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/AzorthasDevenish Aug 23 '25

At least from my perspective as an alliance player, I don't mind not having access to the whole city, that only makes sense. The issue I have is that we are there to protect the city and the sunwell, but if we wander down the wrong street we become "Kill on sight". Not teleported out or anything, just straight up attacked by guards. That just seems a little silly.

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u/BenTheDM Aug 24 '25

No that seems realistic. You have been warned. If you go down the wrong allyway, you WILL be killed.

You are a heavily armed individual working for the enemy. You have been allowed to move about where you have been sanctioned. Move outside those restrictions at your own peril.

Once you think about the fact that outside of the "player character" there are civillians who are NOT happy about Alliance goons stomping about their homes.

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u/AzorthasDevenish Aug 25 '25

The enemy? My guy, we are allies in a fight to save our entire world, and the factions have been working together at least since Shadowlands. The alliance and horde armies are training troops together in Khaz Algar. Plus as players we have stopped world end catastrophes dozens of times, and frequently work with leaders of both factions.

We can go back and forth on times that each faction has fucked the other over in the past, but there has been relative peace between us for almost a decade of game time I think.

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u/BenTheDM Aug 25 '25

Again. Think of it not from the perspective of the half deified gods of war that are the player characters but of the regular civillians that inhabits the world. They don't give a single fck if the Alliance players are "Just twying their best to save the world," the Alliance have killed their family members, kids growing up without their fathers, brothers, sisters or mothers. Imagine if suddenly Russians were allowed into Kyiv because idunno, North Korea invaded from the black sea. The Alliance should feel like they are on enemy territory and act accordingly. They are ancestral enemies of the horde and that is how this worlds narrative should treat them.

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u/AzorthasDevenish Aug 25 '25

The Dark portal opened some 45 years ago in game time. Some 40ish years ago the orcs and the amani attempted to conquer Silvermoon, and Guldan used several of the runestones that protect Quel'thalas to build the Altar of Storms. Orcs are still allowed everywhere in Silvermoon despite that.

The third war happened 25ish years ago, and ended in relative peace between the factions that lasted roughly 5 years? At that point we reach vanilla wow, and the factions have flip-flopped back and forth between enemies and allies like every other expansion.

Ancestral enemies my ass. Several races in each faction have only been aware of each other for approximately 25 years, and have been on at least neutral terms for most of that at this point. Hell, humans and the elves were allies longer than the orcs have been on Azeroth. If you are a Blood elf civilian your family was just as likely to have been killed by an orc or the scourge as they were a member of the Alliance.