“I wish my home wasn’t just a bunch of floating islands anymore, I want my Draenor back! Azeroth has many beautiful places but it will never feel like home to me. But I suppose it’s gone. It’s strange to think about how one crazy orc can cause so much destruction… At least I still have my family.”
Do you think the peace between the Horde and the Alliance last for long?
"Ever since its foundation, the Alliance exists as opposition to Horde aggression and a defensive pact against an existential threat. The Horde, to its credit has an aspect of nobility in claiming to strive for the agency and self fulfilment of its constituent states against the Alliance that would rather they not be Horde.
Each faction exists fundamentally in opposition to one another and their very existence is predicated upon the premise of the other being a threat to their lives. Were this to change and the cause of concern to wilt, the necessity of these coalitions would erode as each state would be free to pursue their own priorities rather than be continuously lashed back into conformity by perpetual crisis.
The question, then, as with all such politics is who benefits? When the agency of nations is bound by central will, their leadership bear great responsibility to steer the ship lest it crash upon the rocks. Why have another war for land and pride when the world’s armies are regularly demonstrated to be in dire need of combined arms against greater threats, be they man’ari, the black empire or some unforseen calamity like time travelling invaders?
War is a choice, and those who call for it must justify why others must die for their ambition on both sides. It is a moral question beyond immediate practicality so where and when does war become justified? What desperate plea can shake the notion that we must still hold true in grudging cooperation for a safer world?
My answer is crisis, for now. Should great starvation strike and vast swathes of land be uninhabitable, how will we manage to pool our resources to aid one another in spite of old wounds when it is simpler to lift the sword to claim another’s grain?
I should hope the Horde has tired of expedient appeals to shatter peace out of fear and that the Alliance knows to build tall in anticipation rather than follow a well trodden trail. But again, who benefits from forever being in opposition to another? Who benefits from this lowest possible political expediency without ever having to justify the shape of the map beyond Them? The collective anxiety of mere membership in such organization is primed to boil over into chaos.
Even in a state where none move to strike the other, the smallest spark will ignite the world. For the best efforts of the best of us, another conflict will come for the simplest reason, justified into robust practicality while the graves are dug.
These are many words to simply say no, I do not believe that peace will last. The next instigator is one I dare not name without better cause to argue, but as long as the fate and very identity of nations and people are shaped by the binary difference of these wartime coalitions, war will fuel itself much like forces of nature beyond the control of mere mortals and the first strike will always be a choice of those in power."
Question:
Which historical figure would you most wish to meet and what would you ask them?
Answer: I would wish to meet Cairne Bloodhoof and ask him why he had to die needlessly just to defend the night elves. Were his own people that worthless for him to just throw his life away for one of the lesser races?
Question: If you knew you’d most likely be raised into undeath soon after, would you still risk dying to protect those you care about?
Answer: It’s a violation of the highest order to raise the dead without the deceased’s consent, and trust me, two of my older brothers are even more stuffy about this necromancy stuff! Regardless, I guess it all depends on whether my mind would be intact after being raised. No point in saving those close to me if I’m going to be forced to murder them right after becoming undead. If I would still be me after getting raised into undeath, I’d probably need a lot of time to think about what I’d do with my life at that point.
Question: Do you believe letting any particular race into your faction was a bad idea? If so, why, and if not, why not?
I’m not sure accepting the Mechagnomes was a good idea… while they are gnomes (at least partially) they trusted the Horde. Used both sides to achive their goal, then dumped one of them. Like the Nightborne, they bit one of the helping hand!
Its just a matter of time they decide, like their body, the Alliance need an improvment and starting choping off limbs of others to attach mechanical appendage and lobotomizing problematic idividuals in the name of following their vision of perfection…
Question: I’m sure everyone heard the story of the not-that-glorious battle of Dazar’alor and how the strike team faced King Rastakhan. And how the Zandalari King asked… summoned a Death Entity to aid him in battle and how this Bwonsamdi technically betrayed him. The Alliance and the Horde now realized, the “Gods of Death” are very, very real and there is indeed an Other Side… and after what Bwonsamdi said and have done (like rising army of the dead, calling them to battle, sometimes against their will, like in the case of that poor Gorilla…) we faced the uncomfortable truth: the Afterlife is not the promised eternal rest/reward as everyone belived.
