Lore wise how?

Don’t know if it should be posted here but my question is How?

After The war, The legion, Burning Crusade , the undead scourge and Deathwing where are the Alliance and the Horde getting bodies for a standing army let alone all the crazies that join cults.

The night elves are in a serious population decline since Sylvanas burned their tree.
And I don’t see them bouncing back from that any time soon.

The blood elves where crushed by Arthas to 10% of their population then they lost a bunch when Kael went and join Illidan. Not to mention 10% what remained went void and joined the alliance outside the silver covenant.

The Humans and Orcs have been bleeding people in useless wars and bitter conflicts.

The Gnomes are still fighting for their capital and lost a good chunk to a plague.
And no I don’t see the mecha-gnomes bringing any new blood towards a stable population.

The Dwarven and Tauren might be the most stable population outside all the crises and wars breaking out with the Dark irons and Highmountain factions joining their factions.

The Undead are losing people rather then adding them since they don’t reproduce.

The Goblins blew up their island so what was on that boat is it people wise.

The Trolls I figure have been losing people left and right also.

The Vulpera I know nothing about so…meh.

And the Draenei have had nothing but bad luck since the Orcish Horde went to town on them together with the wars and crises the only positive part is that with the coming of the Lightforged they might regain a stable population.

My question is and outside lazy writing where are these cults like the primalist getting all these people to join them?

Shouldn’t they be more focused on repairing their people then joining a random charismatic leader in what ever cult/organization that fits their fancy?

Because people wise most races would not have enough bodies to fill a small town let alone be able to fight wars, join cults ect, ect.

Your thoughts on this?

Wow population has always seem to contridict itself over time.

Blood elves are supposed to be few, and yet they have NPC’s left and right everywhere.

Night elves are being genocided everywhere in Kalimdor, and yet we have many of them.

High elves are supposed to be few, and we see many NPC’s and functioning army groups participating in wars and campaigns

Void elves, same thing. supposed to be a small elite group and yet joined the battle of Lordaeron enadangering their population

my advice is ignore population and just enjoy the game, unless they are specifically described as extinct with only one member alive, like the Dark trolls or Drakkari.

There is no lore explenation. It’s just what ever the plot needs. We have 5 elves today but need 10k tomorrow, then we have 10k and 5 elves now. :man_shrugging:

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Don’t try to make sense from WoW lore. Alliance had a spaceship in the sky and lightforged warframes with energy weapons yet decided to siege undercity with siege towers and trebuchets. Lore in WoW is exactly what the writers currently need.

Does anyone know how many years since this happened, in game time?

Edit: According to this https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(Ultimate_Visual_Guide)
it has been only 11 years up until the WoD start.

Also, it seems there is only 6 years from Vanilla events to WoD start and that cannot be right. I mean, that is a lot of things going on with our heroes, no one can take that

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