Out Of Character

Okay...now, I'm really only just now considering playing WoW, but I've played WarCraft 3 a bit, and I got pretty into it. Now, if you know anything about me, as a gamer, you should know that I live for rich, in-depth stories. I place it as a priority above the gameplay. It's like a book that you watch and where you control the characters to some degree. I live for it.

So, on that note, there is one big big thing about WoW (with the expansion they've released for it that is) that really ticks me off. Why are the Blood Elves with the Horde?!
Yeah, yeah, I know, from a gameplay perspective: who gives a shit? After all, the Horde has been wanting a "pretty" race for all the elf-lovers, and Blizzard needed to make sure there were equal numbers of races, naturally, for each side. But, I want to say...there are so many better choices that they could have made.

Just bear with me...it's merely a rant, and it's not like anything is gonna change anyways.

Let me share some facts with you, which you may or may not know.

1. Blood Elves hate hate hate the Undead. Why? The Undead caused them to lose their home and their beloved magical Sunwell. Yeah...you're right, these Undead are actually Forsaken and not associated with the Lich King anymore. But are the Blood Elves going to care? These are still the Undead, spreading the curse of Undeath across the lands. The Blood Elves are people with short tempers.
   
2. The Blood Elves once helped the Draeni, back on Outland! Yeah...it was mostly a coincidental "Oh, you're fighting these demon-controlled orcs, too?" But they did technically make an alliance with Illidan, who now leads the Blood Elves on their quest for magic.
3. The Blood Elves were once noble High Elves. Guess what? High Elves hate hate hate the Trolls, and also the Orcs I do believe. Elves, and Humans, and all those goody races warred against Trolls a lot. WarCraft also used to be all about the Humans-Elves-Dwarves siding against Orcs back in the older versions...no other race or faction. While the Blood Elves aren't High Elves, they once were and should share the same hatred.
4. Also note that the Draeni hate Orcs, and if the Blood Elves aren't traitorous bastards and actually keep up with their alliances, then they should fight against Orcs as Draeni allies.

The only good story reason that the Blood Elves have for siding with the Forsaken is that they both fight against the Lich King...but, technically speaking, both the Alliance and the Horde are against the Lich King, so that doesn't count.

If Blizzard were to stick to the story books, the Blood Elves would be Alliance...it feels to me they just kinda picked a random race/faction and decided "These will fight for the Horde!" in order to give the Horde another race since they gave the Alliance the Draeni.

The Nathrezim would've made more sense, in my honest opinion. While they sided with the Legion, the Legion has, for now, been driven off. There were probably several Dread Lords left behind who now are stuck there. Possibly. At the very least, they could have been left behind to once again attempt at preparing for an invasion of the Legion by continuing to plant the seeds of war and chaos, by fighting against the Alliance.

Or what about Satyrs? Satyrs make plenty of sense, because they are sworn enemies of the Night Elves. That's all the reason they need to be added as members of the Horde, I think.

Yeah...I'm probably an idiot for ranting about a game I haven't played yet, but hey...this has irked me ever since I first heard about it.