Its not like that bush you guys call Teldrassil served any purpose anyway...Baine is gonna bet chopped and barbecued for his treason as he should.
Its not like that bush you guys call Teldrassil served any purpose anyway...Baine is gonna bet chopped and barbecued for his treason as he should.
The Man in Black: “They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.”
Jacob: “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
I'd say @Mehrunes already pointed out the flaws in this, but aside from that, what relevance does this have on Baine aiding the Alliance after the war has already broken out?
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Not rly. He is working against YOUR Horde as you see the Horde as Sylvanas's while I see the Horde as Thrall/Vol'jin (which knew what was Honor where Sylvanas does not).
So now you dropped the "he isn't working against the Horde" to "The current Horde isn't the Horde".
Okay so he could help the Alliance to annhilate the Taurens/Orcs/Troll (which he is doing by saving the life of the OP mage who kills hundreads of Horde soldiers every day), it could be fine because it's the Horde of Sylvanas, right?
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More like saving pretty blonde lady > Earth mother, considering that he didn't move an inch during the burning teldrassil and the complete destruction of the nature in Kalimdor.
Except Earth Mother endorses the war and blesses the Tauren fighting the Alliance in 8.1.5.
It's the same Horde, Sylvanas is a direct successor of Vol'jin. Baine (or you) not liking the direction she decided on for the Horde doesn't change that. The Thrall Horde isn't some golden standard the Horde has to obey forever. Each Warchief can shift from it as they please. Everyone who can't accept it and follow the new direction is literally working against the Horde. And Thrall's honor was an idiotic mixture of self-flagellation (he deliberately set his capital in a barren desert to make the Orcs atone for their past) and appeasing the Alliance (he ignored the multiple Alliance incursions into Horde territory during Vanilla).
Who is earth mother anyways? Elune?
You know, now that I think about it, Baine is acting like a buffoon. Taken out of context, what Baine did was honorable. But, the alliance just did something dishonorable by sneaking in and committing regicide. Right after that, Baine feels guilty about doing something equally dastardly to someone who murdered the leader of his supposed new ally? He should really have tried to choke Jaina out right there on the boat.
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It's laughable how the leaders and other important NPC treat Baine as the right one. Due to his stupid whim to assist the ENEMY we had to kill our ALLIES on the forsaken ship. And this stupid cow and others say something about honor? These spineless shits know nothing of loyalty and discipline during war.
What Tauren calls things is irrelevant to the point that Baine is explicitly acting in direction opposite to the Earth Mother, making him a heretic and your previous post wrong. You're moving the goalposts. Also, the notion that the Tauren care deeply about the Blight has no actual evidence to stand on. The only time a Tauren commented on Blight he was using it against the Naga. And the Tauren in question was a Cenarion Circle Druid no less.
Earth Mother = Azeroth btw.
And I think you're blind if you think murdering thousands of civilians and destroying both a significant culture icon and a capital city was necessary for the Horde's survival. Sylvanas was on the path of 'we capture the tree, we hold the people there prisoner, and we blockade any attempts at rescue until the Alliance is willing to negotiate'. Then a single elf stood up to her and she changed her mind. Does that really sound like the entire Horde agreed with her, or just that she suddenly changed her mind and they were forced to go along with it?
And Sylvanas' reasons, legitimate or not, are still evil. Yes, the Alliance didn't know what she was doing in Stormheim, but we the players do. She was trying to enslave an entire race of people, against their will, to be her personal 1-ups and Unit Spawners. This is not some ambiguous 'for the greater good' thing, this is wrong. Had Genn killed her here, he would've done the entire world a favor.
I still believe that if the Horde handed over Sylvanas and Nathanos to the Alliance, then the Alliance would be more than willing ceasefire and broker a peace. The issue that the Alliance has right now isn't with the Horde in general, it's with Sylvanas. If she truly believed she was doing what was needed to protect the Horde, she would turn herself over without a fight.
As to your argument that Teldrassil was complicit, I'm sure that means that thousands of civilians deserved to burn to death for said accessory to Azerite and harboring a war criminal. /s
TL;DR: Everything was fine until Sylvanas took the lead.
I keep waiting for the day when you'll make make a post that'd make sense from start to finish. Apparently that day is not today. Since you need things spelled out, your remarks about how people are Sylvanas' fanboys aren't what I argued against in my previous reply. What I argued against is the things you then project on people you deem Sylvanas fanboys, like the notion that they make everything she does look like the gospel of god. That part, i.e. the part I actually addressed, is your fantasy, nothing more.
What words have I placed in your mouth? I even bolded the part of your post that I was addressing in particular to make it clear what I'm talking about. And the fact that you have no defense for that, nor an example that would prove me wrong, and instead you decided to do... whatever this post is supposed to be speaks volumes.
And sorry, but you spouting nonsense about how Sylvanas fans supposedly "go to every possible length to make everything she does seem like the gospel of god" IS a straw-man. That's just a fact. You yourself have resorted to "so you're saying Sylvanas is flawless" or some variety of that multiple times when you ran out of arguments even though the person you were replying to made no such claims. That is textboox straw-man. So perhaps your issue here is that you are ignorant of what straw-man is and instead of checking it out you got offended. Which is your problem, not mine.
And please. I can back up my defense of Sylvanas with sources and clearly explain the logic of what I am saying. And I'm making lore arguments on lore forum. You on the other hand mostly make jabs at Sylvanas fans these days. Sometimes even before any of them actually posts in a given thread. That is actually toxic. And I am more than convinced you have no clue how about that. Even though you're constantly derailing threads into a discussion of your personal boogeyman of muh Slovakian fanbois. Or Sylvanas in general.
And even on the off-chance you make a lore argument (more than likely peddling abject headcanon) you still abandon your argument at first sign of criticism (because deep inside you probably know how weak your arguments are; my favorite is where you proved yourself wrong with your own sources about the Barrens) and instead resort to going back to flinging shit at people.
Ironic is an understatement.
Infracted.
The factions were already at war in everything but in name after Legion. Anduin was mentioning peace treaties, the factions needed a ceasefire to make the Gathering happen. So on and so forth. And the war was inevitable. Anduin showed to the world that his subordinates can attack highest level Horde officials with complete impunity, without him even lifting a finger. With such limp-wristed leadership from him, how long would it take before Genn or some other Alliance idiot got bold again? A treaty with Alliance behaving like that is worthless.
Eitrigg only disagreed with her imprisoning Baine. Other than that he handed the Mag'har over to Sylvanas.
And he not only did not punish Genn, but he also brought him to the Gathering to parade him and his unpunished ass in front of Sylvanas during a meeting that was supposed to facilitate some positive vibes between the factions. Anduin was effectively rubbing salt in Sylvanas' wounds there, only to act surprised the Horde wasn't willing to take his shit.
Not to mention Blizzard deliberately misled people about it by saying Teldrassil is not what it seems and that there is some twist there.
Especially since the Alliance had a perfect opportunity to start the peace process with the Gathering. Instead, Anduin in his near-infinite negligence not only failed to vet the priests brought by Faol and let a pretender to Sylvanas' throne slip into the meeting grounds, but in the letter proposing the Gathering he explicitly told her that she shouldn't mistake it as an offer of peace. Not only did he completely miss the opportunity for peace talks, he could have conveyed his brilliant decision in a more diplomatic manner. And then he brought Genn to the Gathering and paraded his warmongering ass in front of Sylvanas, as if he was short on advisors.
Do you have actual counter-evidence to what I said?