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1-29-2008 @ 4:00PM
Iliya said...
I was initially always for, "For Lothar!" since he represented what the Alliance needed in a good leader. However, I slowly started to think that it was far too human-centric and would only represent Stormwind or Lorderon. So, I figured, "For Azeroth!" since all the Alliance races were fighting for their homes, their spouses, their children, and their future, unlike the Horde, who selfishly spout their battlecry for themselves.
However, now that I've found out that Lothar was homeless, it makes far more sense for him to be the figurehead of the Alliance.
For the humans, it's obvious, being one of their kinsmen.
For the dwarves and elves, what few High Elves that remain especially, he fought for them, even though relations between their races weren't always good.
For the Night Elves, perhaps it was his courage in the face of incredible odds, much like their own when Azshara double crossed them to the Legion.
For the Gnomes and the Draenei, they too know what it's like to lose their homes, and to follow another that understood their plight, made it easier for them to relate.
Best of all, even his passing did not dampen the spirits of his countrymen. In fact, it only strengthened their resolve to smack the Horde around and show them who's the boss after Doomhammer's cowardly backstabbing.
The 'Grab your sword' line is terrible. Always has been.
This one is far better.
"For Lothar!"
P.S. By the way, Elizabeth, I suggest you get an actual Alliance player to do an Alliance perspective on Know Your Lore, since you seem so hesitant and bitter about certain things within the game that some of us have no control over and you seem far more Gung-ho about savages that would take lands that never belonged to them, experiment on civilians in cruel tests and genocidal plagues, torture holy beings for their own selfish ends, eat their own kind, and leave Kodo turds everywhere.
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1-17-2008 @ 10:13PM
Pucelle said...
P.S. By the way, Elizabeth, I suggest you get an actual Alliance player to do an Alliance perspective on Know Your Lore, since you seem so hesitant and bitter about certain things within the game that some of us have no control over and you seem far more Gung-ho about savages that would take lands that never belonged to them, experiment on civilians in cruel tests and genocidal plagues, torture holy beings for their own selfish ends, eat their own kind, and leave Kodo turds everywhere.
I have to admit, QFT.
I really, really hate it when people glorify the Horde and try to make the Alliance sound like snivelling jerks - ever done the Alliance quest where you go torture a member of the opposing faction for kicks? That's because there aren't any. But the Blood Elves have no trouble doing it to the Draenei.
1-18-2008 @ 3:04AM
Charneldeath said...
This dude obviously doesn't know anything about the Horde. The horde are fighting for their homes also, fighting for their very right to survive, to exist! I'm sorry broseph, but if you read the lore, 9 times out of 10, it's your precious alliance who are up to no good, not the Horde. At least not the Horde of WC3 and beyond.
Roll a Orc or Troll. Run to Org, and go talk to Thrall. He says something about fighting with honor, and not being the old rabid horde bent on destruction. The Horde are the misunderstood teenagers of WoW, with the Alliance being the overbearing parents bent upon proving who is really in charge here.
1-18-2008 @ 8:05AM
hokstein said...
"P.S. By the way, Elizabeth, I suggest you get an actual Alliance player to do an Alliance perspective on Know Your Lore"
Definitely. Elizabeth is a good writer, but she should take her Horde bias elsewhere. As should most of the writers here.
"Roll a Orc or Troll. Run to Org, and go talk to Thrall. He says something about fighting with honor, and not being the old rabid horde bent on destruction. "
Yes, then roll an Undead and go have a friendly chat with Sylvanas. Her apothecaries have some nice beverages for you to try. Just because Thrall is a nice guy it doesn't make the Horde good people.