WoW Insider's Weekly Webcomic: Safe Passage -- Convergence
by Kelly Aarons 
Mar 14th 2012 at 8:00PM
So, it seems that some "Alliance dogs" remember honor, after all. (I kid -- I love you guys.)
Check out the full comic right here, and tune in next Wednesday for a new page. You can also see all the previous pages in the gallery below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Prelimar Mar 14th 2012 9:39PM
O.O whoa, bloodshed...!
so, "an honorable death... thank you..." is what all those orcs are saying when i kill them? who knew? i feel even better about it now.
Khoonda Mar 14th 2012 9:56PM
Don't mess with a dwarf trying to find his kids... or his ale
jealouspirate Mar 14th 2012 10:11PM
DWARF POWER.
viciouspen Mar 15th 2012 12:00AM
Sure we remember it.
We have to.
We're the only faction not out blowing up schools full of children after all.
mrobers1982 Mar 15th 2012 2:09AM
wah wah
Angus Mar 15th 2012 9:11AM
Oh please. The Hirde doesn't blow up school busses. We wait till they are at home, comfy, and then drive them an their moms into the quillboars.
Oh wait...
;P
Khoonda Mar 15th 2012 9:47AM
or they melt the entire village in a horrible plague and use the survivors for slave labor or in demented experiments where they're buried up to their neck in filth and left to rot...
or you kill an entire village of formerly allied wizards, raise them from the dead, and mind control them to use as fodder against a nation you attack unprovoked...
OR you cut down tons of forestland and kill any natives there that try to stop you...
thebitterfig Mar 15th 2012 11:43PM
My canned response to the orcs and the elves and the trees (from almost exactly 1 year ago...):
"A lot of folks, finding their trees in the process of being cut down, would do something like cuss out the woodcutters, or warn them off. Heck, maybe capture one of the woodcutters, beat him silly, then kick his butt back to the camp. Like, something non-lethal.
Kaldorei response? Shoot first, and kill all the outsiders (including the Kul Tiras humans in Kalimdor, too), and don't bother with questions at all. Of course, the orc response is "Whatever, let's go kill some elves!" and it would have been the same if the elves had attempted diplomacy first. That doesn't change the fact that the elf reaction to tree cutting is the indiscriminate slaughter of the loggers.
And I don't mean to be anti-Night Elf, but this is just WoW history."
Of course, I tend to separate the Forsaken from the rest of the Horde, and orcs fairly frequently fight with honor. Not always 100% of the time, but they've got no qualms about killing off their own when they behave dishonorably.
It's also like this: just because the Horde are the best characters (it's completely objectively true and anyone can see that :P), it doesn't mean they are the characters we ought to agree with. It's like how Omar and Stringer are two of the best characters on The Wire, but they're both murderers and crooks. Not really rolemodels, but great characters. Horde's the same way.
thebitterfig Mar 15th 2012 6:56AM
This is why I love orcs.
Elwoods Mar 15th 2012 11:00AM
They are good at dying??
Teresa Mar 15th 2012 9:32PM
^ Muhahahahahaha...
Also, death with honor for an orc that eats babies? Why cant we be unabashed baby eaters too? Without the moral finger pointing I mean.
thebitterfig Mar 15th 2012 10:41PM
Well, dude never actually ate a baby (that we know about).
Anyhow, here's this orc, he knows he's toast. He knows he's failed as a warrior, beaten by an old Dwarf using cowardly tactics (from the orc's point of view). So he's honestly grateful when the Dwarf shows him the respect of allowing him to die with honor. He probably thinks it's because Pappa Dwarf is too softhearted to just cut him down, but he's thankful to die in battle, since it allows him to reclaim in some small way the dignity taken from him when he was captured.
With orcs, the great thing is that it isn't just about *whether* something happens, either death, life, battle, heck probably even farming, but the fundamental truth that *how* something happens matters just as much. Process is as important as results. That's why I love orcs.
StClair Mar 16th 2012 12:23PM
Everyone's favorite green Klingons.