Worgen Backstory/Alliance Rank Compatibility

[Daedraug]

I'm race-changing my main character to a Worgen in hopes that some new RP life will make the game fun again. From an RP standpoint, I'm having a tough time figuring out if my old Knight-Captain rank is something I can display in-character, though. Part of it's from the fuzzy time line regarding Gilneas.

Is my math/timeline correct here? (Based on Wowwiki)

The current year is 36
The Alliance formally broke up around the year ~20
It would have taken at least a few years to actually construct the wall, recall all the soldiers, and seal Gilneas. For reference, Hadrian's wall took 6 years to build, so a conservative estimate of 2-3 puts us at 13-14 years since the kingdom's been shut off from the world.

Other sources say ten years since a Gilnean's been seen, though.

Either way, I think it's reasonable to say that an officer in the Alliance who lingered as long as he could until rumors of unrest back home finally pulled him back to Gilneas, only to be trapped when the poo hit the fan would still be in prime fighting shape (mid-30's ish). Am I off base?

[Jeedup]

I can't recall id it was stated anywhere (unless its in new quest text) that the wall was already built before Gilneas left the Alliance, or after.

[Grayslin]

I don't recall any mention in the worgen starter area quest text (Which I may or may not have done 3 times), jeeds, so unless it's in the undead quests in silverpine... you're probably right.

[Swerto]

I remember it saying somewhere that the wall went up rather fast, which is why a lot of Gilneans were trapped in SIlverpine (thus causing Crowely to lead the Northgate rebellion in an attempt to get them back in)

Also: Gilnean officers outside of Gilneas was always a rare thing, and didn't Gilneas break off of the Alliance after the whole affair with prestor fell through after day of the dragon?

[Jeedup]

They broke off before the Second War was even finished, and completely isolated themselves. I think Silverpine was partially their territory (I know the village under Shadowfang atleast was), but they made the wall around their capital and more densely populated area.

I personally think the wall would have been built before the war, its a fairly standard defense tactic, the decision to make it closed off was probably after the decision to leave the Alliance.

[Swerto]

You sure? Because they didn't even enter the second war until halfway through it, and I was under the impression they are a big reason why it was won. (Huge influx of new forces on Alliance side, no new source of orcs to compensate). And day of the dragon is a bit after the second war, and Genn was in Lordaeron with the other 'Alliance leaders' (as it was stated in the book) discussing what had to be done about Alterac.

[Jeedup]

If I remember correctly, they entered somewhat close to mid-way, mostly due to political issues with one of the other kingdoms (Stromgarde I think?). Genn was one of the more militant, and aggressive of the human kings, they kinda played him out as a really ignorant douche in the earlier stories. When the Alterac controversy happened, he decided that since Gilneas was basically unattacked by the Horde, that it wasn't his problem (which was his point in his reluctance to join the Alliance in the first place), so he and his buddies went home, and had some cups of tea for a few years.

[Jeedup]

Nope, did some fact checking and I was wrong, he left just after the Second War, and apparently, his forces were barely even involved in the war, and was mostly used to 'support'. I'd assume that means trade ports, and resources, since his issue was with the Internment Camps. He did have a connection to Alterac though, granted, just about all of the human kindgoms then did.