Alliance and Horde at war, why?

Prior to World of Warcraft, the Alliance and the Horde were allied, the last we know is that Admiral Proudmoore was killed by the Horde, afterwards naught about neither Orcs nor Humans is known, since both lacked a campaign in The Frozen Throne. Anyways, on the World of Warcraft trailer, all we know is that the pact has been broken, but is it known why, I at least do not know and therefore ask if such information exists for me to read.

I'm sure there's an explanation somewhere. Most likely in a book.

They're not at war

The two factions just bloody hate each other and have frequent fights. But they do have a very delicate truce between the two factions

If i am not wrong the story " human Vs. Horde (orcs)" was started in Warcraft I!!

So, i think the pact was broken because the human has deep revenge and hateness with orcs

They are in conflict because of the hatred the human have for the orcs.

The Humans allied with the Orcs were only those in Theramore leaded by Jaina NOT the remaining Human in Azeroth. Jaina is still friendly to the Horde just like Thrall is to Theramore.

If you want more Info on the Histroy of Warcraft try this Link History of Warcraft - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Case closed then?

Truce or not, there had to be a conflict going for WoW to take off. Basically old hatred regrowing coming from various encroachments by both sides. But WoW screwed the lore all to heck in several ways. Maybe in WC4 it will be a truce again...
-VGsatomi

If you play World of Warcraft, don't mind the story, it's screwed as hell anyway :\ .

Originally Posted by Dumblor

If you play World of Warcraft, don't mind the story, it's screwed as hell anyway :\ .

Well, WoW is not about story.

The general statue is like Mecheon said. But one of the reasons is presented in the book "Cycle of Hatred", which I think is very entertaining.

Originally Posted by DukeCz

Well, WoW is not about story.

WoW is a Roleplaying Game

it is by its very nature about story

The story writing just got nerfed


The basic story is, they arent officially at war, but the people of the two factions have such long traditions of hate for one another (except for the Night Elves, Dreanei and technically the Forsaken) that on an individual basis, they act as if they were at war. The Battlegrounds are also isolated temperments, generally the factions do not behave in that way towards eachother

HOWEVER.... Recently the Horde and Alliance have reentered a state of open war, the story (the basis, anyways) is:

The Alliance and Horde are in Northrend. The Forsaken release the new plague. The Alliance ASWELL as the Scourge are destroyed by it. Varimathras stages a coup in the Undercity. Varian, recently returned, show up in the UC and bitchslaps Thrall (hes not only mad because of the treachery, but also because some dude died... good friend...at the hands of the Horde). He boogies off pretty quick, Thrall and Sylvanas claim to have had no knowledge of the real effects of the plague or the "coup".

A Summary:
Varain is pissed. Thrall is sad. Jaina saved the day again. None like Sylvanas. Varimathras was spanked.

Originally Posted by holy_advocate

WoW is a Roleplaying Game

it is by its very nature about story

The story writing just got nerfed

But It's MMO. And in MMo story isnt as important as other elements of game.