History Characters / WarcraftTheAllianceDarnassus

** Taken UpToEleven in ''War Crimes'' when she is the prosecutor in Garrosh's trial. Everyone, both Alliance & Horde, were working together to formally prosecute him as a sign of Faction Cooperation. First thing she does, Tyrande uses the trial to put Orcs as a whole on trial using convienent evidence and white lies to paint the entire race as murderous barbarians. She's instantly called out of it by Thrall, Aggra, and Velen. Even later, she attempts to use the still grieving Jaina to put the Horde as a whole on Trial for Garroah's actions, but Jaina shoots her down.
* FatalFlaw: Pride, but ultimately played with. As her flanderizations and racism in WOW have gotten worse, she genuinely looked down on all Horde races even after several times where both sides worked together against a bigger threat. She openly expressed her concern that Thalyssra could become another Elisande or Azshara, even though Thalyssra had started and led the rebellion ''against'' Elisande, and Tyrande did something to Thalyssra that she despises herself(being compared to Azshara). However she still worked with them, and their dialogue hints at some [[NoodleIncident past personal issue between them]].
* FireForgedFriends: While slow to trust, Tyrande will from friendships with people she fights alongside, even if she at times doesn't convey that affection well.

* UselessUsefulStealth: Night elves are harder to detect in stealth and have a racial that allows a night elf of any class to dump aggro and stealth without moving.

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During the beginning of ''Battle for Azeroth'', Teldrassil was destroyed by the Horde, reduced to ashes and cinders. The rest of the Night Elf settlements on Kalimdor's mainland are conquered by the Horde...at least, until [[WordOfGod the Alliance]] [[CuttingOffTheBranches wins them back]] in the Battle for Darkshore.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: A blend of Wood Elves and Drows with several subversions to normal elf traits. They have purple skin (though it comes in various shades) and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair their hair tend to have unusual colors by human standards, most frequently blue, white or green]]. They live in forest and are deeply in touch with nature, with various forest creatures being their allies. Unlike their {{Elfeminate}} high elven relatives, night elf men usually have a lot of facial hair and are clearly male. Their culture is druid-based, though they used to have a queen before she was corrupted by Sargeras. Finally, they ''used'' to be immortal, but became mortal following the events of ''Warcraft 3'' when they sacrificed it to help stop Archimonde.

--> ''"Come forth you mindless wretches and taste the wrath of the Sentinels. Elune's light shall never falter!"''

** Also undergoes this in the Horde version of the Val'sharah storyline. At the start, she treats Horde players with barely hidden disdain, constantly doubts their capabilities, and gives them several thinly veiled {{Implied Death Threat}}s if their efforts to [[spoiler:save Malfurion]] fail. By the end of the storyline, however, she acknowledges their heroics and admits that while the differences between the Horde and the Alliance may be irreconcilable, the Horde player has proven themselves to her as an honorable hero. Later, although still furious at the Horde for [[spoiler: Teldrasil]] she is at least willing to having a meeting with Thrall, even as she is cold and icy towards him.

-->'''Tyrande''': Raw power is no substitute for true strength, [[spoiler:Illidan. That is why I chose your brother over you]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: At first when she led the Night Elf sentinels to fight the allied Horde and Alliance troops that are otherwise fighting the Scourge and the Burning Legion. She slowly turned away from this after Malfurion was awakened. By the end of ''Mists of Pandaria'', in the tie-in novel ''War Crimes'' she appears to be heading back this way. In the ''Legion'' beta, before it was changed, in a quest Tyrande used her powers of Elune to heal... and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogate]] [[HolyBurnsEvil Satyrs]] regarding Xavius' plans.

* BadassInDistress: Gets captured by [[spoiler:Xavius]] in ''Legion'' and [[spoiler: subjected to torture intended to break his will. He resists and the player characters free him]]. Also in ''Battle for Azeroth'' after he's crippled [[spoiler: by Saurfang while fighting Sylvanas, he is left to the non-existent mercy of the latter; fortunately she let Saurfang deliver the deathblow which gave time for Tyrande to free him]].
* BattleCouple: With Tyrande

* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Malfurion evidently still doesn't fully understand why Tyrande chose him over Illidan.

* NeutralNoLonger: After [[spoiler:Teldrassil is put to the torch by the Horde,]] Malfurion dedicates himself to raising all holy hell, [[spoiler: including putting a Horde squad through a MookHorrorShow before he and Tyrande arrive with an army at their backs to take Darkshore back.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Started out as blue in ''Warcraft III'', this was later changed to green.