What do you think how these events/experiences effect the faith and behavior of the people of Azeroth?
Or if you don’t want to guess or think such a large scale, how these thing effected you…?
Question: How has Rastakhan’s summoning of Bwonsamdi affected peoples’ faith?
"I obviously haven’t asked everyone - I’ve barely even visited the mainland cities since the Battle of Lordaeron, there’s just too much work to do - but I imagine those that have heard were shaken, but their faith probably wasn’t. I mean, most of this isn’t new information. Consider what even the layfolk of Azeroth have long known: That their own priests, shaman or other spiritual leaders spoke of a life beyond death, and that there were those who crossed beyond and returned. During the Lunar Festival, revered ancestors make themselves manifest to receive offerings from those still living.
"And many more learned see these things more often. We’ve known for millennia of the soul’s continuation after it leaves the body. Some contact the dead by way of ritual, or even see them on a daily basis. Arcanists have long speculated as to the nature of the afterlife, or afterlives, as it often seems there’s no single path that all souls take. Night Elves, inherently connected to the Dream, become wisps; Orcs and Tauren often linger at their grave sites; the Draenei built a grand necropolis to prevent the Legion from finding their dead; my own mentors, the Outcast Arakkoa, have developed ways to slip past the veil while still alive, into the Shadows near the world… though not to the Far Shadowlands.
"This is where it all gets murky. Scholars agree that some grand destination exists for a majority of dead souls, called the Shadowlands - or the Far Shadowlands, to distinguish them from the dark reflection of the living world - and it may be reachable through the Dream or the Shadows, though no mortal has yet gone far enough and returned to tell of it.
“But that’s all getting a bit off topic. So how did this affect the faith of those involved? In a world that’s already suffered the Scourge, probably not very much. How did it affect mine, personally? I’ve seen psychopomps and shadowlands before, and I will again. A death god is impressive and frightening, but not surprising.”
Question: Where do you believe you will go upon death?
“Dreams of woe, the fat on bones; a spirit shorn to shreds. A sun bled dry and drowned in night; a shell to hatch in coldest light.”
Question:
Who is your closest confidant?
“Ah well, it’s gotta be ol ball and chain… the misses. She keeps me from going dark you see, she’s my anchor my… life. She’s the one who gives this devil a heart! Dare I say I love her as much as I love the yellow gilded coin in my sack.”
Questions:
"What’s your biggest mistake you caused?"
Off mon…Mindless killi’n in Northrend, so many lives…So much darkness.
Whats the most daring thing you’ve ever done?
“While I’ve had a few adventures involving dungeons, trap floors or more or less literal miracles, I would say that the most daring act I’ve ever done was probably leaving my homelands in Kul Tiras to become a minstrel without my family’s blessing.”
“Or rather, going back there when things started to get bad. Very, very bad.”
Question: What is your greatest virtue?
I’m imperturbable.
Do ye often sleep with yer windows closed and yer curtains drawn in order to avoid seeing the horrors of the night?
Question: Do ye often sleep with yer windows closed and yer curtains drawn in order to avoid seeing the horrors of the night?
“Heh, fuzzy, I’m one of them.”
Question: What’s your greatest weakness?
Oh I have several…
But I think my greatest weakness is… love
I know, I know, undead, vampiric, what such an abomination, mockery of life would know about true love?
Senses are dull, feelings are diminished, and whatever they lied to you in school about us…
But consider this!
Everything you feel for someone boils down to one thing: to continnue your family tree… primal urge, instinct… the curse of life if you will
But after the heart stopped, everything stopped, your soul and heart became cold and dark… you are freed from these urges, intincts, “hormones” and every biological stuff that drives the youngsters, heck, even old ones crazy… only the turest of ture feelings are remain
They are pure, not tainted by anything “flesh” related
And something that pure could be abused and exploited the most!
Question: I’ve decided to offer you my unholly blood and you could became a vampire. Master of Sanguimancy and Ossumancy; the master of Blood and Bones…
Would you accept my offer?
