Needing to kick my brain out of a funk and with Island Expeditions being the way I’m leveling my alts these days, as much to do with me being absolutely done with leveling Horde-side because I’ve done it twice and little of the Alliance quests get my interest, I thought of something.
We’ve access to ships now. Big ships, and all around the world, Alliance, Horde and neutral ports are hard at work churning out vessels for either their leaders, or anyone who can pay the (exorbitant) prices for a properly sea-worthy vessel. It’d probably even be a worthy adventure to seek out pirate or hostile groups to steal their vessels and use them for yourself rather than pay and wait for months for a vessel to be built, but then again there’s always the fun of having a vessel built to your exact specifications, with all the little modern comforts for your particular species’ needs.
And with Azeroth now being revealed to be a world of ‘a thousand isles’ courtesy of the Sundering, then the Cataclysm and whatever we’re calling Sargeras stabbing Gorribal into Silithus, odds are there’s a lot more than a mere ‘thousand’ islands out there.
So … assuming you had total command of a suitable vessel, a loyal crew from whatever faction or group your character is aligned with and suitable resources to establish a simple base to establish a working foothold on the island … what do you build. And what for? Whom do you invite to the island, and whom do you reject, and why?
Pick your island from one of the pre-existing types (for folks who might be confused, this WOWhead link gives a good idea of the various Islands currently in-game https://www.wowhead.com/guides/island-expeditions-strategies-for-all-island-maps#havenswoodinfo-map-and-important-locations) and go nuts with what you’d build, why, and who would be occupying your new territory.
Do you stay with your faction, warts and all?
Do you defect, either out of disgust for the direction it is going or anger that your people are still being neglected?
Do you open your port to all comers as a neutral port, and risk aggression from both sides due to your defection and your previous affiliation?
Or do you hide from the world and hope your little island of calm weathers the storm to come, and the potential destruction of the World Soul itself?
For Gen, it would be him and his allies, along with whomever amongst the Horde who would follow discreetly who had come to feel lost amongst the current regime’s direction and feared not a repeat of Garrosh’s madness, but a surpassing of it.
Faction: Horde Defectors/Rebels.
Island Type: Molten Cay:
Resources:
- Wood, Stone, Wild Animals, Fishing, Farms.
Native Threats:
- Rogue Elementals, Wild Animals, Raiders, Weather.
External Threats:
- Horde Loyalists, Alliance Factions, Pirates, Naga, Island Expedition Invasion Factions.
Starting Members:
- Any Horde Races, but predominantly those who follow a Shamanistic belief system.
Starting Resources:
- One stolen pirate ship, several cannons, a cargo-hold full of basic supplies like rope, cloth, farming and building tools and dried rations.
Overall Goal:
- Long-term survival of expedition members, the upholding of a more noble take on the Horde’s ideals, pursuing a lifestyle more ‘in-tune’ with the ways of the spiritual beliefs of the Kalimdor Horde, eventually becoming a Neutral Trading Post/Earthen Ring Outpost should the expedition survive long enough and be able to completely dominate the island to the point of becoming completely independent of external politics.