And Zandalari and Jungle trolls are a seperate race, I’d also LOVE to have forest trolls added as a new race. They are all trolls? yes, but they are also all different.
Just as Void elves, High elves, Bloodelves etc, are all elves, they are also all different.
But the thing is, not every High Elf was inside Quel’thalas the day when Arthas sacked it. I can actually use one prime source of one known High Elf who wasn’t, Kael’thas Sunstrider. He was in Dalaran the day when Arthas invaded Quel’thalas.
But that is just one in many. Pretty sure there is still quite a few out there that were not in Quel’thalas the day the kingdom was invaded.
Guys, I’m not sure how exactly High Elves and Blood Elves being the same race (although we did have Ion say Blood Elves have evolved) is relevant to this discussion, considering Kul Tirans and Humans are the same race and yet are two different playable options.
There’s only one kingdom of High Elves, and that is Quel’Thalas. That doesn’t include High Elves outside Quel’Thalas (Dalaran, Stormwind, Theramore, Hinterlands, etc.).
One thing though. They didn’t just sack the city. They burned down the entire kingdom. Same with Lordaeron. All the surrounding towns and villages. Everything.
Basically the entirety of the northern Eastern Kingdoms.
Yes, some did survive or were elsewhere, but that’s where that 10% survivor rate comes from, and most of them went Blood elf.
Tagging this post as what I said is kind of my response to it as well. When they say the kingdom of Quel’Thalas, they don’t just mean the one city. They mean the full kingdom, and yes… there were high elves outside of the kingdom at the time. Per Blizzard, roughly 10% of the population, and the vast majority of them became blood elves.
Because they have night elves voices. They don’t even have their own sound bites.
You didn’t pick the best example. By looking at them? Not really. Unless I actually pay attention and look at the eyes. And even then that’s so minor since there are Blood elf NPCs with blue eyes.
Blood elves are the ones still carrying on the legacy of Quel’thalas. They are the high elves that honor those who died.
There are two. Two Blood Elf NPCs with blue eyes. Just wanting to fix your quote, as the way you expressed it sounded like there were hundreds of them.
So you’re counting Worgen and Undead even though Undead resemble the base human model in no way and the Worgen also counted as a “furry” race despite next to never seeing their human form and it being identical to the Stormwind model.