So, why did Blood Elves joined the Horde? There was many arguing about that. One of them was that Night Elves spies are responsible in that…
But that story about Night Elves spies was so illogical, so stupid, that even Robert Brooks, author of the “A Good War” forgot about that in his book.
But now finally, in the new book about Mathias Shaw adventures, we got answers to that:
-so, according to the new book, High Elves started to call them selves as Blood Elves and Joined the Horde because of the Grand Marshal Othmar Garithos!
Also according to Mathias Shaw, Garithos have Sullied the name of the Alliance, and deserved what he got. So, according to Mathias Shaw, Othmar Garithos the one who wanted to kick Sylvanas out from his Lands, and to return his lands to his people actually deserve to die and to be eaten…
Knowing that Mathias Shaw and his SI:7, have failed in Ashenvale forest (witch lead to the destruction of the Druids school in Cata), have failed in Legion (which lead to the death of the Alliance King), have failed in BfA (which lead to the destruction of the Teldrassil, and losing all Night Elves lands), have failed in Shadowlands (which lead to losing Anduin, another Alliance king), also knowing that Edwin VanCleef was his student (the one who was a leader of the Defias Brotherhood), and now knowing what Mathias think about the Alliance, I’m asking you people, should we say that Mathias is actually the one who really Sullied the name of the Alliance ?
Anything could be. I would not even be surprised if in the end it will be about some supernatural force that always tipped the events in just the right way to prevent them from joining another force on Azeroth, be it the alliance, or some neutral faction.
Tnat could be an opinion of Mathias Shaw. Or, that could turn out, that there is something uncovered yet, that made some of blood elves reach out to the horde specifically and any excuse would be good enough. Only time will tell.
“pre-edit”
That is an intersting idea, especially since we have a certain forshadowing that was revealed in the alliance only speach by Varimathras:
When your thrones run red with betrayal… when your holy places burn and the shattered mask hangs above your hearth… only then you will know. And it will be too late.
We know that Stormwind is not all that united. We know that lately nobles are especially active, once Anduin is not around, we know who pushed Genn to “challenge” Turalyon and take the position.
Will Turalyon live for long? Will Bolvar? Hard to say so far.
“post edit”:
He could be serving the interests not yet revealed. Only time will tell. Maybe not even during Shadowlands.
-in the picture “His bigotry cost the Alliance the elves, who in their anger, eventually renamed themselves to “sin’dorei”, which means “children og the blood”, and cast their lot in with the Horde.”.
Also this:
-in the picture “Finally he sullied the name of the Alliance”, and “His end was terrible, but better than he deserve”…
btw Mathias also did not wrote why actually Otmar was hating elves. Instead he just call them proud heroes. Its more sounds like some Horde member wrote that, but definitely not the member of the Alliance.
Maybe people will finally stop posting the age old bullshizz that the Alliance of Lordaeron and the current Alliance are two different things. Oh who am I kidding, of course they won’t.
That’s flawed in such an obvious way that it leaves us with two alternatives.
The writer of said book ignores key story elements that define their playable races.
It’s the flawed interpretation given to Shaws character.
Leaning more on option number 2.
Blood elves are called such because they were born again in certain way after Arthas rampaged across their lands and killed most of their kind. And the term was first introduced by Kaelthas, who acknowledged such reason to be what made them adopt said name.
Garithos was one of the reasons why Blood elves rejected the Alliance. But not why they adopted their new name.
He admitted that he missed it but it was still relevant.
And he also wrote Lorash holding a grudge with Night elves over their expulsion.
So yeah, NE remain rather key as one of the chief reasons for the BE to be Horde currently.
It isn’t about “either Garithos or NE”. Blood elves went Horse for a combination of agents that came into play.
Stuff that included both the aforementioned factions.
No. He is just remarkably unreliable as an intelligence agent.
A child doesn’t need to have experienced firsthand the event at hand to hold onto some grudge, when he is born and raised under the consequences of it.
Malfurion didn’t “rekt” anyone there. He just deterred blame.
Honestly, the only thing stopping me from admitting they are in fact the same is the fact that people seem to differentiate between the Old and New Horde, while the New Horde is a direct continuation of the Old Horde and at the start were even led by the same Warchief.
Admittedly Lorash had a bad childhood, but honestly he has no right of speaking.
He casually glossed over the fact that his ancestors unleashed terrible destruction on night elven lands twice and then were shown the mercy of exile (as a group) instead of death.
I really can’t take Lorash seriously, especially since he blames the night elves for the death of his people and parents, but the orcs, Forsaken and trolls are apparently blameless for the destruction of large swathes of Quel’thalas and many of his kin???
What made you think Doomhammer was ever Warchief of the new Horde?
Even Blizzard themselves said they were not the same faction. How can they be?
Doomhammer was the last warchief of the old Horde…afaik he never led the New Horde, in fact there wasn’t even really a new Horde untill the alliances with the Darkspear and the Tauren, and Thrall led those and the escaped surviving orcs since he broke them out of the internment camps.
Ah yes, remember how it wasn’t Doomhammer (the first leader of the “New” Horde) that didn’t order the invasion of Quel’thalas and unleashed dragons on it, who they didn’t name their new capital after, who isn’t revered as a hero and savior to the Horde.
Or how the Revantusk Tribe wasn’t one of the forest troll tribes that joined into the invasion and slaughter of innocent high elves families that were in their path when they tagged along with Doomhammers first Horde to slaughter and destroy Quel’thalas.
Or how it wasn’t the Undead of Lordaeron that marched alongside Arthas to destroy the high kingdom in the Third War.
But ohboi, what Malfurion did, exiling those amongst his people that found summoning an arcane storm over their new home, losing control, and then going “yeah, hehe we did it to show how in control we are” a good idea. God how evil can one person get?
Maybe not in name, but in essence he did, Doomhammer made Thrall his successor, but still reffered to himself as Warchief of the Horde when he introduced himself to Thrall, it was also Doomhammer that made Thrall the leader (Warchief) of the orcs and thus the Warchief of a “new” Horde.
Technicalities, since there wasn’t a “Grand Alliance” until alliances with the night elves either.
Orcs live the same years count as humans. There wasn’t much years have passed since the First War. In fact there are also old soldiers like Saurfang who were fighting against Draenei on the Outland, when the Horde was created for the first time.
So, its is a fact, that the new Horde has orcs that were killing elves in War2. Trying to destroy their kingdom, burning their forests with dragons. helping trolls to destroy their entire civilization.
Doomhammer was no longer in charge of the Horde when the Blood elves joined it and Thrall had made sure to make the rest of the orc faction go in a very different direction, the Revantusk didn’t openly join the Horde until Cataclysm, and the Forsaken would probably be seen about as victims as the rest of elves that were killed by Arthas and forced to march against the rest of their people (with Sylvanas at their head) in Eversong and Quelthalas.
Again, do not see it.
Specially given those Horde members were the only ones that tried to aid them recover their lands from the Scourge, while the Alliance sent spies and saboteurs.
From a kid’s point of view, that probably did not understand why was he or his cousins being punished for stuff his parents did, yeah.
Specially given he had to witness the NE change of heart regarding some Highborne as soon as they felt that it suited them.
