Christie Golden

[Here's the news article on Wowhead.] ()

Looks like Blizzard really did fire their entire lore department.

She's written Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde and Arthas, all of which are considered some of the best Warcraft books. Her involvement with the story is probably why the Alliance and Horde endings to Legion were so tightly focused and character driven instead of loud, bombastic hype reels.

Just like all of you, I'm also disappointed with the direction that the story is going. While I might main Alliance, I used to also love the Horde. Don't forget that Golden is just one of dozens of people involved in writing the story and that she ultimately has to follow an outline likely given to her by a higher up to ensure her writing fits with the dev team's "vision" of the expansion.

She's a good writer and doesn't deserve the hate circlejerk that the community has been giving her. Don't forget that most of the Horde's villainous actions aren't from Before the Storm, but from in-game quests, cinematics and scenarios.

Especially with following Blizzards own request:

Blizzard told Christie Golden that they wanted Before the Storm to dive deeply into the motivations of Anduin and Sylvanas.