I am actually curious about this one.
If Quel’thalas is going to become a Warfront or at least more heavily involved in the main story due to being the last major Horde presence in the Eastern Kingdoms, what do you think is going to spark the event and how it’ll play out?
A course besides not completely pushing the Sin’dorei off the map unless the writers become that ballsy.
I don’t see it happening. Silvermoon is getting its own portal in Orgrimmar and the Blood Elf heritage quest/Void Elf recruitment quest take place there.
A Warfront would create this weird disconnect for players doing those quests.
Not to mention 8.2 is Azshara (And won’t have a Warfront at all) and 8.3 is all about N’zoth. I don’t see Silvermoon fitting anywhere into the story, especially with the Horde Civil War about to kick into full gear, which will likely consume the rest of the War Campaign.
Lor’themar might get some spotlight in 8.2 alongside Tyrande, outside of that I wouldn’t expect anything Silvermoon related this expansion.
Considering the alliance’s affiliations with those elves, unlikely to see alliance forces approach them.
Perhaps they could offer another path into the ghostlands? Silvermoon is inside a burning crusade instance so there exists an untouched zone.
The way in which the system works now you need to be 110, if not 120, to see the new zones. You’d then talk to a bronze dragon to see the prior versions. I dont think you’d need another entrance to get into it, even if in the BC world servers.
Really, and I’ve been saying this for years, they just need to add both the BE and Draenei areas to the main world servers and update them.
I think it would be very neat if they did a warfront within the Ruins side of the city where Falconwing square is.
Characters doing those quests could just be dumped back into the pre-warfront phase if it uses the same areas.
It would be cool if Blizzard went back and added the TBC zones into the world map. It would be a lot of work for them, but they would have to eventually anyway, right?
Start the warfront in the BE starting zone with an alliance assault moving into west silvermoon. Revamp the west of city for the horde and put a Voidelf themed base at the BE starting zone for the alliance.
Call it a mini warfront and get away with still not updating silvermoon! T.T
(Spoilers)
Since we know that the Scarlet Crusade will be making a reappearance in the future, as the Scarlet Brotherhood, as well as their potential to be friendly with the Alliance, given the broadcast text, it is possible that the Alliance will continue their push through Lordaeron and work on reclaiming it all. And while they are at it, since the Blood Elves are bordering Lordaeron, the Alliance could decide to assault them.
While the Alliance has tried many times to befriend the Blood Elves, it is pretty apparent that they have no interest in rejoining their old allies. Such was especially proven when Alleria attempted to recruit them.
Furthermore, this could also be a chance for the Void Elves and Nightborne to get in on the Warfront action. The Void Elves attacking the people that banished them, and the Nightborne defending their Blood Elven friends.
While the Alliance has tried many times to slaughter the Blood Elves…
Oh absolutely, like that one time when the Night Elves and a Dwarven Ambassador were spying on- Oh wait, no… that wasn’t slaughtering the Blood Elves…
Well, there’s the time Quel’Danas was contested territory and- No, wait, the Alliance purged Sunwell Plateau and cleansed and reignited the Sunwell, restoring the font of power so vital to the Blood Elves, to them…
Well, there’s the time in Northrend where- No, wait… pretty sure the Sunreavers worked alongside the Alliance in the fight against the big bads up there.
Well, certainly during Cataclysm there was- No… not there either actually. High Elves representing the Alliance helped secure Quel’Thalas from a resurfacing Amani threat…
Well during MoP there was… THE PURGE OF DALARAN! Yes, that was certainly a Slaughter of the Blood Elves. Well… those who resisted arrest anyways. Those who didn’t spent some time in the Violet Hold before being released after the War.
I guess there was also WoD where… No, sorry. Blood Elves were helping the Draenei, no actual combat there.
In Legion… Blood Elves worked with the largely Alliance-centric/originating Class Order Halls so… no Slaughter.
Well, clearly in Battle for Azeroth what with the War the Alliance has slaughtered tons of Blood Elves. I mean, they’d obviously be defending the Undercity from an unprovoked assault by the Alliance…
Strange… looking at everything that’s happened in WoW, it’s almost like the Blood Elves have received more help and support from the Alliance than the Horde, and any, “Slaughter,” of the Blood Elves was a result of the Blood Elves being dragged into the Horde’s conflicts…
TLDR: Void Elf says the Blood Elves were asking for it.