-->'''Malfurion''': If pride gives us pause, my love, then perhaps we have lived long enough already.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Debi Mae West (English)

-->'''Maiev''': "Illidari.... I've spent my entire life as keeper of the wicked. Thousands of years, my only solace, knowing the world has kept safe from ''your'' kind. But I would do anything to save Azeroth." -- shatters the prison containing the Demon Hunter -- "Even if it means releasing ''you''. Will you help us, Demon Hunter?"

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: With a dash of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. Maiev's so obsessed with capturing Illidan that she [[ManipulativeBastard tries to convince Malfurion]] that Tyrande (who released Illidan to begin with) has died so that he will not delay the search or [[ItsPersonal hold back against Illidan]], aware that she's really NotQuiteDead. The ''Wolfheart'' novel is a WhamEpisode set years after her subtle betrayal, and ''Illidan'' shows her in the midst of said breakdown during the hunt.
-->'''Malfurion''': Who is the betrayer now, Maiev?

-->'''Akama''': You are more like him than you can possibly know. You are just as ruthless and just as obsessed. You sacrificed your friends without a second thought when it suited your purpose.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Downplayed. Maiev's white hair is visible even with all the armors covering her. She's ''not'' a nice person and once committed a great crime once she was driven to BlackAndWhiteInsanity in ''Wolfheart'', but she's not pure evil.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CamClarke (English), Valery Storozhik (Russian)

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

!!!'''Voiced by''': Courtenay Taylor (English)

* OnlySaneMan: She takes this role for the night elven leadership following the burning of Teldrassil, being the one to see cooperation with the rest of the Alliance as the best path to avenging Teldrassil rather than holding their allies at arms length. In ''Shadows Rising'' she's the one to suggest that they don't need to forgive the Horde to be able to collaborate with them to stop a greater threat.

%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like many other Night Elves.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Alan Shearman (English), Boris Bystrov (Russian)

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is green.

* GenreBlind: Though she's usually quite smart [[spoiler: she should've been careful when holding a warlock's magical mind control artifact in her hands]].

* BadassBeard: One of the main things differentiating him from his brother is that he has one ''massive'' beard.

* BadassBeard: He has a long green beard.

* NotSoDifferent: To Maiev. While they spent much of the Third War bickering over how the Kaldorei should interact with the other races, after the Burning of Teldrassil in ''Battle For Azeroth'', she unquestioningly places Maiev in charge of the forces set to retake Darkshore from the Horde.

* NotSoDifferent: To Illidan. Akama highlighted it best in the ''Illidan'' novel.
-->'''Akama''': You are more like him than you can possibly know. You are just as ruthless and just as obsessed. You sacrificed your friends without a second thought when it suited your purpose.

The loss of their immortality drove Fandral Staghelm -- Archdruid of the Cenarion Circle following Malfurion Stormrage's descent into the emerald Nightmare -- to attempt to create a new World Tree in place of Nordrassil and restore the elves' immortality. Due to Staghelm's presumptuousness the new tree, Teldrassil, was denied its blessing by the Dragon Aspects until ''Cataclysm'', where it was given the boons of life and nature (not time, which would have returned the elves' immortality).

During the beginning of the upcoming expansion ''Battle for Azeroth'', [[spoiler: Teldrassil is destroyed by the Horde, reduced to ashes and cinders. The rest of the Night Elf settlements on Kalimdor's mainland are conquered by the Horde...atleast, until [[WordOfGod the Alliance]] [[CuttingOffTheBranches wins them back]] in the Battle for Darkshore]]

* {{Flanderization}}: As the game's story progressed, Tyrande's xenophobia and hotheadedness became pretty much the only traits she displays by Mists of Pandaria. Her compassionate side, [[TheMenFirst sense of camaraderie]] and even [[ReligiousBruiser her devotion to Elune]] are increasingly downplayed or completely left out; the latter being egregious as she is still the High Priestess of Elune's religion. ''Legion'' seems to at least be trying to fix this; see below. On the other hand, one of the debatable subject come from some fans who weren't too pleased of how she was portrayed in Mists of Pandaria. During ''A Little Patience'' scenario where Tyrande is portrayed as impatient, hothead, and somewhat [[LeeroyJenkins overly aggressive]] and [[AttackAttackAttack an incompetent tactician]], so Varian could demonstrate his skill as the strategist, and leader. While he would appear as skilled and wiser in contrast to Tyrande, this is despite the fact that she is a competent military leader and has millennia more experience in warfare than Varian.

* {{Jerkass}}: In Warcraft 3 she's rather cold, unpleasant and prone to rash decision, such as deciding to free Illidan just because Malfurion told her not to, murdering Maiev's Wardens to do so and attacking the combined Horde and Alliance forces out of the blue for 'trespassing' on their lands when neither party knew these lands were even inhabited. Maiev, Malfurion and Medivh all call her out on her temper, though Furion is mostly just worried about her and Medivh seems resigned.

