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Warcraft orcs are weird in that their lore has a lot of moments of believable mundane evil that make them charming in a kind of, "disgruntled developing culture" kind of way. They're fuck ups - they're that political cartoon depicting Russia as a bear getting pushed off of a ball, trying to get back on, successfully balancing on top, and then immediately trying to kill everyone before falling off of it again.
-The orcs say they got "swindled" by demonic forces, but we were there; the orcs LOVED the power the burning legion bestowed upon them, they LOVED wielding it and slaughtering the draenei and the ogres with it, and it was a major defining turning point for their culture that many of them long to return to and some continue to desperately cling onto.
-The orcs are charmingly desperate for a "good cultural example" to rebuild their society and to author a new founding myth around. They don't actually want to stop being a warrior culture that pillages, rapes, murders, etc.. They want to keep those things, but find a culture that simultaneously has those qualities, but isn't falling apart, and I think they found it in the tauren. That's why they cling to them so tightly, even Garrosh loved them. The orcs need the tauren to justify their backward fucking society.
-Even Garrosh' rise to popularity is amusing and true to form since he was a very believable, "extremely charismatic leader taps into the nostalgia of the disenfranchised population and propels himself into popularity by causing a cultural revolution and actually spending money on infrastructure and industrialization."
