I’m still baffled at how that damn thing even caught on fire. it’s a living tree, on an island, miles off the coast, full of priests and druids and mages and full of ponds, lakes, and streams, and I have SEEN buckets in Darnassus.
And a few flaming boogers from shorebound catapults are gonna light the whole thing up?
“it happened because the writers needed it to happen, so that’s how it happened” strikes again!
Nah, I just like to feel like a hero in my heroic fantasy.
I’m re-leveling through Zandalar, and it really is amazing how incompetent we are. I’m going through failing to save Rezan, to being tricked in Nazmir, and I know later I’m going to fail to protect the seal, and then Rastakhan will die, and then my warchief is going to call me scum. Almost every single story beat in some way beats us down.
I’m fine with rails, but lay the track down somewhere nice please. You do for the Alliance.
imagine playing a vulpera and being like “Yeah, those children deserved to be burned alive because their parents desperately defending them didn’t kneel and bare their necks for the death squads” like, man, woah, lay off the zug sauce
“What is justice to you now? Must Thunder Bluff burn? Must Orgrimmar? Will the deaths of our innocents appease you? Do you think pain does not simply bring more pain?” -Baine Bloodhoof to Tyrande Whisperwind
Blizzard itself even Characterized The Battle of Dazaralor as The Empire Strikes Back. They equate the Alliance attack on Dazaralor with the Empire’s attack at the Battle of Hoth.
To note, Madeleine Roux had Tyrande answer Baine’s question with having her say that for the Horde to earn forgiveness it would have to kissed the feet of a thousand Night Elves.
Blizzard made a terrible mistake, they put the player in the scenario of genocide as the most important war element of Sylvanas. She even praises us during the WOT that all this would not be possible without us.
In other words: We as players made genocide possible in this scenario, we spread the carpet in front of the warchief, and the warchief only had to strut over it because of us players. So narratively, we share a huge amount of the guilt, which is solely Blizzard’s fault. We can´t even Say “Look, Tyrande, we play not a real role in this drama”…because we were important in this war.
Tyrande has the right to be angry. Nelf Players have the right to be upset, even a few years after, because there hasn’t been much progress or attention paid to the Night Elves as racial faction / on azeroth than Tyrande herself.
The War of Thorns destroyed everything and everyone. It killed the Horde being an underdog and not a murderous, genocidal entity. It killed the Night Elves by kicking them after not giving them an actual win (read: pyrrhic victories aren’t good.) and annihilated Sylvanas’ original characterization and the Forsaken along with it.
Nobody won in War of Thorns.
Players need to attack moreso the writing from Blizzard itself instead of other players, regardless of their belonging. Night Elf Players who want Horde accounts deleted are insane. Horde Players who openly mock Night Elf Players who want an actual win in almost two decades are callous.
Which again, is the fault of a Blood Elf/Orc depending on how you look at it, not Jaina.
Right after the 2nd war was over, Daelin however wanted to kill every single Orc after the 3rd war against the Legion. And after BFA everyone wants peace except Tyrande.
Sylvanas does not mention Genn Greymane or Stormheim in-game for her justification of the War of the Thorns, and Saurfang also did not mention Genn Greymane or Stormheim to any of the Horde soldiers in-game or even in the novels for that matter.