Since when was Lordaeron the only source of DWARVEN archeological artifacts in EK? Better yet, isn´t it like pretty far and away from THE apparent juicy archeological site that is still standing in the Badlands a.k.a. Uldaman?
Unless ofc you believe them WoW dwarves getting their chance at making a pop culture reference of Moria IS more relevant for the race, ofc. (The only “valuable” archeological site in Lordaeron is the tomb that used to hold Tyr´s Hand AND a VERY powerful Old God minion; nothing else).
Except it does. You forget stuff when you don´t get confronted with it 24/7 (and both BfA and SL are nothing but an Ode to the Teldrassil issue AND the relevance Sylvanas had on the crime, period).
this is why we haven´t been able to forget, cause the devs in an almost sadistic way keep bringing the event to the narrative over and over again… and not to resolve it somewhat successfully, but to literally ANNOY players from both sides of the playerbase with any “new” development (I mean I´m serious when I tell you that it DOES suck the way the devs pretend to resolve Tyrande´s story arc in SL; it was kinda obvious them devs were gonna follow that kind of BS narrative validating the Human cinnamon roll character considering the story beats since late WotLK, but this doesn´t mean the narrative WILL sucks less; it just means they are trappen into a non creative vicious circle since those times.
Oh yes, this sounds like healthier business practices. But we both know the business model reached THIS levels AFTER decades of companies trying to hide their malpractices from their customers, their investors and their competition. And they will ALWAYS try to “fix” the stuff in the less obvious way possible, cause any open public aknowledgment of a malpractice WILL damage the image of the company towards the rest of the world.
In the particular scenario involving Teldrassil, retconning it´s existence IS a VERY public aknowledgment from Blizz part that they delivered a faulty product and charged their costumers for it as if it was top-notch quality. It´s a no-no, ergo It probably won´t happen ever.
Even as the gross Belf fangirl I am, i will never deny the Amani have ALL the moral Highground regarding their hurt and anger at getting displaced and robbed from their lands. The aggresors here are NOT the Amani, the aggresors are both the Elves aND the Humans.
If the devs wanted to portray the Amani as “evil” thanks to their association as allies of the WC2 Horde, then they shouldn´t have portrayed them as natives that only wanted to keep their lands free from violent invaders.
You see, the chances for any WoW race to get semi-decent (if not borderline coddling) portrayal diminish as far as their cultural depiction is far way from the suspicious “Medieval European inspired” trope mold.
YUCK in capital letters indeed.