"They never learn…were -we- not enough of an example? Attack a neutral people and you drive them to seek aid, and what aid is there against the monolithic force of the Alliance? Only the Horde… It seems the Alliance has not learned the lessons by their nonsensical incursions into Quel’thalas, by their needless antagonization and threats towards the Shalassian ruler, but now, they compound the mistakes of the past, by directly attacking a whole people and killing their King? Oh masterfully done, Proudmoore, first driving the Sunreavers back to the fold, and now the Zandalari firmly into our allegiance, you truly are a masterful recruitment agent…
For the Horde."
Its actually going to shift Brigante’s mind a bit. He was gravely uncomfortable about the Blood War, and the Horde’s actions in it. This however, is outright Alliance aggression. “We’re attacking your country and killing your King because you were -thinking- about working with the Horde”. I mean that has -never- backfired, ever…
Its kind of proving Sylvanas right, not in her methods, but in her reasoning, and it also proves Lor’themar right, with what he says during MoP. “The Horde exists -because- of the Alliance”.
So yeah, its a massive ‘own goal’ by the Alliance in my eyes, they force the Zandalari into the Horde, give reason for the Zandalari to regard the Alliance as an imperialist aggressor, and reaffirms the waverers that actually, Sylvanas has a point…There -can- be no peace, whilst the Alliance exists.
However, on the same note, Kudos to Blizzard for making the Alliance the bad guys for once, people on both sides have been asking for this for ages, it is genuinely good to see them be the aggressors. Plus…Gelbin!