There is also a quest with a hostile arathi character, and another npc standing nearby who apologizes for their behavior…that makes me think this may be the format for the empire (that appearently still exists)
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Basically like any nation it seems. Real or otherwise.
People are going to people.
The Arathi show us one thing clearly. Blizzard will continue to bring humans into the main storyline even when it doesn’t make any sense.
They’re technically half elves.
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Thanks for being so open minded. 
You have to, in a fantasy setting. Humans accentuate the magical or alien features of non-human races.
they’re not humans you racist. They’re Arathi.
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I think it’s none of that. Or only that in so much that Christianity dominated Medieval Europe and this is a medieval fantasy.
The light is a state religion. For much of the history of Christianity, it was also a state religion. (Contrary to the teachings of Jesus). Much of the commentary inherent to the story is criticism of state religion, and understandably, Christians take issue with that thinking it is a criticism of faith. The choice to call it “The Light” instead of “The Gods of Light” is very much a conscious decision aimed at creating that “one true and legally acceptable cultural set of rites and customs” thing that allows for criticism. Xenophobia. Nationalism. All the bad stuff that we currently associate with the alt-right, but is actually just a characteristic of “the state” and goes hand in hand with state religion.
No it is lame and boring. There are many great games where humans are not the main thing. See Dark Crystal or Guild Wars 2.
Guild wars has multiple flavors of human. Cold humans and farm humans.
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Kryta is the last human nation that matters standing. Orr, Ascalon and Elona are all gone. Sylvari are the humans of GW2 now who succeeded them.
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Jesus didn’t do any teachings… it was all Paul for the most part. Attend any mass for just about any denomination and at least one reading will be from a Letter from Paul. Paul is pretty much the beginnings of Christianity.
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While we can go back and forth about the true source of the Gospels, I am not making any claims about them, but the character of Jesus written in the Gospels definitely invented the separation of church and state.
He very much made the relationship with the Jewish god a personal relationship to the dismay of the state religious authorities. The adversary in those stories is the state of Rome and the pseudo state of Judea. He prophesied the destruction of the temple-- the symbol of the Jewish state religion. He went to the temple and flipped over tables and kicked out the money changers. He repeatedly pointed out the hypocrisy of the religious authorities in the system of Judean state religion.
But you are correct. Once Rome made Christianity the state religion of Rome, the focus shifted toward Paul’s Christian Civics 101 and all the ways a Roman citizen could tell Christians how to be a good Roman citizen.
Sounds like Blizz is tying to pull a ‘Garlean Empire’ nuance with the Arathi, but jussst missing the mark with it all.
Tbf we haven’t even seen the empire. All we know are snippets. These forums are just guessing.
We literally have zero idea how the empire truly is.
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Everyone Erevien doesn’t like is a human.
That bird he doesn’t like? Human!
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It may very well no longer exist.
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They are half human so it counts. At least Thalyssra married a real elf.
So by that logic, Lantresor of the Blade is a Draenei character because he is half Draenei.
If half elf / half humans = full humans.
Then half orc / half draenei = full Draenei.
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he self identifies as an Orc which is why he was at the Kosh’arg. Same goes for the Arathi since they all kept the original culture of the first humans all the way down.
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