I really want to see the alternate timeline where this cinematic intro’d at BlizzCon.
Metzen’s on stage, talking and setting things up, then darkness, hazy light, and an Earthen of all things comes out and starts working on a hammer and anvil the size of a building. Some troll looking character creeping over rocks and vines before leaping into an energized ritual. And then a… human? Stormwind? No the colours are wrong, the iconography is- wait, are her ears pointed??? To say nothing of the cheers of seeing an HD nerubian close up before the wide shot of WoW’s Menzoberranzan.
Then the panels can actually explore the content of the cinematic and give some clues as to what’s going on while Twitter melts down from the speculation. Instead of yet another extended view of sad Anduin, border line inappropriately teasing Thrall as having an early prominent role, and the The Sword™ which… isn’t actually important to the story yet.
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I just hate the concept of a bifactional troll race
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Horde got elves. The equivalent would be the Alliance getting trolls.
That having been said… I can’t say I would play a harronir, but more power to those who would. If the Earthen are neutral, I’d rather see the Arathi join the Alliance, and the Harronir the Horde. Given the Arathi can be made available via customizations, however, there’s no point to making them their own playable race. The Harronir, however, are absolutely unique enough to be a race on their own.
I’d be okay if the Horde got the Harronir as an Allied Race and the Alliance got one later. Temporary imbalance wouldn’t be the end of the world (to me).
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Why’s everyone calling her w troll just because she has tusks?
Lots of races have tusks.
She’s still a night elf in everything but genetics.
You really have a weird hate obsession with night elves you know. Its like the crazy elf grievance folks we had during BFA-Shadowlands but turned inside out.
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Even in expansions nelves are wholly unrelated to, like shadowlands and warlords of Draenor, nelves and Elune get crammed into a minimum of the B story.
They are stars every expansion.
I am beyond sick of night elves.
I am beyond sick of Elune.
I am beyond sick of the Emerald Dream and green dragons.
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I think the better example is:
In War Within, we start with neutral Dwarves, and will get neutral Trolls later.
Even Steven.
I’m not fussed about it. The Earthen aren’t that interesting to me, but maybe someone likes them. I like the Harronir or Haranir or what ever it ends up being… I might make my Troll Druid into one, depending on their Racials.
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I like the Harronir too. I hope they end up being playable. They would definitely be a contender for me as a alt to play 
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I’m curious for them, but since remix allowed me to have every class, I’m not sure what i will pick for my earthen or the haranin if they become playable.
Yep. I’d rather see Lightforged orcs for Alliance or whatever, Trolls really have a whole host of completely legitimate reasons to loathe the main core alliance races.
Liked the dwarf, nerubian and Xalathat.
Disliked the human elven hibrid and the harronir.
Night Elves are Amani Descendants.
Harronir would be Gurubashi Descendants if indeed descended from Trolls.
We don’t know the full number of Descendants each branch of the Troll Empire has.
The Amani have Dark Trolls and their descendants the Night Elves, Fal’dorei, Naga, Satyr, High Elves, Nightborne, Arathi, Demon Hunters, Blood Elves, Felblood Elves and Void Elves and yet that is all from the Dark Troll branch of Amani when for all we know there are other Races descended from other branches of the Amani.
Gurubashi have Sand Trolls and possibly Harronir.
Drakkari have no known descendants. Neither do the Blood Trolls.
I am super skeptical of that. The Dark Trolls were (are?) nocturnal, lived underground, and had no empire building going on at all—They did not even build temples to their loa, as far as the evidence was have goes. The lands they lived in were on the other side of the continent from the Amani empire, particularly as they started around Hyjal and slowly migrated eastward until they reached the Well of Eternity.
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https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/The_Twin_Empires
With the insectoids driven into exile, the twin troll empires returned to business as usual. Despite their great victory, neither civilization expanded much further than their original boundaries. However, ancient texts speak of a small faction of trolls that broke off from the Amani Empire and founded their own colony in the heart of the dark continent.
There, these brave pioneers discovered the cosmic Well of Eternity which transformed them into beings of immense power. Some legends suggest that these adventurous trolls were the first night elves, though this theory has never been proven.
Until it’s retconned this is the Lore we have for the moment.
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The Twin Empires and Chronicles give conflicting accounts on that, and I am apt to take Chronicles as the accurate one given it is newer. Though, who knows in the era of books being perspectives with propaganda in them.
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“Official”? Don’t think so. Didn’t see Anduin in it.
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I’m most curious about the Nerubian content. Always loved their architecture and an army of spider centaur sounds like a good fight.
The Harronir and Earthern probably interest me the least. Because why not just do troll and dwarf stories?
And a somewhat intetested Meh to the Arathi. The Forsaken are most fun when they’re besieging the realms of man with a weaponizied Spirit Halloween store so more Light zealots we’ll inevitably come into conflict with is A Okay in my book.
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This is awesome but why is there a bunch of complaining in the youtube comment
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why do you read youtube comments
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Reading the comments section is generally bad for your blood pressure and iq level.
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