I consider it blatantly OOC. You're talking about someone who, upon getting to Kalimdor, was brokenhearted about needing to fight the Quillboar and more humans. Who believed his people were *better* than just bringers of war and destruction. Someone who has promoted peace and cooperation over and over again. Someone who was *friends* with the leaders of the night elves.
IC would have been saying that he would investigate it and punish those people because what they did is not and cannot be acceptable, ever.
And I fail to see how *trade* is causing sickness and exposure when they have an extremely large territory which they don't exploit properly (Azshara has forests, and until the goblins maim the land, the Horde appear to do nothing with it). If there were problems, why did no one address it?
Also, as a side note? Wars *take up* resources. Ask anyone whose country has been in a major war. Armies have no way to grow and harvest resources on their own, so they have to take it from the civilian population, who make due with less. THAT is why people were starving, not "trade". Because the Horde were at war and they took everything they needed to survive. While the farming efforts in Northrend were a nice try, not only did they clearly fail, but since the Horde have no bloody shipping lanes because Garrosh is a *moron*, the other thing they could get from Northrend, the lumber that Thrall claims is causing the Horde to collectively starve and grow sick, stays there too.
Sorry, I am unbelievably bitter about this book and its treatment of many of the characters as a whole. Particularly the idea that Thrall took his people to live in Durotar as "penance". If this is how Metzen treats his so-called favourite characters, I would rather be unpopular and obscure.
IC would have been saying that he would investigate it and punish those people because what they did is not and cannot be acceptable, ever.
And I fail to see how *trade* is causing sickness and exposure when they have an extremely large territory which they don't exploit properly (Azshara has forests, and until the goblins maim the land, the Horde appear to do nothing with it). If there were problems, why did no one address it?
Also, as a side note? Wars *take up* resources. Ask anyone whose country has been in a major war. Armies have no way to grow and harvest resources on their own, so they have to take it from the civilian population, who make due with less. THAT is why people were starving, not "trade". Because the Horde were at war and they took everything they needed to survive. While the farming efforts in Northrend were a nice try, not only did they clearly fail, but since the Horde have no bloody shipping lanes because Garrosh is a *moron*, the other thing they could get from Northrend, the lumber that Thrall claims is causing the Horde to collectively starve and grow sick, stays there too.
Sorry, I am unbelievably bitter about this book and its treatment of many of the characters as a whole. Particularly the idea that Thrall took his people to live in Durotar as "penance". If this is how Metzen treats his so-called favourite characters, I would rather be unpopular and obscure.
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