Knaak retcons NeltharionI have to say it one more time. Leave Nel alone! Nel doesn't need this. He's already gotten the shaft from Blizzard, now they had to hire Knaak again to do his character, which by the way, he did horribly in the first three books which "detailed" his transformation to Deathwing. I put it in quotes due to the fact that the detail was just one paragraph long in the book Demon Soul and he was pretty much a douchebag in all three books. You know what, I'll excuse the douchebagness of Neltharion in those three books, because in those three books, he was already maddened by N'Zoth and made into that calamari's personal bitch. I get it. Nel was Mr. Nutcase in those three books. But I kinda like to think that before he became Mr. Nutcase, he was in fact as noble and as wholehearted and kind and gentle, the gentle giant that I described in my own little writings on him...that he was originally like that. But this... La
I like and approve of this interpretation!
I had fun doing it.
And all the while the Alliance is being backed by the Earth-Warder, Neltharion himself, after having his hand forced by Garrosh.
Steampunkish feel, maybe?
Neltharion, due to his connection with the Titans, when he was Deathwing, was trying to build the first Magnetic Acceleration Cannon, a type of coil gun, but then Garrosh got a hold of the plans and he's built it now, using shamanic power over lightning, IE electromagnetism to power it.
A lot of what I have in this revised Azeroth was already in Azeroth to begin with, but not in abundance. I'm just making it more abundant. But it also means that armor has to be changed as well since we're going to guns rather than swords and shields. Armor is going to be less obnoxious, no more oversized pauldrons shoulder armor, except for formal wear. No more plate armor. Up close combat will still be fought with melee weapons, but it's gonna be fewer and far between on the battlefield. The orcs might charge, but eventually they'll figure out that charging only makes them loose the battle even more due to the Alliance just hanging back and picking them off one by one with their guns and magic. Guns and magic. The new Warcraft.
Imagine an Alliance soldier looking less like this...
[link]
And more like this...
[link]
Actually show that people do things outside of fighting each other between the Alliance and the Horde. Theramore, before it's destruction, kinda turns into a 1930s version of Hawaii, complete with tourists, but still also a military presence. And the attack on Theramore is like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but ending with the blasting of Hiroshima instead.
Since aircraft is in Azeroth, I've changed it up and instead of them being mostly made of wood, which seems silly for what they do, they are going to be made of steal. Aircraft will actually look like aircraft. The horde airship that unloads the mana bomb won't be a boat with a balloon keeping it up in the air, it'll be an actual bomber.
No more Alliance and Horde ships with sails, we've got diesel dreadnoughts with armor piercing tungston rounds and depth charges! Because the Horde has U-boats. This is going to be fun.
And the radio blasts with Goldshire Jazz.