If one race from each side was to leave and join the enemy, which races do you think would be most likely to do it?
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InbeforealmosteveryonesaysBaineandhiskin, I would say either Undead, Nightborne, or Highmountain Tauren.
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Just my 2 Coppers worth.
Humans are finicky and could flip flop from either side.
Orcs for more honor and knowledge expanding trails.
Goblins would if they saw a market and profit.
Gnomes could if it was for a greater cause / means to an end for creation and power.
Dark Iron Dwarves to gain more independence from the Council of Hammers.
Undead to attempt to find family and closure, same with Nightborne.
Shamanistic Draenei to expand more in spiritual connections away from light based.
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Frankly, I think most of the allied races probably could have gone either way, or been like Pandaren, and I think that ball was dropped HARD. Particularly the Nightborne, Vulpera, Mechagnomes and Lightforged, since both factions were actively supporting them.
A little less so with the Vulpera, maybe, but they always struck me as being both mercenary and less organized than some of the other races anyway, so it was a really odd choice for them to be “Well, the Horde fought the Sethrak for us, so we can play mediators for them and improve our station. But f-k the Alliance, their money and goods smell weird.”
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If we’re not discussing neutrality…
Void Elves would probably go back to the Horde? They pay a lot of lip service to the idea that they couldn’t trust the Horde with the power of the Void, but the Horde’s cleaned up it’s act and improved itself a fair bit.
On the Horde side of things… No one really stands out? Pretty sure they’re all pretty happy where they are, and wouldn’t have much reason to join the Alliance.
from horde to alliance, Blood elves, from alliance to horde, pre tree burning night elves, post tree burning, maybe mechagnomes.
(these are not who I want to turn, but taking in lore and history or in machagnomes case lack of, who I think would turn)
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I find it hard to imagine the Blood Elves abandoning the Nightborne to go join the Alliance.
I do agree there was a point where the Night Elves would’ve felt somewhat natural in the Horde, but we passed that at Vanilla, sadly.
Mechagnomes are an interesting consideration though. They had no problems whatsoever with Goblins. That’s a pretty good call.
Orc and Humans
I could see all Pandas moving to Alliance.
I forgot to take the marriage into account your right, pre marriage blood elves, but post marriage maybe panderan, or what I would see happening, the blood elves rejoin the alliance and take the nightborne with them but then horde would be down a race, I think pandaren would jump before the blood elves could convince the nightborne to jump with them.
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The Italians? Oh, wrong conflict but they left the Axis powers and joined the Allies during WW2 so these things indeed can happen.
In WoW I suspect partial allegiance shifts. This is where part of a nation changes sides. We have already seen this with the High Elves and twice now. Some remained part of the Alliance when the nation joined the Horde and later some Blood elves has become Void elves and also joined the alliance. We also now got two races where the player choose side. I suspect that there will always be some of them that try the other side if they regret their choice.
The Nightborne and the High-mountain taureen are “barely Horde” for those heroes from both the Alliance and the Horde aided them in a crisis. they just somehow ended up in the Horde. In the case of the Nightborn due to an unspecified personal grudge Tyranda Whisperwind against Thalryssa that she had not managed to get over even after 10000 years.
Basically, there are some races that really are neutral but appended to one side because the game mechanics demand that they are either Horde or Alliance. The Vulpera joined the Horde because on their Island, that they shared with trolls that joined the Horde that was the easiest choice. They just stuck with their neighbour’s choice.
The forsaken are just a kind hug away from joining the alliance.
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Goblins, if the price is right
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The Void elves in Stormwind hang out mostly in or near the same district as the Lightforged thou. I do not believe that in general these groups are compatible with each other. Even if it isn’t shown in the game, I suspect that there is some form of faith-based conflict between them. Be careful not to pack immigrants of opposing factions into the same are, they WILL come to blow in RL as has happened repeatedly.
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Pandaren or Dracthyr because they are already neutral.
Otherwise, Vulpera? They don’t really have any reason to be part of the horde as I can recall
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Dark Iron Dwarves should have never been in the Alliance in the first place, since they’d been at war with Ironforge for a couple hundred years or more.
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Blood elves were making ovatures of defection way back in MoP. Any group of high elf exile seems to filter into The Alliance sooner or later. On top of a history of cooperation with humanity, the blood elves have a chummy relationship with the draenei.
It’s pretty obviously the blood elves.
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Moira has been a major presence in Ironforge for A While now though, and it’s clear she’s aiming for the Dark Irons to reconcile the Three Hammers fully and formally. That started in Mists, I think?
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I don’t see them abandoning the Nightborne. I just don’t.