All this talk of "genocide". I could only wish. Alas, there's still more Night Elves than a bunny farm in heat whenever you visit Alliance lands.
Having played this game for +9 years and being invested in the Lore, I have to agree with so many Nelfs and Worgens..and Alliance in general. We want revenge. And we want Sylvanas to die in the most epic way. Frankly every Horde leader should suffer for this..Even the oh so good Taurens - Witch I Love..Sorry Taurens..you also need to suffer for this stupid war. Enough is enough. Theramore - Gilneas - Teldrassil ..are you &*!@ing kidding me ? If Blizzard fails to deliver this..Then this game is a Horde Story and a game not worth playing for ANY Alliance. War is War..and we want our revenge. AFTER that, Alliance can start talking about peace..NOT UNTIL. King Wrynn said it clearly..If your Horde fails to uphold Honor..We WILL end you. We dont wanna talk peace until crimes have been answered for. Let Jaina blow away Thunder Bluff....Let Genn Kill Sylvanas...Let Elune nuke Silvermoon or Anduin take it......THEN we can talk peace...And who is good and bad...If Blizzard fails to deliver some justice and revenge to the Alliance...then I'm also done with this Horde story
High Overlord Saurfang You think you are here to take me back to Orgrimmar. Back to the Warchief. You are mistaken.High Overlord Saurfang I have stopped counting the days I have sat in this cell. But it matters not in the end.High Overlord Saurfang After all she has done, I will never return to the Horde.High Overlord Saurfang Make sure you know the difference between loyalty and honor.High Overlord Saurfang And pray you never have to choose.There's a pretty critical error in this dialogue that could change the interpretation of Saurfangs intentions. He never says "I will never return to the horde." He says "I will never return to HER horde". His struggles are with Sylvanis and her actions, not with the horde itself. This alludes to the fact that, at some point in the future, Saurfang could indeed return to his position with the horde. He just wont let his honor be compromised by her actions.
This is where they try to build a lasting foundation of ideals for the horde because the people who started playing horde 14 years ago aren't the same people playing it today. So the horde must face their past and break the chains that bind them and move forward to a better future with a platform of ideas people can rally behind. Hopefully they don't play victims or get pushed into being a stereotypical strawman for a real world ideology.
"Battle for Azeroth is absolutely an opportunity to look at both sides that have made up the Horde storylines throughout the years and pull them together." Okay, seriously, what the crap, Polygon. Steve Danuser said what the two sides were, and neither was "evil". "Is it this disparate collection of outcasts that nobody will align themselves with? And that’s why they’re together, out of necessity? Or is it this group that’s driven by honor and courage?"Are we a bunch of misfits just doing whatever it takes to survive, or are we unified by something we believe in?The Horde has certainly done some evil things (and so has the Alliance, to some degree), we've certainly had some leaders who were much nastier than others, and those things need to be dealt with, but I think "evil" stopped being a core Horde trait back in Warcraft. There's a lot more to the Horde than that now.