One would think those animals quickly left the region as the waters opened.

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I was assuming that Azshara raised the atmospheric pressure of her giant bubble to match the water pressure surrounding it. But it's open on the top isn't it? So I guess you're right, it's not a bubble but a Moses like opening in the sea.

I wonder if magical effort depends on the corresponding physical effect. If it does, she must be surpassingly potent to be able to hold the oceans back.

Except that animals in the region would not have been able to do so, given how quickly the waters parted.

If they had had the time to do so, the Horde and Alliance fleets would also have managed to escape mostly unscathed.

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I'm not bothered. Seeing Baine take a stand and give her brother back at great personal cost was going to effect her. She also accepted that her father's own self destructive stupidity was what caused his death (I said it just now but Daelin's stupidity was indirectly responsible for Garrosh's rise to power).

When she meets Thrall again....he's just broken and clearly tormented by how his bad decisions led to this point (Garrosh caused Warlords of Draenor, which in turn caused Legion which in turn caused Sargeras to stick his sword in Azeroth as one last spiteful "fuck you"). He doesn't justify it at all. It's not easy to hate someone tormented by regret.

Your lack of power in headcanon disappoints me.

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I don't think it should be up to the audience to patch the holes left by the author.

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Blizzard canon has fallen. Headcanon is all that Is left us.

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