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by Allwynd01 » Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:59 pm
As I said in my original post, the quest hubs can be something like Goblins, Gnomes or both, or some neutral faction so as to make their presence, as well as that of the opposite faction not a big deal.
From what I've read in the Warcraft books and comics, there have always been members of the opposite faction in the other's territories, outside of the state that the two factions are in, commoners are still commoners and they still interact with each other.
I think WoW the game, has created a misconception where players are lead to believe that opposite factions are sworn enemies - they don't speak the same language, they attack each other on sight, their territories are like Black and White, no morally Gray, or in other words - Red and Blue and it's unthinkable that opposing faction members can be there.
I read somewhere of a Forsaken character, not in the game, who had no hate for the Alliance and the living in general and when a group of travelers from the Alliance went to Tirisfal Glades and got lost or something, he helped them out.
And from a real world perspective, if you're for example Mongolian or whatever and you travel to Uruguay, there is no problem with that, the air is not going to kill you. Same goes for let's say a Gnome going into Durotar or something - it shouldn't be a problem.
That false stigma that WoW has created and probably hundreds of other MMORPGs copy-pasted, in my opinion should be erased.
With Turtle WoW being a RP/PvE server and how it started with Horde and Alliance being able to talk with each other, group up and whatnot, it can be deducted from the RP perspective that the players are more of an adventurers who travel the land, help out here and there, they are not necessarily pawns of war of their faction. What I mean is, if the server allows opposite faction players to interact with each other, then it obviously signifies that they aren't sworn enemies.
So back on topic, there could be some faction, like "Tinker Union" or something comprised of Goblins and Gnomes who do experiments all around the world and they need adventurers of both factions to help them. It could be pretty much any other faction, could be the Argent Dawn (even though it would be weird for them to be in Westfall or The Barrens, but still, I'm using them figuratively just for an example.