Who Won The Battle For Azeroth? - Alliance VS Horde.

Hello guys this is Doronsmovies and today I will be talking about the Battle for Azeroth and who actually won this war? Sure Sylvanas left, we are now going into the Shadowlands, but let's talk about what the outcome of the conflict is and what are the consequences.

So without further ado, let's get into the lore. The war itself really started for no serious reason and it turned out to be a manipulation by the Jailer and Sylvanas. At the start, it was because of Azerite and Sylvanas seeing the opportunity to take out the Alliance in a quick manner.

However, it was later revealed that she really created the conflict in order to spread destruction and death that would feed the maw and her new ally in the Shadowlands and finally herself. The war started with the destruction of Teldrassil and with it Darnassus the capital of the night elves.

In retaliation, the Alliance launched the Siege of Lordaeron conquering Undercity even though it was ultimately blighted and destroyed by Sylvanas. Subsequently, both factions went to find new allies first with the allied races that we recently encountered being recruited and then going to Zandalar and Kul'Tiras to expand the factions.

While the Kul'Tirans and the Zandalari trolls would join, the Horde and the Alliance would constantly sabotage each other and there would be non-stop skirmishes. King Rastakhan was ultimately killed in the Battle for Dazar'alor as the Alliance severely weakened the trolls prior to that event.

At the same time two major war fronts were created, the Battle for Darkshore and the Battle for Stromgarde. The battle for Darkshore was in retaliation to the Horde as they had previously conquered the area and used it to stage the attack and to destroy Teldrassil.

The Alliance with Tyrande at the helm launched an intense-counter attack to retake night elven land. On the other side of the planet, the Horde attempts to take Stromgarde and the Arathi Highlands in order to progress into a continuous assault on southern Eastern Kingdoms and Gilneas, while the Alliance attempts to hold the defence position of key strategical importance.

During all of this chaos a civil war would once again start within the Horde as many grew opposed to the nefarious methods used by Sylvanas and they questioned their loyalties. Saurfang the prominent opposition leader gathered the rebel forces and reached the gates of Orgrimmar.

A combined rebel and Alliance attack was prepared on all 3 sides of the capital city however the battle ultimately ended with the mak'gora between Varok and the Warchief. Sylvanas easily handled the orc, however she finally revealed her true intentions and her lack of care for the Horde and even her Forsaken.

We learned that she had acquired new powers and had new goals as she had abandoned the faction flying off to ultimately reach the Frozen Throne and to open the gateway to the Shadowlands. This seemingly ended the war but what really happened and who won the Battle for Azeroth? Well after the famous mak'gora an armistice was reached between the Horde and the Alliance however this didn't mean an end to the war.

If we observe the dialogues Jaina confirms that the bulk of the war is over however pockets of fighting still remain and that it will take some time to actually reach peace. Even Kul'Tiras realize that the conflict is near it's end and they mention scaling their war efforts, although they don't say anything about stop them.

In regards to the major battles it was confirmed by Blizzard that Alliance had won them. Tyrande managed to retake Darkshore with the night elves once again acquiring their core land. In the Eastern Kingdoms, the Alliance managed to hold Stromgarde and to repel the Horde attack, maintaining a strong presence in the Northern Eastern Kingdoms.

With this key location and Undercity ruined the Horde presence on the continent was severely weakened. The reason for this as said by Blizzard is because both of these locations were important and were historical Alliance strongholds and it felt right for the story for it to happen.

Officially at the moment, the Fourth war is said to be on hold, but in my opinion, the outcome is sort of a pyrrhic victory for the Alliance. They managed to win the two key warfronts, they got Sylvanas out of power and they dealt a serious blow to the new Horde allies the Zandalari.

Undercity was destroyed and the Alliance has a stronger hold now on their main continent. However the Horde wasn't exactly completely defeated. In the end Sylvanas really was an enemy of the Horde so they managed to regain their autonomy and in the process of the war they found quite a lot of new allies strengthening their position not just in manpower but in land expansion.

The Horde destroyed Teldrassil and even though the night elves managed to retake Darkshore and their foothold on the shore the Horde definitely has a stronger grip on Kalimdor. Why I see this as a phyric victory is because even though Alliance technically won they aren't exactly winners.

The primary objective of the Alliance wasn't really to conquer the world but to pacify the Horde and to retake their land so they were successful in that. Still a lot of lives were lost and both factions were already depleted from the battle against the Burning Legion which was a very recent conflict, so this new war created many new casualties and you can't really rebuild and restore manpower in the span of just a few years.

So I'd say power wise both factions are really worse off than they were before. Still, we will see how effective we will all be in the Shadowlands. Thank you for watching. Check out who would win in a battle between Sylvanas and Arthas by clicking on the screen and also check out the second channel Doron's Academy for videos on real-world history and science.