Unless there is someone from the Alliance supporting the House of Nobles to usurp the throne from Anduin then this isn’t exactly “Alliance tension” or division.
Or it is miss-leading that the division comes from the people rather than the races within the faction.
How about Shaw? That would be fun.
When your intelligence apperatus turns against you.
I tell you, it’s a witch hunt!
Well, may be I’m cynical, but I feel its too late for the team to be introducing the Alliance to inner turmoil on a level equivalent to the Horde as there is just too much else going on atm.
It could be the start of something that rolls over into the next expansion. I’ll just be surprised if it is amounts to anything significant before then. May be a result of Anduin being ‘soft’ on the Horde at the end of this expansion, when the Alliance inevitably win?
Plus, its not like Blizzard aren’t prone to, uh, hyperbole to get us interested in potential plot development - you’ll be surprised who burned Teldrassil.
God, I almost don’t even want to reply to this thread since all I can think of are two possible things that can cause the friction - Tyrande and the Night Elves or Derek. And I have mixed feelings about both. They’re both believeable ways to divide the Alliance, but I’m not sure if it could be interesting. Kinda depends on how they’re willing to play it out.
If it’s Tyrande that’s dividing the Alliance, it wouldn’t be the faction as a whole, only the Night Elves and the Worgen. I’m afraid we’ll only see the friction from their, and Anduin’s point of view and not the other Alliance members or races, such as the Draenei, the Dwarves, the Gnomes, etc.
If it’s Derek, well… I dont know. In BtS if I remember correctly, Genn realised that not all Forsaken are as bad as he thought. Which is why I’m having mixed feelings about exactly that - Why should he trust Derek? If he blindly does without even thinking twice that Derek almost got brainwashed before Baine returned him to Jaina, and what is supposed mission was/is, well…
Gah. I don’t know.
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If Sylvanas was successfull in brainwashing Derek and he ends up assassinating one of the Proudmoore’s, he’ll have another “Told you so!” moment like he had at the Broken Shore. I can’t speak for everyone here, but I personally don’t find that very interesting. But, it’ll certainly cause some friction so ![:woman_shrugging:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/woman_shrugging.png?v=6" ":woman_shrugging:")
My money is on the divide being between the Light / Void infused entities inhabiting our ranks. I can’t see how they possibly can see eye to eye and we can already see some foreshadowing with the Lightforged npcs being a little too enthusiastic to influence the war in azeroth. Like the healer on the alliance boat that would rather be on the battlefield and “coerce” enemies of the alliance.
I wouldn’t expect anything, he probably misspoke.
Nobody would dare refute the desires of our treasure and god-king. So holy and pure is he, shining as a beacon of non-toxic masculinity for all to gaze upon and go blind in his magnificence. His only aim to show the world the true path to peace, prosperity and potential.
The funny thing is, I actually liked Anduin when his actions had consequences and when his idealism was that of a naive child wanting to do something good.
Now he’s just nauseating.
I could tolerate him in MoP… sort of. On my Alliance character at least. Him getting crushed by the divine bell was fun. Though the only effect that seems to have left is his ability to sense lies and evil… which makes him even more of a Sue.
Never liked him. His actions only ever worked on the assumption that everyone around him was stupid, and I loathe that. That he was simultaneously treated as a stupid kid and a wise councillor always irked me.
But this is the point. Everyone around him is portrayed as stupid. It is not him self, making him perfect looking leader. It’s lack of counter wight to his wisdom in own faction despite such HUGE personalities like Tyrande.
A role Genn could perfectly fill, from my limited PoV of a Horde main. Genn is a strong leader. Blizzard need him to act on his own more and prove Anduin wrong from time to time.
That could soften his “perfect wise leader” nimbus, making him look what he actually is: A good leader, but also a young boy with lack of large scaled xp who still needs a mentor.
This would also add some friction into Alliance’ ranks without making them such a pain in the *** as @ hordes side.
Anduin has the narrative around him distorted and twisted to the point it validates even his wildest and most illogical/stupid decision.
With zero drawbacks.
His character doesn’t evolve to suit the context. The context is alienated to suit him.
That’s exactly how I see it.
Anduin goes all evil suddenly and turns out later that he’s been kidnapped.
Still better story then BFA and Twilight…
Derek killing off some important Alliance figure, having Sylvanas predicting Baine’s action and planned everything all along will be the best scenario ever
Imagine alliance figures dying off without a clue at start, until at some point Deker is found guilty. All that time, even while Derek is being suspect but there are no clues, it would be golden!
The best way to divide the alliance imho would be Sylvanas to have let forsaken return to alliance grounds. Yes, some people are open minded, but accepting relatives back would have been a no-go for many alliance.
Maybe it was too narrow minded to undermine that effort.
It’s actually sad what Blizzard has done to him. I thought Legion had a good set-up with the whole Broken Shore scenario and the comic from the start. It had the potential to show how a young man now struggled to keep his allies and people together, how he slowly has to grow into a leadership role etc.
But then Christie Golden came in and all of this potential development was thrown out of the window.
The story about BFA is not sad because BFA’s story sucks. It is sad because it is a wasted opportunity of gargantuan proportions. For both factions and a plethora of characters.
What I wrote would soften up this problem, wouldn’t it?
Let the other leader get upper hand from time to time. Like Genn does partly… Only the consequence against him is not there.
That’s interesting, it sounds exactly like what is happening with Sylvanas and the Horde. Hmm, seems that the Alliance and the Horde are suffering more or less the same fate, but in an opposite way.
Let’s kill both and everyone will be happy, deal?