Talk:Kingdom of New Gilneas/@comment-5722194-20140605031747/@comment-24523399-20140605161058

I don't believe so if we consider just how powerful & long-lasting the damage of the plague is. It's simply a proposal, proposed states/nations have existed since we've had large powers able to grant lands & rights of lordship to potential leaders. Using the United States as an example, we have proposed States such as Jefferson (a combination of northern California & southern Oregon) or the proposed new country/self-governing region of Cascadia, a combination of most of the northwestern US & southern British Columbia. The feasibility & likelihood of these proposed states coming into existence is minimal.

In the scope of Azeroth, a proposed 'New Gilneas' would serve in a similar function but for starkly different reasons. Gilneas, while Varian has certainly pledged his renewed support to retake it, the matter of LIVING in it is another matter entirely. Gilneas has been plagued greatly, to the point that not even the Forsaken were willing to live there. We have forces vying for control but almost no people (lorewise) living in that land. Groups like the Alliance & Horde forces in Battle for Gilneas and the Blackhowl in Gilneas City, small military groups occupying points of interest.

What we do know is that there are Gilneans who have flocked to Kalimdor in the wake of the abandonment of the country & pledging support to their newfound Night Elven allies. Now obviously they will WANT to retake Gilneas but Gilneas is plagued to fel & back. Southshore is in a similar but considerably worse situation, and it was stated by the CDevs (IIRC. Might have been a quest in Hillsbrad) that it will take a hundred years before it's inhabitable again. Surely Gilneas will take less time than that to recover, but until then, the Gilneans are spread out & scattered. They're a prideful people as well, they surely would not want to be overstayed guests but where is there logically to go? Outside of Night Elven lands there is Felwood further up Hyjal and there is the empty (of Night Elves) lands of Stonetalon & Desolace to the south.

If they were to flock en masse to anywhere in Kalimdor, they would be fighting the Horde. But the lands of Desolace & Stonetalon offer two things most other areas don't: natural chokepoints that the Worgen can funnel enemies through (much like how they did with the Greymane Wall) & neighboring Night Elf allies to the north (in Stonetalon) and to the south (in Feralas).

At the end, it's simply a proposed state and there are multitudes of reasons & logistical concerns that could very well mean it could never properly exist, but the idea it represents is surely there. A place in Kalimdor for the Worgen to call their own, to stand firmly as their own people once more alongside their new Elven allies.