* PetTheDog: Helping rescue the Furbolg tribe and helping them evacuate at the beginning of the Night Elf campaign in ''Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos''. Also [[spoiler:letting Saurfang live after the latter had struck Malfurion down with an underhanded blow in ''Battle for Azeroth'']].

* StealthExpert: Inferred, as Tyrande was able to sneak past Archimonde's troops in ''Warcraft 3''.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: At first when she led the Night Elf sentinels to fight the allied Horde and Alliance troops that are otherwise fighting the Scourge and the Burning Legion. She slowly turned away from this after Malfurion was awakened. By the end of Mists of Pandaria, in the tie-in novel 'War Crimes' she appears to be heading back this way. In the ''Legion'' beta, before it was changed, in a quest Tyrande used her powers of Elune to heal... and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogate]] [[HolyBurnsEvil Satyrs]] regarding Xavius' plans.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Well, "good"... One of her WarcraftIII abilities is a poisoned dagger that slows the target and deals continuous damage, while her ultimate turns corpses into avenging spirits.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Maiev's is deeper than most other females in Warcraft, but also has a notable harsh edge to it, almost sounding like the stereotypical "five pack a day" smoker.

-->'''Maiev''': "Illidari.... I've spent my entire life as keeper of the wicked. Thousands of years, my only solace, knowing the world has kept safe from ''your'' kind. But I would do anything to save Azeroth." -shatters the prison containing the Demon Hunter- "Even if it means releasing ''you''. Will you help us, Demon Hunter?"

* SatelliteCharacter: The bulk of her character revolves around her charge of being Illidan's warden, and her obsessive hatred of him. While ''Wolfheart'' does give her some standalone character development outside of this - showing her disdain of all arcane wielders - most of her in-game appearances are related to Illidan's presence in some way.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Elisa Gabrielli (English), Elena Solovyov (Russian/''Warcraft III''), Olga Zubkov (Russian/''World of Warcraft'')

* TrueCompanions: Even after the PowerTrio broke up when the comics shifted focus to Med'an, Varian, Broll, and Valeera remain friends.

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade Knights of the Ebon Blade]] | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

A high ranking and famous hero of the Wardens. When Maiev Shadowsong left her post in the aftermath of the Third War in order to pursue Illidan, Sira took up the mantle as unofficial leader of the Wardens in her stead. When the Legion launched their Third Invasion, Sira rallied the surviving Wardens against the forces of the corrupted Cordana Felsong, working alongside the Class Orders to combat the Legion's forces throughout the Broken Isles.
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* FallenHero: [[spoiler:In ''Battle for Azeroth'', she is killed and raised as a Forsaken during the Battle of Darkshore.]]
* MissionControl: Serves as the main contact and coordinator of ''Legion's'' World Bosses. [[spoiler:After her transformation into a Forsaken, she serves as the Horde commander of the Darkshore Warfront in ''Battle for Azeroth''.]]
* TheRemnant: With the amount of their numbers lost first to Maiev's vendetta and then to Cordana's betrayal, the Wardens are definitely not what they used to be, and she knows it.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Maiev's red. Whereas Maiev is utterly obsessed with justice and punishing those she perceives as guilty and has been utterly consumed by her hatred of Illidan and the arcane, Sira is, by contrast, considerably more level headed and diplomatic.
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:''Battle for Azeroth'' reveals that she was deeply embittered by Maiev essentially abandoning her post and her comrades for the sake of her single minded obsession with Illidan. She manages to hide her resentment thoroughout ''Legion'', but her transformation into a Forsaken in ''Battle'' brings these feelings straight to the forefront.]]

During the beginning of the upcoming expansion ''Battle for Azeroth'', [[spoiler: Teldrassil is destroyed by the Horde, reduced to ashes and cinders. The rest of the Night Elf settlements on Kalimdor's mainland are conquered by the Horde.]]

* CameBackWrong: Raised to serve the demons in ''Legion'', he is still reliving the War ofthe Ancients and leads his army against the mortal defenders of Azeroth as he sees them as the invading demons. His mind is cleared once he is beaten in Black Rook Hold.

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* AndThisIsFor: In the ''Shadowlands'' prepatch, [[after Tyrande kills Nathanos, she quietly says "for Teldrassil" before vanishing into the night]].

* FantasticRacism: She despises magic itself, but has a special hatred for her kin, its Highborne practitioners; she began outright murdering them when they reintegrated into night elf society. She also extends this hatred to their descendants, the high/blood elves, whom she derides as an arcane-cursed race.

