Especially since it’s not clear how meaningfully prejudiced the Alliance or any of it’s characters are meant to be, because the faction conflict ultimately doesn’t question the Alliance’s hatred for the Horde (often making it at least seem justified).
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The Alliance questions itself on this constantly. In fact, they do it so much that it makes the Alliance look stupid.
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They exile people.
There’s a Taunka who committed some kind of crime against his own people, then left Northrend and was caught stealing from the Horde.
Him already being an exile (IIRC), they planned to just execute him.
An Orc bribed the guards to sell the Taunka into gladiator slavery instead, which seems implied to be illegal, but kept on the down low and tolerated so long as it doesn’t draw too much attention.
The Varian comics are messy and set messy precedents for the Horde. You kind of have to handwave a lot of it as “it was happening illegally behind Thrall’s back” and presumably Garrosh’s too until they went full villain with him in MoP. SoO Garrosh is a cartoon compared to his previous versions.
“Garrosh allowed the civilians to escape… wait actually he kept them as slaves because that’s how bad he was!”
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From what we know about the developers, SoO was the most consistent portrayal.
Don’t believe Afrasiabi.
Just because he said they always meant for Garrosh to be a villain doesn’t mean there’s any truth to it. Aside from what we now all know about him, lying about lore to fans he thinks he’s better than isn’t exactly new for him.
To be honest, I always thought he was a liar, it just wasn’t as acceptable to call him that until recently.
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Garrosh was certainly never intended to be a hero either though, and in WotLK he was already deliberately being written to rub people the wrong way.
Afrasiabi being a piece of trash sex pest doesn’t necessarily mean that he was lying about this particular thing.
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He didn’t say this.
He said the opposite.
He claimed responsibility for Stonetalon Garrosh and said not everyone agreed/was on board with Evil Garrosh at the time of Cata development.
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Didn’t Blizzard state that Garrosh was going to grow into the role of hero at some point? And then when Cata actually came out, it seemed like they weren’t going to follow through with that since Stonetalon seemed like such an aberration even then.
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During development yes.
Which is the thing, they pivoted the plot during Cata development which is fine if it didn’t always unilaterally happen to the detriment of the Horde via another villain bat.
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He claimed responsibility for Stonetalon, but tried to paint the whole thing as a fluke, and not a natural continuation of the arc started by Garrosh’s talks with Saurfang in Wrath.
I originally typed up a lot more, but deleted it all.
TL;DR:
Alex Afrasiabi’s history, even before the harassment went public, painted a picture of a man who absolutely looked down on players, and other people in general.
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His reply in the interview was pure shade, just full on contempt to the rest of the team.
Ergo why I think current Sylvanas is his being petty partly, shaping her out of spite.
That’s why he is also the source of “Sylvanas was behind the Wrathgate”
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I think that people want to use Afrasiabi’s miserable conduct as a retroactive means of adding legitimacy to their lore grievances when the reality is probably just that he was a horrible a-hole that also made poor writing decisions.
I think that Dave Kosak’s writing has been some of the most damaging that we’ve ever seen to the Warcraft universe and I also think that that’s unrelated to him being a sex weirdo.
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