This is from the same guy who said they had the right to Lordaeron.
It’s very strange, and I think part of it is intended to be strange, because “who has authority” is no doubt a thorny issue between the BElves, the larger Horde, the Alliance, and the Vanguard of the Light specifically. Even if not iffy legally, there is still the iffyness of balancing the politics of it all.
I get what they’re trying to go for on it (except the Illidan line, that’s just…what), but as it is it’s not quite hitting all the marks correctly.
The problem is, I don’t see the right decision for Anduin. If Umbric still is a Magister, then his exile is still on, and therefore he shouldn’t have returned in Quel’thalas whatsoever, not to mention approaching too close to the Sunwell for comfort, on fear of immediate execution. If he is an Alliance subject, then the question of whether the Alliance has come to help in the first place is still open, and the answer does not have to be positive (Alleria as a raid boss, anyone?).
The Vindicaar keeps being a problem for Blizzard writers ever since BfA. They should just say it’s out there in the Great Dark fighting Legion remnants, so it’s permanently unavailable on Azeroth.
But then Alliance players would complain that the writers destroyed yet another Alliance asset while the Horde suffered no losses. They said they specifically chose Dalaran, a neutral city, so that neither faction would feel favoritism.
Like others said, the Vindicaar should have fallen on the Bilgewater cannon in BfA, destroying them both.
Honestly in this instance they could have it flying about in the Silvermoon skybox and not really matter. It’s a glorified troop transport. Its laser cannon’s most powerful moment was blowing up a small rock to open up Antorus. Big whoop!!!
The only way it’s actually dangerous is if they strap some of the Horde’s World-Tree Demolishers to the side to fling flaming rocks instead.
There is something slightly weird and also morbidly comedic about Arator going out of his way to stop Lor’Themar and Turalyon from executing Zul’Jan for slaughtering the Thalassian forces @ the Zul’Aman border only for Zul’Jan @ the end of the Zul’Aman questing experience to give the player a speech about Troll Racial Superiority and Troll Manifest Destiny Conquering.
Like, damn Arator you just saved the Troll version of Marrin Trollbane, congrats. Better hope the Azerothian newspapers don’t start printing “Timid Paladin saves Troll Racial Supremacist Leader”.
I’m not yet convinced he’s getting raid-boss’d though. Too much trust+affection for his sister. Feels like his character development to not be “all land is troll land” is gonna be the “main story” of the 12.1 stuff.
I do think it’s a mildly interesting twist to have the warrior focused on preserving while the guy who “talks his way through problems” is the one who wants to get on the conquering. The stuff he says at the end of the chain isn’t all that wrong either. The loa can be fickle and they could abandon the Amani at basically any time, or decide that they’re just not worshipping enough for them.
Astalor Zul’‘jan in needing to find another path because you can’t trust the one they’re on all the time, just in case.
What? So any Horde with bad intents can just go murder Hobo or break whatever rule in Stormwind and then claim they have immunity because they’re not a citizen of Stormwind?
I can see both points really. Umbric and his ilk were exiled, technically not SMC citizens until they denounce and reject their research into the void and when they switched sides fully to the Alliance, they’re technically traitors, Lor’themar and Rommath are within their right to execute him on the spot. It’s also just bad form that he even got close to the Sunwell since he should know that Alleria’s presence triggered something, surely she must have told him on the events that led her to find him and the others?
Anduin pulling rank and authority when he fulfilled none of the responsabilities that entail certainly makes me wish he got Garrosh to Thrall moment “You, are a king no longer and speak for none but yourself!”
Zul’‘jan in needing to find another path because you can’t trust the one they’re on all the time, just in case.