By the elves, her children. By the tauren, who have this dual divinity aspect to the celestial bodies, obviously the orcs, goblins, former humans and trolls other than the elune-worshipping tribes who became the elves wouldn’t have any particular interest in her, not even as a vague acknowledgement present in their nomenclature.
(Similarly I don’t particularly think humans other than the cursed gilneans, dwarves, gnomes or draenei give a damn about Elune even on the vaguest of levels besides maybe Velen wondering if she has ties to some interpretations of the light)
Hush, like the style isn’t obviously identical. I know you won’t believe it but still I didn’t realize which toon I was on.
You may still believe what you want about my faction leanings, I have as much time on both sides, possibly more on horde even considering I no lifed Legion on Mevanou. I am neutral, jaded and utterly cynical about the factions.
Besides it’s not as if I respond to myself or like my own comments.
The context of one of the most important defensive works of Quel’thalas being plugged to a well created with waters of the well of eternity, sustained by a secret key named for the moons, whose component mooncrystals were all kept in some of the only places in Quel’thalas blood elves ever refer to as temples? That context?
(You’re also going to be happy to hear that Lor’themar is basically presented as silently encouraging her in that passage in the temple in Val’sharah)
You’re expecting frostfel to accept the horde as something more than a monoculture, if he had his ways tauren would be minotaur orcs and blood elves would just be fleshy forsaken - my preference for wc2 elves in red may be cringe but at least I’m not the one trying to erase the origins of 3 of the horde’s races because being reminded they’re kaldorei adjacent makes me irrationally angry.
The Empire period of the Kaldorei is one where worship of Elune was almost entirely restricted to the peasant classes, among the Highborne, and even many of the lowborne ,that veneration had been transferred to Azshara herself, kind of what’s going on here in the US with a certain incoming President.
This is 100% your headcanon, like this isn’t even backed by retconned comics “lore” there is more indications against it than for it.
I’ll even go further: the fact that Kael’thas recognizes and is respectful to a priestess of Elune on sight shows the cultural referents still existed enough to remain to some extent in Quel’thalas.
Again, the Val’sharah prayer passage, besides having Lor’themar doing silent encouragement, doesn’t say Thalyssra hopes to never pray to Elune again, it says she hopes the temple never has to be home to such sorrow again (the horrors of the Legion invasions)
Neither of these two are depicted as people who are opposed to the idea of Elune on a cultural level, their culture is just more secular about it.
(If anything, the tale of the Embrace would have reached the humans from contact with the high elves - it’s really the only way pre Third War humans would have any awareness of a people who called the White Lady Elune)
I would argue the formality of Elune worship remained even in Azshara’s reign, but even then people still obstensively supported the Sisterhood of Elune and the worship of her and used her iconography with that of Azshara’s. Calling Azshara the daughter of the Moon and all her many titles.
Elune’s continued presence on the Broken Isles and across Kaldorei/Nightborne areas should indicate at the very least respect towards if not outright devotion to her. Not just from Kaldorei, but from the Nightborne. I suspect that even among Thalassians they acknowledge the mother moon and the goddess that gave life to all elves. Though they turned away from worship of Elune to that of the Sun. It doesn’t mean they know nothing of or use moon symbology. Even their capital is SilverMOON.
Not at all confirmed as it’s all speculation but perhaps after the WotA and the ban on Arcane Magic Practice, many Highborne started using this now forbidden magic so in order to avoid being caught they practiced their craft during the day which is the opposite of when they used to be more active for being a nocturnal race.
So it can be assumed more and more Highborne shifted to a daytime routine until it became their new normal.
Sun iconography isn’t even that common for the exclusivity people claim it should have had - some nomenclature, about on par with the moon nomenclature, which last I checked was considered not proof enough.
The big one is the phoenix (the phoenix banner being the flag since Frozen Throne) but oh, oops, the redeemed druids of the flame also discuss the phoenix as a symbol in 10.2, just in time for Metzen’s pitch for Midnight.
The elves at Val’Sharrah are Night Elves, not Nightbourne. and the temple there is in ruins. The books you quote may be full of Elune worshipping Nightbourne, but if that is the only source, then for all intents and purposes they exist in some forked off reality that had no impact to the gaming experience.
Again as I’ve said before, I have no issues, nor care about people who want to roleplay Nightbourne Elunite worshippers. I would find it odd on my Horde characters and they are closed off from my Alliance ones.
And if Elunite evidence exists in living Suramar (not the ruins) in game, I’d appreciate the TomTom coordinates where I could go see it and I’d eat my helping of stormcrow right here.
I think you are missing the point. The Nightborne never stopped caring about their Kaldorei heritage and for all intents and purposes are still a continuation of Kaldorei culture and traditions INCLUDING Elune symbology and worship, but again not in the same manner as Night Elves.
It’s more that they are rebuilding the Broken Shore and particularly the Cathedral of Eternal Night and the Tomb of Sargeras is slowly being turned back to its original the Temple of Elune complex. Why would the Nightborne work so hard to cleanse the Broken Shore and rebuild the complex and commit to fixing the Elunite ruins all over the Broken Isles along with their cousins in Val’sharah and Azsuna.
How many Night Elves died during the Burning of Teldrassil? That’s not the best argument since she cares for the Kaldorei, but she doesn’t seem to be as happy with the Queldorei perhaps since they’ve focused more on the Sun aspect of their worship instead of the Moon. Though we can’t speak for the goddess. No more than you could. Until Blizzard gives us an answer we don’t know and can’t know her opinions on her Zandalari worshipers, her Nightborne followers or her Night Elven followers and even perhaps her Thalassian worshipers. They all seem to be known unknowns.