Aiden Perenolde

[shining comet]

Green Skin bro,this way!

 

[Macielos]

Alterac will rise again!

 

[Vindicator777]

Aiden Perenolde my hero

 

[Galendor an'Kreil]

Very impressive, especially usage of textures.

 

[Stefan.K]

Very impressive, especially usage of textures.

Appreciate it! Tolkarg's artwork was really helpful in making this guy. I added a bit more polies then I should, but the file size isn't that big so it's not a big deal.

 

[deepstrasz]

Gaston Perenolde.

 

[MasterHaosis]

Another great work by these great artists!

 

[raypack]

Alterac scum!

 

[Achille]

Those Danath animations go hard, I absolute love to see them on yet another fantastic model!

I particularly love the fur collar, its really nicely constructed and the texture of the fur looks detailed enough without drawing too much attention away from the rest of the model.

Awesome job!

 

[KarlKrump]

ALTERAC SHALL RISE AGAIN!

 

[DazedDeer]

lovely！

 

[kangyun]

10/10 always for stefan ＆ baiyu works！

 

[LordPerenolde II]

Thank you for not using the retconned narration, quoting exactly what has been history in the age during Warcraft 2.
This model will definitely be included in the Alterac campaign I'm currently working on, although he might look a bit too young to have 2 sons over their 20s.
Question: Can you also release a version without shield & sword?
EDIT: "Anyone can edit my models, use their meshes and textures, and re-upload them as long as proper credit is given." Fine, I shall do it myself then.

 

[Macielos]

Thank you for not using the retconned narration, quoting exactly what has been history in the age during Warcraft 2.

Just out of curiosity: what retcon do you mean? Something from WoW?

 

[LordPerenolde II]

Just out of curiosity: what retcon do you mean? Something from WoW?

Yeah, from the book of WoW, apparently. They horridly spend a couple bare rows on Lord Perenolde, saying that when the Horde was moving towards Lordaeron City, Aiden was there, at Alterac, waiting for them and bargaining their unscathed passage in exchange for Alterac's safety. Done.

 

[KarlKrump]

Just out of curiosity: what retcon do you mean? Something from WoW?

I remember playing Warcraft 2, and you were straight up told "Destroy Alterac" as an objective.

Not "occupy Alterac," not "disable Alterac's defenses," not "take/hold/destroy Alterac's palace," but "DESTROY Alterac."

That means, basically committing wholesale genocide.

Then the new lore on the wiki added further info (or altered) that outcome, the Alliance "occupied" Alterac and kept Perenolde under house arrest, only to later exile the inhabitants of the city-state, leaving it a ruin that would later comeback to bite the Alliance in the rear, I assume this was done to give the writers of WoW an excuse to have an empty region that is hostile.

Granted, it was already abandoned by the events of WC3, but it did strike me as odd that even after the old human dominated Alliance crumbled, that the former denizens of Alterac didn't regroup and take back their homeland.

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I used to love all the nuances and exposition you could deride on your own from the old lore.

When Warcraft 3 was released, I felt sort of vindicated knowing that other members of the Alliance were like "screw this" and ghosted.

I think the other human states eventually figured out that joining the Alliance essentially endangered them to becoming a vassal or client state to the much more powerful Lordaeron, which by itself most likely footed the bill for rebuilding much of the continent after the second war.

I don't blame Gilneas for getting cold feet, I think Stromgarde also was a bit stand offish at one point too.

 

[LordPerenolde II]

I remember playing Warcraft 2, and you were straight up told "Destroy Alterac" as an objective.

Not "occupy Alterac," not "disable Alterac's defenses," not "take/hold/destroy Alterac's palace," but "DESTROY Alterac."

That means, basically committing wholesale genocide.

There wasn't enough freedom of objectives for an RTS to exercise back in 1995, considering that Alterac also utilized elves in that mission, despite Perenolde supplying the Horde with the route of the then-captured elven patrol. Anyway I'm gonna also cover that story in my campaign.
The reason was obviously "technical" and limited to the game engine, and the total destruction of Alterac City was just a plain way to end it in the common Warcraft fashion, because destroying everything was a pretty staple objective back then.
Also, a capital city looking like a little more than a fortified village with several scattered farms and stuff looked a bit reductive for a "Nation" magnitude, assuming the developers intended Alterac to be limited to that city alone(which would be bs).

Also, notice how Blizzard loves to use the orange teamcolor to label traitorous factions(like the Renegade Zerg in Brood War) or "evil mirror matchup that you're going to be up against", like the Terran Confederation(to whom I dedicated a personal Starcraft campaign in the early 2000s) or the Protoss Conclave.

 

[KarlKrump]

Anyway I'm gonna also cover that story in my campaign.

I will be sure to keep an eye out for when you are done with that campaign, a couple years ago, I had a draft storyline and decided to use Alterac as my testing ground for how to build a campaign. Unfortunately, reality and life got in the way, the entire project got put on hold. Plus at the time there was not a lot of unique resources for Alterac, so it was going to be a barebones setting (LOL now you got some options). Originally, I thought about from the founding of Alterac all the way up until after WC3, one of the major hurtles I ran into was decided whether or not things from WoW would count or not, b/c that would have had a major impact on how Alterac would get its fresh start. They did Alterac dirty imo.

If you need someone to bounce some ideas off of for story boarding or timeline, let me know, I can't guarantee a quick response. However, I share your enthusiasm for preserving and expanding Warcraft lore. I can at least give an opinion or another thought. I will understand if you don't though, as I am sure you will want to manage expectations. With that said: I am mentally blocking most of WoW "canon" at this point and pretending most of it didn't happen.

In the meantime, help yourself to some Alterac Swiss on behalf of the peasantry:

 

[Thrall Zadeera]

I used to love all the nuances and exposition you could deride on your own from the old lore.

 

[SoyMante]

I'm glad you're using Tolkarg's art, it's amazing and very faithful to the vision that was had for these characters, I'd like to see a version of Orgrim from the movie, or an updated version of Blackhand, very useful as always.

 

[YubelHaouJudai]

I wondering if you ever make Daval Prestor (Deathwing's disguise human form as Heir to Alterac King (Which is also False claim)).