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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Ummm, now you must be talking out of your ass because that's not congruent with anything. Thrall isn't the author of the lore. Characters don't get to have a say in what their history is. That would be like saying Darth Vader has influence on how he comes off in the books, movies, and the rest of the canon.
The backstory is something meticulously written and maintained because it has a long standing history that predates WoW.
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Well, anyone can say "its just fiction" - but I wouldnt get any pleasure out of the game if I just ran around killing 10 of a certain type of monster over and over without getting into the story.
You would admit that even fiction can mis-lead us, give us false clues, try to hide sudden twists in the plot, and even ignore its own history and retrospectively re-write things done in the past.
The current "lore" is not definitive, it is flexible.
Whether Thrall is really a half orc or not - I interpret him as such. He and his brainless horde of hooligans will not stand against the united forces of the blood elves and the forsaken if there is a civil war within the horde, this I am pretty sure of.
I like the idea mentioned by someone else of a three way war, but I guess it would be a big change. It is possible that Sylvanas withdraws and the Forsaken, and undead becomes a class in its own right rather than a race, which Sylvanas is in some way the figurehead or demi-god of.
Those who think that Sylvanas is the the lackey of Garrosh the brainless and his motley coalition can please themselves - but I suspect they will be in for a rude surprise!