I sat here looking at threads where people were wishing there was more Alliance content, and others wanting Horde content. So it dawned on me.
After Last Titan, let’s have a Trilogy where both sides get what they want. Azeroth is a decimated playground in the present, but what if an omniscient being offered both sides a chance, a false one, to turn the tides of war in their favor. In Warcraft: Division, max level characters are handed a Hero’s stone which takes them into the past to the turning point where their side could have gained the upperhand permanently and given a chance to change their history, (or so they are told) once and for all.
The Alliance would appear in the Nation of Arathor, equipped with the knowledge of what comes next, and how to stop the Horde once and for all. The Horde end up on Draenor long before the arrival of Kil’Jaedin and other Legion-esque demons knowing what their future might be like if they can build forces powerful enough to pass through the portal and destroy their enemies permanently.
You find yourself choosing two very distinct paths, with two polar opposite outcomes… or are there two possible outcomes? Algalon the Observer has calculated the odds of an outcome that should find systemic corruption, but wants to know which side is truly the evil one. So he replicates Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms of old, and stacks the deck for both sides. He uses the Guardians of Time to replicate moments found in WC II and WC III where we encounter Heroes and Champions of the past.
Now for the kicker. Before you are two choices. You can choose to see the outcome with, or without the opposing faction. Your choice determines your path, the outcome, and which raid you end up in at the end. Your first choice is total domination where you battle against the other faction in an attempt to rid Azeroth of them permanently, killing the original Heroes or Champions before they can make their mark on the world as we already know it. The second option is to fight with them, and see if they truly were the monsters we believed them to be, or, if like us, they simply wanted to survive.
Now… this is all just cooking up something different. I am not asking, nor begging for it to happen. I don’t even know how it could be written or designed, and honestly, I’m not confident the current team could pull it off. What I do know is, this used to be Warcraft where the Alliance and the Horde were constantly at odds. But let’s face it, if it were not for the city guards, we could probably come and go from Capital Cities without anyone blinking twice.
Would you find a way to put the War back in Warcraft? Or, is it simply time to unlock the factions entirely and live under a single banner?
