This is not how the chronicles of the Alliance remember the great Anasterian Sunstrider...
He was a righteous king, wise and benevolent, great ally of humans since the very Covenants of Arathor that he personally signed millennia ago.
A personal friend of the Menethil dynasty of the Kingdom of Lordaeron and main promoter of trade and the good relationship between the High Elves and the other human kingdoms. In fact, are well known the meetings that the King Anasterian maintained with Terenas' grandfather about the boundaries of Greenwood, a territory straddling between Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas.
The Kingdom of Quel'Thalas did not live oblivious to the human kingdoms, such as the Blood Elves want us to believe, but rather both races maintained a good relationship, a fruitful relationship for both parties over generations, not just limited to sporadic pacts signed in wartime.
However, it is true that a large part of the Quel'dorei population did not look kindly on humans. In particular I refer to the most radical, haughty and we could even say xenophobic sector of the High Elves, whom felt superior to humans, those who were only interested in their own benefit, and which could be considered as the precursors of the current ideology of the Blood Elves.
And this disagreement could be seen in full swing in the Council of Silvermoon, the governing body of Quel'Thalas, against which, the King Anasterian had to give an account of each of his actions along his life.
It was the most radical sector of the Silvermoon Council which repeatedly urged the King Anasterian to abandon his friendship with humans, and in fact, they were who forced the King to not appear personally as a member of the Alliance of Lordaeron (and that is why he sent his confidant, Alleria Windrunner, as representative) and later they also forced him to break the Alliance after the Second War excusing on trivial reasons (a couple of burned trees).
We can say therefore that the difference between the High Elves and Blood Elves is not recent, dating back even before the Third War as it has always been two opposing positions: that of the elves who are familiar with humans and lived in harmony with them, and the arrogant elves who wanted to live isolated and not depend on anyone. Anasterian was of the former, his son and heir Kael'thas of the latter...
The King Anasterian was and will be remembered as one of the greatest heroes of the Alliance, despite the sector most mulish of his people, and despite the blood elves.
Today, the High Elves who are still struggling with the Alliance and against their lifelong enemies are those who honor the memory of Anasterian, those are... the real Quel'dorei.
If the King Anasterian had survived the Third War, he would have died of shame to see what made the most of his people. If King Anasterian were alive today, do not hesitate anyone that he would repudiate every last Blood Elf, he never would have allowed his people to abandon their ancient customs and beliefs, and never have agreed to be an Sin'dorei ... he lived and died as a true Quel'dorei ...
May the Holy Light be with the King Anasterian forever... Glory to the last king of the Quel'dorei, Glory to the Alliance! Ashal'anore! Ashal Thalas'din belore!
As an illustrative and clarifying note, and for demonstrate how the influence of the Horde expands everywhere and contaminates everything it touches, I will discuss a detail related.
On the website Wowpedia (heir of WoWWiki) The King Anasterian has always been marked as a hero of the Alliance from the beginning, however as you can see here he is now designated as a neutral hero.
Luckily the WoWWiki version or the Spanish version are not manipulated yet (for now), and is seen how the King Anasterian is still marked as a hero of the Alliance.
By this I mean that in the Warcraft universe very few things are objective facts, and everything else can be considered subjectively, and for that I'm here, to counter the pro-Horde extremism that pervades the whole Internet and always leaves the Alliance in a bad place ... So do not trust anything! Believe only in what fits your ideals!
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If you want to RP, that's fine, but keep it to the designated forum. This isn't the place for those kind of posts. If you want to discuss a topic, that's great, but do it without the dramatics. This is the only warning I'm giving.
Now please, let's get the thread back on topic. Thank you!
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Do you know what is more laughable? Is that the links you posted bluntly says that the Kingdom of Quel'thalas, Anasterian, left the Alliance after the Second War.
"The Second War
During the Second War, he reluctantly joined the Alliance of Lordaeron, honor-bound to fulfill the pledge to the Arathi, of whom Lord Anduin Lothar was the last. Anasterian was forced to contribute more of Quel'Thalas's armies when the outer forests were attacked by the Horde. Following the war and the destruction of Quel'Thalas's borderlands, he withdrew his nation from the Alliance, citing poor leadership on the humans' part that led to the burning of Quel'Thalas's forests."
Too bad Blizzard took down the Warcraft encyclopedia, where it was also stated the same.
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Do you have any source to support this?
http://wowpedia.org/The_Warcraft_Encyclopedia
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I really like what has been released thus far, especially that Dar'khan managed to cut the link of the other elves to the sunwell , it should have weakened them considerably.
Excuse me, but a moderator has warned me that my subjective contents are not suitable, as that are interpreted as RP.
Related to the thread, I just tell that Anasterian was a good King for the High Elves, and that the Alliance will remember him always with esteem. I'm sure that when Alleria returns she will feel very sorry to learn of his death.
I wish that in the district of Stormwind destroyed by Deathwing was built an elven district as capital for the Quel'dorei in exile, where was erected an imposing statue of Anasterian to remember him forever.
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Thank you.
I always considered Dar'khan one of the best villains that Warcraft had. He is main responsible for the fall of the High Elves.
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If you stick to the facts as they are, you shouldn't have any problem.
The question isn't how the Alliance look to Anasterian, the question is calling the Blood Elves traitors when they weren't part of the Alliance in the first place. That's simply factually wrong.
Yeah I doubt the scourge could have taken Quel'thalas, if Arthas had no way to bypass their defences. Dar'khan seems to be the high elven equivalent of Gul'dan if you ask me and cutting the link means it is possible to do the same to the high elves nowadays, should relations continue to spiral downward.
Anasterian's defining character flaw was that he was a proud monarch who didn't like playing ball with humans. The quel'dorei exiles were treated to a very cold reception when they rejoined the Alliance because of what Anasterian pulled in abandoning it.
So uh... how is he an Alliance hero? He only joined it in the first place to pay off a debt from centuries before, then called the humans bad leaders, paid no attention when Terenas reminded him of all the humans who died to protect his kingdom, and seceded his nation. >.<
That's awesome. I'm not going to read the spoilers, but Lady Liadrin is one of my favourite characters.
Yeah, she's been criminally underused since BC IMO.