The Glade 4.0

So we're gonna go assault the Lich King's stronghold. Hooray! Emo punk needs to die. Thing is though, he's a threat to both factions yes? So why are the Horde and Alliance *fighting* each other on the way to kick his ***?

Also, Tirion is starting to piss me off. The whole coliseum idea just irks me.



YOU WERE THE ONE THAT ALLOWED THIS FARCE! Jackass.

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Holy shitsnacks!

He may have been emo as Arthas but now that he fused w/ Ner'Zhul to become the Lich King, he is straight up more metal than even Nathan Explosion can describe.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Nah, he's still an Emo Puss.

He knows he's goin down, and he's cowering inside his citadel. We're gonna get in there, and he's gonna be leaving in his flying car thing saying "I'll get you next time Gadget Fordring!!! NEXT TIME!!!!

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Holy shitsnacks!

Tirion didn't allow the Faction Champions fight. At least in the Horde version of things, Garrosh gets pissy (surprise surprise) at the Alliance warlock who just (inadvertently) summoned Jaraxxus on the Horde team. He starts talking and Alliance people in the stands jump down to fight us at Varian's urging? Something like that. It certainly wasn't a planned event on the Argent Crusade's part, though.

Still, the whole concept seems kinda silly to me. I guess there's some glimmer of a point to testing the champions fighting alongside the Argent Crusade when we all finally march on Icecrown, but I'm not so sure I see the point of killing would-be allies for it. "Kill or be killed, champions!" says Tirion. Well gee, I hope you're happy thinking back on that sentiment when you finally enter Icecrown Citadel WITHOUT me and my guild after we were murdered in unspeakable ways by Gormok the Impaler. Maybe we wouldn't have been as useful to you as the people that did kill Gormok, but I'm pretty sure we could've done a whole lot of helping!

Maybe they're working on the lore premise that seems to be the case for every other raid: that we never die. We did kill the beasts of Northrend on our 9th try... I guess it was only those other nameless guys who were killed. The 8 attempts previous never happened. :p

I'm really not too fond of Garrosh, either. We're not supposed to like Garrosh. I get that. He's a standard heel sort of character for now. But is there a point where writers can make you hate a character so much that it goes beyond heel status? Him and Varian are ridiculous as of now.

Tirion's a tool.

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Holy shitsnacks!

O. huh. yeah that's a bit of a disagreement between himself before the fight and after the fight eh. :p

Both Wrynn and Garrosh think the games are a waste of time, but for different reasons.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Why the hell is the King asking permission of one of his Highlords?

Wrynn has always had his head on backwards. Should stick to being King and lay off on trying to be Conan the Barbarian.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Its Tirion's Party.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It's more than he's there as a guest, though.

Tirion is the head of the Argent Crusade and by extension head of the Order of the Silver Hand.

He was elevated by Alonsus Faol, whose grave you all have visited in passing.

Bolvar was a Knight of the Order of the Silver Hand, so Wrynn should respect Tirion for that reason.

He's allied with the death knights in a marriage of convenience and is more respected by them than Wrynn.

Also, as the head of all Alliance paladins, if Tirion wished to commit a coup against Wrynn, he's in a better position than any other Alliance leader.

Tyrande would be more likely to commit to a practice of isolationism, Bronzebeard has too scattered a power base and issues of succession to sort out, Velen is too new and has less loyalty, and gnomes rising up to claim the throne of Stormwind would have no support outside perhaps the Defias.

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Once, I was a ranger
Then, I was a warlock
And a mage
And a paladin
Now, I seek to be myself

Garrosh Hellscream and Wrynn are both toolboxes. Every time I do ToC, Thrall gets a salute, and the other two get the finger. Every now and again, Jaina gets kisses.

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---The Daily Show

Tirion is not beholden to Wrynn at all. The Knights of the Silver Hand were based out of Lordaeron, and therefore beholden to King Terenas Menethil. As that Kingdom no longer exists, and its only heir is Arthas himself, the Order of Paladins is now independant. King Wrynn has no more authority over Tirion than he would have over Thrall.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm starting to lose respect for Thrall for not putting Garrosh in his place. I hate Blizzard for doing this.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Like herding cats... I don't think the bloodlust of Mannoroth has truly left the orcs as a whole, and Thrall can't maintain control.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Funny thing is, Garrosh never drank Mannoroth's blood.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Doesn't matter, Thrall isn't going to be in charge much longer.. Once Cataclysm hits, Garrosh is the head honcho.

Yeah. Goddamn stupid. I want the option to play the game as part of whatever new faction Thrall and Jaina create. **** the Horde, **** the Alliance. Bunch of idiots.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

I know Thrall is still leader at least at the start, because part of the goblins joining the horde involves Thrall's ship getting attacked by alliance, with the goblin ship getting in the crossfire, followed by Thrall getting captured. After that, you save Thrall and the goblins join the horde for it.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Thing is, Garrosh is an *idiot*. He doesn't have the vision to lead the horde. Wrynn isn't much better. Stormwind was better with the child in charge.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

This.

Who leads us into ICC? Is it Wrynn? Nooo, it's Jaina.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Fixed that for ya!

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Sylvanus, actually, Horde-side. Which isn't entirely symmetrical...

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Sure it's symmetrical- Let the hot chick lead the charge!

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

The faction representative with most direct experience with Arthas leads the faction into ICC.

Jaina knew Arthas the prince and Sylvanas knew Arthas the monster.

Jaina leads a small but loyal contingent with some loyalty issues internally, while Sylvanas leads a small but loyal contingent whose loyalty issues were addressed rather forcefully.

Jaina and Sylvanas both have their own agenda and they both have weaker than most ties to the faction as a whole.

I'd say it's pretty good overall.

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Once, I was a ranger
Then, I was a warlock
And a mage
And a paladin
Now, I seek to be myself

One of the coolest Horde quest lines in Burning Crusade was the one where Thrall eventually shows up in Nagrand to tell the story of how Grom Hellscream died a heroic death and redeemed himself to show Garrosh that he isn't doomed to become a raging asshat.

Then they go and turn Garrosh into a raging asshat. Way to screw up your questlines. Blizzard is full of ****.

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