Population Growth

Was creating a script difficult? Of course it was. Chinese characters had been refined over thousands of years. Zul'ra was simply using a ready-made system; while explaining and deriving them was somewhat tedious, in truth, he was merely copying them. He could come up with a hundred or so characters in minutes.

A hundred or so characters was not a large number, but they left the members of the Script Creation Committee staring wide-eyed. Though these characters had connections between them, they were also entirely distinct, and some distinctions were incredibly precise—for instance, the differences between lips, mouth, tongue, and throat. They had not even seen Chinese characters for humble forms of address yet!

"You must work hard. Your very existence is for the sake of these vast and profound characters." Zul'ra smiled as he patted the notebook his subordinates had written in and offered encouragement to the wide-eyed members of the Script Creation Committee.

Since Chinese characters already existed naturally, presiding over the Script Creation Committee required practically no effort from Zul'ra. His main goal was to train Sylvanas and the other committee members, letting these fools see what true breadth and profundity meant.

While training Sylvanas and the others, Zul'ra also oversaw the Horde's various affairs. Of course, when it came to military, economic, and political matters, he only grasped the overall direction. Cairne Bloodhoof, Vol'jin, and the others arranged for professionals to handle the details, after which he checked on their progress.

The Horde had now begun a new round of population census.

After consecutively enduring the Second War of the Shifting Sands, the defense against the Burning Crusade at the Dark Portal, and the expedition to Northrend, the combined population of the Horde's eight core races—the Amani, Darkspear, Orcs, Shu'halo, Forsaken, Blood Elves, Goblins, and Gnomes—had