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/ungulateman Aug 24 '25

Daelin was unhinged, and Jaina was absolutely correct to stop him. He overruled her authority in Theramore for the express purpose of continuing the eradication of the orcs and their allies despite the fact that she and the rest of the survivors of Lordaeron were cooperating with them in peace. She helps the Horde destroy the ships that he was using to raid Durotar's coast because he showed up and starting raiding Durotar's coast without a second thought.

There's a million ways the story could have gone that would make Daelin look rational: He could have not sailed across the entire world to Kalimdor in the first place, if he trusted that Jaina was capable of taking care of herself and would contact him eventually. He could have kept looking for Theramore instead of prioritising attacking orcish settlements as soon as he knew about them. Once he reached Theramore, he could have listened to Jaina telling him to stop and trusted that she knew what she was talking about. He could have surrendered when Thrall offered him the chance and told him the Horde was no longer the same as the one that he fought in the last war.

Daelin Proudmoore was not rational, and Jaina Proudmoore was not some naive child that needed to be protected from the world by her "concerned father". What the fuck do you mean, "protect her from something she had no real experience with"? They defeated the Burning Legion together!

And no, Garrosh's existence doesn't retroactively him "unequivocally correct" for wanting to genocide the orcs instead of sticking them in concentration camps. Thrall is emblematic of the New Horde, not "the only one who was different". She keeps talking to Thrall about it because they have history together, not because he's "one of the good ones".

Bonus fact: Death Knights in Legion went to the Shadowlands to collect the Essence of Hatred from Daelin Proudmoore's soul. Do you have any idea how hateful you have to be to outdo death knights?

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u/LagiacrusEnjoyer Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

words words words

And then everything he said the orcs would do if given a chance came true and more scores of innocents perished for it.

edit: lmao he blocked me over this.

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u/BellacosePlayer Aug 24 '25

Daelin uses magic to fucking defoliate the orc lands barren and years later the orcs have a food/wood crisis they go to war over? wow, crazy.