Tour #11: Cycle of Hatred

We’ve taken all of the printed and in-game material and arranged it into a roughly thematic order within each expansion and we plan to go through the story using a number of thematically appropriate toons. We’ll be discussion our impressions here. Be warned: our discussions will contain spoilers for all currently published Warcraft material. This isn’t meant for first timers, but for old timers like us to experience it in a new way.You can find our tentative list here.

Sonaira says:

I literally made no notes while I read this, because this was just…sort of there. We have another example of racists on either side, with Thrall and Jaina desperately trying to hold it together. The only thing this book made me think was “didn’t they destroy Northwatch Hold in one of the expansions?” (Yes, they did. As part of The Fall of Theramore, which was where the Horde passed the Moral Event Horizon as far as I’m concerned.)

Any road, this one was just flat and disappointing. The narrative arc was as unsubtle as usual, but there also weren’t any minor characters to really get attached to.

Shoryl says:

About the only part of this I found interesting at all is that we finally find out how Aegwynn ends up being Jaina’s chancellor.

Oh, and look, it was demons all along. Because that’s new. It doesn’t excuse the blatant racism portrayed in the book, especially since I suspect neither the orcs nor the humans in the Burning Blade cult knew about the members of the other race.