The News Isn't Any Better Later on Day 41

We heard the cheering all the way in the Valley of Spirits when Garrosh made the official announcement of the 'victory.' But there was no dancing in the streets afterwards, according to Chesuk.

After peppering his speech with phrases like 'decisive blow' and 'broken the supply lines keeping the Alliance resistance going in Southern Barrens,' he told his people that he expected there would be mourning for the fallen. They died heroes' deaths, and we had to honor their spirits because there would be no effort to recover their bodies. But above all, it was necessary. The bomb was necessary.

Rumors are flying all over the city. Chesuk learned from some of his war buddies that in the last several days, as the plans were being laid out, there were numerous closed-door meetings that couldn't really mask the raised voices. Meetings with Vol'jin and Baine Bloodhoof. Speculation is running high in the Valleys of Spirits and Wisdom that neither leader was in favor of the attack, and tried to talk Garrosh out of it. I guess he pulled the 'I'm the Warchief' card on them, and they had little choice in supplying troops.

Roznik's furious. There was almost nothing for the Horde to gain – I mean Jesus, we've got a swamp in Durotar already, why would we want another one? Chesuk is actually embarrassed to look me in the face, after all his posturing and claiming to be more honorable than the Alliance. He actually said, and I'm not kidding, that if the Horde was losing the fight fairly, they should have pulled back and licked their wounds. Regrouped, reinforced, struck when the odds were more favorable. That would be the honorable thing to do.

Then Jozala brought it home. That bomb in Stonetalon... that did happen. Daznik was there. She didn't go into what he was doing or anything, but she said the Alliance wasn't going to stand for this like they let Stonetalon slip by with little retaliation. There would be a reckoning.

I couldn't help but think of a couple of bombs my country dropped on the other side of my world. That show of force was to urge an end to the conflict. I'm not thinking that's what was on Garrosh's mind when he gave the order to drop a bomb on Theramore.