Heartlands - Thrall and Jaina Novella Series Out Now

Posted 2024/11/13 at 1:05 PM by Portergauge

Part 1: Summit at BoralusAfter the fall of Dalaran, Jaina and Thrall summon leaders of the Horde and Alliance to Boralus to muster a fighting force that can defeat Xal’atath.Text Version of Summit at Boralus can be found here.Part 2: Echoes of the PastThrall and Jaina are given a chilling reception at Stromgarde, and Jaina is offered an ultimatum from its regent.Text Version of Echoes of the Past can be found here.Part 3: BloodlinesAt Hammerfall, Thrall engages in a heated argument with Geya’rah that leads to an unexpected revelation.Text Version of Bloodlines can be found here.Part 4: Marran's ChoiceAs Thrall and Geya’rah reconcile, Marran Trollbane marches the 7th Legion Auxiliary in an attack on the Mag’har.Text Version of Marran's Choice can be found here.Part 5: The Battle of Go'Shek FarmThe Arathi Highlands fall into chaos as the 7th Legion and Kor’kron do battle. But far from the fighting, Geya’rah sees plainly the struggles of Stromgarde, and decides on a new course of action.Text Version of The Battle of Go'Shek Farm can be found here.

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Comment by DaugenThis is great but nothing will beat the audio dramas D:Comment by furos72Since when have Kor'krons been around again?

Simply putting them back in to give the Horde no story in the game is lazy...Comment by LautnerSince when have Kor'krons been around again?

Simply putting them back in to give the Horde no story in the game is lazy...Comment by dakkafexSince when have Kor'krons been around again?

Simply putting them back in to give the Horde no story in the game is lazy...Comment by furos72

They never left. Been there since the 4th war.Comment by furos72

They've been there since BfA, you can see them around Dazar'alor, with members of all the Horde races at the timeComment by Fortuide

They've been there since BfA, you can see them around Dazar'alor, with members of all the Horde races at the timeKor'kron HeadhunterCommander Mokorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLKS0Jq9U_EComment by ClinoclaseThe continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.Comment by SilverDragon234The continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.Comment by KerathrasThe continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.Comment by DrellakThe war between the Horde and the Alliance is endless, my dude. You cannot undo it. Alliance/Horde fighting is more awesome and awe inspiring than you think.Comment by DrakknfyreThe continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.After 20 years of Alliance/Horde shenanigans it’s high time to end the conflict and actually demonstrate a modicum of growth in the storyline. The folks who want the endless Alliance/Horde smackdown to continue are the ones who never grew up or are currently kiddos that should be playing Fortnite or whatever else the kids are playing these days, not WoW.Comment by PandaabearThe continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.Which tends to be because every conflict resolution lately in the past few expansions was written to make the two sides more friends, not just leave it neutral or with tension like they did at the end of MoP with Garrosh. So it becomes understandably harder and harder to give the audience, us, a believable reason for the two sides to fightComment by SkygubbinsMan, the illustrations give some unusual vibes. I will miss Samwise and Wei Wang.Comment by CaeruleIt's a good story. I wanted two highlight a pro and a con for me.

1. It furthers the world. I've always enjoyed it when the world keeps moving and feeling alive. To find out what's happening in a place, once the Hero of Azeroth has left it behind. While Cata made the mistake of making the old content unavailable, seeing the follow-up itself was one of the highlights in the updated zones.

In the last decade though, Blizzard has felt almost obsessed, to make the lore situation of every zone, match the familiar situation as seen in the game. The first Explorer book even goes out of its way to make things seem barely changed since vanilla. I welcome new events and lore that updates familiar peoples and places.

2. I do not enjoy faction war. But I do love the Horde and Alliance. And it feels like Blizzard has them intertwined in their brains. (And as such, do many of the faction fans). But the faction war was not the point of Warcraft 3. And there was no war in Vanilla, TBC and Wrath. And yet they had no problems giving us a strong faction feeling. These factions have feeling, aesthetic, philosophies, cultural aspects, priorities and goals that give them a distinct and powerful personality.

And it feels like lately, we only get to see it when they are squaring off against each other, such as in this story. I love faction stuff! I love the Horde. But the Horde can still be the Horde in a time of peace. The Alliance can still be the Alliance when fighting a war against something else than the Horde. Let there be war. And give us two perspectives and strategies to wage it. Let us love our factions again, and carry our banners into battle, shouting their name, against a foe we each have our own reasons to fight. Not Horde vs Alliance. Not Horde with Alliance. Horde and Alliance.Comment by RobNajjarSo the horde lost another war, yet somehow the arathi have to let them stay on their lands, and are vilified for not being happy about it while they starve? And somehow the horde have more bodies there than the actual people of the land? Bro no, Marran was right to think the way she did (though maybe dont tranquilize jaina), and the fact Geyrah, who was happy to slaugther everyone, is the level headed of the 2 is just icing on the stupid cake....

Like what was the point of the warfront, and the progression of the lore, if blizzard was going to undo it for the horde again.Comment by DrakknfyreI disagree. I've been part of WoW and Warcraft for little over 20 years and I still love it when they lean into the conflict. anywhereThe problem is when they make characters to friendly with each other on each side and they paint themselves into a corner of not being able to brush up another believable conflict.afterlife itselfComment by Kcoplin
The problem is they having to come up with new and stupider reasons for the factions to be at conflict. When you've faced down literal gods, Titans, and even the afterlife itself together to save the known cosmos it's absolutely asininely stupid when the next expansion rolls around and suddenly this random patch of dirt means more than anything and the two start fighting again to claim it.Comment by SilverDragon234The continued Alliance/Horde fighting is so stupid dude. These people can't write politics. Why would the Alliance win the warfront but immediately hand half of it over to the Mag'har (because uwu Nagrand) with NO conditions to stop another war?

If anyone should still be fighting it would be Night Elves and Forsaken off somewhere but we can't have that.Comment by KcoplinKerathras and Drakknfyre would rather have WoW be FF14 than let it be WoW.

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