So now that we’ve had the book basically say the entire alliance story happened before the horde even showed up on Zandalar, so basically the plan was
Trick them into going into Nazmir by sacrificing literally hundreds of solders, heroes, and war machines all so they can ransack the city for like 20 minutes and just kill a bunch of civilians and religious figures. After all that kill their king… so the Zandalari won’t join the horde?
How did they think this was a good idea? Is there something in stormwinds water?
Sure, but what brainless kobald possessed them to think that the arrogant leader of an arrogant empire would just surrender after they sacked his capital and desecrated its sacred places?
But the threat was already neutralized because it was mined during the campaign quests. There was no reason to sack the city, murder the king, or sacrifice large number of soldiers.
They did catch Shaw and Flynn in Shadows Rising… but then Sylvanas and Nathanos attempted to kill Bwonsamdi which now pulled their wrath toward Sylvanas and Nathanos instead.
Funny enough has to be the same writer giving Sylvanas the idea that slaying Malfurion and destroying Teldrassil will end the alliance.
To be fair, it’s more idiotic that the HORDE took them in… MoP and the global dominion thing put them on BOTH factions’ kill on sight list. There should’ve been some majot outcry Horde side about allowing public enemy #1 rivaling the Alliance into the Horde.
Alliance side it’s the opposite, Kul’tiras was a constituent founder of the Alliance of Lordaeron, but was only so chummy with the SW successor before they left it entirely. The Alliance had to prove themselves to them in that case, as they weren’t too thrilled when we rolled up.
While this is often brought up, Zul had Rastakhan’s support to both world conquest schemes, and Rastakhan as king IS the Zandalari empire. His word is law and binding over the entire kingdom, including anything sanctioned with his seal.
This is why he’s so tearful in the end when Alliance finally kill him, it’s not so much regret of defeat, as it is the regret of realizing he sold his own daughter’s soul and drug his entire people into a meatgrinder they shouldn’t have been in.
Okay i’m not familiar with this book but, from what i gathered from playing bfa, the alliance forces figured that if the zandalari fleet was broken, and the kingdom sent into disarray (more so than that whole zul trying to feed everyone to ghuun business) that sylvanas, who is more of an opportunist would just give up on the zandalari as a whole and focus her war efforts elsewhere. If she didn’t odds are there would be enough of an issue of rebuilding infrastructure in zandalar would take too much resources away from the horde to put them into a position to have to surrender.
This plan was somewhat mucked up by sylvanas wanting as many people to die as possible on either side so her boss could use them.
BFA’s common thread through all of its story telling is that no one had a plan. No one acted rationally or with any sort of believable motivations. Its actually pretty impressive how poor the writing was across every inch of the xpac.
