Alright, adding onto what I said the other day. First, saberon heroes, something I noticed with Allied Races is that for the most part we really don’t get to see much of their leaders. Mean we literally have a daughter of AU Durotan and we’ve yet to see her interact with Thrall, Blizzard added new characters into the lore who’ve we haven’t gotten to see any action on. So in this instance, why not change it?
If we go the Horde route, (could honestly work for alliance as well since factions don’t really matter atm) we’ll need someone to work with who holds knowledge of the Saberon before interacting with them. This being a way to prevent immediately being attacked and killed… Therefore, let’s use Overlord Geya’rah, who grew up on Alternate Draenor in the war with the Lightbound. Now, why would the Saberon not attack us with her in our company? We’ll get to that in a second.
The Botani are becoming a massive threat in Kalimdor and, they COULD somehow manage to get spores over to Eastern Kingdom (don’t need to though, a Kalimdor based expansion to overhaul the map there would be great, and allow Blizzard to update the old world bit by bit), but let’s focus on Kalimdor yeah? The Botani, begin making moves to overtake Orgimmar and other major Horde locations or bases, as that’s where the Wailing Caverns are right? Near Orgimmar. During this, a number of soldiers who survived Botani attacks could report seeing cat men hunting and killing the plant men quite effectively, thus we the player are informed of this at a meeting with the leaders and their champions to discuss what to do. Maybe they learn that these are indeed the saberon of Alternate Draenor, and our dear friend Overlord Geya’rah having dealings with them in the past. Could even go as far as having her mention that the Saberon leader owes a blood debt to her father, thus now to her… For this reason, we are required to go into the new lush jungle in search of the Saberon.
Once we come across the saberon, we walk directly into an ambush designed for the Botani, and seeing this they entrap and interrogate us… Their leader not there however. All the saberon there, DON’T recognize Overlord Geya’rah believing us to be infected by the Botani. Then as our situation begins to look dire, the Botani who the group of Saberon were laying in ambush for, arrive… Seeing new prey to add to their food stores/zombie army. This then forces a more direct assault of the Saberon, and now realizing that without the advantage of an ambush they can’t win, the leader of their hunting party decides “F*** it, RELEASE THEM!! FIGHT IF YOU WANNA LIVE!” This then causes us to fight off the Botani, and while the Hunting Party and Horde/Alliance Party lose some members, the Saberon realize we are not a threat, and now take Overlord Geya’rah’s word.
Thus prompts us being taken to their village/pridelands, where we meet the saberon’s leader. From what we can tell of the saberon, their leader’s are chosen based off of their strength, so the leader or Chieftain could be this old warrior who is beginning to grey, yet still retains his strength. The old wise warrior kinda thing. Could ALSO do something where the male/female who didn’t trust us at first, who was leading the hunting party and led us to their village, is the next in line for leadership as they’re the next strongest warrior, and steadily reaching similar strength as the current Chieftain. By the end of the story this character can steadily become stronger and prove themselves as the strongest. So, as I was saying earlier, the current chieftain can recognize Overlord Geya’rah as the daughter of Durotan, the orc who saved his life, the life of his mate/child, or even clan, whatever the writing team wants to do, so long as it makes sense to be a severe enough Blood Debt to make them agree to joining and aiding us against the botani. The saberon would of course view the orcs as worthy allies, but the other races I believe they’d hold doubts about their strength, especially the smaller races like dwarves, gnomes, goblins, and vulpera. Could even have a scene where the chieftain or next in line, heck even a random warrior, makes jabs at one of these races, saying something along the lines of “Such a small creature could never survive our trials.” or something. Thus leading into a quest chain where, while we are aiding them, we have to prove our strength to the clan of saberon.
Now skipping to the end, the Botani know where the Saberon are based, by this time we get to see different characters, new and old, develop. Hopefully getting us attached the Chieftain… Before he dies. Above I mentioned the idea of the Botani learning of where the Saberon are based, due to this knowledge and the hassle we’ve been proving to be, they attack attempting to squash the threat beneath their stumps… OR, we do so well that we find ourselves at one of their MAJOR bases, where we push forward for a final assault, only to fail. How would we fail? No idea, up to the writers, but something could happen that forces the Saberon’s current Chieftain to draw his weapons and fight for his people One. Last. Time. So, we get to see this epic cinematic where this saberon (and maybe another prominent character) fight at the gates of the Botani, holding them back and buying us time to retreat and regroup. Here we can get a bit of a solemn scene where we mourn the death of the chief, but the next warrior, enraged at the death of his/her dear friend and teacher (maybe even parental figure) cries out for vengeance. They make a Blood Oath to avenge and slaughter the botani in the Chieftain’s name, not taking up the mantle of Chieftain themselves until after this oath is complete. This would set up a story for the raid/dungeon where we then get to see the Chieftain, who is the strongest warrior the saberon have, now nothing more than a plant zombie in the service of the Botani. His sacrifice now made a mockery by the Botani, could have the big bad laugh about it, finding amusement in the idea of forcing their friend into killing them. Anyway, once this dungeon/raid is done and a new patch/expansion comes out, the Saberon then become a playable race, the quest involving the warrior taking up the mantle of chieftain, maybe finishing off one of the main botani behind the death of the previous chieftain, and proving themselves to their people. Would end with a massive feast with Quillboar as the main dish. So, thoughts?
