I get it, I get it. Winter is coming. I know. I know.
Oddly, the Warsong’s clan color is purple. The red is most associated with the Blackrock clan. The group that Thrall led to Kalimdor was originally led by Orgrim Doomhammer before his death, so they probably picked up the Blackrock iconography from him and kept it after Thrall took over.
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That’s half correct. The Blackrock Clan’s color is indeed red, but so is the Warsong Clan’s color. This is because the various clans shared colors based on Warcraft 2. In Tides of Darkness, there were 8 clans represented, and they each used a different color, and in Beyond the Dark Portal, there were 8 more clans and they shared the same colors. These colors have been kept through World of Warcraft. But yeah, the Blackrock and Warsong both share the color red.
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/Warcraft%202%20Battlenet%20edition.PDF
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Warsong have apparently been depicted as both purple and red at various times. Pulled this line from the trivia part of a wiki:
“The Warsong clan color was red in Beyond the Dark Portal and purple in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, presumably to differentiate it from the main playable Horde faction. Rise of the Horde said its colors were red and black.[47] Most modern artwork depicts the Warsong banner as red, but a piece of artwork in World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 2 also features a Warsong banner colored purple.”
And this is the image it refers to:
I think it’s safe to say though that these days warsong are definitely red. Blackrock tends to be repped by black, appropriately. They use those clan names for the heritage sets of those colours after all.
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Ah, I had missed that. Then the purple comment is fair and understandable. 
I am loving all this lore. Thank you everyone.
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How is him wearing Frostwolf colors negative? He literally traveled through time and met his dead parents, how many orphans get to do that? I’d probably honor them in some way too.
City was destroyed and was rebuild by Rommath, whom I guess used red to symbolize the blood of his people who died to the source. Same thing as renaming them self blood elf’s.
1: It was the symbol before The Horde met the Tauren in WC3.
2: The tauren have cloven hooves, and that would be a horseshoe shape.
3: It’s an orcish toilet seat.
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thrall’s balls!
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Sorry, probably should’ve been clearer. The second statement was just a general one made in wistfulness. The first one was more my hope that was the real reason, but Blizzard’s been somewhat lax in regards to lore recently.
Granted, I haven’t listened to the recent Heartlands audio stories yet, so I’m likely behind on some things.
My onesie with the trap door in the back is the exception.
I noticed the same thing and assume it is a nod to the Frostwolf chieftain set that we also see in HearthStone. Most of the Frostwolf gear seems to be a muted blue with silver, black, or gold. I like the look of it. Reminds me a bit of the Saronite plate set in Wrath.
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Yes.
Our factions may not matter to the devs but they still matter to us.
- He put away Doomhammer’s Plate
- Blue is the traditional Frostwolf color
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I’m pretty sure that some of the remote/unoccupied structures that were destroyed by the scourge in Ghostlands are still blue.
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Nah, it’s just his favorite color and nobody was left to tell him not to.
The high elven buildings in Allerian Stronghold are also blue themed.
Seems weird? because it is weird.
They are clearly making thrall more palatable and acceptable to the alliance as a neutral character, rather than a horde character, this is due to their effort into making “warcraft character” that appeal to “warcraft fans”, instead of doing horde and alliance characters, who would appeal to alliance and horde fans, its a kind of re branding, and its being going since shadowlands.
People underestimate the power of psychology of colours and how they can affect people perception. That is the idea, to make Thrall more easy to the eyes, so alliance players don’t feel threatened/displeased by it, so they don’t feel “too much horde” on screen and the horde players will begrudgingly accept, because he still is an orc and the main character of the horde, we “cant complain”.
The ones saying “its because its his clan colour, you bigot”, no, shut up, its not. It would be the case if he was using any other random outfit, but he is using ORGRIN BLACK PLATE, his armor is supposed to be pitch black with dark gold spikes, this was part of his iconography since warcraft 2, all official art show like that, all lore says its like that.
And now, randomly, every piece of official art this crap that comes out is blue now, every one, Murloc thrall, the new audiobook(his colors are the exact the same as Jaina) even the TWW artbook. This is NOT a coincidence, its a deliberate change, and i despise it. Despise the reason behind it, despise they actually made it and i fear the future lore with crap like this.
I see people are saying random nonsense about small factions or individuals in the alliance or in the horde using red and blue respectfully, understand: none of those are as important as the literal face of the faction. Thrall IS the horde, changing him means changing the horde, and its not good.
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Thrall rerolled warrior. I’m surprised he doesn’t have a special character in his name. Must have purchased a name change.
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