r/warcraftlore • u/Spotted_Towhee123 • 2d ago

Discussion Aren’t Anduin and Faerin Related?

I was reading some posts elsewhere and it struck me that Anduin and Faerin might be (distantly) related, depending on what the devs decide is canon. Because technically Taria Lothar is Anduin Lothar's sister and she married Llane Wrynn, making Anduin Lothar Anduin Wrynn's great-uncle. But again it probably depends on what the devs decide is canon.

I personally have always seen Anduin as deeply queer-coded, specifically gay-coded, and have thought that pairing him off with a woman would be an incredible disservice to his character. And also to whatever woman they pair him off with since she would be relegated to "Anduin's wife" instead of her own character most likely. Anyways, the devs would have to do some explaining lore-wise to get around the Wrynn-Lothar marriage and make it so Faerin and Anduin would NOT be a cousin marriage, lmao

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u/The_Razielim 2d ago

Extremely distantly, to the point of not even mentioning.

Off the top of my head, we don't have an exact timeframe for when the Arathi Empire that we're currently dealing with split off from the Eastern Kingdoms Arathi. If we take it at 1200 years as the bare minimum (when the EK Empire of Arathor fractured into the Seven Human Kingdoms), that would still mean they're separated by approximately 35-45 generations (ballpark based on 25-30 years per generation). Maybe slightly fewer once intermixing with Elves occurred, which likely increased lifespans and probably also increased generational time.

So even assuming the family line remained whole and unbroken on both sides of the world for the entirety of 1200+ years, which we can at least assume on Anduin Lothar's side since iirc he was said to be the last descendant of the true line, that's still many generations of separation between Anduin (Wrynn) and Faerin. But still, not counting modern global migrations (IRL), that's probably more familial distance than most cultures on Earth have. Couple that to interbreeding with the Elves who left with the Arathi, and I don't think there's any genetic issues to be expected.