Well… for Monarch Dictators, the Alliance leaders share a lot of American Liberal ideals.
Stormwind city feels more like a Disneyland comparing that to more heavier medieval orientated fantasy setting such as Warhammer.
Edit: Now I think of it, the idea of having these liberal monarchs that constantly mess up, interact with each other like five year olds, barely involve themselves in the state affairs in favour of jumping into mystery portals and going on adventures, will go to actual war for personal affairs, have failed to give it’s citizens any no-nonsense respite in their lives ever since the start of the game, and the inability to just vote them away for some other party is horrifying.
I think he was talking about the art of Horde characters crying over Teldrassil burning (they were there for the rest of the military campaign and perfectly fine piling up bodies in astranaar though)
Most of the faction leaders (esp. on Alliance side) are essentiallymonarchs in all but name. And sometimes in name.
Stormwind: Monarchy, lead currently by an unelected regent until the king gets back.
Ironforge: Lead by a trio of unelected regents that will last only until the next King/Emperor comes of age.
Gnomeregan: SUPPOSEDLY democratic yet has been lead by the same guy for years+years and we have no idea how the elections work, if they even have them anymore. Also called a King. Darnassus Amirdrassil: Lead by a Pope and her sleepy little snoozebear boyfriend.
Exodar: Lead by a Pope.
Gilneas: Lead by a King.
Kul Tiras: Lead by a “Lord Admiral” (aka a Queen)
Blackrock City: See Ironforge
Mechagon: See Gnomeregan.
The Tushui, Dracthyr, Void Elves and Lightforged are the exceptions, and that generally seems to be because they don’t have enough people to muster into an actual nation of their own.
The Horde is…not really that much better. There’s a bit more of a suggestion that they’re selected by the general wishes of people (Rokhan, the Desolate Council) but some of them are in the opposite direction - Gazlowe being appointed head of the Bilgewaters for no reason by Thrall.
Bitterly amusing that the most democratic race we’ve seen actually portrayed in the lore and not just blithely mentioned offhand is the undead Forsaken.
Gotta admit, as wonky as RPVP can be at times, having so many people dashing around to grind the server to a halt (and then crash, lmao) was entertaining.
I still think that the reason people are still mentioning the Burning of Teldrassil is that for the first time something actually happened in the Horde vs Alliance dynamic.
And let’s be honest, no-one ever went to Darnassus and compared to other cities it was the least impressive one.
I don’t know if you realise this but the Burning Legion has always been pretty central to night elven lore and story.
I think Draenei deserve more lore and story, but I don’t think Legion is the best expansion to point out the lack thereof.
I partially agree: in Legion they managed to deliver awesome lore but for how they were built in the past, the draenei felt like they were playing a minor, supporting role when they should have been a major player.
Even Kil’Jaeden was kinda… just there? Compared to the build up that other bosses received, he could have used a bit more relevance.
A part of me still wishes that Legion would have its climax on Azeroth and then lead to an entire expansion around Argus and other Legion worlds, but alas patch 7.3 remains one of my fave ones, so I am still happy.
