Outside of the fact that one survived long enough to have more bad writing attached to them? Humans/Dwarves/and Elves to Orcs.
One has also been riding the demonic corruption fence, except for the leader who said the idea was alright… who was one of (maybe), like, 4 orcs at the time that thought with as much of a clear head as Blizzard would allow.
Orcs: Took an elven runestone meant for protection and warding, used it to forge a weapon to give them a chance of surviving the Alliance’s superior magic.
Silver Hand: Took the Dark Crystal from the skeksi a warlock’s body. Sat on it for about… 20 years? Blasted it with holy energy, and accidentally made a light crystal that a dwarf poured “all of his hate into” to forge a weapon out of to cull the undead’s superior numbers.
I don’t know. I feel like it’s more like saying “the person that invented dynamite is evil because he invented dynamite and it was used by faction X rather than Y.”
Hell, even what you quoted of mine is inaccurate… because I just remembered; Apparently some forms of necromancy are fine and dandy.
In war, pretty much everything can be considered evil. Regardless of your stance, in war you’re killing people and ruining people’s lives and a large portion of these onesided assaults comes from the fact that Warcraft wasn’t even supposed to be Warcraft, so they’ve had to retroactively make it so the orcs were less insane.
Which, given what they had and what the narrative had been? They did a pretty decent job. Not a great one, but decent. The “Law and Chaos;Good and Evil” argument is pointless in the long run for WoW because Blizzard decided that it’s not as simple as that. Each side is going to have its own customs and views, and this was a period where (iirc) Legion influence was fading off because Doomhammer wiped out the Shadow Council so the Horde could get back on track. Something he had intended to do, before Durotan was assassinated, and we’re not given a reason why the war continued other than to draw our own conclusions…
Which, if a 7 foot tall murder beast walked up to me and said; “So, turns out we were all just played. Don’t worry, I killed the first guy, the other is in a coma right now. But we still need a place to live, can we crash in your backyard that we just completely demolished because of a massive wave of hatred that’s been working through our minds? We did just kinda come from a dying world and just had a pretty nasty war.” (Yes, a war they started because the Orc Pope said the draenei were going to genocide them.)
I’d probably freak the hell out and react as most people would; Try to get them away from my people.
Yeah; Elven point of view: Absolutely terrible and evil, because it lead to one of the most devastating defeats in recent history.
Human point of view: Still evil, we still have orcs squatting in Stormwind.
Dwarves point of view: Evil, because they’re aiding the Amani.
Orcs; We’re stuck here, because we can’t go home. Diplomacy is probably out of the question now. And our enemies suddenly have a lot of new allies.
Because that’s the narrative Blizzard wanted to push, and it’s actually somewhat interesting to me. Because it applies motives beyond “WAR. WAR. WAR. WAR. WAR. KILL. KILL. KILL.”
It’s one of three things I remember with decent clarity from the book.
- Quel’thalas.
- Gul’dan acting like he couldn’t hear the dragon rider.
- Doomhammer sending the Black Tooth Grin to kill Gul’daniel.