Totally didn’t yoink this idea from another thread just now…
Cough cough Said thread Cough cough
But self explanatory from the title, how does your character view the Alliance as a whole? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Lets see these IC views.
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You’ll be hearing from my attorney.
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What if I AM your attorney though?
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Weak, fangless, disorganized and ripe for being turned into an indentured work force in the Cauldron
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Death to the humans!
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A collection of envy, hatred and evil masquerading as a force of good.
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At least the Horde got punished for what they did in Pandaria. The Alliance got away scot free.
There must be vengeance for their pillaging of our lands.
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Not perfect, has it’s flaws, but atleast they manage to stick together during a war. Time to see what the future holds now that one of the paladin-heroes of old leads the Alliance, even if temporarily.
Somewhat of a necessary evil due to the fact that they can sometimes be reasoned with to fight against something far more dangerous and important, but not as necessary as he thinks they see themselves. After all, it’s better than facing the Scourge alongside the Alliance than having the Alliance side with the Scourge or viceversa.
Besides that, he thinks that they are far too blinded by their own ego to learn from their flaws and mistakes and reform and rebuild.
For example, he doesn’t understand why after catastrophic losses and being offered a chance to rebuild their lives and escape, there are still twenty year old humans that were never even born in Lordaeron coming up to Forsaken territory to kill the Lordaeronians that held the line while their parents escaped, in the name of all the Lordaeronians who died who are the same people they’re trying to kill.
He thinks that the reason why this still happens, even in the middle of an unprecendeted seven years long peace, is because they have such a boosted ego from technically having won two inter-faction wars (without taking into account that more than half of the Horde had to help them to be able to even stand a chance), that they just cannot change for the better in any significant manner.
After all, how do you improve on a mistake, if you don’t think you’ve ever made any, and the few that have happened you either ignore or attribute to some outside force?
In his mind, at least (half of) the Horde has shown that its capable to beat the other half up to a bloodied pulp if they think what’s happening is evil, meanwhile Stormwind was on the verge of full-blown civil war for something that could’ve been easily solved if they had just decided to send less military expeditions into Horde territory during peace time and used that money to pay the workers that rebuilt their city in the first place.
Having said all that, he thinks this about its government and military. He is sure that the Alliance is full of, for example, farmers who really would just like to live in peacetime tending to their crops down in their home region without a worry in the world; but it’s hard to care about that, when their government will send them dressed as soldiers to your homeland once the Horde starts slapping their proffessional army around with a baseball bat, or when a noble of a supposedly powerful house that abandoned an entire kingdom and its people to their doom decides to ‘do something about the undead up north’, conveniently right on the time period in which the Scourge has been pretty much obliterated outside of Northrend since years before.
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Not a fan. As a Kaldorei purist, the Alliance has it’s uses. Though most of my character’s interactions with Alliance officials have been out of line with her own interests and values. It’s not for her.
A lifetime ago, this character was a staunch supporter of the Alliance and all those who were part of it. (Although she never truly understood nor accepted the faith of the Night Elves or the Draenei) A faithful priestess of the Holy Light, she was content to serve the needy and aid the meek.
Just as the Light had been an unopposable force to her mind, so too did she once believe the Alliance would always remain to be the very foundation of order, those bound by their shared hardships mighty and strong like the very walls of the city of Stormwind. It was there where she witnessed the invasion of the Scourge anew, this time to be driven back. It was within the city where she stood amongst champions of the Light who vanquished the invading elementals, a people united in cause and deed.
Yet as Deathwing swooped (read: Swooping is bad) unto Stormwind and shattered its defences, so too shook the foundation that was her faith and deep settled the shadows of doubt that had seeped into her soul.
Now returned from exile, herald of a divine cause, she holds no true belief in the bureaucracy of the Alliance since her very view of the world has changed. The notions which she once believed bound the races of the Alliance she now considers a handicap, the faith of those pledged to a lesser cause redundant and doomed to falter.
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Sorry, vulpera are often presented as being petty thieves who take anything that isn’t secured. You should’ve simply known better!
