Originally Posted by
sighy
The Darnassians have always been framed as naught but wanting remnants, of a once great empire. They were effectively ruindwelling tribal hunter-gatherers, upon their introduction, which has been retconned to some extent as WoW came along, in order to make them more Aliance, but fundamentally they're defined by a downward spiral of bad decisions and pyrrhic victories. Their ban on the Arcane, whilst well meaning was brutal and they suffered the most for it, in the long run, because it was the magic, which allowed them to beat back the Trolls, it was the magic, which allowed them to build such wonders and it was the magic, which allowed for their high civilisation to rise.