So this is a weird complaint but… why do we keep revisiting this one war over and over again? I get it’s a super important war and all, but almost every other war not from the RTS games tend to get ignored (Troll-Aqir, the Hakkari war, the Botani-Apexis war, War of the Three Hammers, the Pandaren Rebellion, even the War of the Satyr). We are getting a troll wars book which, while i am hesitant because it’s going to be a high elf book, is going to be a breath of fresh air compared to the same story of Nelves vs Demons for the hundredth time. Why do we keep going back is the thing, why can’t we ever learn about the ancient history of other races in depth.
I do understand why it was important to the modern setting, but so many other important wars get ignored, why?
If I had to guess, it’s probably because of just how massive and global it’s impact was.
Like don’t get me wrong, I’d love to explore the other major wars too, but we’re not really super active in places or ways where I can see it being relevant to what’s currently going on.
Whenever we’re fully back in Old God mode, I’d love to see some quests dealing with the War of the Shifting Sands.
Not sure. They get hyper focused on the War of the Ancients and the Third War. Sometimes I think they just don’t care about fleshing out the gap between then and now too much. The Long Vigil sure was a long period of not much going on in their eyes.
But I am also confused, are we getting another WotA book?
I mean, Richard Knaack wrote the original trilogy, and I would be very happy if we got a new book to replace it, because I consider those books to be the most significant gutting maneuver of the Kaldorei race that we have.
I imagine anything about the WotA right now though is because of Azshara. A book from her perspective would be interesting.
I don’t think were getting another book, it’s just i’m annoyed were fighting another villain from WoTA right after getting out of legion, which also had 3 zones heavily based off of it. It makes sense why were doing it, it just annoys me that we know so little of any military conflict outside of it or the rts games.
I would love it if we get book series on some of the other wars though, 3 hammers, troll aqir and anything from Draenor are the ones that would most intriguing to me.
It’s probably just because Azshara has been highly anticipated as a Villain, and when I think about it, much of the lasting things associated with other wars is kind of already used up.
C’thun was wasted in Vanilla… Granted, I suppose they could always bring him back. Southern Kalimdor is really cool imo, and it would be cool if we saw it reworked to fit a new narrative… But there is a big sword in Silithus, so… idk.
The Amani are not really in a place to be any major threat… Lei Shen is dead. Hakkar might be able to be brought back. Idk, not sure what you really expect?
I do agree though, it would be cool if we had more insight on these events. A War of the Shifting Sands novel would be awesome I think, and could really how horrifying it must have been. Similar to Before the Storm, Blizzard could use novels such as those to open new story lines in-game.
Come to think of it… Has the infinite Dragonflight been totally dealt with yet? I don’t think so… And that could very easily tie into C’thun and maybe a new AQ and Caverns of Time.
i dont even think they need to use them for new storylines. A Novel retelling these events would be fine enough for me, or even better, make warcraft 4 based off the past. It would work decently well and is probably more likely then them just redoing wow but as an rts.
In the distant future yes, as their leader is going to die no matter what. The problem is, the infinite dragonflight, much like their leader most likely exist outside of time, so it is hard to say that they are dealt with or not.
Honestly I am highly sceptical it will be anything beyond a “noble humans and high elves defeating the insidious and evil trolls who, apart from being the original inhabitants of the land, are the unprovoked aggressors and villians”.
Blizzard hasn’t done well with two sided stories in a long while. A blanket whitewashing of the origins of the human kingdoms seems to be the most likely outcome of a Troll War novel.
I think that somewhat downplays the significance of the Aqir-Troll war. If the Trolls had lost that war, the planet would be dominated by the minions of the Old Gods. It also is the war that ended up leading to the original Troll empire splintering into separate empires.
It might not have sunk a continent but it was a pretty damn important war for the fate of Azeroth.
This makes me think of the line “There are things worse than death”.
Plus it would have pretty much ruled out the existence of any of the current playable races as the NEs would have never existed and the Aqir probably would have hunted down the other races when they became dominant.