According to the Winter Queen, given the choice of enternal existence in the closest thing to Night Elf heaven found in the game, the vast crowd of Night Elf souls chose to embody the seed instead.
They made a choice though. And that was to empower the future world tree born of elune and the winter queens magic
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I don’t play night elves. I am forsaken through and through. Yer even I threw my hands up in sheer frustration when the Kaldorei were given the short end of the stick in BFA. Also, Computer nerds disagree with everything every has ever said on WoW lore. Even when you prove your point with facts.
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I think she was saying that computer nerds disagree because they are often sexist and wouldn’t like the idea of a matriarchal society in WoW.
I enlisted in April 1970 (yes old people do play this game).
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Its my head cannon from what Steve said about the whole “each timeline soul is connected” thing that none of the souls were perma deleted, just this timeline’s representation of them were.
His rope explanation of how each timelines person was like strings of a rope makes sense to support this.
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I personally like the idea of a matriarchal society. I think its a rather unique take opposed to the purely patriarchal ones we typically see in most forms of media. It’s probably why I like the Night Elves.
The High Elves are Patriarchal, and atheistic in the fact that they really didn’t worship any religion across both their Noble and Serf classes because they saw it as beneath them.
Kaldorei on the other hand, are matriarchal, very conservative (In this context very traditional) and Elune in very high regard.
This is why I love the Kaldorei so much, and why when I write Forsaken, it it usually them fighting Kaldorei.
The toon I have, Miridaer, he originally seeked out the Kaldorei. Because he thought that they could help his people (The Forsaken) and ease their suffering, yet over time, he came to realize that like the rest of the world, his people were monsters to the Kaldorei as well. The conflict in ideology between both Kaldorei and Forsaken helped me so much in discovering what I wanted Miridaer to be as a character. He is a character whose biggest character flaw, ”Is that he cares so much” about his fellow Forsaken, and because of Sylvanas’s actions at Teldrassil, that there is no way out, and the only way to keep his people safe is to wipe out the Kaldorei, even though he Never wanted any of it to happen.
Of course. All of this is also anathema. To blizzard of course. Because writing tragic characters is too smart for them, so we’ll just have Sylvanas get away with genocide and use a monopoly get of of jail free retcon card because designing realistic and emotionally compelling characters would blow up Daunser’s mind like the martians did when they listened to Indian Love Call in Mars Attacks
Why not, Blizzard just doesn’t care anymore, they just want to flip the bird to Night Elf fans by saying more Night Elf civilians are perma dead.
The only reason they keep producing Night Elf content instead of ignoring them like Gnomes or Pandaren is so they can keep dumping on them.
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Neither are true. The Blood Elves are a hereditary monarchy, As far as we know the Night Elves never had any other ruler before Azshara.
Neither group are genderarchies for reasons that I have pretty much ground to dirt in my earlier posts on the subject. The United States until very recently was far more patriarchal than Quel’thelas. The Night Elves have never been matriarchal because they lack the defining element of both matriarchies and patrirchies, the extreme subordination of rights to the gender not in power.
Until Blizzard antes up and gives Night Elves and Forsaken new, fully revamped and functional capital cities the festering, infected, gangrenous wound BFA left on the game and playerbase will remain open. How many more years are they gonna have the rug of “Wait and see!” draped over the bloated corpses of Undercity and Teldrassil. Frigging put in the effort and revamp them, Christ on a bike.
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Remember when we were concerned because there’s a sword in Silithus that’s so big it could easily be wobbling Azeroth’s orbit?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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That’s because Pepperidge farms is a dreadlord. They forget nothing 
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Maybe I am parsing his wording a bit, but by stating it as a “call back,” that says much. A “call back” to the matriarchal society aspect of WC 3… that teeters on pointing out that such an aspect has not been in the Night Elves since WC 3.
Which is along the lines of what I said :
Doness has shown that they indeed have used the term “matriarchal” for describing the Night Elves. But they seemed to be referring to the call back for the sake of artistic style, more than the current political state in WoW.
And I can agree the Night Elves were definitely styled as the matriarchal society in WC 3.
The Kaldorei are a Theocratic State, lead by Tyrande as high priestess. They are matriarchal insofar as the Sisterhood of Elune’s traditional orthodoxy was “only a woman could understand the heart of the goddess” —Which isn’t true, as time has shown.
The Cenerion Circle, however, did have a considerable amount of clout even before Malfurion woke up and it was traditionally all male.
So while on the surface yeah they are, dig beneath the surface and it is more complicated than that.
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They apparently don’t know anything either. Why did Mal’Ganis send the Scarlets to Northrend? Did Zovaal tell him to do that? What was he gonna do if he killed Arthas, marry a single mom and have a platonic relationship?
Pepperridge farms being dreadlords was a joke. Wasn’t really meant to be all that deep 
But honestly? I no ideas why Zooval did half the stuff he did. Shadowlands makes zero narrative sense.
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I always assumed that the Night Fae just used souls as fertilizer to rebirth those they found worthy.
Here they are rejecting perfectly good demon souls that could be used to power things…but they don’t and I’m nor sure we got an explanation? Maybe demon souls taint things even in the Shadowlands if utilized like other souls.
I want to say that the souls used to empower this seed are possibly in a slumber stage similar to those still in Wild Seeds. As long as the seed and w/e it turns into are living.
Pepperidge Farms actually being behind the Dreadlords still makes better sense than Zovaal being behind them.
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Skarm …
Let’s not be so hasty in accusations.
Let’s discuss this matter in private.
On a balcony.
In the Court of Stars.
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Still listening to the drowned god huh? I see how it is
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