One small thing I hope for in future expansions is to see more interaction between Thrall and Geya’rah.
I think it would be interesting to see these two conversing on a more regularly basis since, in a way, they are brother and sister. They also had very different upbringings, growing up on completely different worlds, which shaped who they were.
Thrall’s the sum of all his experiences, good and bad, knowing war and peace, but Geya’rah grew up knowing mostly endless conflict. Thrall only really met his parents, or at least his mother, in his adulthood long after Draka died, while Geya’rah knew them for most of her childhood, only to see them get killed by Draenei. Seeing them talk about their lives, butting head and forming a sort of sibling bond would be a pretty interesting story idea.
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I agree.
Orcs are already so depleted that family needs to be important to them. Both found and born.
I think this can set up interesting stories that many folks will probably disagree on whether they are interesting.
Interesting to me, I should say.
Like, Thrall and Geyarah are AU siblings. If we want to bring up the whole “Shadowlands = threads that make a rope”, they have Draka as a matron in Maldraxxus. There is something there to be extrapolated.
And that can lay the groundwork for a story line involving the Hellscream line. If I recall correctly, there is an AU Exarch Hellscream. How will that all work out? He is MU Garrosh’s brother from another mother.
Some people want to ignore Shadowlands, or WoD, or BfA, or any lore that they dislike. But I see it as possible avenues for development. And I think making the sibling relationship between Geyarah and Thrall more concrete could really lay the ground work for what is to be done with the AUs as a whole.
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Wait, how could Geya’rah see Draka die? We didn’t see her death in that scenario. And we don’t know if Geya’rah personally witnessed Durotan’s death or learned about it from someone else.
The Mag’har as a whole are a very interesting topic that Blizzard just kinda doesn’t touch because it’s not immediately in frame.
The orcs of Azeroth have had years to come to terms with the loss of their Draenor. While some are still there, the latest developments say that they’ve decided that their place is on Azeroth now, and it’s time to leave the Outland. This is a hugely traumatizing event, but they have had decades to heal from it.
The AU Mag’har, on the other hand, just lost their Draenor. Most of them were hunted down and either wiped out or assimilated. They left Draenor in a hurry to escape death, and then just kinda joined the Blood War. How are they coming to grips with this loss?
Not only that, but none of them were really featured in the Kosh’arg, which is strange because the MU and AU clans are literally the same, just separated by a timeline. Relka and Lantressor claim their clans (Shadowmoon and Burning Blade) are near extinct due to corruption, yet the Mag’har brought over many of them from a world where they never were. Why don’t they simply unify? Clans like the Thunderlords and Laughing Skull exist on Azeroth again, shouldn’t they have gotten a table at the Kosh’arg? Hell, are there any ways these two timelines differ in a way that makes the versions of the clans incompatible with each other?
I agree as well - Geya’rah is interesting territory they’re not treading. She is more or less Thrall’s sister, and she’s a child of Durotan and Draka who got to live her life ON Draenor rather than Azeroth. Both of them are strangers to each other’s upbringing, so they should have some sort of sit down to see what they can bring to one another - especially after Thrall met Draka in Maldraxxus.
There’s a lot of ground to explore with the Mag’har, but unfortunately their purpose boils down to wanting to fight in more war. The entirety of their contribution in Shadows Rising was clanking their spears on the ground to agree with Rokhan wanting to fight the Alliance, and I don’t think they’ve done anything since.
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