…I am pretty sure the Forsaken attack me if I go there right now. Seems sorta unfair.
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If blizz ever does come around and actually rebuild the place in game, i.e actually make it useable again, depending how Gilneas goes next patch, they won’t have a choice but to make it neutral.
Since you know, the alliance PC did canonically help the forsaken retake it 
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TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happens to Silvermoon when Midnight rolls around.
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The thing about that is that they wear a disguise during it. From what I understand, Calia and Velonara are the only ones who actually know that the Alliance lent a sly hand.
Really not thrilled with this faction capital being open to the other side. I don’t mind quest chains allowing us to enter a friendly phase, but being able to just whenever…
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I sorta wonder if they will bite the bullet and make all cities sanctuary zones.
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They might, especially if they open them all up.
I can deal with Earthen running around Orgrimmar, but the only Gnome that should be present are those that come for Gnome Football Night.
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Yep. Forsaken Capital City and Gilneas will probably become a contemporary pair going forward, while the two remade elf capitals form another. I can only hope Silvermoon remains as decidedly blood elven as Amirdrassil is night elven.
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Everyone should have their own space without the “enemy” running around.
I foresee the horde losing Silvermoon forever. I absolutely hate the idea of going back to Quel’thalas for this reason.
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I kind of wonder if Lordaeron City/Undercity and Gilneas would be the main capital cities for Midnight. Mainly since I see Silvermoon either being under Void control or destroyed, with it being liberated or rebuilt at the end of the expansion.
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I mean it is a good question since Bel’ameth is already allowing the Horde Players to be inside a Alliance City as neutral so who knows.
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So maybe it’s just me, but I think this will depend on how they handle Gilneas.
Not Amirdrassil; that’s in current content that we’re all still playing through, and giving just one faction a whole capital during the still ongoing content would probably not be a good idea. Like, we still have to fly around at MAXIMUM ZOOM and suddenly getting pvp flagged because today there’s a whole Alliance city where you used to fish wouldn’t go over very well.
But Gilneas and Undercity are different. They’re in old content, with little for current characters to do. Gilneas is effectively empty, and Undercity is already a spot to avoid for Alliance, so it’s not going to cause any real problems.
I’m betting that come 11.0, Amirdrassil will go full Alliance.
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As much as I’m sorry to say it, I would speculate it may not.
The new Night Elven capital has spaces and representation for all of the different facets of the Night Elven race. We see their Dark Rangers, we see the Illidari, etc… we’re talking about groups that have historically been ostracized from Kaldorei society, but now have a real presence in their city.
Using this as precedent, I think you’d find parts of a new Silvermoon City with spaces for High Elves, for Void Elves, for San’layn, Felboods, Dark Rangers, etc… and while those last three don’t entirely stick out like sore thumbs, the first two will.
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That’d necessitate an EK revamp beyond the scope of what we’ve been promised IMO. I’ve coped to the contrary (w-what if Dalaran/the Exodar serves as the Alliance hub…) but realistically Silvermoon is too iconic a location to not linchpin a Quel’Thalas expansion. They’ll probably have Lor’themar declare milquetoast tolerance for Alleria’s void cult and Vereesa’s militia and leave it at that.
… unless, of course, this “elf unification” thing is quite literal, in which case the blood elves stand to lose so much to neutrality the night elves will look over from Amirdrassil and praise Elune for limiting the opposite faction’s presence in their capital to the Runetotem duo.
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The Forsaken were originally and still heavily composed of the citizens of Lordaeron who fell to the Plague of Undeath. While others have joined their ranks over the years, the reality is that the Forsaken…are what Lordaeron became.
It’s disappointing to see how people want to erase the founding lore of the Forsaken and the story of W3 in favor of just a pro-living narrative. The living Lordaeron types who would still be around by now would be aging, and a minority as the Kingdom in overwhelming numbers became undead.
Blizzard in canon lore stories has even referred to the Forsaken as Lordaeron’s Undead Army.
We will see where the devs take this. My only hope, is that the long-established canon lore isn’t erased and the forsaken continue to have a capital and a place to call home…that always was their home.
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The faction capital is a husk of dead charcoal.
This is something completely new and different. And again Horde Champions had (if we go by the numbers) more to do with creating it than the Alliance.
Well, yeah. If they give the forsaken a whole patch to get their capital back. OTOH, they are Horde so I don’t think Blizzard cares. My guess is that they get that short quest chain and maybe a few more quests, and that will be it.
As far as anything going permanently neutral, that is just speculation.
With Calia around I could see the Alliance being given sanctuary in whatever city Lordaeron may have in the future. I’d say Silvermoon is another candidate in Midnight.
Gilneas is the equivalent of Lordaeron here (with Silvermoon to Bel’Ameth) but it’s not as clear if it’ll be a sanctuary for those who aided in its reclamation.
Welll the Blight kills people on an equal opportunity basis. Sounds fairly nonpartisan to me.
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I hope it goes neutral. Ideally, Lordaeron should become a hub for both Forsaken and living residents, as a fulfillment of the reconciliation idea that Sylvanas botched in Before the Storm.
Hope so, an embassy for Void and Night Elves, along with possibly a Nightborne district are things that could add some life to the city.
If so, we’ll be one step closer to separating race from faction. That said, some sort of rep/bounty system so that players can still do For the Horde/Alliance runs and then go back to neutral/good afterwards would be nice.
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The main reason I wouldn’t mind Lordaeron going neutral is that it’ll shut up the deus vult alliance types who keep clamoring for it.
They’ll finally be able to visit as they like
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