Vrykul have strong connections to humanity lore-wise.
There’s the obvious fact that humanity are the descendants of the Vrykul. Both Vrykul and humanity have a strong reverence for Tyr as he embodied virtues both races admire. The Vrykul that traveled with Tyr into the Eastern Kingdoms and later presided over Tyr’s tomb - and whose duties would ultimately be taken over by their human children provides another strong cultural link between both groups.
Then we have Stormheim Vrykul who serve a now-freed Odyn. They could easily make it so Sigryn was redeemed by an Alliance character and thus give her Tideskorn a reason to ally with the Alliance.
There’s also the Vrykul who stayed loyal to Thorim in Northrend (frost Vrykul) and the rest who have since become loyal to him after Arthas’s fall.
Then there are matters of practicality. Both the Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren are hostile to the Vrykul and both of these factions surround Stormheim. It would make sense for the Vrykul there to seek allies who could help them against these historical foes given that both are now backed by the Horde.
Yes, both Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren are openly hostile to Vrykul.
And you bring up a point I forgot which strengthens the argument. The Horde warchief tried to enslave the leader of the holy-based Val’kyr, who serves Odyn.
Many other Vrykul obviously defied his order otherwise humanity WOULD have died out. Also the Vrykul who watched over Tyr didn’t share in Ymiron’s view either.
Horde doesn’t need another giant race. They already have Zandalari and Tauren.
I don’t even know what this means. If you are referring to Kul Tirans they ARE human.
I’m fine with it frankly. The Alliance was always the human-esque faction. Elves, dwarves, gnomes from WC2 were pretty much a variation oh human.
We have werewolves (except in non-combat situations if you so wish to switch to human form) and Draenei. Also blame Blizzard for giving us gnomes 2.0
And those are more than enough to side with humans. Your own point about the Horde warchief trying to enslave th leader of the holy-based Val’kyr strenghtens the argument of them going Alliance.
They have different faces and animations so not exactly true. The differences are akin to the differences between the “fat” models of Kul Tirans and regular human models.
Because we will have received kultirans, it will be extremely difficult for Blizzad to correct this failure by allowing the alliance to have Vrykul.
We received a 280-kilogram obese pirate race instead of a 3-meter tall Vikings race.
Blizzard just chose what would be most disappointing and gave it to the alliance as someone who does a huge favor to someone who doesn’t deserve anything good.
The most hilarious thing is that void belves are blood elves who hate the alliance and yet these turncoats can be in the alliance when they have no reason but to need a roof over their heads.
BfA served only for the devs to throw all the curved balls that they had on the alliance, in the form of “compromise”, with void belves, junkgnomes and kultirans.
