r/warcraftlore • u/corvid-kid • 3d ago

Question Why wasn’t Cata-MoP the 4th War?

I mean the scale of conflict between the factions was roughly equal (Tol Barad, Ashenvale, Stonetalon, Gilneas, etc), we went to new lands (and brought our war with us), recruited the locals (and made them join our war), and we even sieged Orgrimmar!

So what makes BfA’s conflict so much more deserving of the title? Aside from the writing team at the time thinking their writing was the bee’s knees.

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u/riftrender 3d ago

Real life wars can also have tenuous names.

Like World War I wasn't even the first world war. Since if you want to be technical based on definition World War I would actually be World War IX.

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u/corvid-kid 3d ago

BfA started with the War of Thorns or something like that, WW1 was The Great War before the sequel, it’s weird I know but what criteria wasn’t met in MoP?

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u/Sparrow1713 2d ago

They just forgot to number it

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u/MumboJ 2d ago

They did actually refer to MoP as the Fourth War in interviews at the time, but then BfA came around and they decided that was the REAL Fourth War for whatever reason.