(Spoilers) Exploring Kalimdor

Considering Silvermoon had very little communications with Kael’s expedition and there was an entire big who-ha about proving Kael was rotten and how the blood elven pilgrims were being sold snake oil and some even ended up enslaved by Kael’s expedition.

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I don’t think the draenei perspective of lumping both groups into one is an invalid one from an in-character view. It’s arguably a fair one and irrelevant to the truth of things.

But now we also enter a paradox because for the night elven incursion to make sense the Draenei zone has to come first - because blood elves are Horde. But for the Blood elves to be Horde Ghostlands had to come first, which means the Alliance were pretty wretched. But also makes the book wrong, because these are clearly not Horde elves.

But objectively it’s an incredibly strenuous link on par with the red dragons in War Crimes.

Edit: I still err on the side if it being characterisation from the Draenei with it being an interaction.

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Jinyu were accepted as allies of the Alliance, we can presume both night elves and draenei joined under the same conditions as Gilneans. The Wildhammers never left the Alliance.

But the Draenei aren’t even who wrote that passage, it’s a horde character who spoke to a Draenei who wrote it’s a touch weird he just accepts it at face value.

Real truth: Anduin is responsible for the Blood Elf incursion on Bloodmyst because he is faction leader of the Alliance, which contain the void elves, who were part of the blood elves at the time, and he therefore inherited their crimes just like Garrosh did for the Horde.

It just works.

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There’s your answer :turtle:

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To be fair, Zekhan is warcraft’s answer to a mirror; he’s just there for the story to be told by bouncing off of him.

In the context of the Grimoire, the Broker who wrote it goes “That’s weird and I don’t understand it, therefore it’s they who must be wrong and out of touch because how could I be wrong? I have never seen it, therefore I’m right.” because the Broker doesn’t believe in object permanence.

We have objectively seen it happen. The Broker is coping because he was told something that broke (heh) his world view and he goes on a nervous rant about how it’s the Tauren who must be wrong, he can’t be wrong shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

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I guess he is a troll so he might just accept at face value someone badmouthing elves.

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why are the brokers trying to invalidate my culture what the hell

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the capitalist trying to invalidate native culture in pursuit of personal greed?

no…

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because they’re jerks?

they can’t keep getting away with this

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The Tauren community wanted some lore. They got some lore in this form. May this be a lesson to be careful what you wish for!

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it won’t stand.

i am formally calling for the cancellation of the brokers

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They’ll be forgotten about soon.

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Groan. Is it still really bad about goblins since that was explicitly called out?

Broker bias is biased. I’d only read that one for burial practices, not cosmic lore and deep truths about reality.

:flushed:

I’ll grant the reading comprehension nuance of, yeah, blood elves who are now horde sure did that bad thing and that’s politically problematic.

The saboteurs were in fact agents of Kael’thas, though and under direction of an eredar + another being that the quest writers forgot halfway through.

I played this content many times, I know this much.

Dangit. No moleman expansion?

However, these days, autocracy prevailed and Anduin can rubberstamp any old crazy thing.

Using 11 year-old lore at least, drawn from a stagnant status quo because they refuse to update the world!

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dragonblight. yes

nice try danuser

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They are the true villains of Dragon Isles…

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They dig holes to undermine the isles and it all sinks at the end so that the current expansion can go down the memory hole with all the rest so that the writers can keep moving forward without considering the past.

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https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Troll_Necklace_Bounty

Get this straight, - we are NOT part of the Alliance! The Wildhammers are independent, relying on deeds and actions to prove one’s worth, rather than the blather of those who use jibber-jabber to bolster their do-nothing attitudes!

Yes, the Je… Goblins still poisoned Orgrimmars waters, and are gaudy, greedy capitalist pigs.

#SadGnomeNoises.