History Headscratchers / Warcraft

** It's established in WoW that the light can heal undead it just hurts like hell, it's possible necromancy can work similar, for why you can't do it on allied living unit is because they just don't trust you enough to let you, not do they have the cultist fanaticism of the cult of the damned necessary to put up with the pain without passing out

** It's established in WOW that the light can heal undead it just hurts like hell, it's possible necromancy can work similar, for why you can't do it on allied living unit is because they just don't trust you enough to let you, not do they have the cultist fanaticism of the cult of the damned necessary to put up with the pain without passing out

** {{Fanon}} has it that Thrall ''is'' opposed...but rooting out slavers in Durotar is kind of like rooting out the mob in the United States. And don't get me ''started'' on Varian's JerkAssStu credentials. Just ''don't''.

* After Tyrande frees Illidan from his prison, with Furion having made it abundantly clear that it was entirely devoid of his blessing, Illidan goes after the Skull of Gul'dan, with some prodding from Arthas. My question is: How did Illidan get a base from which to attack Tichondrius's forces? He's either an unknown night-elf, or The Betrayer, to any who he could enlist. The only benefactor I can see would be Tyrande, but I can imagine Furion being, well, furious if she gave Illidan some of their forces as well as freeing him. And if she did, why did nobody ever bring it up? Like, "You not only freed him, slaughtering his guards in the process, but gave him an army?!"

** At the start they are far weaker, arthas is on par with any other hero unit, but one thing to remember is there powers include the ability to grow stronger, both threw amassing more and more undead made from more and more powerful individuals, and from frostmourne continually feasting on souls and gaining strength

*** Frostmourne stole his soul and afterwards he became undead its not the fact hes on a horse that makes him weaker but the fact hes lost a fundamental part of himself, hes lost his previous main power source and has to adjust to his body becoming more stiff and dead

* Shouldn't the war attrition rates have reduced the numbers of the Forsaken to zero by now, what with they being to dead to reproduce? And how will they replenish their ranks after there is no more Scourge, seing as they are all former Scourge?

** This question is directly followed up on in ''Cataclysm'', during some new starter quests for the Forsaken. As a result of casualties in Northrend (and presumably Varimathras' coup in the Undercity), the Forsaken are in a weakened position in terms of numbers, which would make [[spoiler: their planned war on Gilneas]] rather...difficult, to say the least. So after the death of Arthas renders a big chunk of the more sentient Scourge independent, [[spoiler: Sylvanas recruits a large number of the val'kyr to the Forsaken, who use their magic to raise new Forsaken from corpses.]] Cue the InternetBackdraft, as many fans feel the Dark Lady's finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon she's been flirting with for years with this action, and think Blizzard is setting her up for a fall a la Kael'thas. Others feel this betrays the very idea behind her FaustianRebellion by having her become the very thing she hated most (and Garrosh in game even points this out to her).

* Gold is fairly hard to come by for low levels in WOW but in one of the early barrens quest is to kill a pirate lord that is standing next to a pile of it that is as tall as a gnome yet you can't take any of it and the quest reward is a few silver pieces.

** Orgrimmar and Darnassus are both very new cities, Orgrimmar being 5 years old at the time of TBC and Darnassus 4. Every orc that lives in Orgrimmar was either part of the three ships that sailed there, or had to break out of an internment camp/other clan, Reach Booty bay, and from there sail to Ratchet (the orgrimmar-undercity alliance, and thus zeppelin line, was a fairly recent thing at the time of WoW, and the only faction to hold big ports on both sides of the ocean is the steamwheedle cartel). Darnassus was founded as part of a highly controversial, failed project, is surrounded by corruption, and, most importantly, was not needed housing-wise. Honestly, the issue is more why those two cities have several thousand citizens.

** Besides which, the technology of the races HAS been advancing over that last few expansions. For example, when WoW was first released, the Horde made use of simple catapults, barely-armored infantry, spear throwers, and wooden fortifications. Fast-forward to Wrath, where they are shown to be using Demolishers and Steam Tanks, fully-armored soldiers, gunmen, and metal-and-stone fortifications. not to mention that their battle tactics of "Zerg the enemy" has fallen out of favor for organized battles, sieges, and mechanized warfare. A good example of these changes can be seen in Warsong Hold, particularly in the conversation between Saurfang and Garrosh, where we have Saurfang (who represents the technological advancement of the Horde) lecturing Garrosh (representing the zerg-and-destroy mentality of the older Horde) on the finer points of having clear supply lines. It can be found [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Varok_Saurfang#Dialogue_with_Garrosh_in_Warsong_Hold here]]

** I guess it's elaboration time. Naga are an incredibly mutated race due to corruption from the Old Gods. Females on average are born with four arms, and become exceptional magic wielders due to this. Sea Witches, especially powerful casters, have six. Male naga are less intelligent than females on average (although they're not necessarily any dumber than any other intelligent humanoid) but have thicker hides and sharp teeth to make up for it. This is taken to the extreme with the naga brutes, who are truly unintelligent but also extremely tanky naga, but not with the unnamed naga anamoly variety, which are males that appear to be covered in a form of natural armor, and serve as tactical commanders for small armies. Naga can aspire to leave their ranks though, and exceptions are encountered throughout the game. In the case of female warrior naga, a female battlemaiden is the focus for a questline in Vashj'ir. For the males, I don't know if an entirely magic devoted representative can be found (although an unaffiliated naga summoner, Skar'this, exists), but I believe Fathom-Lord Zin'jatar had the ability to summon waves of water