Anemo: traveler, Sucrose
Pyro: Yanfei, Amber, diluc, xiangling, thoma, Xinyan, Bennett
Geo: Noelle, Ningguang, Yun Jin, Gorou
Hydro: Barbara, Zingqiu, Ayato
Cyro: Shenhe, Kaeya, Chongyun, Diona, Ayaka, Rosaria
Electro: Fischl, Lisa, Miko, Kujou, Raiden, Razor
Ashenvale is under attack from the Horde, but Tyrande, Malfurion, and the player character are busy at Thrall's wedding. And then we have to help him through his emotional issues
Yep, pretty much. Thrall became a neutral character back in Cata, but he reverted back to the Horde in MoP.
Alliance heroes though? Tirion's whole plot in Vanilla was that he wanted to re-establish the Knights of the Silver Hand, then an Alliance Paladin order. Ok, cool. Only he then merges it with the neutral Argent Dawn, and now the new Argent Crusade is neutral. The iconic Alliance Paladin order just got neutral'd over the course of the DK starting experience.
Khadgar and the Kirin Tor? Neutral. Sure, MoP brought the Kirin Tor home, but that's been undone.
Magni? He was the closest thing the Alliance had to a single leader prior to Varian's return. He's neutral now.
Ultimately? It's because it's less work for Blizzard to create one "point man" for a story that both factions can interact with, rather than two point men, one for each faction. Still sucks to see Alliance characters made neutral though.
Again, Taylor isn't part of the story.
Anyway I know this is mostly in jest, but I'd seriously be ok with making the Knights of the Ebon Blade and the Earthen Ring Horde-aligned factions if it meant the Alliance could get the Knights of the Silver Hand and Kirin Tor back.
Won't ever happen, but I'd be fine with it if it did.
I like how u say "our" and "us" like a real horde member.
Filthy Alliance scum will always be bitching about something
OT: I dont believe Voljin is truly dead, he just had another Darkspear never die moment and decided to do things in the shadows and fake his death again, I hope so anyway (even if it would be kinda lame repeating the fake death)
Anemo: traveler, Sucrose
Pyro: Yanfei, Amber, diluc, xiangling, thoma, Xinyan, Bennett
Geo: Noelle, Ningguang, Yun Jin, Gorou
Hydro: Barbara, Zingqiu, Ayato
Cyro: Shenhe, Kaeya, Chongyun, Diona, Ayaka, Rosaria
Electro: Fischl, Lisa, Miko, Kujou, Raiden, Razor
You could have Blizzard write about the Horde being completely obliterated with none of their members surviving and you'd still have some Alliance half-wits complaining that it's Horde favoritism because it's them getting more screen time, more unique story or whatever.
Because supporting an alliance who wants to take over lordaeron via supplies, raiding forsaken supply lines, and offering a port for invasion would never bite them in the ass ever. That's like saying the orcs in redridge were innocent and wanted to live peacefully.
At least alliance chars don't have to raid their own city, take out their own leader, and then go back to an alternate universe to kill more of their core race and the au versions of their founders.
Tirion recreated the Lordaeron part of the Silver Hand. I.e. the Silver Hand of the kingdom that also isn't in the Alliance anymore. The Stormwind and Ironforge one survived. They do co-operate with the neutral Silver Hand in Legion (which is one of the reasons why making the neutral order Silver Hand is idiotic), but it's no different than the Sunwalkers or Blood Knights doing the same.