Blood elf heroes and champions

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Blood elf leadership representation and champions has become a mess. They have barely any notable heroes and any that do start making a presence end up sidelined, depowered, irrelevant or dead.

Lor’themar has been the usual go-to and truth be told overused at this point. His story is now more focused on his marriage and the nightborne allies.

Shockingly enough, even someone as unpopular as Baine and the Tauren is getting more screentime.

Lathos Sunband was a great example of what blood elf representation and a hero could be. He was unfortunately killed off in the same quest line in order to propel the story of a random human character.

Notable blood elves that were cut:

Kael’thas: Not in the horde but the most notable Blood Elf concept we had. Made into a pinata.

Voren’thal the Seer : Considered one of Thea most powerful and wise Blood elves. Became non-existent after TBC.

Halduron Brightwing :Made a bit of a splash in Cataclysm and gone.

Rommath : Supposedly most powerful Magister and leader of the Blood Magi. Barely see it. Made a bit of a showing in MoP and gone.

Valeera Sanguinar : One of the best assassins in the world. Works mostly for the Stormwind leadership.

Lady Liadrin: Pops up from time to time as Horde representation but ever since TBC, has been losing her overall importance. In Legion her main importance was to have posters handed out.

Aethas Sunreaver : Once leader of a faction of Bloodelves in Dalaran, then cast out and made to seem like he was getting story development in MoP. Afterwards in Legion his only purpose was to get back in Dalaran’s good graces by giving them a legendary Heirloom of his people. Most recently he was found trying to find a way for Jaina to be his friend again after purging Dalaran…

Koltira Deathweaver: A once champion of Quel’thalas that fell to the Scourge. Returned after as a Deathknight. Last we saw he was captured by Sylvanas and freed in Legion. Nothing much since

The Windrunners: This one is a bit contentious but needs to be said. The original Windrunner idea was heavily tied to Quel’thalas. They were seen as champions of the land. With Sylvanas’ story gone to the dumps, that has now removed the last link to it. Alleria could have been a blood elf idea but was made with the void elf concept, so that is also far gone too. Windrunner heroism for blood elves has now officially been buried to the past.

Edit: Sorry for edits, keep adding notables that I recall.

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Why do Blood Elves drink blood?

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Are all these threads about that guy who dies in like a 3-quest questline being made by the same guy? Because I swear we’ve had like 4 of them in the past week.

Anyway, I’m confident that the blood elves will manage to survive going through one expansion without spending a chunk of it in the spotlight.

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I would rather they keep the cast of characters on the lower end. Because having too many means that most of them will be sidelined. Which is a problem WoW has had forever.

The current 3 most active Belf characters. Lor’themar, Liadrin, and Valeera, already represent the most common Belf classes. Both in game and in universe.
Only Mage is missing. Which, yes is a big blunder. But i am not sure there is room for another mage type character. That isn’t served better by just using Thalyssra. They will just end up taking each others spot light.

Lathos being another Paladin would just end up taking Liadrin’s spotlight.

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Someone has to.

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Who cares about high elves at this point?

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He was a warrior but I get what you mean about the similarity in what they would represent. That being said just having them around as representation would be at least somewhat nice. For example, why is it Khadgar who is creating anti-magic fields in Azure Span to protect Tsuk’arr? Why not Spellbreakers? That’s their whole shtick.

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I was sad when he died. He actually could have helped create new human-sin’dorei narratives and it would have been great to have additional blood elf heroes. We do have the leader of the reliquary being very active in the storyline, but losing Lathos was dumb.

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Is Rommath and Aethas Sunreaver not around anymore?

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I made 1 other topic recently about him (had to go and check just in case :laughing:). But if you’re seeing him mentioned often it would probably be because it seemed so pointless to just kill him off the way it did. Also his story probably seemed touching or interesting to most doing the quest, so there is that as well.

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Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I would have really liked to see that duo progress this expansion and beyond. We have the dwarf and sindorei Paladin duo from cataclysm, but I liked the Belf spellbreaker and human mage combo this time around.

I really wanted to hear more of Lathos’ snarky but apt remarks. He was a good dude.

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This part is odd though because she isn’t the leader of the Reliquary. So that is Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher, who had his own pretty cool story but has also gone poof.

Naleidea Rivergleam is a lovely and yes beautiful character but…she’s also very left field…

I worry they created her just to be another “beautiful blood elf woman representation”, and the fact they made her swoon over Khadgar…honestly just made me think they are doing the whole pretty elf woman for a human male trope…again…

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On the one hand… yes, the Blood Elven leadership and key figures could certainly stand to have more prominent roles in the game. I can see how Lor’themar’s marriage to Thalyssra and the ensuing politics might seem a tad underwhelming or distracting from pure Blood Elven narratives, but at the same time, the Blood Elves finally have a friend in the Horde who doesn’t threaten to let their lands be consumed by the Scourge if the Blood Elves don’t do everything they say.

On the other hand… just looking at Blizzard, ‘Focusing,’ on Horde leaders, you wind up with one of two scenario’s: Sad Losers, and Megalomaniacs. So, if you want to see the Blood Elven leadership go full Fourth Reich, or worse, turn into weepy sadsacks spending an expansion sitting in the Alliance’s shadow regretting how awful the Horde is…

Well. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

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Look, I agree with you that Blood Elf characters have not been present in the story in a meaningful capacity in a while, but Liadrin in Legion is not an example of that, and she accomplished a great deal more than you’re giving her credit for.

Not only did she establish the ties that would bring the Nightborne into the Horde, but she also repaid a debt to the Draenei by participating in the offensive on Argus.

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Oh wow, I didn’t realize she wasn’t the leader. Good correction. Is her class mage?

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You’re right I should give her more credit, but admittedly what you’re describing above wasn’t seen much, especially with Argus. She was on the spaceship but barely had a few words said.

The Nightborne scenario, she had forces stationed outside and we are told in the lore the blood elves helped the most. Unfortunately in the game the main quest from her was to hand out posters in suramar of help being on the way.

I do recall in Legion that Liadrin had a spectacular scene fighting off the Deathknights trying to claim Tirion’s body in Light’s hope. You’d only see it as a Deathknight though, but it was definitely amazing and I just recalled that.

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alleria windrunner for blood elf leader. COME AT ME HATERS.

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I guess as an outsider, I dont see blood elves losing representation at an alarming rate compared to any other Horde faction.

Horde heroes and champions over all, has been quite low in their representation for a bit.

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How about, no? Unless you want a Void Well in place of a Sunwell, in which case… you’re on the wrong faction.

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shes NOT a void elf. that alleria is FAKE ALLERIA!