horde RIGHT NOW
That sounds kind of awesome. A lot of Time shenanigans seem to be based on “Here’s something interesting - if Azeroth were only populated by Murlocs” (which I loved, don’t judge me). But it would be really cool to see “Here’s Azeroth if the Orcs never invaded,” or “Here’s Azeroth if Arthas didn’t take up Frostmourne,” or “Here’s Azeroth if the Well of Eternity was never created (and the Titans just imprisoned Ysharj instead).”
Yes, they’d just be a bunch of silly “What If” scenarios, but I think they’d be fun.