Pun intended?
I thought that storywise, after Icecrown he went to Nagrand for the ritual burning ceremony of his son's corpse, to grieve.
Fully expecting him to make a comeback soon. As a dwarf, I hate to admit it, but I enjoyed having him as our commander in Silithus.
Also, about Aggra dying, I've said it before but IF this would happen during the Orgrimmar raid it would draw a delicious parallel:
Varian's wife, Tiffin, dies in the Stormwind riots, riots caused by terrible leadership decisions and political intrigue.
Thrall's wife, Aggra, dies in Orgrimmar riots, riots caused by terrible leadership decisions and political intrigue.
Looking marvelous in velvet.
There's no point in arguing with him about anything. Anyone who wants the story to progress in a meaningful way instead of everyone just holding hands and hugging is an awful human being who just wants to watch the world burn and probably kills cats in their spare time.
I put him on ignore months ago so I didn't have to see his annoying borderline troll behavior in every thread.
As of right now, they are going around putting band-aids on on Azeroth's boo boos, courtesy of Deathwing
We have faced trials and danger, threats to our world and our way of life. And yet, we persevere. We are the Horde. We will not let anything break our spirits!"
Lol, that's hilarious!
Yeah, me too. I hope Saurfang will make a comeback, since the Horde seems to go into full-out Pandaria war-mode from 5.1 on, not to mention the internal conflicts.
About Thrall: It's never fun when a great leader settles down, but it's good for him. The Horde no longer needs him as leader (no matter how bad you think Garrosh is, Thrall is no longer needed as Warchief), Azeroth no longer needs him to defeat Deathwing, so he needs a new reason to come action, and I think a kid and wife will be just that.
Aggra was kind of annoying, but I guess the horde needed a female character next to Sylvanas. I just hope Zaela makes a comeback, she was a lot more inspiring to me than Aggra.
I think your find, that given in 5.1, because Thrall has to come from being father and husband, to being liberator of the darkspear trolls, that your complete wrong on that account, and infact the horde does need him, given the shit that is happening.
Did anyone step up and free the darkspears from there capture by the kor'kron? No.
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I disagree. We need him more than ever. Garrosh took us to the edge of breaking, he almostd estroyed the horde completely, we need someone as Thrall, respected by everyone (even his enemies) and with a proven capacity of leadership that we know it wont make the stupid mistakes Garrosh did.
He built this horde, Garrosh almost destroyed it, we need him to rebuild it again, to "heal" it.
#boycottchina
yes but I think what people are saying is that Thrall has fought again and again for the Horde, but now that he has 'settled down' and taken on other roles (how would he juggle leader of Earthen Ring and the Horde? and manage his mate and child) that he should perhaps step aside in the storytelling for some new characters who can take his place and lead the Horde.
There are a number of excellent and intriguing Horde characters that could return to the spotlight or be resolved (die) instead of Thrall again. Saurfang, Rexxar, Nazgrim, Eitrigg, Zaela, and what happened to Nazgrel- Thrall's right-hand man?
Disagreeing is ok, it's opinions after all. I was thinking of how to write my response, when I saw Krixooks already pretty much wrote what my point was:
We need a different leader for the Horde, that much is obvious. Garrosh is going bad and needs to be replaced. However, we do not need Thrall back. It would be much nicer if someone else took up the Warchief job and also did a good job. I am not going into a debate on who should be the next Warchief, but there is no reason why it 'has to be' Thrall and cannot be anyone else. I like Thrall, he's a cool character, but his story should be pretty much told by now. It's time for new heroes with their own storylines, or old heroes returning to new glory (as Krixooks suggested).
In short, the point is: we need a new warchief, but it doesn't "have to be" Thrall.
Varian ahs a kid without a wife helping him and can lead without problem. Cairne had a kid without a wife helping him and could lead without problems.
Earthen Ring leadership taks almost no time and if neccesary Thrall would give it to someone else if that stops him from helping the horde.
You put Rexxar as an option, without realizing how stupid it is. Rexxar NEVER WANTED to even stay in a city for little time, let alone settle down in one. Saurfang, Eitrigg are old. Nazgrim has no leadership features, he is just a follower and no society will take down a tyrant only to put in charge one of his followers, that would be stupid.
