Making Hyjal to be the center of the Kaldorei empire and the Dark Portal to have always existed sounds like an overly ambitious historian wanting to reframe history by rewriting what is true today to have always been true.
Danuser really can’t handle the idea that the past was different and not always directly connected to things in the present because context is a thing.
Let’s accept an entire new alien space race based on the actions of 1 player character Draenei, what could go wrong.
The inclusion of gnomes in their mating rituals.
Also that. I remember doing quests up there for that useless rep.
Thanks, I think I lost a few brain cells reading this book summary.
This quest is the only thing suggesting the Wildhammers left the Alliance, but you’d have to ask yourself when or why, and it still leaves them in the same position as the jinyu - allied to the Alliance, but not part of it.
If I remember right, the Wildhammer left the Alliance after the Third War, but they were still willing to work with them (as evidenced by Classic quests and their “friendly” stance toward Alliance adventurers).
Since Cataclysm they’ve been brought into the Alliance as full members. The Aerie Peak lot are intergrated through Ironforge and the Three Hammers, while the ones in Twilight Highlands joined up seperately. A lot of Highlanders were killed during Legion though, so not sure where things currently stand with them.
At least that’s what I remember. Could be wrong.
We don’t know when, we don’t know why, all we know is that they were still allies of the Alliance.
It’s not about whether the night elves care or not. I posed a direct question about the Shatterspears existence as a tribe which unless I’m mistaken wasn’t in question until you posed the suggestion it is, I thought according to the original book they’re still supposedly active in Shatterspear Vale and rebuilding. I wanted to know whether the new revised version had retconned this since that’s what I assumed you meant.
Not that I would care much because this book is implying the kaldorei empires capital was in Mount Hyjal rather than Zin-Azshari, which means the person in charge of the narrative is clearly huffing paint for fun.
Wow it’s just like the night elves!
Its unchanged, the Shatterspear part is 1-on-1 taken over!
The 20 or so night elves that are left can’t chase the horde out of the blighted remnants of their homeland.
I still hate that…
so basically they covered up their lore mistake by just retconning it?
lol blizzard!
also what in the god in the name in the hell
do they realise how much this changes things
Do they say anything about Theramore, Northwatch, Tiragarde Keep etc.?
I don’t think this is revised at all, it shares all the same 
mistakes and inconsistencies as the first version.
Theramore is filled with ghosts.
It would imply Thrall’s Horde was in league with the Eredar who commanded those Blood Elves in Bloodmyst Isle. Or at the very least Silvermoon was.
Unless of course all the Elves were actually Mal’Ganis.
im convinced blizzard has secretly been spying on the roleplaying communities for centuries (they went back in time IC) to attain such cosmicbrain writing, but decided to filter out the grounded, fun and entertaining sources of inspiration and just go straight for the 'roided narrative version of what constitutes a level 27 worgen death knight with giant growth elixir coming out they kabooze
The author could have put this book into one line: “Nothing’s changed since Cataclysm.”