It is so strange to do the questline with Saurfang on the current build, knowing what I know about Anduin and seeing the just odd dialogue from the SI:7 agents. They are actually telling you that Hordies, and yes that’s the term they use, are filthy primitives who live in mudhuts in the desert, and the only good ones are the ones who never come out of their stinking holes.
The Redridge innkeeper is super rude, 0/5 stars. I’m glad Redridge has still not moved that boulder, and likely will not move the boulder in front of that bridge for another five expansions.
Also for some reason a bunch of SI:7 agents have slaughtered their way through troll guardians and are now fighting Horde troops in the Hall of Bravery with no context.Between all this stuff, the Void Elf psi Op, and the Despoiler squad, the split Genn lines it’s just…
It’s after you find the mud trail by the lake and are confronted by three SI:7 agents, who then promptly taunt you. The exact dialogue is: “Look, some filthy Hordies got lost, they got VERY lost. This place is green, not brown, does it look brown to you? like filthy Horde lands?”
They may as well scribble on their forehead. “I’M A RACIST, CAN YOU SEE HOW RACIST I AM?”
That’s exactly what the term means, Blizzards standards of morality are no longer black and white, they operate on logic that is gone beyond conventional human morality.
Which to be fair, much of media does as a consequence of being written by multiple people.
Thats not what the SI7 goons are though, their behavior is not all that odd after Teldrassil, this makes much more sense to me than Pure as newly fallen snoe Alliance morality
For some reason a bunch of SI:7 agents broke into the Zandalari capital, killing a bunch of Guardians and fighting into one of their shrines. How they got there, or why, isn’t explained.
Also the SI:7 seem to be covering for Saurfang, rather then stopping him. So Shaw knows, but the rest of the Alliance? Mmmm, maybe not so much, we’ll see.
The proper way to do these sorts of questlines is to do them on a Belf or NB, and just mentally put the NPC’s in their place (and then kill them for good measure). Same with that witch in WCM.
The point is more for instance, the Sandwalker/Vulpera incursion. Blizzard has what is essentially an Alliance unit go off the deep end, while the player character is told to simply scare the Vulpera. Blizzard juxtaposes that the intention (scare the Vulpera) is more important than the acts already being committed by Alliance troops running amok in the exact same space.
In this case, Blizzard is using racism as a stand in for actual greviences to engender by in from the Horde player that they need to fight the Alliance.
This is not “morally grey” unless you are operating on the idea that just taking black and white somehow make’s it grey. Typically, morally grey refers to nuance and thought…this is not.
well as for the agents, we have a world quest in the alliance (8.0) where we gather intel from the spies infiltrated in the zandalari capital.
They are already there, and just wondering, are those agents nelfs by any chance?
When listing things out, I completely forgot to even mention Shaw giving weapons to Blood Trolls. That’s telling, at this point the SI:7 giving a old god cult, albeit one with a dead old god, weapons is now small potatos on the book of grudges.
Oddly no, the sI:7 operatives appear to be humans. We got no world quests, they were just there.