No, they don’t.
Blizzard in fact agree with Sendryn here actually.
Congratulations Emet – You’re a liar!
Blizzard themselves said -
- Blood elves are, biologically and physiologically, high elves.
Source: The Warcraft Encyclopedia/Blood Elves - an official article by Blizzard Entertainment.
It presented information about a variety of things in the Warcraft universe. The original article, formerly located at:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/encyclopedia/index.xml
— although, such did not survive the overhaul of the World of Warcraft Official Website.
Blood Elves being named such due to honouring the blood spilled, but also to honour their blood lines –
- Question Asked: “What does it mean by ‘we will take the name of our royal lineage’ to “Sin’dorei” as the new representation of BE’s royal lineage?”
- Answer Provided: “The term ‘Blood elf’ - blood as in those who died, blood also as in lineage, bloodline.”
Source: MICKY NEILSON, the Publishing Lead at Blizzard Entertainment, veteran of the company for over 22 years.
Tweet answer response found at -
https://web.archive.org/web/20210222183216/https://twitter.com/MickyNeilson/status/451896294433230848
People continue to insist that High Elves & Blood Elves are biologically or cosmically different … Which they aren’t. lol
- High Elves & Blood Elves were born in the same culture, kingdoms and share the same history.
- High Elves & Blood Elves were also born in the same time, around the same places, cultures, kingdoms and said-history — Thus wouldn’t even have different accents. The political differences would have miniscule discrepancies to their overall culture.
Void Elves were cosmically altered by the void, akin to how the Nightborne were cosmically altered from Night Elves into what they are now by the Nightwell – and thus are a new race.
Another factor to note, given it often comes up in these kind of threads …
The Eyes & the Fel-Green Glow:
This CANNOT be used as precedent for argument, as its been confirmed & stated as per sources above, that the name has nothing to do with the fel.
That being said, with the restoration of the Sunwell – They have access to a cure of their addiction & reversion of various elements of fel-corruption by those who either:
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Fed directly off its power, other than just the other taught methods of satiation.
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Or were influenced by the radiation which powered the city & kingdom of Quel’Thalas along with their various settlements (What the large green fel-crystals were used for).
So trying to argue the ‘significance’ via the differences of how they managed the former addiction & withdrawal — is just mere medical-history, at best.