Sadly, to Sylvanus, this isn’t a mistake at all. SHe’s perfectly happy with mass murder, and raising the peaceful dead to a life of endless nightmarish torment as a Forsaken, simply for her own power and security. She may not be Scourge, but Sylvanus is barely less evil than the Lich King.
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Garrosh I can almost understand as a scared kid acting tough for the ghost of his daddy–too bad he’s throwing away everything Grom died for.
No, that’s not the worst part. Garrosh, like Varian and Thrall, is not stupid. Not at all, and he’s not childish, either. He is brutal, cunning, and merciless. He’s a bastard, and unlike Varian doesn’t have any particular reason to hate the Alliance or even to have gotten involved.
That actually is the weird thing about him, but it’s a very Orc-y thing. Varian has damn good reasons to hate and fight orcs. They’re still in the Eastern Kingdoms, have wrecked everything for everyone everywhere they’ve ever gone, and allied themselves to the Forsaken (who are monsters), and then the selfish arrogant murderous Blood Elf bastards on top of it. And Varian is even still willing at times to respect them and grant mercy to individuals, and even foreswear genocide.
Garrosh has no such reason. In fact, humans (or Dwarves or Night Elves or Draenei, etc.) never did anything to him or really his people whatsoever - except defeat them in wars the Orcs started. And this is enough, like it was for his father. The truth is that neither Grom nor Garrosh need any demon blood to willingly carry out massacres and wars for glory. In a way, he’s the exemplar of the old Horde - everything they dreamed an orc could be: ambitious, mighty in battle, cunningly acquiring and using influence. And orcs of the new Horde still idolize that. Even Thrall willingly carried around the Doomhammer and eaherly learned from the bastardly butcher Orgrim.
He never once consider that this was rather like if the Russian Prime Minister wielded an axe named Germankiller while ruling from the city of Death-to-Deutschland, or if the Japanese renamed Tokyo to ‘WeHateAmerica’ and the Emperor brandished his sword “F-You, Whitey” in public. (I was going to make the line about the German and the Holocaust, but it just wasn’t funny because it’s honestly too close to what happened in WoW). The orcs weren’t just attacking and conquering - they were out to exterminate all humans along the way. It was only an act of immense kindness that the orcs were allowed to live after the war, and frankly, I still think they should have been eradicated as a threat.
Did I mention I’m going to play a young Gilnean noble and military officer who has an ever-so-slight chip on his shoulder concerning the Horde and its treacherous new allies fom Lordaeron? 
Saurfang was not an option because Garrosh already has a great deal of power in the Horde - he controls their forces in Northrend, and he has the loyalty of his Warsong clan.
