After parting ways with Christine and David, Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to the seaside harbor. He still had to wait a few days before David, the elder of the Lyk Brothers, could give him the list of Venture Company engineers in Stranglethorn Vale.
From what David had said, there should be quite a few names on the list of the Venture Company's goblin engineers in Stranglethorn Vale. Yu Lin Bloodhawk very much wanted to invite all of them to The Hinterlands to develop new combat mechs for him.
But given Quel'Danil's finances, competing with a giant like the goblins' Venture Company seemed rather unrealistic to Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
Azeroth was not a world built solely on magical civilization. Magic and mechanical technology developed side by side, though magic held the dominant position.
Goblins, however, were clearly a unique race whose civilization relied primarily on mechanical technology, with magic playing a supporting role.
Their mechanical technology was highly advanced, but their magic was relatively weak compared with that of other races. In Azeroth, only the equally diminutive gnomes shared essentially the same characteristics.
Since goblins were a race focused on mechanical technology, their engineers were surely an important asset to them.
Engineers should hold the same status among goblins that mages held among high elves. Both were vital talents that their respective races could ill afford to lose.
And talent was surely important to any race. How could poaching engineers from the goblins' Venture Company possibly be easy for Yu Lin Bloodhawk? Even setting everything else aside, Quel'Danil could never compete with it financially.
Quel'Danil lacked the financial resources to rival the goblins' Venture Company, yet Yu Lin Bloodhawk desperately wanted to bring these goblin engineers to Hinterlands to serve Quel'Danil's high elves. He therefore had no choice but to use