Originally Posted by
Stormdash
The obvious reply to those who mock the idea of a Blood Elf as Warchief... most popular race is most popular. I don't think it will happen, but hardly off the table. Of the zOMG lore obsession characters, I think Rexxar would be cool, but he'd have to be used at some point in MOP prior to that to make it believable or interesting. Ditto Saurfang. And that also applies to every peripheral character that might cross people's minds, like Gorgonna from Conquest Hold or Warlord Zaela or Nazgrim or Insert Orc Here. Whoever comes next as Warchief is going to be one of the characters that has an actual story function in MOP, which is why discussion focuses in so fast on Vol'jin, Baine, Lor'themar, and Sylvanas. And of these, two have only had any story in a tie-in novel, with only Vol'jin and Lor'themar having any in-game development. So that group, and Thrall, of course, pretty much become the list, unless or until Blizzard actually starts using some other character, because what they aren't going to do is have someone show up who hasn't been used since BC or vanilla and say "Hi! I'm the Warchief, ask me how!"