It pans out. It also explains why the Blackrocks set up shop in Blackrock Mountain, because presumably, apart from Nefarion’s efforts to dominate the area for his breeding experiments, Dark Iron Ore might also functional similarly to Blackrock Ore.
It was the closest parallel to their old homeland that Azeroth could offer, if not for those pesky Dark Iron Dwarves and Ragnaros.
For my own part, I’ve always assumed that normal or ‘green’ Orcs are referred to as Daem’har, from the Orcish term for demons or those twisted by them was Dae’mon, and since Mag’har means uncorrupted, adding the ‘m’ to the end of ‘Dae’ and ‘har’ seems to mean ‘people’, I assume that Daem’har implies that the green-skinned Orcs are the ‘twisted people’ or the ‘corrupted people’.
This is something of a sticking point and the term is often used as an insult by the Mag’har towards their green-skinned kin, who really can’t do much more than grumble as it is technically true, if insulting.
The Tauren don’t actually remember why relations with themselves and the Kaldorei broke off, and most Kaldorei don’t either, but both blame each other, with the Tauren assming it was the Kaldorei’s high-handed attitude to the ‘mortal races’ and their self-inflicted blindness to the harm their people had caused to the world with their hubris, and the Kaldorei certain it was the Taurens’ ‘primitive’ superstitions about Elune and calling her Moon the eye of the Earth Mother that was the final straw.
In truth, only Tyrande, Malfurion and the highest-ranking Kaldorei members of the Priesthood and Druidic Circles know, and whatever it was, it was so dire that even centuries after the fact, none of them will speak of the event to anyone.
It has been said that Draenei only produce children rarely, and any birth is always celebrated by the community, with gifts and necessities needed for the newborn’s first few months provided by the community.
But why? Certainly, it is a standard fantasy trope that long lived races struggle with procreation, a side-effect of the process that extends their lifespan or a balancing to ensure all these long-lived, hyper-skilled entities don’t overpopulate.
Personally I believe that the Draenei, and by extension the Kaldorei, Sin’dorei and Shal’dorei are no less or more fertile than an Orc, Human or Dwarf, but social and cultural pressures created a situation where having child after child was seen as barbaric, a method used by crude, simpler species because they couldn’t keep their children alive, so they had to mass produce them and pray at least one made it to adulthood.
For the Draenei, however, with so many millennia spent on the Genedar, a massive mountain-sized crystal vessel, space and resources were at a premium, even with the vessel’s ability to warp between worlds. Purifying the air, cleaning and recycling the water, producing food to nourish and sustain the Draenei, all of this drained resources, resources that could not be replenished until the vessel made contact with a suitable planet, and despite the abundance of worlds in the Great Dark Beyond, worlds that could sustain an oxygen-based atmosphere, sufficient sources of drinkable water, soil conditions suitable to raise crops and native fauna and flora that could be eaten or used would have been few and far between. Some worlds may have had an abundance of some resources and a considerable lack of others, while others still could have been poisoned paradises with a hidden sting for the unwary who tried to settle there.
For the Draenei, every single child was a blessing, a hope … but also a burden. Small, fragile, vulnerable, they would have to be taught to not waste anything, to always be on the alert for danger, either from the world around them or the ‘scary red people’ that were looking for them.
To even have children was a sign that the Draenei felt at peace, that they had hope that their long exile had finally found them a home. That isn’t to say children born in-between such safe havens never happened, but they would have been the exception rather than the rule.
I’ve a head-canon that on Azeroth, surrounded by the Alliance and even with the Horde breathing down their necks, the Draenei have actually had a population boom, and after the fall of the Legion, the end of their long crusade against their twisted kin and the Dark Titan who seduced them to evil, the Draenei finally set about having something they’d never truly possessed for the past 25,000 years.
A home.
And then Sylvanas decided she liked charcoal and that’s why we never saw the Zenadar or any of the other Crystal Space-Ships move to Teldrassil, because the vessels were using all their remaining power and weaponry to keep the surge of children running around the Exodar’s ruined shell safe from any Horde aggression, and the prospect that they may have safeguarded their future by allowing the Kaldorei people to possibly risk extinction is something that just eats at the Draenei something fierce.