Kuwei harbours no love for the Horde as an institution. She thinks it brings the worst out in its people, some of which she actually respects.
Quite a few of her fellow Death Knights are Tauren, Orcs and Trolls, whom she learned to respect by virtue of being free of the Horde’s radicalizing influence.
Her biggest gripe is with the Huojin, however. As far as Kuwei is concerned, they were perverted by the Horde, betraying their very philosophy by silently tolerating the senseless atrocities committed by it. To her, they became blindly complicit as early as Teldrassil.
A while ago, Kuwei joined a pilgrimage of mostly Huojin Pandaren to one of the peaks of Mount Neverest to rescue another Pandaren Death Knight who had frozen over during meditation. She cautioned them that his eternal hunger will have taken hold of him, to let her use her powers to remove the ice in a controlled manner and let him sate his hunger on her, but they just wouldn’t listen. They decided it would be a good idea to blindly chip away at the ice with their fists. Lo and behold, her warnings came true, and she had the few reasonable people round up goats and yetis to keep the Knight from going after his fellow Pandaren. This kind of stupidity she chalks up to the Horde’s influence.
The Horde has earned the ire and distrust of Clan Hornbellow ever since it first rampaged through Khaz Modan and Arathi. Their crimes against the people of the Eastern Kingdoms, along with the Red Dragons who gave life to so much of Northeron’s harsh lands are not easily forgotten.
It was when Sylvanas became warchief that an attitude of distrust turned almost wholly hostile. The burning, the wanton killing, the suffering for thousands all done under the guise of “duty” and “orders”. If it were not for the rebellion, I think Khuzan specifically would not stand to be near any of the Horde, not even the folk of Quel’thalas and Thunder Bluff, who he has a certain amount of respect for.
At this point he sees the Horde as a volatile and destructive force: But sparks of hope exist within the council, the new leadership of several of the factions within and a seemingly less warlike approach shown over the past three years & especially the Dragonscale expedition. Time will tell how things progress!
(I love the horde tho, bunch of champs the lot of them)
Having spent his fair share of time facing down the Horde on the battlefield during the fourth war, Jerin now takes a much more pragmatic view and is more than happy to work with them for mutual benefit, especially now under the BOOMTEC banner.
My troll mercenary, meanwhile, just sees them as an employer like any other. No particular loyalty to it other than that paid for in gold.
Loves the Horde. Horde is home, Horde is who she is.
Never forget Thrall’s aid to the Darkspear, and their promise to the Horde.
If you love something, you’ll strive to be a part of what makes it better, what it should be.
The Horde being victim of its own cruelty and brutality is heart-breaking when it happens, but she will always believe in its inherent message and so these raw and painful situations do not shake her faith so much as steel it, really, for she knows what the Horde can be when it’s doing it right.
She could probably do with a few less ogres around.
My Orc joined in BfA (obviously) and is amazed about that melting pot of mixed yet still differing cultures… if he has ever thought about that kind of things at all. He just lives for himself mostly and there’s actually no one he’d not be able to like.
His mindset is very simple: Living is good. But Living and collecting different bones (no matter what or whom those belonged to before) is best. And that lifestyle is very difficult to maintain in other societies except the Horde.
He’d have a good time socializing with either Tauren or human, doesn’t matter. But what matters (although not to him) are the opinions of others because of his sometimes unsetteling mask (and to be fair, his ghoulish behaviour as well) so it’s easier to stay near the Horde and to be part of fit. It’s where he could be himself (mostly…)
And he met some few people on Horde side he likes and would even call one or two of them friends or maybe even family.
That’s what I’d say is his opinion about it… if he’d REALLY think about. Maybe he will. And maybe he’ll get that concept of “Family of misfits” the Horde sometimes stands for as well and would be more proud to be part of it.