User blog comment:Aretain King/The Seven Kingdoms and War/@comment-644222-20160211000226/@comment-7263041-20160211011018

Also I want to take a moment to talk about your points here.

Regarding the history example. Yes you can later be the ally of someone you were at war with, but it doesn't happen over the course of a few years. It takes a lot longer than that. Trade might immediately resume, treaties might be rattified, but relations will be extremely tense and the odds of an immediate alliance are slim. Sure you could press the argument that desperate times call for desperate measures, and that's what we see with Alterac and Stromgarde, former enemies forced to ally to fight a common enemy, but in the case of Gilneas you have a fairly advanced nation with a powerful military led by a prideful ruler who believes his forces can stand against any threat without aid.

It took the convincing of three of his advisors to get him to join in the first place with a token force, and that was when there was peace between Gilneas and the other nations. If there was war between the other nations, especially Lordaeron, Genn would never have joined in the first place.

As for the Day of the Dragon, it is my opinion that the gruff, hostile Genn that we read about there has been retconned and replaced with the Genn we currently have. James Waugh said in an interview that they changed Genn to be more relatable and effectively less of a jerk, but that's just an opinion, there's nothing concrete there. Wouldn't be the first time Blizzard has retconned part of a story but kept the overall narrative in place though (see 'Of Blood and Honor').