I can’t think of a more racist, ignorant, short sided thinking society than the night elves.
In fact, judging by their history it’s surprising they joined the alliance at all.
To be clear I think it was dishonorable to burn the tree. I think it’s quite cowardly actually.
As an orc, I want every opportunity to face my enemy…burning a tree from afar doesn’t satisfy me.
I want to die in combat. That is the most honorable, and noble possibility for an orc.
However the night elves needed to be invaded. They deserved it. READ their history on wowpedia. People act like they are innocent because they’re a pretty race.
THEY ARE REALLY TWISTED.
Their city should have been ransacked and perhaps occupied. Children to be spared of course. Whether we enslave them and do indoctrination among them is an option. Or we could have just shipped them on boats to stormwind. Perhaps as a bargaining chip?
It was only genocide because we burned the tree. If we didn’t burn the tree it wouldn’t have been genocide. I’m NOT advocating for genocide.
What I am advocating for is a more honorable and humanitarian way to command and conquer lands.
This is world of WARcraft.
In conclusion I am just saying the night elves aren’t innocent in this conflict. And the initial invasion was justified.
You play an orc. The race that has committed genocide at least once, never looks at the long-term consequences of their actions (see: Azshara/clearcutting resources, Broken Front, etc), and has repeatedly been the bad guy.
The entire point of the night elves is that they stuck to their lands and fought viciously to protect it. Unlike the orcs, they were never expansionist (in fact, their empire shrunk tremendously over the millennia), and almost exclusively fought a defensive war.
If you want an elf slave for… reasons… there’s easier ways.
They weren’t innocent in that they were combatants, but they didn’t deserve what happened to them.
They made mistakes; something something demons, planetary explosion, it’s not important.
But they made up for them! They’re just people like any other. The majority of them do good things, some of them do bad things. The orcs have a much bigger naughty list than they do.
And yet when they ran into an enemy that could stand toe to toe with them the orcs ran back to the demons they “admitted deceived them into doing dishonorable things” to get some blood to drink.
Also you seem to have a strange idea of what orc honor is.
Orc honor is basically just murder points that you lose if you kill someone that is for whatever random reason deemed dishonorable to kill.
