Even if a human were to gain a high position in the Horde they would still be looked down upon by the more patriotic factions similar to the way the Kor'kron in UC speak to undead players.
Are you asking me to stop punting gnomes?
Same answer different question. NEVER!
Only if we kill him/her and they come back as a Forsaken. Other than that nooooooooooooooo!
Humans are too weak. alot less strength than an average orc and they are less honorable.
and their battlecry's are quiet. Only humans that are as powerful in physical mass are such as lothar, varian and people like uther. But even they have alot less strength than an equal ranked orc.
Lothar wasnt as powerful as Doomhammer. Maybe as good fighter but orcs are all about brutal strength, some are shamans and warlocks but even they are more physically powerful than a human mage or a priest.
And human are bound to fear alot easier than orcs. And they are easier to influence because they dont keep honor as valuable as the orcs.
Besides if a human ever wanted to become a warchief he would have to slay the former one in a honorable duel. This aint necromangi in which they could just kill the leader and own all his belongings and power.
And there are many more moral reasons why a human can never be warchief of the horde. :P
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Already happened... War of the Shifting Sands/Gates of the Ahn'Qiraj remember? and some others but cant quite remember as much as i remember the War of the Shifting Sand.
Ehm... Well; everyone always knew Varimathras was just biding his time... His betrayal was to be expected.
To compare a human who's liked be everyone to a demon who's... Well; nót... Would be odd, indeed.
Basically: Would a human warchief be possible? Sure.
But let's follow a few steps of logic, here:
There's millions of Hordies.
There's only a very small amount of human hordies. As in: Not enough to appear in-game at all ever. Well; not the living ones, anyway.
Then there's only a very few amount of people who are exceptional enough to even be part of the 'upper crew.' The mercenaries/adventurers (us) and the major lore characters.
A live human is not among the upper crew of the Horde.
Ergo: While the idea of a human warchief is not impossible per sé, it is so incredibly unlikely as to be completely negligible.
Well there was Wrathgate - Putress put a stop to that though.
A little moot responding now, but I won't dodge a retort to my post if I see it.
That's exactly my point. The orcs value strength, perhaps above all else. After all, sometimes an orc will just grunt, "Stregth.", at you as a farewell. They pwned Stormwind, pwned it with several unfair advantages, but pwned it none the less. I imagine that the orcs could think of nothing worse than to be ruled by a subject of the kingdom they levelled when they first invaded Azeroth. They might show Lothar some respect but considering he's been in the ground for a couple of decades now, that doesn't count for much.
I think the orcs would be less bothered by being ruled over by a human from, say, Lordaeron, seeing as, with aces like the paladins of the Silver Hand, the rangers of Quel'Thalas and the Wildhammer gryphon riders up their sleeve, they beat the Doomhammer's Horde by quite a margin. But, as fate would have it, most of the humans of Lordaeron are Forsaken now and they answer (reluctantly) to the Warchief (for now anyway).
The main population of humans lies in Stormwind now and the orcs would not accept being ruled over by a defeated opponent.
I guess from a story perspective it could seem interesting..
BUT there are loads of reasons why it would be ridiculous within the wow setting.
First and foremost, the Human leader, being a breakaway from the Ali, I don't think any Horde would ever trust that he would have their own best interests at heart. The horde would entirely become some human guys tool for revenge against the Alliance? I don't think that would sit well with them.
To be GENUINE in his leadership of the Horde, he'd have to legitamately believe that the Horde are superior, the Ali should be crushed.. which takes a really crazy amount of self loathing and inferiority issues, and bias against an ENTIRE race, that I don't think would appeal to the Horde much either.
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BASIC CAMPFIRE for WARCHIEF UK Prime Minister!
Generic relatable protagonist joins a foreign culture, adopts their ways and becomes a prominent member of their society against all odds...
Where have I seen that before, I wonder ?
Oh yeah, Hollywood. Guess we've found the plot of the Warcraft movie.
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Non alliance humans joining the horde, and one of them becoming warchief somehow? Sure why not. I'd rather have a human than that traitor Vol'jin. Too bad he didn't die when that orc stabbed him in the neck.
not until you remove those tumors you call muscles from your body, get less ugly faces, and better hairstyles
VIVA LA RESISTANCE
Technically anyone can become the warchief all they gotta do is issue a Mak'gora http://www.wowpedia.org/Mak%27gora and defeat the incumbent
Kinda weird that cairne was the only one to have the balls to do it while the other so called leaders just stand around plotting
I mean FFS Vol'jin and Theron get into that ring and defeat garrosh or just STFU will you