Hey it’sa good reason to like her in WC3 timeline I just liked Arthas more so her hampering his progress annoyed me as it should.
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If you mean Wild Gods, the only ones left after the War of the Ancients were Cenarius, Aessina, and Tortolla after the Legion that the Highborne drew and summoned to Azeroth killed the rest of the Ancient Guardians. Cenarius also in specific helped imprison Illidan for making a new Well of Eternity and risking bringing the Legion back again. I doubt the Highborne, who wanted to keep practicing magic that could guide the Legion back to Azeroth, had any sympathizers among the Wild Gods.
Religiously, somehow the High Elves ended up practicing the Light instead, either having learned it from the Humans, or, tinfoil hat idea, the Highborne came up with the idea of revering daylight to be opposite of the worship of Elune’s moonlight out of spite for the rest of the Night Elves.
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Yeah pretty much this also…
This brings up a good point. That temple was in Suramar and the Highborne that were exiled and became High Elves were from Zin Azshari. I doubt they even remembered those other gods.
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The high elves picked up sun worship and sun aesthetics as a direct opposite to night elves, kind of to suck it to them after they had left.
Indeed, but more I’m not sure if the Humans taught Quel’Thalas about the Light as a religious practice, or if they came up with it independently themselves.
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Eh I’m certain the light came with the sun worship.
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In such a case, we could put even more tinfoil on the hat and wonder if it was the High Elves that taught the Humans about the Light when they taught them magic.
I’m willing to bet this, the humans were pretty technologically under developed at the time.
I think it was the dev’s intention to make the sun the thing to contrast them with night elves, but I’m unconvinced it’s that petty in the actual lore.
It is, from what I read they completely disavowed their heritage and went to a polar opposite lifestyle because they where kicked out by their kin.
it only worked because Arthas or the Scourge at the time did not want to take out Gilneas.
There were much bigger fishes to fry.
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On Highborne religion, I think I remember it being said that the upper caste night elves didn’t care for worshiping Elune or whatever other gods that were widely revered by the masses because they were too busy worshiping their own reflections or their Queen. They were too good as a class to be bothered with putting themselves below something.
If that’s the case, then the descendants of those attitudes picking up worship of the Light makes sense, since that faith isn’t about devotion to a god but rather about an ideal that the follower lives up to.
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The gates in question had been opened by the traitor Dar’khan.
Honestly WoW just doesn’t care too much about military strategy.
In the Battle For Lordaeron we see shield walls and siege towers. Alongside a tank that seemed to wander in from Warhammer 40k. Later in Nazmir we see a Horde aircraft carrier against Kul Tiran galleons. And let’s not forget in Darkshore where what appeared to be regular ole’ Orcish catapults suddenly got the firing range of an intercontinental missile.
The rule of cool reigns supreme - even when it threatens to give history nerds a brain aneurysm. Seriously both the Horde and Alliance have for years had massive air ships capable of deploying squads of airborne fighters. How and why the Zandalari and Kul Tiran navies were suddenly instrumental to victory boggles the mind.
So in this setting I’m sure not using a walled fortification as an archer makes perfect sense. Hell in the BFA cinematic Windrunner outright jumps off one and this seems to only improve her kill count.
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Thank you Benedikt, for putting to words my exact musings when this forum starts its strategy discussions, and flag waving boasts and bravado.
Warcraft is a story now, no longer a Real-Time Strategy game. Having fully upgraded tech-tree units on the field, up to and including magitech space ships, has never mattered if the writers didn’t want it to.
Convenience for the story is all that matters. That’s why the Night Elves didn’t call the mountain giants to turn the tide in Darkshore. That’s why the Vindi didn’t soar down through the clouds, instead replaced by Jaina’s float-boat.
“It’s not the story we wanted to tell.”
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Yes. in Warcraft Rule of Cool trumps any other consideration… much like it does on Star Trek.
Also remember what Windrunner jumped on top of. She was literally shooting dwarves in a barrel.
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During the scourge invasion, Sylvanas had her best archers take high positions in a spire near Fairbreeze Village. She also had archers flying on dragonhawks and archers accompanying her forward ground troops.
Also, contrary to the Warbringer animation, she did not power slide in to frostmourne. Arthus charged her while mounted on Invincible. He even saluted her bravery before he did so.
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Not really a question of “rule of cool” as much as “use the weapons you have, not the weapons you want.” I mean, sure they had a tank but it probably isn’t something they could mass produce. That one at Lordaeron was their only one (until they rebuilt a new one for Arathi Highlands) yet it didn’t fair well against Magic. Same goes for their Flying Fortresses. Alliance goes through them so quickly. And they aren’t Maneuverable. Not reliable.
But a Navy is still a Navy, even one made of Wood. When both forces are stretched to their limits for resources, they take what they can get.
Even modern Militaries train their soldiers in hand-to-hand and supplies them with a combat knife. Because sometimes, that’s all you’re left with.
I can answer that a little bit.
While there are strategic benefits to holding a fortification, there is the matter of fact that they are trapped inside and have to eat. The Scourge did not have to eat, nor did they have to sleep. Conflict on the field was inevitable.