Maybe in the Alliance fight Putress divulges the existence of the plague that Sylvanas has been working on? If that plague is meant to take out Scourge and living alike, I can understand why Wrynn might be a little bit pissed off at that.

Either that or she says "Thrall made me do it!" and Wrynn is just like "Oh ok, I'll go kill him then".

Your first scenario makes the most sense. I said that a few pages back, a Plague of that level would make the Alliance view the Horde as a threat on equal standing with the Scourge.

Judging by the look of the faceless ones... there are some very slight but exaggerated similarities between them and Hakkar. I can't tell if I'm imagining it, or if they really are there. Maybe i want to believe that he ties in, a bit too much.

Maybe during or after the Putress fight, the Alliance also stumbles on the little back room where all the people to be experimented on are held? Don't think that would help the situation either.

You can, in fact, do it properly. When I had the same thing happen to me - walked in on Tirion Fordring's speech and suddenly had the "Quest completed" message pop - I simply abandoned the quest and returned to the guy who started it to pick it up again. Five minutes or so later the deathknights had reformed and I did it properly. I would imagine it works the same way on this type of quest. Just don't turn it in.

Or better yet, wait in the original area until the heroes reform.

EDIT: Sorry, this was already posted. Delete please!

A'dal (Icecrown) - NPC - World of Warcraft
Now why, oh why would A'dal be in Icecrown? *ponder*

A'dal comes to Icecrown as part of the quest to save the paladin who's infected with undeath. A couple Naaru appear with him... K'ure I think, and I forget the other.

It's kind of a silly questline though, really... "the Naaru are paying attention to the events in Northrend, we're just not doing shit except saving this one Paladin. Just be thankful that Blizzard still acknowledges our existence at all."

I need to keep a running list of sorely-underused characters in WotLK. Khadgar and the Naaru, of course, would be on it.

Hmmm. That's a bit silly. After our assistance with Illidan and the Sunwell, you'd think they'd be more likely candidates to come and lay down the law at the Wrath Gate - not Alexstrasza.

Well, you have to believe things aren't being wrapped up as cleanly as the quests and the story may appear. Even if Illidan and his commanders are dead, there is still a significant demonic threat in Outland, as well as his various forces scattered about. We may strike the winning blow in the battle for Outland, but the war isn't over. The Naaru are concerned first and foremost with the Legion, so their attention should remain on that side of the Dark Portal.

The reason why Varian attacks Thrall can be found in the details here: Quest:The Battle For The Undercity (Alliance) - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

It seems that Varian is really pissed at the Horde, for various reasons, number one being Bolvar's death. His judgment is apparently blinded by the hatred he built up against the Horde when he was an arena slave.

Reminds of the Proudmoore vs. Horde thing. Oh god I love Blizzard!

Haha. Yes it does. I love the way they've taken a clever route with the story, instead of going all care bear and "We fight for a common cause", instead they add in characters that despite of all good reasons have still causes to be incredibly hostile to each other. It's like in literature, you don't want your favourite character to be killed. In the same way, you don't want this to happen...

Still, plot- and lorewise, this was obviously the smartest choice -- I mean, Horde and Alliance both hate the Scourge, so why not join arms? Oh, that's not possible, because Varian hates Thrall's guts. Thus we still have the factions alive and warring instead of taking the logical route, allying against an unstoppable enemy and beating it.

I don't know about the rest of you, but now I'm kinda hoping Arthas does break free. Can you imagine having both Varian and Arthas as Alliance leaders? That would be downright amazing, 2 ridiculously angry/passionate Humans leading our forces in a War against the Horde. :0

Even if Arthas breaks free, he do not have much credibility left in the alliance, after all he killed his father and destroyed his kingdom. I would think the Alliance forces detest him more than the horde.

Does Ysera do anything so far btw?
I've heard about one quest where she asks you to bring some seeds or something (think on the earlier pages in this thread) but it didn't sound like alot really.

Was hoping she'd be alot more involved.

I imagine A'dal is still needed to sit in Shattrath to protect it from the Legion. Iirc, one of the quest or maybe Khadger almost states explicitly A'dal's power is the reason Shattrath is safe.

Also, the Naaru are not very powerful individually, and there aren't many of them to begin with. A'dal is powerful, sure, but the power of the other Naaru appear considerably weaker. In fact, of all the Naaru I can think of, A'dal appears to be the only one of any significant power. M'uru still gets slaughtered by 25 people. Xi'ri sits outside Karabor using Scryer and Aldor forces to attack. K'ure doesn't even show up until the island is re-taken. There's that guy in Nagrand that's for all intents and purposes trapped (or so it appears).

There is one thing I don't get, if someone would mind explaining: why exactly are the Nagas working with the Black Dragonflight and does Dr. Weevil fit in to the story?

So far, I have to say, after reading the detailed quest information on WoWWiki that I am deeply disappointed with what they are doing with Varian in WotLK. He's always seemed like a level-headed person in the comic, and he's going completely berserker now. Nowhere in the comic he shows so much hatred or disgust for the Horde as he is exhibiting now.

He's not without reason. He was able to stay in Orgrimmar for months, with the Trolls, Forsaken, Tauren, Orcs. He has a unique perspective of what they actually are from within. While it's true that the Horde aren't made up entirely of monsters, they do have notable villains within their ranks, especially within the Forsaken.

The Forsaken are a part of the Horde, Thrall allowed them to join the Horde, and as the Warchief, he is responsible for their actions. They made a Plague which was designed to wipe out both the Alliance AND the Scourge. He says it himself in the flavor quest text, "For too long have the Horde been left unchecked. We allowed their territories to prosper and in return for our generosity they plotted and planned our demise." While the actions at the Wrath Gate may not have been the direct result of Forsaken, or the Horde, they are responsible for it because they allowed it to take place with their own weapon. Their actions are really not something you can turn a blind eye to.

The horde version of the retaking of the Undercity is quite awesome. You have Thrall tanking every mob inside with his aura while Sylvanas hangs around singing. The song in question is the Lament of the Highborne, the same one you hear when you return her pendant from the Ghostlands.

I'll do a proper writeup when the server comes back up (restarted just as the event got started).

That would be epic beyond imagining. I imagine after fighting the Scourge in Northrend for a while and with Bolvar's death, Arthas would pick up a reasonable following:

Arthas: "See, this is what I was trying to stop, and drastic measures were the only way."
People: "Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a bad idea. Lead on, oh King."

I have to say, before these last two quest chains (Wrath Gate and the Lehner chains) I would have been against it, but the Lehner chain is probably one of the coolest things I've done in any game, and it sets the stage for Arthas' redemption, in some way, quite well.

Arthas has too much blood on his hands for the alliance to accept any redemption other than his death.

If Darth Vader had survived the the battle of endor the rebellion would not have welcomed him with open arms because he had reformed. He would have been tried for crimes against humanity and executed.

I think Arthas may yet see redemption but I do not think he will survive it.

Ok yes, maybe we're going a bit overboard with it. On that same token why does Redemption = immediate death after one good act? I think a character who committed atrocities, and then was given their consciousness back and had to LIVE with what they've done would be far more interesting then somebody who's been evil for 10 years, does something good, and then dies immediately after "Redeemed". It's just my opinion but some of these villains have so much more to atone for, it would be more interesting to keep them around. The Death Knights of Acherus aren't the only ones who have been manipulated all this time after all, Ner'zhul->Arthas.