Oh, just the fact that peace was built on an unresolved genocide?
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That’s bad but like what does that really have to do with Baine? I get a funny feeling most people who hate Baine care very little about the Night Elves being genocided!
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I love night elves and I guess I don’t hate Baine. But I find him to be the most pathetic and least likable character in WoW. He’s always an amusing joke of a character at least.
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No, I simply want Cairne back as Tauren chieftein instead of Bovine Anduin.
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Small wonder Baine finds camaraderie with Anduin, both are basically their faction’s respective doormats.
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Baine has always been the Horde’s Anduin. I thought that was obvious?
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Throw him? We’re druids and with the flick of a wrist we can have roots fling him into the sea for us. Oh or we can summon some treants to do it for us. Oh the possibles. Our backs will be just fine
The vassalization is complete!
Welcome to the shadow of Human Potential™ Hordies.
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That photoshop would be more believable if Baine didn’t call him High King.
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So I guess a “High Chieftain” is a position under that of a “High King”? With the job of groveling and boot licking fulltime?
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Not concubine, consort. Like Prince Philip is the Prince Consort of the UK.
But 4th war not caused because the Alliance tried to kill the warchief. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Why do our only choices have to be “Alliance best buddy” and “murderous psychopath”?
Can we have undead Cairne back?
Hey, Derek Proudmoore was raised after being burned to ash by a dragon and the ashes being in the ocean for 30 years. An anchor would do nothing.
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Shhh. Just get in line with the other Horde posters in tearing down a peaceful character doing peaceful things (shocker, I know!) and don’t even think about voicing a dissenting opinion, let alone a logical one.
People here get stoned for that sort of thing, you know.
Er… ahem What’s that? Er… yeah! Sc-screw Baine Bloodhoof for wanting a better life for his people and the faction they belong to! How dare he advocate for peace! How dare he try to foster good relationships with the Alliance! How dare he try to convince the Alliance leaders that not all Horde are bloodthirsty murderers hellbent on the complete and total annihilation of all Alliance races!
Baine totally sucks you guys! Haha! See? I agree with all of you!
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I’m marking this as a victory for the horde.
Great riddance
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If that isn’t faked, I will personally film a video of me eating my own shoe, put it on youtube, and link it here.
The content, namely the specific effort to agitate tauren/Horde fans as much as possible, is suspicious on its own. Adding on the nondescript background makes it more so–that specific shade of yellow isn’t found just about anywhere in that room, especially not anywhere able to be reached with the player camera, and especially especially not in so vast a quantity as to cover that stretch of screen behind the text. I’ve seen that shade of yellow in areas with heavy fog or a horizon distant enough for everything to blend to that similar shade–even then to have it so smooth and unblemished by any stray pixels? It’s obviously easier to photoshop something when the background is uniform, then you just have to worry about the text styling.
Speaking of the text, however. The resolution it’s in would be difficult to replicate so accurately through photoshop. The easiest way to fake WoW text is to just write it and screenshot it from WoW itself. Total Roleplay 3, a popular add-on, includes as a feature the ability to replicate NPC speech by typing in whatever name you want with whatever text you want. I suspect whatever dastardly scoundrel, whatever skull-duggerer who would so openly lie on these here World of Warcraft Story Forums, would, rather than include a screenshot of the entire screen which would be far more solid evidence or at least run to the throne room to back up their text with an appropriate background, instead log into WoW and simply take a screenshot right from where their character stood after writing the lines in TRP3, cropping it to hide this fact!
You’ve been discovered. Never lie on my forums again.
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Apparently we’re Horde posters! Did you know? I just found out. I guess it’s because our opinions aren’t determined by whatever we think will make as many Horde fans as possible unhappy 
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About time we got Alliance Tauren
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There is no red, or blue; the world shall drown in purple.
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he’s not coking nearly as hard as the writers are though.
Baddaaaaa!
Now I’m wondering what Alliance character gets to play the roll of Horde friend and hang out in the throne room in Org.
…I vote Jaina.
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“Genocide” is simply not a reality in World of Warcraft. Now hear me out, you’d think it would be, but it seems that, by inference of the story we see, that genocides simply cannot happen in Azeroth.
Darkspear Trolls: When Thrall finds these guys in WC3, there’s like what, a few dozen of them left, after decades of brutalization by stronger Gurubashi, murlocks, Naga, and cutting off their own extremities to see if they grow back bigger. Presumably a fair number of them die in the kalimdor battles of the Third War. yet by the time we get to WoW? total and complete repopulation of the tribe, with ever-expanding numbers.
Tauren: When we encounter them in WC3 - and even to some extent in Vanilla WoW - they’re being nearly driven to extinction by the Centaur and their nascent Khanate. The Centaur are broken, but it’s not like the Tauren can just - OH WAIT NEVERMIND, now they have an entire city jam-packed with Tauren, and plenty to spare for cannon fodder even!
Draenei: Slaughtered by the Legion, slaughtered by the Legion’s orcish minions, with a bare handful, a HANDFUL of survivors, like tens of them making it onto the Exodar… and no doubt plenty of casualties when it smashes into a planet. Fast-forward to WotLK and poof, entire repopulation, there are Draenei everywhere, filling the Alliance’s ranks like nothing.
Blood Elves: Arthas destroys their kingdom and slaughters their population. Due to the corrupted Sunwell, a great portion of the elves begin to mutate into not-elves. Kael’Thas takes a fairly sizable contingent into the Outlands… and we kill all of them. Like really,doing a single quest in Netherstorm require s you to destroy entire cities’ worth of blood elves. But again just like the Draenei, they bounce right back and fully fill out their faction’s ranks, top to bottom like nothing happened.
Fill in with the Gilneans / Worgen. The Goblins, who are canonically survivors of a SINGLE SLAVE SHIP. The pandaren of both factions are a small subset of a splinter population of Pandaren. before Because The Story Says So™ gave Sylvanas lich king powers, even the forsaken were kind of on their last legs for a while. Which I’m sure is doubly worrying when you’re already dead once.
Throw in the allied races; how many Mag’har do you think escaped Goofy Draenor? Can there really be that many Void Elves around?
And then. AND THEN! Every single expansion is this massive galactic War of Doom, whether against Evil Space Aliens or Evil Lovecraft Gods or Evil Faction Leaders or whatever, every. single. Time. There’s this massive cataclysmic word-destroying war that the living beings of Azeroth just barely manage to scrape their way out of.
But the ranks are always refilled. Like, there’s no concern from Lor’Themar about sending his people into battle even though, by any sense of reason there’s like TEN of them still in existence after all of this. Genn greymane is perfectly happy to use his people as shock troops for the Alliance, despite the fact they are literally just a small hamlet’s worth of people. Tome after time, we see that there’s really no concern for the population sizes of any of Azeroth’s races, even by those races themselves.
This isn’t just gamey respawn things we’re talking about here. This is a story about races of beings who are on their very last legs, surviving by a thread… yet always, ALWAYS somehow managing to field sizable armies and full support lines AND a healthy civilian population, after two decades of constant apocalyptic wars. And they do so WILLINGLY, with no great worry about their future survival.
However many Night elves died in the burning of Teldrassil? Their entire population will totally recover and probably expand by another 75% in the supposed two years that fills the time between expansions in-world.
My theory: Azeroth, by canon exists in an alternate universe where “cartoon logic” is the universal law. A weird sort of grim cartoon where people CAN AND DO die… but there are always more people where that person came from, ready to step in and fill the ranks. Mass killings are a reality, but actual genocide just isn’t possible in the universe of Azeroth, as the Cartoon Logic of the universe refuses to allow it - it might mean the series woudl end!
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