Yeah that’s part of the problem. And why it feels bad to play through the game as a Horde player. Especially when even the quest text comes across like the characters are talking to Alliance players.
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How else could liadrin play white saviour and have an arc of learning not to be racist. it makes way more sense if you look at it as the amani being a tool to develop liadrin instead of the other way round
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The Nightborne couldn’t even have representation in the initial defense of the Isle of Quel’danas with a named Nightborne Priest NPC because there are none.
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And it’s frustrating with Thalyssra being Lor’themar’s wife. Nightborne being long shown since the end of Legion to be living in Silvermoon or visiting Silvermoon… It’s just so thoughtless and careless.
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My assumption is that it’s Legion all over again.
In other words, it’s not JUST Quel’Thalas being attacked by the Void, but the entire planet. So, the Orcs would be in Orgrimmar defending Orgrimmar, the Tauren in Thunderbluff, defending Thunderbluff, the Forsaken in Capital City, defending Capital City, etc…
Why we see Alliance forces is because the Alliance actually has off-world forces which won’t be getting attacked (Void Elves and Lightforged). The Silver Covenant is sorta there because with Dalaran gone, they don’t have a specific place to defend.
This is all a presumption on my part, but I think it makes the most sense. The Horde wouldn’t abandon Quel’Thalas.
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On beta this doesn’t seem to be so.
Why would off world matter? We have Horde close to Silvermoon that can come to it’s aid and have the ability to get there just as well as the Alliance.
The writers have made them pretty much abandon anything going on on a major scale. Only there for the smaller things these days.
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I’m hoping the pre-patch shows it, kind of like how Legion’s pre-patch had invasion points all over the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, but during Legion proper, nothing was going on.
Because if the Forsaken are defending their own lands, they’d likely have no aid to send. I think it’d be in Xal’atath’s gameplan to isolate her target for support.
Alternatively, even if the Forsaken could help, the fact that Quel’Thalas is saturated in the Light may make it impossible for them right now. We know Faol can’t even get close to the Sunwell without being at risk of evaporating, and aside from Calia he’s probably the most light-resistant undead their is.
Do you… want, Calia there?
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I’m not gonna count on it, and it really wouldn’t make sense for it to be but not be there after pre-patch.
Defending their own lands from what? And why do they have to defend it so much or Hallowfall that we visit in these quests that the Alliance also doesn’t have to defend from to where they can be there?
Calia isn’t Forsaken.
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She’s already there, just didn’t bother to bring anyone with her. And doesn’t mention that the rest of the Desolate Council are gathering an army to help or anything.
Cause she’s useless and pointless, except when she needs to push forward Alliance themes/narratives.
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Yeah I haven’t come across her just yet, but I’ve seen people take screenshots of her there. So she’s there somewhere. Just no sign of the Horde itself.
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Pre-patch events don’t last past the launch of their expansion though.
As I said above, the forces of the Void. Again, assuming the Void is attacking the entire world. Xal’atath keeps everyone on the planet pinned down while pushing on her target: Quel’Thalas.
My presumption would be that the Alliance is ALSO defending their lands. Thus, we don’t see an army of Ironforge dwarves, Gnomes, Night Elves, etc… all we see are Paladins/Priests that got summoned by the Sunwell, Lightforged, Void Elves, and the Silver Covenant, and those three don’t have homes/aren’t even based on the planet, and thus are outside of Xal’atath’s reach.
That would not make sense for an invading force and if it is over, then it’d mean then they could come there after all.
Nothing counters void like death, according to the sisters comic.
But they aren’t though. That’s the thing they are not. No one really is. The battle is very centralized and like I mentioned a few times. We go to Hammerfall. We go to the Scarlet Monastery. We can’t get people to just come with us back to help? These are in the actual quests.
You think we’re getting something akin to the old Legion Invasions from the prepatch for Legion?
Where entire zones get taken over by the Blueberry Brigade and the various towns have to defend themselves?
That would at least explain why the rest of the world seems to act like, “This is a Blood Elf problem, not an [us] problem.”
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I feel like if they are doing that it’s in some future patch after expac launch at the very least.
It literally happened with Legion. That’s how Legion and its pre-patch went. You could fight the Legion invasion in the Barrens, Westfall, etc… and when Legion launched, the event ended, and there wasn’t really a trace of that. Players would be in the Broken Isles.
Death doesn’t seem to counter Void though. Specifically, there is something in the Maw which the Void fears.
its almost funny how every time she is onscreen she exists to be just useless to the horde.
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Maybe but then like I said they could come after all. Get on those holocom things they give us for these quests and beckon the Horde.
The sisters comic established that the void fears death for some reason.
And recently in K’aresh, from a conversation between Xal’atath and Venari, we know what the Void fears is specifically in the Maw.
Considering that, as of the time Three Sisters happens Sylvanas is ALREADY working for the Jailor, small wonder the Void called her the enemy and acted afraid of her.
Again, this is speculation, but my guess is lorewise, these other places have no troops to spare for Quel’Thalas. They’re barely holding on as is.
I it could mean the void specifically fears sylvanas. just throwing that out there.
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That is one thing that they fear but it doesn’t say it’s the only thing.
Yeah but the thing is that it just doesn’t make sense because if they wanted the Horde to be there they can make it happen.
Like with Draenor, like with Zuldazar.
Could be this as well.
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