History Headscratchers / WorldOfWarcraft

** It's a trend that started long, long before MoP. Very few non-playable races get female models, and as subraces often have a unique male model but use a default female model (very noticeable with the trolls). IIRC, the only exceptions are naga, vrykul, quilboar and Centaur. As such, I wouldn't put too much stock in the lack of females amongst the grummles, jinyu, hozen, yaungol or sauroks. They probably exist, but simply don't have a model.

** There are tauren, nelf, belf and orc kids in the game in the [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Challe%27s_Home_For_Little_Tykes Orphanage of Creepy Children]]. There are also some other race's kids in Shattrath, including gnome, dwarf and humans.

* Something that has bugged me for quite some time. Why does an [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Abomination Abomination]] look pretty similar to a [[http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Unclean_One Great Unclean One]] from Warhammer 40k?

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** A cheap DisposableWoman ploy, of course. They've been fairly misogynist in this expansion, [[UnfortunateImplications or so I feel]] (with one exception of a quest chain to keep male slaves of a matriarchy in The Storm Peaks in check, but [[MoralDissonance two wrongs don't make a right.]])
** ...or maybe Alexstrasza wasn't fond of MoralDissonance or just didn't want to play the IdiotBall by [[spoiler:killing the psychotic Big Bad's wife and burning her corpse in front of him]] [[TooDumbToLive before taunting him]]. So she had to do it without Alex's help.

* What exactly is the Sha of Doubt supposed to represent? Liu Flameheart seems to be consumed with the traditional definition of doubt in oneself. However, Wise Mari, a fellow boss of Temple of the Jade Serpent and victim of the Sha of Doubt, is consumed with suspicion of others. Additionally, different emotions spawn it in Jade Forest; Rell Nightwind seems to doubt in his cause when [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene Sky Admiral Rogers guns down the surrendering Horde soldiers]], while Nazgrim seems to feel despair after the Alliance outmaneuvers him and he fears [[YouHaveFailedMe Garrosh's punishment]].

*** As of the end of ''Battle for Azeroth'' and the beginning of ''Shadowlands,'' that long war seems to be finally over.

it seems like beings can die in the shadowlands and suffer cessation of existence, so if you deem a soul truly irredeemable why not just kill them? if the Maw was just an eternal prison i could understand it being a thing about being humane, allowing them to continue to exist and have some sort of (after)life while putting them somewhere they can’t hurt anyone, but if you’re going to torture them forever its clearly not intended as a mercy, executing them all has the added bonus of letting you drain them dry of every last drop of anima and also not wasting any resources are needless torture.

it seems like beings can die in the shadowlands and suffer cessation of existence, so if you deem a soul truly irredeemable why not just kill them? if the Maw was just an eternal prison i could understand it being a thing about being humane, allowing them to continue to exist and have some sort of (after)life while putting them somewhere they cant hut anyone, but if your going to torture them forever its clearly not intended as a mercy, executing them all has the added bonus of letting you drain them dry of every last drop of anima and also not wasting any resources are needless torture

** It's less Pala-Illidan is bad and more, he declines but Xe'ra tries to force him anyway. While various [=NPCs=] are outraged at what he did, others like Velen are horrified that Xe'ra would deny someone their own freedom and force her will upon them. It's meant to be a moment that marks Xe'ra as NotSoDifferent from Sargeras or the Void Lords. Another idea is that Illidan accepts his actions and the sacrifices he's made to get where he is and refuses to let someone else negate them by undoing it all (Xe'ra implied she'd restore Illidan's eyes and definitely would undo his demonic transformation).