“Thrall” was the name given to Go’el as an infant by Aedelas Blackmoore to always remind him that he was an orc and therefore a slave to humanity.
When Thrall met the Frostwolf Clan they offered to give him a more dignified orcish name. But he chose to keep the name “Thrall” because it would remind him of his hatred for the Humans for what they did to him.
But now Thrall has made it explicitly clear he’s thrown in with the BBBB (Baine Bloodhoof Bootlicking Brigade). So the name has returned to original meaning. He went from a slave to the Alliance, to an icon of vengeance, to a Warchief, to a World Shaman just to loop back to being a slave to the Alliance. A political pawn to keep the Orcs weak and passive until the Alliance needs to use them as meat shields again, just like Blackmoore always wanted.
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did he ever meet his gf Tabitha in the Shadowlands?
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No. They were too busy telling the Thrall Meets Mommy story that they already did in WoD.
And for some reason Drakka is espionage queen of the war-zombies even though in life she mostly hung around and gave reasonable advice.
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Being world shaman literally meant he was a slave to azeroths purpose. Its not like the alliance ever really had control over azeroths future anyways so I don’t really see the connection where you can say him being a pawn for azeroths purpose means hes a slave of the alliance. Unless you’re claiming that he’s sacrificing so that they don’t have to and inherently they must be winning, but thats sort of just a selfish depiction in a closed off universe with no sense of the future.
Wrongo, Blackmoore wanted Thrall, and by extension the orcs, to be weak and passive to him, but to command orcs in an attack on the Alliance. In other words, Blackmoore wanted to be the one in charge of the Alliance and saw Thrall as a way to use the orcs to get that position.
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And once Blackmoore took control of the Alliance the Orcs would then be the meatshields of Blackmoore’s Alliance.
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the warcraft movie ended on a happy note i thought? baby thrall gets fished out of the water by a caring handyman or something…
i didnt know it was THAT dark
You know what’d have been a cool story? If Taretha had been sent to Bastion but had already lost her memories before we got there, so Thrall would have to cope with knowing that even after crossing into the afterlife he’d never truly get to speak with her again.
That would be heartwrenching and compelling which is why this writing team would never be able to think of anything like it.
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That would be a fun idea in theory, but she’d be a Kyrian. So she’d neither look like herself, or remember anything about her past.
She could have been one of the many Kyrian we interact with. We’d never know.
Void Elf and not knowing the lore, name a more iconic duo.
…okay, that’s not really fair of me.
Anyway it gets darker, there’s was a human child who met Thrall when he was an infant because Blackmoore had made the wife of one of his stewards to nurse him because baby Thrall was too young for solids and the woman was already lactating from recently giving birth to her second child which later died of illness.
Anyway this human girl named Taretha, knowing Thrall as an infant made her think of him like a brother and they were friends in secret, she was one of the only two people in Durnholde who treated Thrall as more than an animal.
Eventually, she assisted in Thrall’s escape and when her involvement was discovered she was beheaded for helping an Orc. Then at the Battle of Durnholde, Blackmoore dropped Taretha’s severed head in front of Thrall to mock him.
Yes this is all canon.
Their face stays the same, and given the traumatic way Thrall saw it last I bet he remembers it damn well.
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I love that afterlives sorry bout it
If the face stays the same, wouldn’t we see them with all kinds of goofy mis-matched faces? Tauren and god knows what else from the infinite cosmos all funneled into the Shadow Lands?
Kind of a horrible thought.
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I do think it’s hilarious that the Kyrians all look like humans when humans are meant to be hideous degenerate mutants.
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So say you’re a naga. One of the lads, the big brutes. You’re four meters tall. You have room temperature IQ and your room happens to be at the bottom of the sea. But you’re really devoted and loyal to Queen Azshara. She’s shiny and smart and smol and does all the thinking.
You die. Very sad. You get sorted to the Kyrian for your selfless devotion. Do you keep the truck engine-block sized Trex head atop the comparatively small Kyrian body?
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I mean, why do Kyrians need to have a small body in the first place?
They don’t. They’re actually comically large and carry us around like were purse-dogs.
But they’re not big enough to rock Harjitan’s noggin.
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So does anyone here play TTRPGs? Specifically Starfinder?
There’s a space valkyrie in one of the bestiaries. Except she’s a dinosaur lady. That’s what a kyrian who used to be a naga brute, and maintained physical traits from life, would look like. Except blue and glowy.
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They would definitely be more interesting visually. If retaining traits, specifically faces is indeed part of their lore(and I’m not saying it’s not), the model should at least have a …hood, mask or veil, or something.
So when I’m like “lol so a Niffen Kyrian would have a plum-sized mole head” they could just hit me with the magic-hat excuse and that’s that.
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Yeah, I was kind of taken aback at finding out that Galistos had been a tauren in life. On the one hand, it fits with Bastion being low-key disturbing; on the other, kyrian all look like blue humans. Or blue vrykul, maybe.
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Some of you Horde need counseling. This isn’t normal.
Oh, you’re the one who said Horde should set campfires around Amirdrassil.
Seriously, I mean this quite serious, go talk to someone in the medical profession. Treating things like this like they’re real events is not normal.
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