What Was The Red Dragon Wrathgate Plan?

In the cinema, they show up at the last minute and rake the Blight zone with fire which removes it and replaces it with flowers and toasted Bolvars. But why?

~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwngFEIg8Kw

From Wyrmrest, they can see the Wrathgate, and the quests have them working closely with the Horde and Alliance across the zone. They should have known the big push was coming, and should have been helping. Did they wait until Arthas had appeared and set out then to strike him directly? Did they ONLY take flight to counter the Blight? Or if they were coordinating their attack along with the factions from the start, but their timing sucked?

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Pretty sure the plan was to join the attack when Arthas showed up but they didn’t get there in time.
Also don’t pretend that game scale is the same as real scale. The distance between the Wrathgate and Wyrmrest is a lot bigger than what we have in-game.

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Good question. I feel like the Red Dragon’s just weren’t involved, saw things were going belly up, Winged it over ASAP for the only reasonable option (reverse exterminatus).

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I don’t believe the red dragons were part of the attack. Aside from helping us every now and again their focus was on the Nexus War.

But I’m sure once they heard of blight shinanigans going on they hurried over.

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No, the dragons were going to involve themselves in the war. The questline in the zone was intended to alleviate the pressure they got from Malygos’ forces so they could send some reinforcements to the Wrathgate. In fact, their help at the Wrathgate was to be in exchange for the player keeping the Scourge from raising Galakrond.

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I should hope so. Dalza’s suggested scenario, wherein the Red Flight doesn’t bother to show up for the LICH KING but rushes into action when they hear about some blight canisters being dropped, is terrifying.

It would mean they fear the Ancient Plague of Lordaeron(which is what the Forsaken Blight is according to Classic) more than the Lich King!

I always figured the Red Dragon’s role was always relegated to a, “Ace up the Sleeve,” role for the battle. As in, if things go south, they show up to support and try to turn the tables. The issue is no one expected the Forsaken to turn on everyone, so the Reds did the best they could.

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The dragons never planned to fight the Lich King they were too busy with the Nexus War.

The reds only cleansed the blight because only they could and they didn’t want that stuff to remain on their front door.

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Pretty much this. Dragon breath doesn’t seem particularly discriminatory. When you have your guys fighting the bad guys in hand-to-hand combat, fire-breathing dragons don’t just target the bad guys. They burn all the guys, every guys. It looked to me like the reds were there to do what they did; show up if everything goes to pot and burn indiscriminately.

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Maybe they had sh*t to DO, ok? You think they just wake up looking majestic and beautiful? It takes time, polishing their horns, cleaning their scales, filing their nails…

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Suddenly, dragons being friends with almost exclusively elves makes perfect sense…

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when did they remaster that old cinematic?

Wasn’t there a quest in Howling Fjord that described the trip from the bottom of the zone to the northern end of it as a few days? That should help people with scale here. I remember thinking at the time that it basically meant WoW zones are ~roughly the size of Oregon state.

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there is no official size of how big land is yet

Assume earth size or bigger. Physics dictates that a world capable of sustaining life must be Earth size or lager but not too big or its gravity will crush any complex lifeforms. Earth is on the smaller side of the scale of a habitable world.

Arthas’ journey to Northrend took months which give you some idea of scale. And we have seen in the cinematics that gravity works the same as earth so its likely about the same size as Earth.

Ignore Golden she uses in game for her size reference when writing.

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I’m sure the Red Flight’s opinion on the Blight is similar to Drek’Thar’s, so nuking it as soon as possible - especially in Dragonblight - was a good idea.

So where are the red dragons now with sylvannas doing her thang? Surely they’d be pretty not psyched about “death to the living” being that their the dragons of life and all.

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From attested lore that’s simply the nature of Red Dragon breath, it scours the land with fire but also seeds the same land with rebirth.

laughs in Golden

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