Whoah whoah whoah…
1 Sunreaver aided Garrosh. We even know his name, Thaelen Songweaver. He’s ya boy who made the Mana Bomb. It is never explained what power Garrosh had over him, but Thaelen does seem to have been a hopeless lush, absolutely decadent, from how he is described. So that happened.
That is not however why the Purge happened, or else it would have occurred at that time, which it did not. What did in fact happen, was after Rhonin’s death, (Where they were not acting in a neutral capacity at all, but were aiding the Alliance against the Horde) Aethas Sunreaver could quite easily have abstained, or opposed Jaina becoming head of the Council of Six, his vote was the casting vote. He voted -for- Jaina.
So fast forwards to the Divine Bell issue (Which -was- the cause of the Purge) Again, it is our old friend Thaelen Songweaver, He did this without Aethas Sunreaver’s Knowledge. He also did not go around every Sunreaver civilian in Dalaran and tell them. Aethas -did- discover what Songweaver had done. After he had done it. He weighed up who he was more afraid of, Garrosh, or Jaina, and made the rookie error of fearing Garrosh more. So he stayed quiet about it.
So at this point, two Sunreavers knew what had happened. The One who did it, and the one who found out afterwards. Songweaver legged it, because by now it is quite apparent that he is more loyal to Garrosh than to the Sunreavers and the Blood Elves.
This is the fun bit. Jaina is annoyed that Dalaran neutrality has been violated (She conveniently forgot the bit where she had asked for Dalaran to violate it’s neutrality to aid the Alliance) Now, she has a police force. The Dalaran Peacekeepers.
if you wanted to bloodlessly arrest a lot of people, who you have no proof are guilty of anything yet, which would you send?
The Police? Who have a power of arrest?
or
A Sectarian group known to hate the people you want arresting with a passion, who have no actual legal power of arrest? (No Jaina cannot grant them that power, that would be a Council decision, and she does not convene the Council)
So Vereesa and her thugs are set loose. Vereesa is far from a bystander. Good grief, I have done the quests on Alliance characters, I know exactly what she orders the player to do, and it ain’t legal. So you kill a guy trying to get his own money out of the bank to escape the bloodbath, you kill a woman who is in her own shop where she has lived her whole life, just because she goes “No, you can’t arrest me, this is my home” and you see plenty of Silver Covenant stabbing the hell out of unarmed civilian Sunreavers, killing them, now I wasn’t aware being unarmed and cowering, not even swinging a punch classes as ‘Resisting arrest’.
There’s a freakin’ Silver Covenant Mage dangling a Sunreaver over the Segacedi Shark in the sewers (It is actually impossible to rescue that NPC) How much more villainous do you need? Tying people to the tracks of the Deeprun Tram?.
Meanwhile Jaina is walking around Dalaran, and can see the murder spree, and she doesn’t stop it. She set Vereesa loose, and Vereesa set the Killsquads loose.
Whether by -our- world’s laws, or by the Laws that Garrosh was tried under, both Jaina and Vereesa are guilty of War Crimes.
Fun fact, the Silver Covenant managed to punish 0% of the people responsible for the theft of the Divine Bell, whereas 100% of the people they killed, were completely unaware and innocent.
Which is good writing. It showed the Alliance having some proper ‘teeth’ for once, and that, yes, they can be Evil too. Which is great, because you want that, otherwise it just becomes a repetitive morality tale.
But you point this out and some people are “Nope, Alliance were justified, they did nothing wrong!” “Uhh, War Crimes dude? By whichever legal code you go” “No, Alliance does not commit War Crimes!” “Umm, they kinda did, which is cool, for a story point of view?” “No, Horde Bias!”
There’s no talking to those sorts.
Yeah but…without being funny…‘So what?’ That is just the dude saying he prefers writing Horde story and lore, yet ignoring the fact that he prefers -Playing- Alliance. Which makes sense. You can totally prefer writing for one thing, or acting as one thing, whilst actually preferring to do the other thing.
Writers do that. Everybody loves a good villain, and they love them to have a reason rather than Saturday morning kids Cartoon badguys like Skeletor. You can really dig a good, grounded bad guy faction, without wanting to play it.
After all, Metzen did. He liked writing Horde, but he preferred playing Alliance.
Don’t be so emotive, they did not spit in your faces. They just didn’t give you them. Same as they did not give Horde Ogres, despite both having been NPC races in their respective factions for just as long as each other.
So far apart from correcting some noodleheads who butcher lore in their rants, my input has been suggesting a starting zone for High Elves, what their starting quest experience could be like, what other racial characters could be leaders for them (Sure, there is Vereesa, but she is just the head of the Silver Cov, you’ve also got Priestess Aurora, Renthar Hawkspear, Auric Sunchaser) what customisations would make sense, what mounts would be cool for them, and even what racials would add a unique High Elf flavour.
I think that is slightly more of a contribution than some who just go “Silver Covenant! Silver Covenant!” like some demented mantra.
Right, so a second Thalassian race of Elves to represent the 10% of the species left alive, whilst the 90% get one. Totally makes sense. sure…
Shh, Adults talking, not sexists.
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