Lady Jaina Proudmoore, as the other faction leaders, got a significant buff with TBC. 1.7M HP and melee hits for 10k. Naturally, some of us wanted to help her reunite with her bff Thrall. What a lovely day would that be when both friends can see each other again! Inspired by this video, made in original TBC, we saw that it was possible to kite Jaina away from her tower in Theramore.
This were happy news for us. We asked Thrall and he told us to bring her here with him for a happy celebration party. We asked around to see the best way to accomplish this, and after careful planning, we arrived to Theramore. Upon entering the city, we were very surprised since the guards started attacking us. What reason could they have to do this in times of peace? Intrigued, we entered Jaina's tower to seek answers. But she was very angry too, so she attacked us. We didn't have any choice except run away from her!
However, a few steps after we exited the tower, she vanished in the air. To our surprise, she was still inside the tower! Teleportation magic, perhaps? Was she scared to see Thrall again? We would never find out because she never left Theramore. We returned to Orgrimmar to inform our warchief of the sad news, and he told us that some evil entities had taken control of Theramore: The old god, Blizz'ard had Lady Jaina leashed to her city. She could not leave! Sad days for us.
This was clearly a change that is not in line with the original game as proven by the video. When we contacted Blizzard, we had no answer. No one to hear our cries for help. Do they even care about Jaina? I hope we can find out. Thrall would really appreciate meeting with her in Orgrimmar!
TL;DR: Jaina is leashed, can't be kited away from Theramore. This is an undocumented change from original TBC, where she could be easily kited away.
Edit: Because some Blizzard supporters think we just tried pulling her in Theramore, we only did it after we tried kiting her away from her quest spawn, and guess what! She was leashed there too.
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So let me get this rant out of me once and for all because I been replaying Kul Tiras in Warcraft.
Jaina Proudmoore did nothing wrong in regards to her father.
Theramore was settled by survivors of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. While Jaina was Kul Tiran in origin, her culture was more aligned with the culture and customs of those lands and those of the Kirin Tor.
These are the foundations that Jaina built Theramore on.
Theramore is often regarded in Kul Tiras as some kind of Kul Tiran City or Outpost. This is wrong. Theramore was an independent city state with its own domestic and foreign policies.
Daelin Proudmoore had no place of authority in the city.
What Daelin Proudmoore did was invade the city, arresting the city's chosen leader and putting his own troops in charge. That is a hostile takeover. The only reason Jaina did not resist is because she could not bear to fight her father.
As such, Jaina Proudmoore was well within her rights to uphold the treaties she had forged in blood. Her people and her father just walked into her city with no regard for her independence or her place as the ruler of the city.
Kul Tiras may regret their defeat but they seem unable to recognize that they lost because how the treated others. In short, Jaina became a handy scapegoat in order not to tarnish the reputation of their War Hero.
All of this is obvious if you remember Warcraft 3. Yet even the writers in World of Warcraft seem to take this standpoint as fact. That Jaina does is not surprising. Her arc is about her guilt.
The rest of us should not.
My own interpretation of Jaina Proudmoore from Warcraft 3
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