Zaela and Nazgrel have no development, you cant just throw a random leader there.
Thrall is the only one that makes sense, and with him getting more in touch in the Horde politics again now that he goes save the Darkspears from Garrosh tyranny i think Blizzard thinks the same.
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Again, i answered in the previous post, i would love if you can give an argument why we need a new leader and not Thrall instead of just saying so.
You can't dismiss concerns over Thralls family and then say that others are disallowed on account of being "old". Well, you can, but you'd be hypocritical. Those mentioned aren't exactly on death's door and are perfectly capable of leadership. The fact that "they're too old" just shows the classic Western bias and obsession with youth. A culture that the Orcs don't share, incidentally.
The biggest reason why Thrall shouldn't be the next Warchief is meta. It's because he's already a massive Mary Sue, and needs some real personality beyond being Metzen's idealized form of himself. "Thrall-the-wise-badass-but-peaceful-with-no-personality-flaws-or-even-quirks-and-perfect-family-man-who-always-gets-it-right-and-saving-the-world" can only happen so many times before the bad storytelling gets really annoying.
I'll say to you what I say to everyone who makes this ridiculous statement. You think you know what a mary sue is, but your wrong. A mary sue is a perfect character without flaws and is the center point of every story in the franchise. Thrall is a popular character, but incase you are so dam unaware, he hasn't been involved in anything since the start of mists, and his mistakes are coming to surface even now given what Garrosh is doing, so he isn't perfect either.
As for the crap about him being metzens ingame avatar, metzen himself laughed at that statement in an interview as being ridiculous, which it is, as metzen gives the same attention to Varian, Malfurion and other major characters.
Your arguments are stale and redundant, showing a lack of foresight.
#boycottchina
To top it all off, where the hell is Velen and Gren Greymane at, and the Dwarf leaders.... You can see where i am going with this
After Thrall was freed from the elementals and Deathwing was defeated, they went on a honeymoon.
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"Foresight" has nothing to do with it. We're talking about a story here, not real-world politics. Either you're using the word incorrectly or you've lost perspective. Additionally, just because an argument is made more than once, doesn't mean it's stale. It means that the situation has failed to resolve. You're throwing these epithets around with little consideration for what they achieve, and it's simply more veiled ad-hominems.
It is you who seems to have a misunderstanding what a Mary Sue is. A Mary Sue does not have to be the centrepiece of the franchise. Although you'd still be wrong in Thrall's case, because he is as close to the centrepiece of the current WoW lore as one can get. There is no other character that is devoted more development time than him. That's all irrelevant anyway. Even if he isn't "the centrepiece", that is not a necessary criterion of being a Mary Sue.
Of course Metzen would laugh at it, one of the signs of a Mary Sue is that the author is incapable of understanding that their creation has gone down that path. As for "mistakes" Thrall made, the other option to handing over the mantle of Warchief was to stay as Warchief and not devote his time to the Earthen Ring and the Cataclysm. So risk Garrosh or have the world destroyed. Given that choice he obviously made the right one... again.
Thrall does not have one character flaw. Not one. Varian is bitter. Vol'jin (a character I love) is too passive. Magni lacked self-confidence and was too hasty. Cairne recognized his danger too late and wasn't hasty enough. Malfurion is rigid. Gelbin got bogged down in politics. Sylvanas is a vengeful monster. That's not to say that these are bad for the story. They're not. The fanboyism for Sylvanas boggles me sometimes, but hey, at least she has *something*.
You can't actually point at Thrall and say "Thrall is too X". That is terrible storytelling and is a sure sign that the author(s) are too invested in the character's perfection to make them three dimensional. http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm Giving the test to Thrall in the most conservative manner possible and he still comes out with an 87. The cutoff for hopeless Mary Sue? 50. I left out sections 2 and 3, to be conservative. I left out checkmarks that Metzen would likely check if he were honest with himself. I made sure to try and include every "anti mary sue" possibility that I could.
You can say he's not a Mary Sue all you want, but that would only be wishful thinking.