Faerin has consistently been portayed as using a lance which… is an odd choice of weapon given that it appears to be modeled on a jousting lance but isn’t really long enough for that… and she’s using it on foot…
Then I remember that demon hunter Glaives are a thing and I stop worrying about it.
“I know it doesn’t make sense but if you look at everything else about her that doesn’t make sense it still doesn’t make sense.”
Oddly enough, a short lance like that is a surprisingly effective weapon. Especially for punching through armour or chitinous shells that protect the Nerubians.
Let’s say you’re wearing plate, for example; if she manages to get the tip of that weapon into a gap in your armour, the force she’d be able to use would not only punch straight through any defensive layers you’d be wearing beneath it, but the way the weapon widens it would make the gap even larger, meaning even if you survived the stab, your armour now has a glaring weak spot for someone else to stab. Not to mention any layers of chain beneath the plate are completely ruined; not only has it broken through the link it directly stabbed through, but the widening surface would have broken other chain links as the hole gets bigger.
And unlike other weapons, which may get stuck when trying to pull them out of the thing you just stabbed. The lance creates a larger hole the further it goes in; making it extremely easy to pull out of that large hole and go for a second stab.
Wait till the next expansion when they realize they are in the wrong game and go invade final fantasy. Going to be epic
Personally I think they’re missing the forest for the trees. There’s a lot to talk about in terms of corporate sanitization, stifling of creativity, everything has to feel safe and there’s a moral lecture and pinterest inspirational quote for everything etc… but seeing people outrage over one character instead of the overarching structure is like… well it’s their wish lol
I appreciate so much the folks who shared lore here, and attached links to various outside sources of info. Thank you!
I can’t be the only one who feels lost sometimes because I did not start playing from the very beginning. All the names & places are too much for me. I try to get the general big picture, tho.
I didn’t answer your op but I would really recommend Nobbel87 on youtube. A lot of lore vids that do a much better job at telling the story than Blizzard does lol
I have tried to watch Nobbel’s stuff, but his speaking style is so odd to me I can not understand him. But thank you for that suggestion.
It’s also generally a safe assumption that, whenever we visit old territory, a lot of the characters (but not all!) will be characters who appeared there in the past, either in the old versions of the zone or in a short story. And the Warcraft gg wiki does have pages for pretty much everyone if you feel the need to investigate them.
If there’s one thing Blizzard is at least decent at, it’s making sure Chuck McRuck is still in a corner of his inn to make people go “Oh man, I remember Chuck McRuck! He had me collect 4 bear asses for his stew back in 2004!”
About the only good thing regarding Season 2 delves launch was seeing Brann running with Johnny Awesome when he got his hat taken.
Well if I remember right they don’t have any mages. Even though Priory of the Sacred Flame has fire casters, they don’t have any arcane adepts. There’s a quest where a guy is trying his best to learn arcane magic to try and cast portals, but he gets assassinated.
Also there’s a quest early on where the core way is damaged, so they can’t get to the surface to build boats. They also don’t have diplomatic relations with the Earthen to even use their tunnel until the player character helps.
They had one. 
Pour one out for poor Wenren
That’s something I’ve already read several times in different topics, but… huh?
The Arathi expedition went to Hallowfall just like… 10 years ago, they know the Eastern Kingdoms, this was their home and probably still is at heart. Even Faerin has lived in the Arathi kingdom before as a child.
They could not teleport back because all of their mages died and they had no idea where they were and how to get back, but now that Alliance and Horde forces are there, it wouldn’t be a problem at all. They even had one mage who figured out a portal that was enough to bring them all back home - but he was assassinated.
Where are you people getting the info that this happened thousands of years ago? Did I miss something? One of the quest givers clearly tells us that they went on the expedition roughly over a decade ago
All of that was explained in all the text of the quests. 
This is the problem with telling the story out of game with short stories and novels.
I don’t know why people think that the shield is just like…pinned to her, loose and uncontrolled (aside from that’s how it looks on the model because they didn’t build out an entire prosthetic-weilding skeleton for one character).
You can see in the original TWW cinematic that there’s both a lock-on point on her shoulder, and her remaining arm has a metal cap that looks like it sockets into something with potential additional lock-on pop-outs.
The shield isn’t something hanging off her. It’s her arm for all intents and purposes. A large, bulky arm. Would it take a LOT of strength in her remaining arm and shoulder to heft it up and smack someone down with it? Yeah, but are we somehow under the impression that Faerin hasn’t developed that strength over her lifetime?
Exactly why I feel anything outside of game is not canon nor is it part of this universe.
It’s like the Worgen thing, Worgens were created by Elune, there is a statue on the edge of Felwood dedicated to it.
Now you read a book and that didn’t happen yet the statue still exists in game so which is right?
The Hallowfall expedition came from the Arathi Empire, which is not Stromgarde.
Faerin knows about the Eastern Kingdoms the same way Americans know about England. It’s a place they came from, but it’s not home.
Where do people keep getting this idea that it was thousands of years ago? It was only about 30 years ago at most… Faerin literally tells us that they left the Arathi homelands when she was a child… so unless the Arathi of Hallowfall have been granted extremely prolonged lives, they haven’t actually been there very long.
Also when asked about leaving, one of the other people on Hallowfall tells us something along the lines of, “many of us have settled down and started families now, there is a new generation among us who only know of this as their home” further solidifying that they have not been there very long and that most of the inhabitants of Hallowfall were on the ship that left Arathi.
Yup, that’s true, I mixed that up in the heat of writing. The Arathi Empire isn’t in the Eastern Kingdoms. But the point still stands. They have a place they know as their home and want to go back there.