Gieve separated capital cities

(Beware: Non-native english speaker trying to write all rp-style beginning soon. Conclusio already summed up in headline. For some OOC-reading skip to the last paragraph) Strange days we live in, indeed. Orgrimmar, Undercity, Thunderbluff and Silvermoon, those impressive examples of fine horde architecture are ever-empty ghost towns.

Thrall sits on his throne, left by himself with his guards, bored to miss out on all the fun in the outlands and northrend and ranting about the “good ol’ days”, when “this city was a breathing, eating, howling war machine built of the finest warriors under the red banner”.

The fine days, when Onyxia’s head was put up on a spear at the city entrance for all proud warriors to see and rejoice in the strength and unity this unstoppable army showed with pride. Invading alliance forces would be fought to the death and every single soldier would guard his leader, no matter how high the cost.

But things have changed ever since. The threats of Kalimdor are defeated and the heroes of the horde have moved on to fight stronger, more dreading enemies in the outlands. The impending doom those demons rained upon all life forced the arch-enemies from the horde and alliance to take a break from their neverending war and join forces, just as not to die. The eredar were willing to help ensure peace, and offered Shattrath as the base of operations for both factions.

Thrall, as a man of war, pride and glory, didn’t fancy this solution. But there is one thing he puts above victory. One thing he swore to ensure before anything else, and that is the survival and freedom of his people. The alliance must be defeated, but there is plenty of time for that later.

So, as long as it took to take out the threat of the outlands, the factions resigned to a more peaceful pace with each other. Finally, Kil’Jaeden was defeated and it seemed like things would return to their good, old, horde-fighting-alliance status. But evil isn’t sleeping. Arthas, the Lich King himself, returned with his scourge army and prepares a huge invasion in the cold mountains of Ice Crown.

Northrend. Once again the armies of the horde and alliance, the finest warriors of Azeroth, need to lay down their eternal struggle in order to, once and for all, get rid of one of their own who has turned to the dark side. And, once again, the arch-enemies are forced to live and fight side by side. Once again, much to their own and their leader’s dislike, they wander the same streets. The streets of Dalaran.

While every warrior, be he horde or alliance, only has one thing in mind: To kill Arthas and rid Azeroth of his terror, deep in their hearts they all still feel the hatred for their oldest enemies. The crimes, the killing, the betrayal – those things are not forgotten.

And some day, when there is no immediate threat, we will all get our revenge.

(End of rp-writing-experiment.)

Honestly, those shared capital cities are starting to annoy me. First of all they feel a lot more alliance-ish than horde-ish, both Shattrath and – especially – Dalaran. Second it’s just weird. I do not want to have walk by elves and dwarfs. I do not want to be forced to behave peaceful. In the next expansion, please, for the sake of people who are at least a tiny bit into lore, at least give the portals and/or trainers & auction houses to the faction-specific bases. I don’t even ask for two capital cities (yet that would be what I really, really prefer).

Just to not have a significant disadvantage to set your hearthstone to warsong hold. By the way, there comes an even better idea to mind: Why not have the next expansion use the old capitals again? I certainly wouldn’t mind returning to orgrimmar. Or, even better, give us a troll capital! Weee, troll capital!

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