SERIOUS BUSINESS

Listen, if both races didn’t have their justifications and flaws, why the hell would anyone want to play one or the other?

There are cruelties BOTH have inflicted upon the others. There are unfortunate events that BOTH of them have endured.

If you really want to compare this to a real life conflict, don’t. That’s dumb, and cheapens the real life conflicts.

Both factions have reason to believe they are justified in what they do. Both factions push things a little far sometimes because they are passionate about what they believe. Despite the circumstances, both of them have suffered terrible losses and both of them hold legitimate grudges. Grudges that can’t be set aside easily.

So as touching as it is that everyone is so loyal to their own faction, seriously…take a step back and look at it from, say, the Naaru’s perspective. If one race or the other were truly through and through evil, do you think they’d be allowed into Shatt?

1. Nice sneaking in that “human” for Medivh. You fail to mention the bloodlust-inflicted Horde willingly went under the sway of the Burning Legion, whose leader possessed said warlock.

2. “He cannot see past the corrupted orcs.” Wrong, he can’t really get over the trauma he suffered plus the modern brutality he witnessed whilst enslaved. That crude look he carries is straight from the days he was deemed Lo’Gosh in the Crimson Ring.

3. The “human” alliance also includes the Night Elves who scorn their Bloody brothers for their continued addiction to the arcane. That tension can’t exist within an Alliance, however the Horde was able to open its doors only because of the lack of association they previous had with the BE.

4. “Alliance follows the same blindly ambitious footsteps that led Arthas.” Explain, when did the Allies pick up a dark weapon and start obeying the voices coming it from it? Did the faction’s best friend get killed by Mal’Ganis?

5. Got to Nagrand? One goes to Nagrand and they find Garrosh. Garrosh! Nagrand is the worst thing that happened to the Horde.

6. “Xenophobia,” “darker and darker….” Uh which faction is racially cleansing their central capital? How much assassination and usurping is occurring amongst the Allies in Cataclysm? How many duels did Wyrnn have with Fordragon right before Wrath? Is there really any tension any of the races? Which faction bombs villages with a flesh-eating plague? Are the dwarves known for their headshrinking?

7. The Argent factions are lead by a human, but they have no association with the Alliance. Although that does help my point, which of the Horde’s powerful warriors are forming groups that are the only real driving force against the Lich King?

8. On a final note: the Lich King is the Horde’s fault. He is, after all, a former warchief. As scripts from ICC suggest the only thing keeping him from ripping apart the world is the ALLIANCE’S fallen warrior with whom he shares a body.

Cute essay, but no dice.

Thrall and his Orc brethren suffered a life of slavery upon their defeat. The same war which freed them of their demonic blood made them slaves to the exploitive barons of the Alliance. It’s been many generations since the demon possessed horde came bellowing out of the dark portal hungry for blood after being summoned by a powerful human warlock.

The new horde was born from hardships suffered under Alliance’s greed, misguided ethics and bad memories. The horde is just awakening as a people. Honor, compassion and patience are two new incantations that have been added to the Horde’s powerful mantra of blood and thunder. Thrall is a just leader, who defends his new kingdom from threats within and from the ruthless and ignorant alliance leadership. He has even allowed the Blood Elves to join his ranks, while the human Alliance betrayed them during their weakest hour. Sure Horde is green, ugly, warty and weird on the outside, at least they are not monsters on the inside.

While the Alliance follows the same blindly ambitious footsteps that led Arthas astray the Horde is led by a true noble savage. Jania Proudmore being the only hope for peace between both factions. Thrall is not even a key player anymore because, he has already led the Horde. His courage has lead the Horde into a new paradigm, the whole culture of the Horde has changed. Just go to Nagrand and witness the future of the Horde. They are no longer mindless bonechewers who serve demons, but are starting to resemble the Matriarchal culture of the great mother found in Nagrand. In a way, even though Thrall is loved he is no longer needed, the Horde like the gentle Tauren can live in harmony, if those alliance idiots would just stop attacking.

Even Nazgrel can lead the Horde in the path Thrall has laid out. With that said, Garrosh must never have power. He is a danger which only someone with the patience and compassion of the Dali Lama can tolerate. (Thrall)

On the other end of the spectrum. Alliance is not seeking to better themselves as a people. They keep going darker and darker. Their greed and xenophobia is only shadowed by the ignorance of their leaders. They lack honor, they are a disgrace to themselves fumbling at every footstep. Even seeking Horde champions for aid in Ice Crown because they cannot defeat the Lich King (A monster of their own creation by themselves.)

Kid’s roll alliance because they see them as heroes, but that is just a superficiality. While the Horde still struggles for freedom against the alliance, it is willing to work with them to end the Lich King’s reign. The Alliance is working to eradicate the Horde, if it weren’t for the Lich King, Alliance would still be on their crusade to end the Horde.

Any mindless Alliance who crosses my path should die for following their leaders like lemmings. I have no qualms p00ning nubs.

That’s my fanboy soap box, over all the Horde-nuts are pissy that we actually have a legitimate leader to stand behind. The Alliance is technically stronger for having survived under the foremost rule of a child over the course of what…four/five years?

However, once their corrupted Bloodlust was cured, they became completely new people. The same people they had once been on their native planet: peaceful, shamanistic, noble. Still frightening if met on a battlefield, but not willing to wage war for wars’ sake. Jaina has made peace with the Horde. Thrall also has forgiven the humans’ their past sins and looks to peace. Wrynn just cannot see past what the corrupted orcs did, and wants to kill them all. Yay Wrynn?

Who enslaved the orcs on a mass scale in internment camps? Oh right, the humans. So I don’t think that’s really fair to bring up what a renegade band of orcs did with one lousy human. Which, by the way, they’d never have gotten a chance to do this to him if he hadn’t been kidnapped in the first place. It’s not like they intentionally saw out to kidnap and enslave Varian Wrynn. I think if they initially knew who they had, they’d have treated him a lot differently.

And re: the Forsaken plague, you seriously cannot blame the Horde for that. The Forsaken concocted that plague on their own, intended to kill both Horde and Alliance. Attacking the entire Horde because the Forsaken tried to kill them? Yeah, that’s a great logic, there…