Sorry. somewhat off topic. I have seen people posting about Jaina and all this Dalaran stuffs. Where is the questline to get all this in motion? i have Loremaster of Pandaria and i havent seen anything yet...
You mean you haven't started the 5.1 questline with Lions Landing or you haven't got up to the Dalaran part?
You can pick up the starter quest quest in your factions capital in the Vale which will send you to Krasarang and if your question was the latter I believe you gotta be somewhere between revered or Exalted with your 5.1 faction.
You realize that the quest where we do this takes place after the exile order has been given, right?
Jaina arrives with the player and confronts Aethas after the Sunreavers know that Jaina has told them to leave, stay and go to the Violet Hold, or resist and die.
I think this is something that a lot of people are missing. Even if the quest doesn't out right state this fact, it's pretty obvious. Its not like the moment you step through the portal at Darnassus that THAT moment is the very beginning.
Sometimes details with the books will clash with the games, but the books are mostly canon.
This is all inference, and frankly false. There's nothing to suggest a time skip between Jaina leaving Darnassus (with us, no less) and the purge; the Horde quests make it very clear that most of the Sunreavers have no idea what's going on.
Jaina gave Aethas alone the option to leave peacefully with his people, and he chose to challenge her right to issue that ultimatum rather than take her up on it. Assuming the rest of the Sunreavers magically knew about his refusal is asinine.
I think there's likely some dissonance between the two quest chains. This is fairly common really, where the side you're playing is portrayed in game as the good guys, while the other is portrayed as the bad.
I myself don't remember any notable time skip but I'll need to go watch a vid of the alliance side there. I do know though that none of the quests send you after any blood elves that aren't hostile to you on sight. (The 'civilians' are represented by cowering npcs that do not attack unless you attack first.)
You only have to do both sides, to see there is no delay. Otherwise those guys wouldn't just sit in the sewers wondering what was happening when the silver covenant shows up to round them up.
The actual quotes
"There I was, minding my own business, enjoying a nice game of cards when these Silver Covenant... slugs came around telling us to hand over our belongings. What gives?"
"They say Lady Proudmoore wanted us out. I... I do not understand."
"What is all this nonsense about a "purge"?"
"Can you believe this? These Silver Covenant goons are trying to shake us down."
You are, most of the time.See? I can be snide and pretentious too!
Last edited by Combatbutler; 2012-12-17 at 09:44 PM.
Well, that's because there isn't one. Jaina's wards are breached and she's aghast; she can't fathom how this could have happened. She and the player trace arcane residue to the edge of Darnassus, where she has an epiphany and realizes "her own" Kirin Tor were behind it. That's when she goes back to Dalaran, murders Aethas's guards/calls him out/imprisons him, and the purge begins.
She offered Aethas the opportunity to take his people and go (which he foolishly refused), but there's nothing to suggest she offered the rest of them the chance to escape. That the ones who don't try to stop her (or are completely ignorant of what's going on) are running around in a state of frenzied panic makes that pretty clear. It's not "exile or die," it's "incarceration or die."
I'll say again, the only inconsistency on Jaina's actions is the lack of an immediate investigation on the Sunreavers' doing.
It's not like the Kirin Tor was occupied with some event that didn't permitted it. Kirin Tor members, including their leader, were killed and a Sunreaver was involved. It was bound to be priority number one.
Anything else? As already said on this thread, Jaina was already looking for a new place in Azeroth post-Cataclysm and Garrosh gave her one. It's nothing more that a logical and fluid reaction to the events at hand.