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Profoundly annoyed with how Stormwind dominates the Alliance and tramples the sovereignty of the other members. Sincerely hopes Anduin never returns and that Turalyon doesn’t turn into a horde apologist like the boy king and his late father. Wishes the other members of the Alliance would assert themselves like the night elves and worgen have done in Kalimdor.
Has nostalgia for the Alliance of Lordaeron which was far superior in her mind to the Alliance of Stormwind.
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As exploitable as usual.
plenty dim-a-dozen wannabe heroes fed up with life on some farm or street gutter, willing to risk life and limb for a few coins and rarely asking questions about the legality or morality of the task.
All humans do is complain and eat bread
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Nu uh they also sleep and smell.
My Helf Silver Hand Paladin is not fond of Turalyon or the Army of the Light whatsoever. She views them as she does the Ren’dorei. Ticking time bombs of zealotry.
Ghormisa has no opinion. She grew up hearing the stories of Turalyon and the formation of the Silver Hand but she doesn’t much have anything to do with the Alliance.
My Priestess, she’s indifferent. She has different concerns to do with the spiritual and social decline of people and just wishes to help them. Politics has little to do with her.
My Orc Merc doesn’t care. She’s a Mercenary so if the Alliance are paying, their gold is as good as anyone else’s. Neither does my Illidari… She will just continue hunting demons anywhere and everywhere in the world where she must.
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Darbakh it thankful that he never joined the Alliance. They’re just a step above the Horde, and not because of any inherent goodness but because they don’t launch coups against each other incessantly.
Not that he’d mind it…he bears a modicum of respect for elves because of their wisdom, but humans? Darbakh once took a nap, and a human business partner of his died. And don’t get him started on Draenei.
Leave them all. He’s happy dealing with neutral organizations.
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Forgot to add this in my previous comment which is already a wall of text on its own, so I’ll drop a few more lines here.
My character also thinks that the Alliance is just a warmongering as the Horde, only that the Horde does not shy away from openly throwing fists once the actual brawl starts.
Some examples of this would be:
· Varian declaring war on the Horde in Wrath of the Lich King, followed by a story where the Alliance as a whole were pining the whole war on Garrosh’s fault, and Theramore getting cried over like it wasn’t getting used as a naval stagepoint into Kalimdor.
· The entire Frostwolf vs Stormpike conflict.
· The Alliance pining the sole blame of the escalation into the Fourth War on the Horde like Genn Greymane hadn’t pulled a Pearl Harbor on the Horde for the faults of a battleplan that was proposed by the Matthias Shaw, which was then revealed to have actually been a dreadlord in disguise that planned the worst battleplan possible on purpose to wipe out both armies. An escalation that could’ve likely been entirely skipped over if they had just… sent a letter across the street in Dalaran, which would’ve likely made the Horde turn on Sylvanas on the spot the moment she started warmongering.
· Daelin not giving a single damn about the entirety of the Third War, even as he knew his daughter was in Lordaeron at the time, then moving to Kalimdor to try and kill the orcs because the entire kingdoms he had just willingly ignored getting wiped out got attacked by the orcs 12 years earlier.
He thinks that the Alliance will always start a fight, then start playing victim when their slap is replied to with a punch to the gut.
And, breaking from IC view to OOC view, it probably doesn’t help that the writers facilitate a whole lot of that. The entire Durotar + N/S Barrens questline and Lordaeron questline in Cataclysm is that the Alliance is massively funneling troops to invade both of these places in a war that Varian Wrynn started, then Garrosh bombs one of these naval bases where the troops were being funneled through, and they make like nine different variations of the same sad soundtrack about how Jaina is really sad that her military naval base got bombed in a war, and they’re still not shutting up about it like 12 years ever since that story scenario happened, compared to Genn Greymane bombing an entire Horde naval fleet in the middle of a demon invasion because he got bamboozled by a demon and then getting forgiven in a throwaway line in Before the Storm and never having it be mentioned again, ever.
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And on the flipside the purge of dalaran got one quick little mention by an elf that was subsequently icecubed and disappeared forever :^)
Generally cool views I like them a lot esp the daelin part re: ignoring the eastern kingdoms’ issues that I never actually actively registered
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