I just did black morass, yeah i know im 4 years late, anyways Medivh was the reason why orcs came to azeroth?? freakin tard... opening the portal for them.. whats his deal anyway? isent he human? why would he do such a thing..
I just did black morass, yeah i know im 4 years late, anyways Medivh was the reason why orcs came to azeroth?? freakin tard... opening the portal for them.. whats his deal anyway? isent he human? why would he do such a thing..
IIRC, he was possesed. If not, chances are when the legion attacked, they would have conqured azeroth with ease. It took the full force of the alliance, horde, and night elves to fend off the legion. Trust me bro, it was for the best
You clearly missed that part where he was the birth child of a pair of mages and a demonic overlord. Medivh was part Aegwynn, part Nielas Aran and quite a bit part sargeras. Guess which part had control of the summoning ritual.
Aran was a bad ass boss in karazhan!!
Top of your screen, wowpedia search for Medivh it explains it all there.
But basically Sargaras used his avatar to fight Medivh's mother Aegwynn, she thought she won but it was a clever trick for him to hide his power inside her and he then possessed Medivh when he was born.
So basically it was Sargaras using Medivh to open the Dark Portal not just Medivh being an idiot :]
He was corrupted by the Burning Legion, along with the orcs on the other side.
I think
That was answered in the first reply to this thread. Because if he failed, Alliance wouldn't exist and the Horde would be on draenor, so the Burning Legion would just steamroll Azeroth.
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Just occurred to me, Sargeras controls the Burning Legion, and the Legion failed because Sargeras brought the Horde to Azeroth, so he pretty much screwed himself over.
In WCIII, its seen that Thrall basically united the members of the horde. He made friends with Bloodhoof and Vol'Jin, and the undead had nowhere else to go so they joined thrall. Without thrall, i bet even the troll and tauren would be fighting. The caverns of time make us do things we really dont want to do, but you have to do it because screwing with the timeline could have dirastic consequences...hypothetically at least
We help him succeed because the gold dragon flight is neutral, and because of that it doesn't care what happens to us, they just stopped the infinite from altering time. We weren't really helping him succeed, we were just stopping the infinite dragon flight from destroying the main time line.
OT- Medivh was possesed. Hur de dur.
Hmm but if Medivh never did what he did, the wars would never have happend, the orcs would have never left draenor... that doesnt seem so bad..
The whole cavern of time creeps me out tbh.. And the dragons seemse so unwilling to give us answers.. They just: do that, or its game over for us all.. Saving Thrall from durnholde keep was epic, and Thrall is badass, but near the end the whole dragon shit gave me chills, and then wiping out their memories.. crap..
All this talk about time travel makes me want to watch Back to the Future...
OT: Yeah, in some twisted way it was good that Medivh opened the portal. The Horde we know now simply wouldn't exist without that happening. I'm sure if you went through the questlines and read the quests, or at least looked up some brief lore on WoWpedia, you wouldn't have to ask around for answers.
The quest that leads you to black morass says that if medivh failed to open the portal, the kingdoms of azeroth would have descended into war with each other over different disputes, thus would have be far to weak to fight off the legion by themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H3-N9zoI5c Amazing video of 60+ devilsaurs raiding Undercity!
My God, what a horrible creation. People seeing what they want? Thank God they tried to shy away from that. I know it pisses me off when I'm in an heroic raid, yet in the back of my head all I can think is 'some casual player is playing a heroic dungeon and not wiping.' -Vodkarn
First of all, how would the legion find their way to azeroth without the portal?
In an all open war alliance vs horde, the alliance would win pretty comfortable. The alliance has a better military, tactics, boats, weapons, technology and the list goes on.
With no orcs in azeroth, important lives from the wars would still live, and things would been better, for the alliance.
Im not an alliance fanboy, i like the horde, but The alliance is some lvls above the horde when it comes to this.