Originally Posted by
Steampunkette
I think it could lead to some incredible storytelling, but I'm not sure the CDevs could/would capitalize on it.
Imagine Anduin's war going poorly because he won't "Unleash" Genn on the Horde. He doesn't understand warfare itself well enough to truly manage things and the Horde manages to break through the lines at Kul'Tiras when the Sea Priests are revealed to be servants of N'zoth and their ship blessings fail, or are turned to Curses by some foul sorcery. The Forsaken, on stolen Kul'tiran ships, raised from the depths as is their way, sail to Stormwind and with the weakening of it's forces by the war effort, and possibly dark magic or Plague hidden away in the hands of the Cult of the Damned, manage to take the city.
Stormwind's the most powerful fortress and kingdom in the Alliance, if it could fall, any nation could be conquered. Anduin must face his court and be stripped of the title of High King, Greymane and Jaina essentially take over the Alliance and they move to Gilneas as the new human capital. Anduin, while still the King of the humans of the Alliance, must try to rebuild his people while Genn and Jaina handle the war effort.
Anduin must come to terms with his failure, and over the course of the next expansion grows into his role as a Priest in the form of a Crusader. Not a warrior, not a pacifist, but someone who fights for Peace, battling on fields of war or arguing across the table, doing his dead level best to prove himself with no more illusions about peace being achievable solely through words...
And, eventually, the retaking of Stormwind happens, the people return, and rebuild, and he marries Calia Menethil in a political marriage as Lordaeron is rebuilt into it's former glory as well. The two human kingdoms return to prominence in the Alliance, possibly taking back the power from Genn who either holds onto it, bitterly, since the enemy has yet to be destroyed, or returns it to "His King" peacefully, and divests himself of the burdens of ruling the Alliance in favor of focusing all that attention on the War against the Horde and Sylvanas...
... could be damned cool.