Thread:Vannesira Smith/@comment-33909829-20160114120027/@comment-7263041-20160114133736

The passage about the Grand Admiral title is misleading. The wowpedia entry implies that the title details are explained in the RPG, but that isn't actually the case. The only time the title of Grand Admiral is mentioned within the sourced book (the Alliance Players Guide) is to say the following:

"You may have noticed that I haven't talked about real Alliance hierarchy here. That’s because there isn’t one. It’s a mess. Sure, we’ve got ranks, but telling someone you’re a Grand Super Marshal of Eliteness isn’t going to help one bit if you don’t have any soldiers assigned to you. Each race has its own leaders (or lack thereof) right now, and they haven’t worked together to assemble an extensive leadership system yet. I think it’s about time we get started, because it’s frankly annoying that the races don’t have any need to acknowledge each other’s authority right now — and besides, I figure I’d be pretty damn high on the rank list. To give you an example, I recently found out about the existence of Grand Admiral Jes-Tereth. Apparently Daelin Proudmoore has a replacement now; I hadn’t been informed. This Jes-Tereth is in Stormwind to discuss plans — seems like everyone is discussing things in Stormwind. She’s an admiral, she should be out at sea doing stuff. Am I wrong?"

No details about the rank itself, only a reference to Jes-Tereth being Daelin Proudmoore's replacement.

Now as we know in current canon, Daelin Proudmoore was the Grand Admiral of the Alliance of Lordaeron, which put him in the position of supreme commander of the entire Alliance fleet. Now with that in mind, it's a fairly safe bet to assume that there is only one supreme commander of the Alliance fleets, and if the Grand Admiral rank is the supreme naval commander, then there will only be one Grand Admiral.

That said, I do not condone the changes made to the fanon pages. Talk comments raising concern is what is necessary, not flat out edits. The duty to change (or not change) the page lies with the page author.