Tl dr: 404 morally grey Alliance not found. In short: they were the poor wtittle heroes that had to resort to extreme measures in their persecution of “true justice” cause Orcs are idiots, period. The Alleria incident was whitewashed in despicable ways… the Orc mom gets portrayed not sympathetically but as a hostile moron who refused to give in to Turalyon´s PLEAS, ergo “forcing” Alleria to try her methods. When you go and check, the “moments of evil” Alliance side get either ignored by the grand narrative (the Stonespire tribe incidents in Vanilla… basically genocided but did Anduin or ANYONE not Horde aknowledge that happened? Nope) or retroactively justified (in-game, Theramore attacked the Barrens first, causing the Taurajo -a population center with women and children- incident, but here comes “Tides of War” retroactively saying Orcs attacked first and that the Alliance just “scared the Tauren”, not their fault the idiots ran in the middle of the night into the clutches of hostile quillboard). but didnt she do some bad stuff with turalyon? like torture people? cant address alleria cause she’s rather non existent in-game lore.

you’ll never convince me now that i know the lore, that either side is evil, just their elves are wacked, with lorthemar being the exception Lesser gods: Araleth Letheranil, god of starlight and twilight. Vandria Gilmadrith, goddess of war, justice, and grief. Tarsellis Meunniduin, god of mountains, rivers, wilderness and snow-elves. He was also the guardian of the boundaries between civilization and the wilds. i’m a fan of the good guys trope, as a result, i’m a fan of thrall, lorthemar and anduin. Solonor Thelandira, god of hunting, archery, and survival. everybody else is either morally grey or mostly good with moments of evil. The only one who matches that description is anduin. I like the Horde races cause they aren´t inherently perfectly good nor inherently perfectly evil… this gives more complexity to their characterization and this is more interesting for me. We irl humans beings are faulty people carrying with us tons of mistakes and sins, so don´t ask me to feel bad nor empathize with characters that simply put it, are basically aliens / robots with a coat of “human aesthetics”. The very reason I can´t stand the Alliance races is because the devs try so hard at portraying them as perfectly goodie two shoes heroes who can do no wrong I simply can´t relate to such inhumane standards. the idea you cant be an elf of any kind unless you’re the epitome of evil dictator levels of bad, ruins elves for me.įunny, I´m actually the opposite as far as writting style and portrayal is concerned. this frees up alliance elves to be something other than more monsters, which is why i am not a fan of depicting void elves as corrupt maniacs. and in fact, many want flat out monster elves, no apologies. My final thoughts on the debate you three just had:īlood elves for the most part, want to embrace the moral monster they started as.

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