The title says it all! With the first neutral race since the pandaren making its debut, I’m wondering which faction you would RP a dracthyr on (if you’re going to RP one at all) and why? 
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Probably Alliance because Alliance has more RP going on and it’ll be easier to find interactions there.
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i think that my dracthyr is gonna be Alliance, and my second one (on AD) is gonna be horde. i feel that the alliance might be hostile while the horde a tad bit more accepting.
and being followed by a bunch of ppl that want you to be killed XD
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Horde because they fit in 500 times better + seem like they’ll have a cool dynamic with shaman rp
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Aye does look like alliance will be substantially more suspicious of the Dracthyr than horde, because of their history with black dragons. That can be an interesting hook for RP though 
Alliance because Alliance is better than Horde
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at least i will have more Fun RP.
Initially I’d say Horde because I can’t see Dracthyr vibing in a city
Still depends on their lore after all, apparently they’re getting the DK treatment on entering major cities so I’m curious what happens to cause that rift of distrust cause we’ve worked with dragons multiple times
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We’ve also been screwed over by dragons several times. Orgrimmar and Stormwind still display the heads of Nefarion and Onyxia respectively.
Stormwind had Deathwings clawmarks embedded in its towers for 1-2 expansions.
Malygos and the blue dragonflight went insane.
In vanilla times, majority of the time you saw a dragon it was trying to eat you. Which in lore was only what… 8 years ago?
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Alliance.
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I’m more interested in the idea of trying to earn the trust of a faction that’s been hard-done by Dragons in the past.
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I think they’d vibe with the Night Elves. Can’t say for sure because we haven’t seen enough of them yet but they give off that feeling.
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I desperately need an Alliance character that I can commit to rather than ditching.
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I guess it’d make sense for the ground troups yeah, but I still feel like enough has happened that people would atleast start to recognize the scale colours.
I was kind of hoping for a different presedent other then its DK’s all over again?
but yeah not enough lore known for that yet either
now that’s something i want to do too.
I think there’s hostile versions of every dragon flight possible? The only one that doesn’t spring to mind at all is bronze atm.
Oh and from Alliances perspective, there is also the whole dragons used by the Horde in the Second war, and Onyxia infiltrating and through 4d chess causing a schism in Stormwind that is still in place between the nobles and defias.
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Dragonflight would be 10 years after vanilla wow in lore, according to the wowpedia timeline.
Overall I do think alliance had worse experiences with dragons than the horde. Also:
Small spoiler based on alpha
Text was datamined from the horde and alliance introductions to the dracthyr. The alliance leadership, specifically Matthias Shaw, were significantly more suspicious of dracthyr than their horde counterparts. They are begrudgingly accepted into the city, but will be spied upon by SI:7
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I have seen a screenshot of Orc grunts saying “only good dragon is a dead dragon”.
https://i.gyazo.com/0ad016a8e25eac13539a48f47a1ff942.jpg
Where’s this? If you could link it (to post links put it between ` character or highlight it and click on the </> button)
I plan on playing a Dracthyr as part of the alliance, i do love the idea of trying to gain the trust of players RPing as veterans being the survivors / victims of dragons in the past, not all of us are Onyxia or Nelfarion but I do plan on playing a “green dragon flight” Dracthyr as I think it will open more dialogue options with survivors of the burning of Teldrassil and night elves and druids in general as they have formed a close bond with the green dragons.
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Aye, but the horde leadership specifically wasn’t as hostile. It makes sense the grunts would have lines like that, though.
You can find the alliance reaction here: https://www.wowhead.com/news/turalyon-and-stormwind-guards-react-to-dracthyr-presence-in-dragonflight-327754
I wish I could find the horde reaction compilation again, but wowhead is being difficult
As you can see Dragonflight aprox. takes place in the year 35, while original wow was in the year 25:
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline#Dragonflight
You’d like to think the orcs would be rubbing there hands together thinking "oh remember the time we enslaved the red dragons.
I’d like to imagine the Dracthyr might be a tad more cautious of joining the horde because of orcs enslaving the reds in the past.
Like a sudo redemption arc for orc RPers, proving they are not the same as the Dragonmaw clan and not all orcs wish to enslave dragons for war / way of life.
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I feel very frustrated with Blizzard / Wowpedia for claiming this.
For blizzard because they love playing coy with lore like this. The interview where the “approximation” comes from says Dragonflight takes place after Shadowlands, but we have no idea how long Shadowlands events have been.
Before this point in time, for I think MoP / WoD / Legion and BfA literally the way we could tell time between expansions was through Christie Golden’s books where she wrote how old Anduin was in each book. But Shadow’s Rising had no update on Anduin’s age or anyone elses for that matter (actually Talanji might be 18 now 
). And nothing since then.
horde because they at least will embrace the drachtyr
meanwhile the alliance are telling them they smell which is a bit rude innit
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