Warcraft history's gone through some weird retconning between the actual Warcraft 1 and 2, Jeff Grubb's Last Guardian, Christie Golden's Rise of the Horde and the Tides of Darkness/Beyond the Dark Portal books. I haven't read it yet but I also heard Chronicle might bork around with the established timeline a bit too.
You really have to look at this as kind of an alternate history thing, not a faithful retelling of Warcraft 1. It's not WoD, but when they wrote the Warcraft 1 and 2 storylines there was no Durotan. Initially he was just a retconned macguffin in the Warcraft 3 manual to justify Thrall's existence.
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Short and skinny of it is as its always been, they both have the fore thought to realize they most likely can't win a war against the Humans, or if the do win they will be so badly hurt as a people it won't be worth it.
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The movie is going to be power of friendship, we knew this since the announcement. *cough Metzen, so what else do you expect cough*
But... They can win a war with the humans. During the first war the orcs took the humans completely by surprise and utterly destroyed the kingdom of Azeroth (now Stormwind). The humans had to flee to Lordaeron and prepare for the next attack.
I swear to God if this movie doesn't end with Stormwind destroyed and king Llane dead, I'm going to be so fucking pissed.
Just to clear one thing - how do you know that both Orgrim and Durotan are working with the humans? From all the trailers and tv spots all I can see is only Durotan speaking directly with the humans. In the latest "trailer" we can even see Orgrim asking Durotan "How can you side with the humans?". So probably Durotan acts on his own and is trying to end the war and the orcs' suffering in any way possible, or just to end Gul'dan's schemes
Meh at this point, I'm just gonna blame infinite dragonflight. We already know there's literally endless numbers of alternate universes (just look how they fucked around with everyone at the end of that War Crimes or whatever book when they started pulling alternate evil heroes and other stuff to aid in Garrosh's escape, hell all of WoD is in an alternate timeline), so even though I sure as hell won't be seeing this movie because it looks like crap, it can be reasoned with. Just point and blame the infinite dragonflight. We won't be getting a proper WCI movie, if anything it'll end with the birth and meeting of green Jesus and the most horrible WC character ever created, Med'an.
"Metzen is writing the story but he's not to blame for the story!" I don't see how that in itself is an exaggeration.
Blizzard is calling the shots, they're fronting the funds and hiring the director. All three of them are to blame. That said Metzen is involved and the story is, as we both know, deviating far from the cannon universe. Which was my point to began with they're painting the orcs as noble savages. Not the genocidal invaders they are in official timeline. I get why they're doing it but I don't see how that makes my original answers disingenous.
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Lothar and Durotan shall both be leading splinter groups trying to figure out something other than mutual massacring of the races. If you know your lore, you know what level of a miserable failure that will result in. The Razing of Stormwind is happening. Thrall is getting orphaned one way or another. This shit will be dark.
Also, why not join the main forum thread instead of making separate topics?
I dont really have problems with how the movie tells its story, hell i can make stuff up if it wants, but there is one thing that i fear will be changed, and that is the greenish nature of the orcs. From what i have seen from the trailers, the movie is gonna make a big deal about this entire "drinking demon blood". In all of warcraft 1,2 and 3, the orcs are green. The mag'thar are even unique in WoW, when it comes to their skin colour and it helped set up a great orc racism thing in both TBC and MoP, but it is not something that should have an effect before that. So i really hope, that the movie ends with all the battling orcs being green. If they aren't, then i will have a hard time taking the story serious....
because movie is gonna be crap and blizzard dont care about their original lore?! fcing bullshit. seriously they never even spoke with humans. they learned their language years later so they couldent even communicate here... durotan told orgrim about guldans treason soon before his death. and after that orgrim took controll over horde. but here..its all crap.
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ppl! if u havent read warcraft books then u have no clue about all the movies bullshit!!!!
While it was for different reasons, yes this already happened in the second war. It set's a precedent that they can negotiate with eachother.
@bison91 see quote, this happened in the Tides of Darkness book you claim everyone should read.However, the start of the Second War favored the orcs, and the future looked grim for the Alliance. Fearing for his kingdom should the Alliance fail, Lord Perenolde collaborated with the Orcish Horde, supplying them with information in exchange for the survival of the kingdom.