Wow Should Thrall Be Warchief Again?

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As we move forward and head into the final patch forBoxing for Azeroth, the one where we (probably) fight N'Zoth and Azshara, mayhap in Ny'alotha, nigh likely at dandy cost and in a fashion that sets up Sylvanas' ominous statements at the Windrunner Spire after her difference from Orgrimmar.

But one big question remains: who will exist leading the Horde?

Of form, the first choice was Varok Saurfang. But since he finally got that honorable death he's been looking for, he'southward slightly less than capable of filling the role. Only that does get out a rather wide field of figures who both have the acumen and the personality to take on the job. Who is it going to be?

Well, manifestly I don't know. But allow'south look at some candidates.

Warchief, Warchief, who's gonna be Warchief

Okay, let'due south become the behemoth out of the way.

Thrall is the front runner. He was at Saurfang's side when he died, and he got a whole cinematic setting up his return. The line "You and I… we don't become to hide" was withal important that it came back before Saurfang'due southMak'gora challenge to Sylvanas. So he's clearly got the job, if he wants it, right?

Well, there are the words out of his ain mouth that he won't lead the Horde. If Thrall himself won't take the chore — has in fact absolutely no desire to be the Horde's leader — nosotros can't very well strength him to do information technology. Information technology may well be merely past the point where Thrall tin pb the Horde. It's not the Orcs and their astonishing friends group it was back when he became Warchief. The Trolls, Tauren, Forsaken, Claret Elves, Goblins, and allied Pandaren, plus several Allied Races brought in all take an equal stake in the future of the arrangement. It'due south fair to say that World of Warcraft'southward respond to the Defense of the Dark Arts position might need someone else to take the helm.

Plus, Thrall still hasn't met Mag'har leader Geya'rah, girl of Durotan and Draka, and I cannot wait for him to come across his "sis." I don't think their first meeting should exist when he'south Warchief and she has to listen to him.

So who are we looking at?

Baine Bloodhoof has to be considered. He was the get-go one to stand up against Sylvanas, and he risked everything to finish her from twisting Derek Proudmoore into a weapon. At this point, he's led the Tauren for years, was instrumental in bringing the Highmountain tribe to the Horde, and has displayed his honor publicly and at cracking cost. I'd put him near the top of the pack.

Lor'themar Theron must too be considered. He was canny enough not to get himself arrested, worked directly with the Alliance in Nazjatar and has Thalyssra of the Nightborne as an marry, having done for her people what Baine did for the Highmountain. If neither Thrall nor Baine take the position, Lor'themar is a strong contender at this point.

The outliers (and the kingmakers)

It'southward fair to say that Jastor Gallywix has been far too useful to Sylvanas, too mercenary and too untrusted to take the position. Princess Talanji is a strong leader merely the Zandalari have very deliberately kept themselves at a distance from the Horde, joining them as allies, not as a whole participant, so I wouldn't await her every bit the candidate. Truthfully, she's already got a lot on her plate. Information technology'south interesting that Talanji,, and Mayla Highmountain, all of whom are the leaders of their corresponding allied groups within the Horde, are in kingmaker positions because of the support they can throw behind a candidate. Ji Firepaw might well also have similar weight to throw behind a candidate.

Rexxar is a nighttime horse candidate at best. He doesn't desire the chore and no one else wants him to have it. Similarly, Lillian Voss must be considered due to her role inBattle for Azeroth but is at best an extreme outlier, just recently having even accustomed that she is a Forsaken, much less a loyal member of the Horde.

At present, aside from Thrall, the Orcs have no stated leader — Saurfang was considered the de facto leader of his people, but his decease leaves that position in doubt. And the Darkspear Trolls have Rokhan as a quasi leader, more a representative — he doesn't control plenty of his own people's loyalty to exist seriously considered for Warchief. And the Forsaken are left rudderless at this crucial fourth dimension, their city destroyed, their beloved Dark Lady having declared them all to be nothing and and so abandoned them. We don't know who will be taking upwardly that mantle.

Must there be a Warchief at all?

I've felt like the position of Warchief hearkens back likewise much to the Old Horde, the i Saurfang explicitly chosen out in the For Azeroth cinematic. He fifty-fifty said that Sylvanas was a true heir to the Horde of Blackhand and Doomhammer, the subversive blood-boozer destroyers who in one case paved a road with skeletons and corpses and called it the Path of Celebrity. Saurfang even says it outright — That was the cracking prevarication upon which the Horde was founded, that annihilation we did was honorable. He declares that he's never known honor. So if we have Saurfang at his word, and we want to honor his cede, make his decease worth something, than perhaps it'southward time that the Horde changes. And perhaps the position of Warchief itself no longer fits a Horde made up of many people, with many voices.

We accept seen through thinking about the position that at that place are many leaders in the Horde who could fill a leadership office. Maybe it's time for a council of some sort — not a singular position with a title that puts War first, but a group of those who represent their people, the style Thalyssra and Mayla and Talanji do. With each leader having a voice and a stake in the overall diplomacy of the Horde. And possibly heading up this council could be someone who speaks for all of the Horde, not any one people in particular. A Speaker for the Horde, peradventure. This kind of offset amongst equals role seems tailor fabricated for Thrall, especially after his difference and return.

At any rate, right now the Horde is in the unique position of non necessarily needing State of war to keep information technology united. Perhaps it doesn't need a Warchief either.

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Source: https://blizzardwatch.com/2019/09/25/new-horde-warchief/