Alliance players are fond of ripping into the Horde for trying to expand into Alliance territory; but the only regions in all of Azeroth that weren’t Alliance territories … were the places so barren and destitute that the Alliance didn’t want them. Pretty much boils down to, the Horde races should have just gone extinct … because they have nowhere to go.
You’re not wrong. Thousand Needles; Tanaris; and Ungoro would allow for a little less dependence on external intracontinental sources of lumber. If we could get some Shaman and Druids working on making the Barrens/Durotar more sustainable towards supporting life … that would also help. On top of this, Northrend has a lot of things the Horde needs. Space to grow; Resources of many types; and now with the Helm of Domination gone … the Forsaken’s best chance at continuing their race in a way that is not antagonistic to the Alliance.
Aszuna’s entire population is ghosts, and I don’t remember the Night Elves of Val’sharrah being aligned with the Alliance. They’ve been apart from their Kalimdor kin for 10k years, no?
The richest parts of Northrend were already Troll Territory. Zul’drak and much of Grizzly Hills fell under their domain. However, what really makes Northrend important is the Scourge. With the Helm of Domination gone, it has left an opportunity for the Forsaken to get back to their roots and start freeing those Scourge who’s minds can still be freed. Those they can’t save, are cattle for parts … something the Forsaken are portrayed as needing to sustain themselves.
To say the now Lich-King less Northrend is important to the Forsaken in their current state would be a massive understatement. Unless Blizz intends to do something absolutely horrific with Calia Menethil of course.
No, but I seem to recall a lot of Troll tribes that have sort of pushed to the brink of extinction by this point. It has not escaped my notice that the Trolls have continually been pushed into smaller and smaller territories; retaining only what is convenient to let them have. A giant, empty Kingdom in the North, with plenty of resources in the largely empty regions surrounding it … there could be worse places to resettle if they were forced to.
Ghosts that might associate themselves with the Darnassian Night Elves now. In the Stormwind portal room the Nar’thalas Mages have the Darnassian Faction tag (and no, not just for pvp reasons, as not all the portal NPCs in the room have faction tags like that).
As long as the ghosts have the Darnassus faction tag I will assume the opposite of you then.
And now it seems the Night Elves are basing themselves on Mount Hyjal, because Cenarion Circle land is Night Elf land, even if they do happily have Horde Cenarion Circle members there as well.
One of my (admittedly far-fetched) hopes for BfA was this being a point of no return for factions. No more neutral groups were everyone holds hamds, each faction is getting its own class-blased sub-factions with their own unique themes
In my defense the only info I had at the time was an illegally misleading trailer, and Legion wasn’t that bad