Are night elves vegan?

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I always laugh a little when people bring up the idea of vegan Tauren. They ARE hunters, they wouldn’t just kill a creature and leave its meat to skin it. They’re the type that use every part. Their entire nature is the hunt.

As for Night Elves, I doubt it. Otherwise after all this time they likely would have evolved the fangs/baby tusks out if they didn’t need them for something. They’re again the type that would hunt for something and probably use all of the pieces of it. Just because they’re nature buffs doesn’t mean they don’t believe in the natural cycle of life, at least in my opinion.

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Have you seen Tauren camps/ The Bluffs? Roast Kodo and Plainstrider everywhere.
Quests from Tauren mentioning their nomadic past also usually mention them going hunting as well.

Night Elves, you usually dont see meat cooking, but there are quests that offer stuff like Spider Leg recipes, so you do see SOME meat eating from them as all. That’s the only example I can think of though.

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Have you ever seen the fangs on us night elves? Yep, we eat meat OwO

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None of them have told me they’re vegan, so clearly they aren’t.

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you could probably think of the night elves (especially the druids) in a similar vein as the na’vi. they have a great respect for nature and animals even though tyey still eat meat. the animals they kill for food are likely honored for their “sacrifice”

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Eating meat is natural especially if you are a carnivore or an omnivore which all playable races fall under. So, no night elves in general are not vegan.

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Not all. Some are vegetarian, some are vegan, some love meat. Just like humans. Everyone is different :slight_smile:

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Good ol’ Goldshire Farms wieners.

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Considering one of the first dishes you learn is a spider leg kebab, i doubt it.

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Actually, maybe…
Go to Teldrasil and other official night elf settlement visit the food vendors to get an idea of the foods they prefer.

I mean if the vendors are selling, the npcs are probably buying.
If I recall right, there appear to have a lot of fungus food.

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Roleplaying a vegan Night Elf is just fine. It’s just a game limitation that what we know of Kaldorei cooking involves spider-legs. etc. and that’s an artifact of how cooking was implemented.

It’d be nice if they’d add a vegan option to the WoW cooking profession, then you could say…

I say as a person who has thrown out every milk, cheese or meat I’ve ever run into in WoW.

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They are not vegetarians, even. They know they’re a part of nature, and nature must consume other nature while also creating more. That’s balance.

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Night elves are not vegan. They have meat and egg based recipes.

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One look in their mouth will tell you.
You ever see a NE’s fangs?
There you go.

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/Takes a deep audible breath in

Knew someone was gonna toss this one out eventually.

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You know, it took me far too long to realize why everything on Animal Crossing was “pleather” :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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There’s a Night elf Druid in the class hall eating a turkey leg

I think there was something said about hunting and making sure the meat doesn’t go to waste

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I mean, one of their main classes in lore is “Hunter”.

I don’t think they are vegans, but they are definitely the “use every part” kind of hunters.

If they have to kill wildlife, they kill with purpose, and they make sure nothing goes to waste so they don’t have to kill more than it’s necessary.

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Given the existence of Kaldorei Spider Kabobs, I am going to say no. Although veganism might be more prevalent in their culture than in other races.

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Nelves and nature are a little different then other fantasy elves. They are about the entire cycle of nature both life and death. Things die to nourish the bodies of other animals and the forest so they can thrive then they die and the cycle continues. It is the whole point of Druidism, to make sure the cycle continues smoothly.

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