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade Knights of the Ebon Blade]] | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Elisa Gabrielli

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ed Trotta

!!!'''Voiced by''': Debi Mae West

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Greg Chun

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/CamClarke

!!!'''Voiced by''': Courtenay Taylor

!!!'''Voiced by''': Alan Shearman

* {{Adorkable}}: Was this during the War of the Ancients, especially where Tyrande was concerned.

* HolierThanThou: Played with. Averted to her own race which she is the picture perfect spiritual leader priestess. To any Alliance race, she can be aloof and quote demeaning towards them. To Horde races however, she often rubs her moral high ground in their face. Thalyssra calls her out on this.

* HolierThanThou: Played with. Averted to her own race which she is the picture perfect spiritual leader priestess. To any non-Alliance race, she can be aloof but well meaning and helpful. To Horde races however, she often rubs her moral high ground in their face. Thalyssra calls her out on this.

* KarmaHoudini: Played with. Maiev did berate her for slaughtering her wardens in the ''Reign of Chaos'' campaign and freeing a character who proceeded to cause havoc in night elf lands but couldn't punish her due to Tyrande's superior ranking. Maiev later leaves Tyrande for dead when a bridge she's standing on collapses and she's swept downriver into enemy territory; leading to Furion and Illidan to join forces and rescue her.

%%* MsFanservice: Especially in artwork.

* GodzillaThreshold: Tyrande freeing Illidan so he could help fight the Burning Legion. It was a controversial decision that at least a few people in-universe, such as Maiev, continue to hold against her.

%%* MountedCombat: In ''Warcraft III''.

* OurElvesAreBetter: A blend of Wood Elves and Drows with several subversions to normal elf traits. They have purple skin (though it comes in various shades) and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair their hair tend to have unusual colors by human standards, most frequently blue, white or green]]. They live in forest and are deeply in touch with nature, with various forest creatures being their allies. Unlike their {{Elfeminate}} high elven relatives, night elf men usually have a lot of facial hair and are clearly male. Their culture is druid-based, though they used to have a queen before she was corrupted by Sargeras. Finally, they ''used'' to be immortal, but became mortal following the events of ''Warcraft 3'' when they sacrificed it to help stop Archimonde.

* RageAgainstTheHeavans: Even Tyrande's legendary faith and favor with Elune was shaken by the War of Thorns. [[spoiler:With Teldrasil burned and her people nearly wiped out, Tyrande accuses Elune of standing idle as Sylvanas and the Horde commited that heinous crime and outright ''demands'' that she grant Tyrande the power of the Night Warrior to set things right. At the end of ''Battle for Azeroth'', Tyrande bitterly remarks to Shandris that part of her hunt for Sylvanas is for the answer as to why the Mother Moon abandoned the Night Elves, to Shandris' own horror.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: During ''War Crimes'' Tyrande uses Garroah's trial to attack Orcs and the Horde as a whole. Velen of all people (who has more reason to despise Orcs than anyone) calls her out for proving the point that the Horde exists mainly cause of the Alliance's bigotry and inability to forgive. This doesn't stop her from her from continuing.
** Interestingly, her own husband Malfurion admits the trial showed him and everyone a ''very'' dark side of her

'''[[Characters/WarcraftTheHorde The Horde]]:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOrgrimmar Orgrimmar (Orcs)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeDarkspearTribe The Darkspear Tribe (Trolls)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeThunderBluff Thunder Bluff (Tauren)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeTheForsaken The Forsaken (Undead)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeQuelThalas Quel'Thalas (Blood Elves)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeBilgewaterCartel (Goblins)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordePandaren Huojin (Pandaren)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeHighmountain Thunder Totem (Highmountain Tauren)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeSuramar Suramar (Nightborne)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeZandalariEmpire Zandalari Empire (Zandalar Trolls)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeVoldunai Voldunai (Vulpera)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOther Other (non-playable races)]]\\

'''[[Characters/WarcraftTheAlliance The Alliance]]:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceStormwind Stormwind (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceLordaeron Lordaeron (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceGilneas Gilneas (Humans/Worgen)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceKulTiras Kul Tiras (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceHumanKingdoms Other Human Kingdoms]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceIronforge Ironforge (Dwarven Clans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceGnomeregan Gnomeregan (Gnomes)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceQuelThalas Quel'Thalas/Telogrus Rift (High Elves and Void Elves)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceDarnassus Darnassus (Night Elves)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceExodar The Exodar (Draenei)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceTushui Tushui (Pandaren)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceVindicaar Vindicaar (Lightforged Draenei)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceMechagon Mechagon (Mechagnomes)]]\\

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade Knights of the Ebon Blade]] | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\