Power and eternal youth and life joined to eternal death?
Woah look like I joined the thread at the right moment bingo , I get to remain eternally young and I don’t die and on top of that i can quench my thrist for blood and brutal murder ?
Where do I sign ? Then I could start to terrorize and kill for eternity, remove my mask…
What is your greatest achievement in game ? can be anything, a mount, a title, decimating two times Forsakens etc…
“Greatest achievemnt in a game? Prooobably making my friend chuckle during a game of Dice of the Darling. He’s like, one of those super quiet and anti social types you can barely get a snicker out of. That was a good day.”
Question: What’s one skill you’ve mastered that you’re the most proud of, that does not involve violence?
“What skilled I mastered that doesn’t involved violence? I’m a master chef, I can make food out of anything…wait a second getting the materials to make the food usually requires…”
Question: You are allow to kill one person that is important for the horde and alliance, who would it be?
I actually have to some degree mastered the art through years of pratice to recognize, gather properly and sofly each differents parts and dry and store properly medicinal plants and herbs and use them with the proper amount of grams.
in different ways: cataplasm, infusion, bath , cream , etc… etc… I am fascined by plants and herbs and to a lesser extend a very few flowers and their medicinal propriety since young age.
I felt on an old book amongst others manuel, treaty of hygiene and health when a couple living just a couple meters by me finally left they were both very secretive and kept a no contact behavior on top of being both of them way over 100 years, the man was 104 when he passed away and the wife 106 when her family took her back to finish her days with them.
I quickly went to the trash and gathered all the book they had tossed , to this day I cannot find a treaty of anatomy more complete than the one they possessed from their own period !
The herb and plants books was with sample only the valuable part of said plants or herb to gather and for what affliction , then I kept reading many more books and practising the taking the train going to the proper area and gathering and storing , using skill.
True story, I actualy made my now ex main Rainblood an herbalist/alchemist for that reason not by randomness !
Pass me , answer to the warrior above me , I actually found your question much more appropriate and directed at me than who I would like to see killed.
"If it weren’t fer tae fact they’d been treatin’ me more like a kinsman o’ ol’ than me own clansmen since I returned ta tae Alliance’s fold, I’d like ta wrap me ‘ands around that lickspittle excuse o’ a queen an’ ‘er Dark Iron whelpling’s necks an’ squeeze till I ‘ear a snap. Cannae ‘ave Aerie Peak answerin’ ta orders o’ a Dark Iron bastard. Pfesh.
Question: Laddie, lassie, donnae care what ye are. A bronze, overgrown toad o’ a lizard approaches ye an’ offers ye tae powers ta change any a thin’ from yer past, what do ye change?
"Now that’s a whole lot of implication right there… in this hypothetical scenario, I wouldn’t be hopping far, nah, I know exactly what I’d meddle with.
Teldrassil.
Not to perform any kind of heroics, mind you, no no no… I’d spare myself the inferno. These goggles aren’t for show, got a real bad case of soot-eye in there if you know what I mean.
And besides… and mind, this is coming from one who harvests the screaming souls of the damned for a living, but you’re never really the same after watching a whole kindergarten go up in flames in front of you, yeah?"
Question: In an ideal world where the faction war has at last come to an end, one way or the other, where cosmic threats no longer loom, where would you, should you desire to, hang your weapons on the mantelpiece and enjoy a peaceful life?
Would go home, Argus
Or whats left of my homeworld
Its broken and in a very bad shape, nearly inhospitable, but life found a way, the Talbuk and the Panthera, mursuul all of them adapted… the Eredar could do it too!
Would work to rebuild our almost lost civilization and became again the becon of sciance and magic in the universe!
Question: the Horde’s Council and the Alliance leadership decided, while the factions never would make an everlasting peace, Azeroth is above else! And agreed to task YOU to make and lead the Global Deffense Force to protact our world and stay vigilant. And when the AGDF (Azeroth Global Deffense Force) rise the alarm, all histilites ends immidietly and focus on the common threat!
How would you make such an organization? Members? Plan? Etc.