What is it about the Alliance that I hate so much?

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I can’t put my finger on why, but playing Alliance makes me feel like I’m a colonizer furthering the cause of colonialism. I feel like the faction is self-righteous and it makes me feel icky. I equate Alliance with terms I loathe such as “law & order,” “tradition,” and “faith.”

Yet in this day and age when both factions have had their fair share of both darkness and light, why do I continue to feel this way?

Is there a reason I can’t get over the persistent feeling that the Alliance is so lame that they even make werewolves lame by association?

Or is there some way I can change my perspective to enjoy playing an Alliance character?

Give me all your thoughts and your best advice.

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Not enough spikes.

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We ain’t kids like the horde ? Fur the horde :rofl:

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It’s because you’re an unironic 40 year old edgelord NEET who lives off of bitcoins, as you’ve told us in other threads. The idea of behaving and generally being a productive member of society is anathema to you and the Horde was practically custom designed to appeal to you.

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I think we have a winner. Thank you for this insight. I believe you are correct.

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OSHA safety violation

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I’m glad that I could help, Goonsir.

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All of these things are huge on the Horde, so I don’t know where this comes from.

Law & Order is not unique to the Alliance, the Horde has this as well. You must accept the law of the Horde to become a member of that faction.

But under the Alliance, domestically, everyone gets to rule themselves. 100%.

The Council of Three Hammers rules Ironforge, and only recently did the Dark Iron join the Alliance… So how did that work before the Dark Iron were in the Alliance? Was Ironforge not run by the Alliance? Anduin has no say what the Night Elves or Dwarves do. The leader of the Alliance leads on the military, not the people. Gnomes, Draenei, Night Elves, Kul Tiras, the Dwarves, and Gilneas are all run by their own laws and customs. Just like the Dwarves of the council. They ran themselves but of course the Wildhammer and Bronzebeard used their majority to sway the Kingdom of Ironforge.

Tradition is easy. Of course the Horde has a lot of tradition. So does the Alliance but I see the Horde as more of a traditional society. They have a very elder-focused tribal way of things but that’s just my own perception and not rooted in the lore that it’s more of a Horde thing. So it’s hard to say exactly who has more cultural tradition.

When it comes to faith… The Horde is all over this.

From Trolls having their Loa religion and being extremely devout Voodooists, to virtually all Tauren having a religion in either ancestor worship via Shamanism and now introduced to them again with the Light. Then you have the Blood Elves who among them have many Light Followers and pilgrims who visit the Sunwell from all over Azeroth.

The Alliance definitely has religion beat on the Horde though I’ll give you that. The Draenei are very attuned to the Light and only some of them follow Shamanism. Then you have the Church of the Light being a staple in Human society except for Gilneas and Kul Tiras. But Harvest Witches in Gilneas with an introduction to Druidism has kept this society very different from the Light focused Stormwind Humans and the Shamanistic society of Kul Tiras.

Both factions have races with seemingly large atheistic non-religious members. Void Elves, Nightborne, Orcs, Goblins, Forsaken, Dwarves, and Gnomes. Horde has more of them so it seems yep, Alliance is more religious but not by much.

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Exactly. Alliance construction doesn’t have even close to the Orcish Spike and Hut Association’s mandatory minimum number of spikes per foot necessary to deter large birds of prey from snacking on the occupants.

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I’ve been going both ways since cata (originally alliance). I mained alliance in bfa and found the pug scene insufferable, swapped for SL and will never be back.

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What is it about the Alliance that I hate so much?

We’re the Goodies! The Goody goody yum yum! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Why do people say this like it’s an ethical statement?

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Well, I’m morally opposed to colonalism and have a particular hatred for overseas imperialism. Spain is my least favorite country in history due to what it did to Latin America and some of the Pacific Islands. It’s why I’m not interested in New World.

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Both factions have this. With Alliance it’s self-righteousness, with the Horde it’s chest pounding and bravado that’s trying too hard.

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Because you have not yet grown out of your edgy phase. That could be why.

Or gnomes. Could be gnomes, too.

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Every Alliance race aside from the Draenei has been indigenous to the lands they control for like literally 3k to 10k years

If you’re looking for a colonizing force on Azeroth the most overwhelmingly applicable example is actually the Orcs (and maybe the Undead depending on your metaphysical perspective)

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ye ye son, the alliance is a “deus vult” faction get over it.

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I think I respond to this sort of energy better though. :confused:

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I disagree on both accounts.

Where is the Horde colonizing anything? Same with the Alliance? And where does this “self-righteousness” come from or the “bravado” of the Horde?

Visually I can see what you mean. In an aesthetic way it comes off this way, but in text and lore not really. Not at all.

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You’re playing on the faction with orcs, OP.

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