so just out of curiousity lets say garrosh's axe hadnt been poisoned and cairne was the warchief, what do you think would have happened to the horde?
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ive given arguements for my position. one of them being that we already would have had a non orc warchief had cairne won, the other being that the twilights hammer clan back in warcraft 2 had a chieftain that was a non orc as well, his name was chogall.
so one example where there were orcs being led by a non orc and another that had the circumstances been different an entire faction not being led by an orc. my arguement in the cairne situation is im of the opinion that even metzen doesnt believe in the "horde can only be governed by an orc" if he were even remotely considering giving cairne the possibility of becoming warchief
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Cairne, would stand in Thunderbluff while the 8 people hangout there and no one would care and Garrosh being the leader of the Orcs (Similar to how the leader of the Humans) would still be treated like the leader of the Faction. This game has always been about the 2 main Races Orcs VS Humans. This will stay true, troll in charge or not. (Plus they (Blizzard) would have never let a tauren be warchief he died for a reason)
"I hated hating Garrosh before it was cool."
FOR THE HORDE!!!
I doubt Cairne would have retain the Warchief title. He knew the Orcs would be uneasy with he commanding the Horde, so my guess would be that he would have given the position to another one.
But since the writers already knew the outcome when they wrote the duel, they didnt have to face that problem. And yes, other clans have had non orchish Warchief, but it was because of their strenght forcing the people to obey and the horde never did it. In my opinion, the horde would not be able to be lead by a non orc right now.
Of course, both of us can be wrong, or even both can, in my opinion only Thrall makes sense lorewise. I doubt that the horde, right after getting out of a tyrant ruler would accept anyone that they dont know exactly how would rule.
Everyone assumes there will be a Horde at the end of this expansion. It'd be earthshattering to dissolve the factions, effectively creating a new game. They could pull it off.
so instead of accepting the fact that the horde almost had a non orc leader you'll reject the sentiment and simply state no one would care. if cairne had won garrosh would not have been sitting in org because it was a duel to the death
but youre right he did die for a reason, but the fact that they even considered having a non orc leader by allowing that whole duel to be written out into lore suggests to me, that they are willing to allow a non orc to become leader in the future given the character is developed properly. just my opinion
Personally I have no doubt Metzen was being completely honest when he said this. But that's the key point, when he said it. Plans change, especially when we deal with content that's still on the drawing board.
A couple days later Zarhym indicated that Thrall being Warchief wasn't a sure thing, and ever since Blizzard has been rather ambiguous about who the next Warchief will be.
My guess is Blizzard had grossly underestimated the number of people opposed to Thrall reclaiming the position of Warchief, and then began considering other options. It's not impossible they ultimately decided (or will ultimately decide) to go with Thrall after all, but there is no evidence to suggest they have actually done so. Whatever their final decision is, we probably won't know at least until the announcement of expansion 5, possibly not until the Siege of Orgrimmar goes live.
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Blizz explicitly said that it's someone we are not expecting. I think Vol'jin is too obvious.
I've said it before, and I mean it: if Vol'jin becomes Warchief of the Horde and I'm still playing, I'll switch to Alliance. It's a disgraceful thought. I'd say it's completely fair that other race leaders should get some spotlight besides just Varian and Garrosh or Thrall, but only an orc should be the Warchief, or if not, at least someone who's able to speak proper English.
Again, Three weks ago, when someone in tweet asked in Thrall would go back, he answer yes, thunder is coming... Three weeks ago, talking about Thrall and with the precedent of himself saying that our Warchief would be coming back.
This is the exact quote of the conversation
""Please Chris, Bring Thrall back to the Horde, The horde Sucks without him” ...is that thunder, I hear?."
The first part is the petition someone made to him, his answer was the part after the ... (including the ...)
Notice Chain Lightning is the iconinc Thrall move since W3.
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Where are people getting this idea that orcs wouldn't work for anyone other then an orc? Orcs care mostly about strength and power over race. It's how people like Cho'gall and Mogor, two ogres, came to rule over orcish clans.
Is it easier for them to follow an orc Warchief? Yes. Is it impossible? Not in the slightest.
Thrall "returning" to the Horde has already been confirmed. However, that does not mean he will be Warchief. You are the one extrapolating that from the question, because you can't see Thrall possibly taking on another capacity. Again, he very well maybe become the Horde's Malfurion....is that thunder, I hear?.
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I would much rather see Baine step up and take lead of the Horde, but that probably wouldn't happen as he would likely broker peace with the alliance through Jaina. I'm not sure if she still hates him. If you read Tides of War, its Baine and Vol'jin that are the main people opposing Garrosh.
What if the horde went from a leader to a council? Like the dwarves did, Baine and voljin could represent their respective factions along with others.
Not what im saying, i agree its possible and allowed in lore that a non orc can become Warchief. Would the players accept him, No.
Would he truly be the leader? Maybe in books. The truth is we will sit in orgimmar no matter what and thats where our warchief will be in the capital city, and im pretty sure the leader of the Taurens wouldn't feel comfortable living without his people and being forced to stay in the city of the Orcs.
"I hated hating Garrosh before it was cool."
FOR THE HORDE!!!
The Blood Elf leader (Lorthamar or whatever) did have mentioned about him in the voice acting that "You'd make an excellent Warchief". Maybe this is a hint of things to come?
Vol'jin will unify the remaining trolls after we kill their last leaders in the 5.2 raid and use them to fight Garrosh, giving him the population to be "important" inside the horde and fortifying his position as warchief, just saying...
Vol'jin is a reasonable warchief. He is to the Horde what Anduin Wrynn is to the Alliance, in my eyes.
A better leader.
But neither of 'em are warmongerers so the playerbase will hate them both.