I mean Blizzard might be selling us his replacement right now in Midnight promotional material.
Biracial (2 is better than 1 right).*
Controls both the Light and the Shadow - the boy is the Avatar!
Feels like Med’an 2.0.
Like most of Blizzard’s Golden Children, he is given one of the worst haircuts imaginable.
* Blizzard’s fetishisation of race is honestly quite disturbing.
isnt that what they meant for anduin? 
Putting someone from the Alliance as a leader in a Horde city does sound like something Blizzard would do. Either that or another council.
Well … most of the city is already neutral …
He’s the longest serving Horde leader remaining, so he’s overdue for being deleted. It would make sense for Arathor to replace him, as an Alliance leader being installed into Horde leadership has already happened before with Callia.
Not sure I know who you’re talking about here.
I’d be very shocked if they didn’t kill lorthemar off and replace him with some annoying Mary Sue checkbox character. That’s been their writing team’s MO for long enough to be predictable.
Arathor, Aleria and Turalyon’s son.
No he doesn’t? He’s just a paladin. His mom’s voidification happened long after he was born - he has no ties to shadow.
Oh, Arator.
I mean, he’s very much of a neutral character. Less offensive of a replacement than an actual Alliance character.
He’s always been a half elf.
He is a Paladin. No idea what you’re talking about.
How does Arator qualify as that?
We also have no idea what’s happening with Lor’themar or Quel’thalas throughout Midnight.
Call it a suspicion of mine. When Blizzard is pushing some character pretty hard, they are trying something.
Funny thing is it almost never works.
Instead of seeing what players like and going with that, they try to push a character they want on us.
The best example is probably Varian from the cringe as heck cutscene with Jaina in ICC (Alliance-only) and the “stolen valour” with Onyxia to the “Patiences Tyrande” MoP scenario …
It’s the same reason they are pushing for gameplay to be simplified and the removal of addons; they are trying to increase the WoW playerbase. It’s very hard to increase it further in PC market, as everyone who wants to play it already has heard about it by now…so, they will push it to mobile via xcloud (consoles as well, but this is a diminishing market for them). To compete on mobile, they need to appeal to the candy crush demographic which means simplified gameplay, banal and Disney-esque storytelling, and appealing to a more female-focused market.
So no real reason, then.
The kid of two primary characters involved in the forces at play in an upcoming expansion who himself has aligned with one of those forces isn’t really “pushing” or “trying” like you probably think it is.
Blizzard isn’t going to send a panel out asking people to write their characters for them. You either like the characters they put out or you don’t.
That’s kinda generally how companies work.
None of which was great writing, but I don’t expect amazing writing. It’s an MMO. 
Realistically speaking, Forsaken and Blood elves were adding Alliance lore to Horde.
So, put another way, wouldn’t be the first time that Blizzard added lore exclusive to Alliance to Horde to make them feel more included in every aspect of the game.
Actually, no.
Japanese manga magazines are well known for doing character polls both as entertainment and as a way to gather feedback so they know what to invest in - which authors to drop and which to give more pages.
Blizzard is really quite unique in that they think they can make us like specific characters.
The vast majority of writers, who have to sell to eat, just put their characters out there, see the reaction, then make changes accordingly - popular characters get more airtime and unpopular ones are quickly written out of the story.
That’s not really relevant to this discussion.
Most companies producing games generally try to do this. Do you want them to just make characters nobody likes instead?
I think this is a weird thing to get hung up on. There are always going to be characters people don’t like. We deal with a LOT of characters at a time.
The OP of this thread is literally nonsense about a character in an expansion we know very little about in terms of narrative.
Is he pale? Is he male? Does he have a daughter?
It perfectly relevant and you know it.
No they don’t - because it almost never works.
Unpopular character? Write it out of the story ASAP.
I killed Lor’themar yesterday.
I took a screenshot next to his body.
In Nazjatar, lol.
He’s there in the Horde camp and you can just go in as Alliance and 1-shot him.
Sorry everyone- I ruined Midnight.
It’s canceled.
You’re talking about a manga magazine.
I’m talking about a video game company.
Blizzard does actually do polls, but they’re not going to do a poll every month to see what people think of characters. A game is not the same as a manga, mate.
Yeah… You have no idea what you’re talking about. Not even sure you got what I meant.