Originally Posted by
Pendraeg
Before I go race by race, I want to bring up about breeding. There's a reason I brought up that the Dark Portal only opened 30 years ago. The Cataclysm is within a few years of the present. Regardless of breed rate, there hasn't been enough time to replenish stock, as it were.
In order:
Yes, the orcs had some children accelerated. However, that was the Blackrock clan, as in no longer part of the current Horde.
Yes, Night Elves are very limited in number. As I mentioned. They're a long lived race anyway, so they're not going to breed quickly. That's not the way nature works.
With the Goblins, we're going to see what happens with Kezan, but, until we have other information, we're going to have to assume those still on the island aren't part of the Horde, else why would it be an instance?
For Humans, remembers, Stormwind is the result of all the surviving humans from all the kingdoms on Azeroth. Humans not turned in Lordaeron, those left from Arathor and Alterac, and any booted from Dalaran. Original docs call it around 200,000, which is about the size of all the other capital cities combined. And now it looks like Kul Tiras is rejoining the fray. This makes sense, if you think about it. Before 30 years ago, Humans controlled all of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdore was basically all wilderness. The dwarves and High Elves were allies, but almost afterthoughts. The Trolls, all of the trolls, not just the Dark Spear, were annoyances, not real threats.
Forsaken do have the Valkyr now, yes, but, again, we're looking at limited time (at most, less than 5 years) and limited resources. There were only 9 Val'kyr that joined the Forsaken, one Annhylde, sacrificed herself immediately. She lost 3 more in Silverpine forest, Agatha, Arthura, and Daschla, when they use their lifeforce to fix her after Godfrey kills her at the assault on Gilneas. That leaves 5. That's why she wanted Eyir and why Genn shattering the Soulcage lantern was so pivotal.
Dark Iron dwarves? Like I said before, who knows, but I don't expect them to be that many. There are enough to give the Ironforge dwarves pause without the Wildhammers (before the Council of the Three Hammers), but who knows.
And yes, Demon Hunters and Death Knights are limited in number. That's the very reason they're "hero" classes.
Don't you guys actually read the lore?