Put it this way: if warriors were melee fighters who emphasized defense, then Blademasters were melee fighters who emphasized offense. If warriors relied on strength, then Blademasters relied on agility.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk felt that this aspect of the Blademaster class suited the Rangers' way of fighting very well, making him even more determined to have these Blademasters train his troops.
How could he persuade these captive Orc Blademasters to train his troops willingly? He simply sent the City Lord's Household Guard to talk them into it. After all, they had personally taken part in persuading the captive Orc Wolf Riders last time. If they could not come up with another approach, there was nothing wrong with following the same example.
He gave them only a few instructions before Shidewa, Xinluoge, and the other officers of the City Lord's Household Guard burst into laughter and rushed out together to get it done.
Afterward, Yu Lin Bloodhawk left them to it. It was not that he did not want to learn melee combat from the Orc Blademasters himself. Rather, the maddening restrictions on his own Golden Finger made him decisively abandon any enthusiasm for joining in.
He would be fine as long as he did not watch, but seeing them would only make him more miserable and frustrated. Everyone else could learn something so valuable, yet he would get half the results for twice the effort. He might as well focus on the training plans Alleria and Sylvanas had tailored for him.
So he simply chose to keep it out of sight and out of mind. Even so, deep down, he still greatly envied the Rangers who could learn melee skills and techniques from the Orc Blademasters.
In early August, a ship arrived from Quel'Thalas. It was not especially large, but