And I’m sure others could explain it better than me anyway.
The main thing I hate him most for was how fucked up he was towards Staghelm. Fandral was basically manipulated into being evil by Xanvius and the Nightmare by using the guy’s roughly 10,000 years of guilt and agony over his dead son against him, and when Malfurion wakes up, he basically kills the “shadow” version of Fandral’s son right in front of him, meaning Fandral has to relive that moment a second time, which just shatters the dude’s brain.
Malfurion’s solution to this? Basically, just judges Fandral a criminal and locks him away in a Barrow Den (specifically, Illidan’s former prison). Is anything done to help the guy? Nope. Malfurion and the druids have no idea what to do with the guy except leave him locked up in a pit with a broken mind.
And then Blizz just acts like Malfurion didn’t just do a really fucked up thing because it’s black-or-white with them (unless you’re the morally gray Horde I guess) because they needed random flame druids and an even randomer raid boss because Staghelm was an imperfect character that showed a different opinion to the Main Heroes (which means he must be Obviously Evil).
Blizz never seems to stop and think with Malfurion, “Hey… is he actually doing cool, epic things or just being a huge asshole and making everyone else suffer around him for his (in)actions?”
Val’sharrah would have been infinitely more interesting if Malfurion had died and been a raid boss instead of Ysera randomly dying because Blizzard hates the Aspects and dragons.
On one hand, securing Kalimdor and Ashenvale for the Horde is an… okay idea. Even though the whole “let’s claim Ashenvale” is literally right out of Garrosh’s playbook, so Vaknosh is immediately suspicious that something is fuckity.
Murdering civilians in Astranaar, however, is not okay with him. Neither is killing a bunch of furbolg because they happen to have a camp to use. So that’s something he’s likely to avoid participating in. Killing night elf military is fine, it’s war after all.
Also, Malfurion Stormrage is a bastard and needs to die, so he’s not necessarily opposed to that idea.
In general, post-Teldrassil, Vaknosh and the Kor’kron Legion are pretty sour about the whole thing. To Vaknosh, he sees where this is going real quick. He’s served one tyrannical Warchief, was even party to some of his war crimes, and is pretty sure he sees another Horde leader who is going to have to be taken out eventually. The general mood of the Kor’kron Legion’s leadership is grim, but they’ll be fighting in the war – but more in something out of the way, where it’s purely soldiers vs soldiers rather than getting themselves mixed up in whatever tragedies Sylvanas wants to cause.
The Kor’kron Legion in general nowadays focuses more on being in service to the Horde, rather than in service to the Warchief. It’s one of the changes we’ve made as a guild as the lore has advanced. Nothing can completely absolve them of their past mistakes, but they can at least try to redeem their name by fighting worthwhile fights that’d either protect the Horde’s lands and people or at least not cause wholesale slaughter of Alliance civilians at their hands personally (though, of course, they’re guilty by association just like the rest of the Horde).
Vaknosh isn’t the High Warlord, but as their Warmaster, he’s sorta in charge of lots of… war things, so hopefully he can put his own personal touch on what sort of fighting the Kor’kron Legion does.
Vaknosh Blackwolf's Refuge 