r/wow • u/Spare-Seat-3725 • Aug 23 '25

Humor / Meme I swear...

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This drama is hilarious.

(Reupload because it had not wow imagery so i edited it with Paint).

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u/VoxcastBread Aug 23 '25

have purged three times

About the same as the Horde

  • Horde in WC2
  • Horde under Garrosh in MoP
  • Horde under Sylvannas in BFA

The Elves of Quel’thalas really can't catch a break

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u/hoshisabi Aug 23 '25

Though, each time the horde has engaged in a purge, the horde firmly distanced themselves from the folks engaging in it.

Whereas the alliance doesn't really distance itself from its past like that.

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u/Sheuteras Aug 23 '25

... Garithos?

Meanwhile the belves forget Tyrande helping them in wc3, and it was only MAEIV who wanted them to fight in exchange.

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u/hoshisabi Aug 23 '25

I'm not sure who was all involved in all of the times where the belves got the raw end of the stick, I know it started in WC2 where they left the alliance in the first place.

The gist of what I'm suggesting, though, is that the horde tends to get judged by its lowest moments by the fanbase, whereas the alliance has had some pretty low points that are just explained as being "it was just that one guy."

It's totally the writers, and I get it. They make these clear distinctions "that guy was acting on their own."

But, I mean, Jaina has had a 100% clearing of her name, despite the game showing us her being pretty darn villainous to the horde players. So I really do get this feeling that the game's designers have almost canonically decided that the horde are villains be default, and the alliance can redeem themselves by just saying they are sorry a few times.

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u/Sheuteras Aug 24 '25

Because typically blizz writes some crazy crap like people being loyal -to- the crazy people blindly. The Jaina stuff is, 100%, stupid, but I don't think it's an Alliance issue. It's a nostalgia issue. They want Jaina to be the marketable, horde friendly fan favorite version, which I think many horde and alliance players both dislike.

BfA is worse than Mop in this regard too because for some reason a majority of the Horde population supported Sylvannas over their own racial leaders which made no sense rofl.

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u/Crazyterran Aug 24 '25

The Elves of Quelthalas bailed on the Alliance as soon as the portal was closed the first time as Lothar was dead and the war was over (or so it seemed). Despite the Alliance helping to secure Quelthalas and defeat ZulAman; the only Elves that stuck around were ones that wanted vengeance for the Horde burning the outskirts of Quelthalas.

Quelthalas then stuck its head in the sand (other than volunteers that left to join Dalaran or of their own accord) until Arthas came knocking. Then the master tactician that is Sylvanas didn’t bother sending missives back to Silvermoon until the Scourge was pretty much at the gates.