I’m a bit confused about why we don’t see any non–blood elf Horde forces or characters assisting Silvermoon. I can understand their absence in the opening scene—it was a surprise attack, and the Light brought in its champions. But you’d expect at least a small contingent or a few notable characters to be teleported in, given that the Horde has a portal network. Even a handful would make sense.
The bigger issue is what happens after the initial clash. We see the Void Elves and the Silver Covenant establishing a base in Silvermoon alongside the Army of the Light. Yet, where is the Horde? You’d think its navy or army would be present, defending one of its own cities.
Portalling in entire armies has never been a viable tactic unless you have Well of Eternity/Sunwell to draw on, or a Void Lord in your pocket like Xal’atath has now. We do have a Sunwell to work with but presumably all its available energies are currently being used to shoot that big beam into the Voidstorm. Even if it could be used to teleport people in again it’s occupied.
As for the armies it takes time to find and mobilize troops. From the time we arrive in Quel’thalas to the end of the leveling and endgame story will be a few weeks in universe? Maybe a month? That’s not really enough time to get forces together and get the ships you need to move them to Quel’thalas. Especially since the bulk of any Horde forces would need to cross the ocean and Alliance forces would probably have… issues being allowed to cross into Horde territory in any great numbers. It’ll probably make for a decent .5 or .7 patch though when forces do start to stream in.
I understand that large-scale teleportation isn’t practical, but moving a small squad or one or two powerful individuals should be possible. And if the Void Elves and the Silver Covenant managed to get there, why couldn’t others? Surely Horde forces could arrive just as quickly as those two groups did. Is this yet another case of Alliance favoritism? I find it hard to believe Alliance forces not show up to defend an Alliance city before Horde subgroups.
Horde show up right away in the TWW campaign. I, myself can be there right away. They could have the Horde there. It’s just their focus isn’t on that. They are telling the story through an Alliance lense.
I’d assume they listen to Vereesa’s warning that the questline in the prologue patch is going go over next month. Maybe Lor’themar, and others, don’t.
Alliance and Horde reinforcements show up at the end of the questing campaign, and only because Thrall and Jaina leave immediately at its start to get them. As of right now we don’t know if Lor’themar will actually put out any formal calls for aid before the Voidstorm hits them. The only reason the blood elves would have to think they’re in any immediate danger is Vereesa’s visions and they may not trust her enough to act on them.
And still requires that someone actually sends a request for reinforcements. From what we know now Silvermoon doesn’t request any aid until the Void arrives. Which is very shortly before we all get summoned in.
I mean, apparently the Plaguelands are still full of ravenous hordes of mindless/Scourge(?) undead. Lights Hope gets swarmed by them in the Arator quest line at least. That’s not going to be easy territory to move through- not impossible but I’d say safely not in time to have plague catapults around the Sunwell from the get go.
Which ended with Xal’atah leaving for parts unknown and with no particular target spelled out for us aside from Azeroth at large. Maybe you could assume Quel’thalas because Alleria’s been trying to kill her for awhile and that would make for some sweet vengeance but that would still just be a guess.
Its not an oversight, its a deliberate choice from then
If you didnt notice, the current writing team despise inhuman races, they love elves and humans, just look how bad the amani are being handled becoming just an edit from the orc model
Literally, the last 2 races that resemble something inhuman were tailored to be cute elves: dracthyr became twink dragons that turn into pretty elves and harranir are just night elves trying to be “extra”
Now they dont need to focus on tribal/animal races anymore, they can just use harranir whatever they want to fit the thematic but they are pleasant looking for then.
so yeah, everything is either human or elf, at best you will find Token Thrall walking around, but doing nothing
The invasion starts in the prepatch… Last time we saw Thrall he was hanging out with the Stormrooks… in the same area where we start the quests in the prepatch with Vereesa, and Arator.
Oh bs! If we can move from Silvermoon to Light’s Hope then they can move from Undercity to Silvermoon.
Seriously. Both Nightborne and Blood Elves can do it. We even use holocoms to interact with Silvermoon while away on these quests, but they can’t send messages to the Horde. Just absolute nonsense.
And a void invasion portal that can be seen from everywhere. Some people would be curious what is going on. And I doubt very much that us within the Horde can be facing world wide threats without the Horde leaders themselves knowing about it in the past 2-3 years. Come on.
If you have a link to where that content has been discussed I’d love to read it. The only stuff I can find, and referenced, was the prologue. 11.2.7 which does not end with the invasion being kicked off.
A couple people moving through dangerous territory will not draw the same attention as an army of thousands. If the Plaguelands are still that dangerous, which is a dumb call but it’s the one Blizzard’s making, Arator and the player could easily make better time.
We sure do bud. Just like every other year where we stare down a world ending threat and where every characters, tool, or ability we should be pulling up with are always accounted for. Oculeth has been teleporting entire armies around for whole expansion now right? The Horde showed up as Khaz’Algar just out of thin air, iirc?
