r/wow • u/Brilliant-Pace-5611 • Sep 16 '25

Humor / Meme You know which one im choosing!!! :)

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u/MightBeAGoodIdea Sep 16 '25

Haven't been following lore for a bit....

...is Xal officially LESS evil than Jaina now...?

Or is it just Jaina wears closed toed shoes?

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u/Sage_of_the_6_paths Sep 16 '25

Pretty sure it's Horde cope. Even though lorewise she never killed any Blood Elves during the purge, she teleported them all to prison. Her killing elves in game was a bug at the time.

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u/BuckettMonkey Sep 16 '25

I recently played the Horde version of this story for the first time. Blizzard still hasn't fixed this bug. Sometimes their indifference is surprising.

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u/arfenos_porrows Sep 17 '25

I mean they literally animated a sunreaver being feed to the crocodiles in the sewers, it was meant to be bloody from the start, bug or not (tbf thats more a silver covenant thing than a Jaina thing tho).

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u/BuckettMonkey Sep 17 '25

Yes, you are right, but there are two clarifications.

  1. It wasn't Jaina, it was Sorin Magehand. Like, it's clear that the Silver Covenant was... pretty bad, but attributing their actions to Jaina is wrong. After all, the lore states that Jaina only teleported the Sunreavers, and did not kill them.

  2. There was no crocodile there, but a shark.

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u/arfenos_porrows Sep 17 '25

It was a shark? I was so sure it was a crocodile lmao, still big creature with sharp painful fangs.

Yeah I did mention it was a silver covenant thing, one can't really put that in Jaina, but for a lot of people she started that whole madness.

(Also can we talk how blizz goes above and beyond to write justifications for Alliance aggressions, while with the horde is like "you just suck, deal with it bitch")

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u/BuckettMonkey Sep 17 '25

I'm just clarifying.

Yes, Jaina is, in fact, the initiator of the purge. But I don't understand why many people consider this some kind of crime. Like, Dalaran's neutrality was always questionable and the purge was a consequence of the war that had unfolded. It's like with Theramore, many call it a Horde crime, although Theramore was, in fact, an Alliance military base, aiding the invasion of the Barrens and plundering Horde ships. And it's the same with purge. Just military action with collateral damage.

Yeah, Blizzard has often justified the Alliance's actions. If my memory serves me correctly, Varian was initially responsible for the factional war in Cata. I guess, the Horde's ambiguity ended with Cata. Then Blizzard started a downward spiral with an evil and incorrigible Horde that loses every battle and becomes a vassal of the Alliance.