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MyWholeLifeIsThunder
And I do agree it could go that way, but you are asking Auric to betray his purpose and become Horde. You are asking for an alliance leaning character to choose the horde, you are asking for him to give up on the reunification of his people, choose a side, and go against his people that are on the alliance.
You are asking for him to choose the Sunwell over his people.
Just want you to make sure you know what you are saying.
Honestly? It could reasonably happen, but it would certainly make him a traitor on the Alliance and Neutral elves eyes. He'd be like a reverse Umbric, but that was actually introduced as an alliance High Elf character before made to switch up.
Personally, I don't get why you would want such a controversial decision of pivoting a neutral character so hard to the opposite side, IMO it's far more suitable to make a character out of any of those random HE pilgrims that want to rejoin the BE's and goes against Auric's sense of neutrality.
I just don't get why you want to subvert Auric's whole characterization to make him Horde.
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Personally I see it as more of a "neither" sort of scenario, he doesn't help anyone pick a side. His concern is to allow all elves, regardless of their politics, to pilgrimage to the Sunwell.
Because if he help people pick a side, it could easily lead to his diplomatic status be revoked, as him saying Belves "hey, you can join Alleria if you want" would most certainly be considered subversion.
I think it's far more likely that the BE's have agents in the Sunwell ready to try to convince pilgrims to return, but would not be impossible to also have alliance agents trying to subvert things themselves.
Very spy vs spy, but Auric himself has to be clean and separate of that to be allowed to serve as an Ambassador.