Defending your home is resisting arrest. Receiving aid from sea creatures is high treason. What’s next? Throwing out dangerous void users is racism?
It’s Voidism.
Na, their warranty just went… void.
I could see Blizzard sidestepping the issue by keeping the Warfront contained in the Ghostlands or some such.
No one would ever miss the Ghostlands.
Well, if Blizzard continues with it’s narrative of, “Horde bad, Alliance good,” I expect the travesty below to be what we would end up with.
Alliance: The Player-Character is contacted by Anduin and attends a meeting with Umbric, Alleria, Vereesa, and surprise guest, Aethas Sunreaver. Aethas gained this audience through Sin’dorei who had been visiting the Telogrus Rift, and informs the leaders gathered that Quel’Thalas has been nurturing multiple cells of individuals resisting the tyrannical rule of Lor’themar Theron, and that he believes the time is ripe for Quel’Thalas to be Liberated. Alleria jumps on this immediately while Umbric seems cautiously optimistic. Vereesa suspects a trap.
The PC then goes through Silvermoon City in a void-based disguise and puts up all kinds of propaganda to stir the citizens of Silvermoon into near revolt.
“Sylvanas Windrunner intends to end this war by handing Quel’Thalas over to the Alliance, claiming Kalimdor for the Horde. She suspects us to give up our homeland as she forced the Forsaken to give up theirs!”
“Who are our true friends? The Horde who have put us through countless wars that do not concern us? Or the Alliance who restored the Sunwell and empowered our people?”
“We call ourselves, ‘Sin’dorei,’ to honor the Fallen of the Third War, but have we done the opposite? Would Anasterian have suffered the likes of Orcs, Trolls, or Undead to walk freely through our streets?”
"The Draenei have been greater friends and allies to us than anyone in the Horde! Why do we fight them in Sylvanas’ war of extinction?
“Are you tired of everything you say being recorded by some unseen hand? Sick of bowing to every Blood Knight to walk by? The Alliance shall come to liberate us! When they do we must aid them.”
The Questline ends with the Void Elves, High Elves, and Draenei establishing a base in Eversong woods.
Horde: The Player-Character is summoned by Rommath to Sunfury Spire, where Lor’themar, Liadrin, Rommath, Halduron, and Thalyssra discuss the disturbing events, showing them torn down fliers that continue to mysteriously appear within the city. They interpret it as a move by the Alliance to destabilize the Thalassian Populace’s trust in the leadership of the Kingdom, and have the Horde PC go out to locate suspicious activity and interrogate anyone they find.
Unfortunately the Horde PC ends up interrogating innocent Blood Elves who become increasingly irate about that treatment and begin saying things like, “Maybe those posters are right!” Guards arrest those with this sentiment. Other interrogated NPCs flee in terror when you finish talking to them. Upon reporting back to Lor’themar, he grows furious and orders a Curfew and for the city to be placed under martial law, with a public speech about how Quel’Thalas is being attacked by dishonorable and duplicitous means, and to ignore the propaganda if seen, and to report it to Guards or Magisters for removal.
Shortly after this the PC is informed that the Alliance has established a base within Eversong Woods, using the Void to conceal their actions. Attempts to raise the Ban’dinoriel have failed, and Sylvanas has tasked Quel’Thalas with removing the threat with what volunteers they could find, as other fronts took greater priority.
Amazing, you came up with something to shame Horde players for defending their own city, far worse than just “blighting her own troops”.
This feels like something they would really do.
With that scenario, I have a feeling as that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back when it comes to Horde player’s tolerance on Blizzard’s writing team for the story.
Just a feeling.
Oh absolutely. At that point it wouldn’t even matter who wins.
It’s the kind of writing I feel like we can expect from this expansion, however. Rather than conquerors, portray the Alliance as a benevolent force coming to liberate Quel’Thalas from the Horde, and double-down on it by having Lor’themar inadvertently reinforce the kind of behavior the Alliance’s propaganda accuses him of.
Hopefully, there won’t be a Quel’Thalas Warfront, and for exactly the reason of something like the above happening, because you just know Blizzard would go that route. Can’t even attack Dazar’alor, which is supposed to be our payback for Teldrassil, without sparing the civilians and giving them time to mourn.