Although the Glory Assembly would last a long time, the meetings for collecting proposals would only run for fifteen days, ending with Winter Veil.
After Winter Veil ended, there would be a partial recess. Further deliberations would be conducted by the Horde's upper ranks, then gradually reported to the public. A final summary report and closing ceremony would be held at Winter Veil the following year, so they had to make the most of this time.
Most of the Horde's ordinary people had only recently emerged from tribal society, so their enthusiasm was not high at first. They regarded participation in the assembly merely as an honor, but that was not bad either. After all, by successfully leaving their names behind in this moment of history, they had already stood out from millions of otherwise unknown people.
The Horde's local populace could not offer constructive proposals, but Zul'ra was different. After the opening session, he put forward two meaningful suggestions.
His first suggestion was to amend the Horde's original constitution and transfer the Horde's supreme authority from the Warchief to the Glory Assembly. The Warchief would remain the highest leader, representing the entire Horde externally and overseeing all its affairs, but the power to declare war and decide major matters would no longer rest upon an individual's will.
Zul'ra had always modeled the Horde's development after Chinese history, including its early social, agricultural, and industrial reforms, as well as the feudal centralized system in which ministers managed affairs. Now, he was drawing from the modern consultative assembly system. The reason he did not establish a Warchief-centered monarchy was that the Horde lacked the foundation for one.
The Horde had been born out of external circumstances and the needs of oppressed races. Although Thrall, as Warchief, appeared to hold great power