That... was... in Warcraft 3.
He's not king of the gnomes, this shows how little is known about him, he's High Tinker, which is totally different as high tinker are elected democratically from the best the gnomes have to offer in terms of achievements.
The king of humans. I play a night elf. He's not my king.
There's a difference between ferocity and being a brute. Here's an example:
-Garrosh is a brute when he attacks the dragons in Twilight Highlands thinking he can win. He's a brute because he attacks without making a plan, without caring what would happen to the rest of the fleet, without knowing if he can even win.
-trolls are ferocious when retaking their islands back. They go there and charge inspiring fear in their enemies yet, they have a plan, they had supplies, they know what would happen with the ones behind, they have it covered.
Now let's look at Tyrande in Warcraft 3:
-she goes and attacks a small human/orc camp at first. She has enough troops, she takes them by surprise, she knows she can win.
-in her race to awaken the druids, she studies the forces around, but she knows how she can sneak enough forces around to awaken them by laying some traps too and she doesn't go to bang her head in all forces at once (I remember after awakening Malfurion there's a map where the orcs, humans and undead are fighting, and she uses the opportunity to get through instead of fighting)
-she will take good cards to prepare for future battles (Illidan)
-she's aggressive in speech, but is willing to take reason (when she meets with Jaina, Thrall and Medivh, though she has a line before, she doesn't shoot either, remember Tyrande is an archer, she could have shot all of them from afar if she was truly a brute, but she didn't, she waited to see their intentions).
-in the Frozen Throne she can know when something is wrong and maybe it's not the best time to attack, if you remember when Maiev calls for Malfurion and she comes too, when they debark she says she's not sure about this, going forward or something, can't remember the speech, and only when Malfurion tells her about mountain giants does she actually understand, meaning she wasn't going to try and storm in without at least enough troops, like a brute.
-she then saves the blood elves, also saving her own troops, this shows that she would protect her own with her life where she can
Now the WoW MoP Tyrande:
-knows it's an orc trap, wants to storm in
-knows it's a sacred temple, wants to defile it with battle
-knows many of her would die with such an approach, doesn't care
-knows how to use traps, doesn't use them, lets Varian teach her how to use traps
-knows her people are mostly ranged fighters, wants to storm in in melee
Are you sure it's same Tyrande? I'm not. the MoP Tyrande is a mindless brute while the Warcraft Tyrande is a ferocious leader.
I sure hope we'll see more night elf lore with Azshara and more draenei with Argus, but I worry they'll get the same treatment forsaken and blood elves got in Wrath. Forsaken were there for 2 zones, blood elves for the Argent Tournament, rest they were replaced by orcs though it was first them who suffered by the Lich King.
I fear that when we get to Azshara or Argus we'll get the main force being humans actually and with 1-2 night elves and draenei there just so you wouldn't think they're forgatten.
Yea... the difference is that both in the Alliance and the Horde now, each race brings something. Humans are like Germany, Night elves are France. If all the news was about Germany and I heard little about France and all I heard was wrong, then I would be unhappy. Night elves are more important in Kalimdor then humans. Yet I see humans everywhere when it's an Alliance story.
The humans are not the US of NATO! By contrast, you could say the orcs are the same to their faction yet... hmmm...so many orcs died until now they should be on the extinction meter. And while we're at it, so many humans died they aren't that powerful either, remember from Warcraft 3, when, you know the Legion stormed around and killed all they could and sent undead and all there's been only 10 years! That means that even if someone made children right at the end of the Frozen Throne, they still wouldn't be combat ready!
Yea, 10k years of calm... ignoring the Shifting Sands incident, the wars of the Satyr, the banishing of the high elves, the strenghtening of Ashenvale etc, yea, 10k years of calm, sure.