I mean you can do both at the same time:
and decide on the future course of their people.
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Well I guess losing your floating house after like 20 years is pretty traumatic.
I’m not really sure what could be considered an acceptable outcome that doesn’t involve Jaina or Vereesa being punished or reprimanded in some way. Seeing as how both have weird Alliance plot armor, I don’t think Blizzard will actually have an acceptable conclusion. So, if it IS about addressing the Purge of Dalaran, I’m not optimistic that it’ll be more than a ‘too little, too late’ scenario.
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Letting Dendrite or whatever his name was run loose and wreck the place?
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That falls under the second portion of my statement. Also Drenden.
I am still amused that they have effectively boxed Talanji out of any participation because Jaina.
I’m still pulling for Dalaran to go team Blue and set up a Red vs. Blue magic civilization dynamic: Suramar or Silvermoon (former probably makes more sense at this point) and a New Dalaran.
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Jaina is WoW’s magical girl now. She’s even training more Kirin Tor Apprentices. Nothing’s gonna happen to her for her crimes.
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You know what? I’m gonna say it.
I don’t care about the Purge of Dalaran.
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I can’t wait for Aethas to be a doormat and Jaina and Vereesa to be portrayed as good people for the Purge of Dalaran. The only time he and the Sunreavers were cool was on the Isle of Thunder.
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Ten gold, a rusted sword and a useless trinket says the purge gets completely glossed over and it’ll be a totally unrelated reason why they’re sorry
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I’m pretty sure the Baine jailbreak was supposed to be closure for that, hilariously enough.
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It will prob just be aethas being a spineless rat as usual and some platitudes instead of actual justice
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I think any resentment or closure for purge died when Aethas went begging to be let back into Dalaran.
Blizzard story telling needs work, as these big events should not be forgotten in world. Even bigger than the purge was when Dalaran tried to kill Prince Kael’thas and his blood elfs. Only to have them go back to dalaran in wrath. This wasn’t the sun reavers mind you but from silvermoon.
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At least that had the pragmatic reason with the threats of Malygos and the Lich King.
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In terms of culpability, I believe that ‘not doing anything’ and actively participating are vastly different.
The thing about the silver conveant is that these are Vereesa’s troops, not Jaina’s. They may be residents of Dalaran, but I’m not sure if they are part of the Kirin Tor. The Kirin Tor were neutral in WotLK and Legion. The conveant, on the other hand, is an Alliance faction, with an own banner, siding with Valiance and the 7th Legion. I don’t see any lore sources claiming Vereesa is beholden to the Council of Six outside of Dalaran.
She helped Jaina because the high elves disliked the blood elves and the Horde, and Vereesa wanted vengeance for Rhonin.
The real Kirin Tor were missing, and I still wonder why.
They’re back on the Isle of Thunder, though.
Is there some hidden lore reason?
Did the writer just not feel like it?
However, I doubt that this will be addressed.
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I always assumed the Silver Covenant were Kirin Tor high elves who militarized in response to the Horde’s entry into their (previously Alliance-aligned) city, but I guess you’re right, they don’t have an explicit backstory like the Sunreavers do.
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The Silver Covenant and the Sunreavers were, and have shown no evidence of otherwise, primarily Kirin’tor factions.
They were given the kirin’tor thumbs up to support each respected faction, but as it stands, The Silver Covenant and Sunreavers were, primarily, kirin’tor factions and NOT Horde or Alliance factions.
They are still mistaken for being either faction based on gameplay mechanics alone, ratehr than objective observation.
Neither of these faction really acted on behalf of either faction without having it greenlit by the Kirin’tor council.
I gotta say… we NEVER see the Sunreaver or the Silver Covenant as organisations, help either faction on the orders of these faction-branch heads alone. We see those who betrayed the Sunreavers, but we do not see the Sunreaver organisation as a whole orchestrating an entire campaign to fight for the Horde, nor do we see the Silver Covenant as an organisation orchestrating an entire campaign to fight for the Alliance.
Even in Legion, we see Silver Covenant conduct being policed, not by the Alliance, not by the Horde, no, by the Kirin’tor.
The Sunreavers and The Silver Covenant were Kirin’tor factions, not Horde or Alliance factions.
Blizzard has been all “purge? What purge?” for while now. “Past mistakes” are going to be not supporting the Alliance enough or something.
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The “purge” was barely even an event in-game when it was new. A bunch of elves fought each other at the height of Alliance/Horde conflict at the time for control of Dalaran. It was essentially just another turf war in a conflict full of turf wars. Jaina instigated the brawl, but only after the Horde blew up an entire city. It was an act of war, but not exactly a war “crime.” (All wars are crimes but that’s besides the point.) I’m really surprised at how many people have latched onto this event as an “outrage” considering it came like a day after Garrosh blew up Theramore with a nuclear bomb.
Dalaran imprisoning Kael and his followers on the orders of Garithos was way worse and it almost never gets mentioned. Probably because internally, Garithos was a “throwaway” character in the first place.
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It was a bit more than a day. 
But I get your point.
Honestly, I think it has a lot to do with a reflex against being the villains. The Horde was shown as the clear aggressor in a war. Unfortunately, that combined with the Horde questing being mostly actively supporting the war meant a lot of Horde players felt like the villains. So, they latch onto anything that can paint them as the victims instead.
If Garrosh, and by extension the Horde, were they villains in that arc those players felt like wanted to portray the Alliance as just as bad or worse. So the purge became a much bigger deal than it should have been in their minds. An outlet for the desire to be a victim rather than a villain.
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