Since alliance wanted high elves with the fair skin and blonde/white hair, but didn’t want horde elves feeling left out, decided to give them blue eyes too. They already did the damage by even creating void elves in the first place. People would complain if blood elves got nothing out of alliance getting high elf option, would be my guess.
Also, hardly anyone likes any of the allied races all that much for alliance. Void elves were a cop out because they almost kind’ve gave them what they wanted, but with a lot of hooks that no one wanted when getting the elves they’ve requested and with literally no build up or story. They have some “ok” stuff but no one really asked for them nor play them.
MAYBE an alt here and there for a joke. Dark iron dwarves, while cool, not many really care to play them. Lore wise and seeing them around is nice, but they kinda look weird in most armor and short with a beer belly which kinda looks bad since it’s sprayed on. Same with Kul’tirans and looking goofy.
Not necessarily, there are no explanations given about these customizations, and there may never be. We can draw our own conclusions, but we’ll never know for sure.
For example, you could theorize that a blood elf with blue eyes was simply one who was stationed far away from the city when the fel crystals were installed, thus no significant amount of fel energy radiated out to them to change their eyes.
Or it very well could be a former high elf dissident that decided to rejoin the blood elves.
Same with the void elf customizations. Could be a case of high elves/blood elf students in Telogrus learning to wield the void, and suffering minimal physical changes due to not getting caught in the ritual.
Or it could simply be a blood elf that wasn’t exposed to the ritual long enough to get completely blueberried.
I’m choosing the believe that they’re just leaving it up to your own imagination. You are the ultimate decider of what your character’s history is, they don’t really need to lay the groundwork there.
Because Blizz wanted to give blue eyes to the Blood Elves but they know that the Alliance will (rightfully) create a massive uproar about it, so they offered a compromise with blue eyed Void Elves so that only a smaller minority will create an uproar.
How does showing players something they wanted and then repeatedly telling them they can’t have it (with the reasons changing) count as an attempt to make everyone happy? That comes off more as the exact opposite.
That didn’t happen?..BC- the cleansing of the Sunwell didn’t happen?..
Edit - " Magical addiction is an affliction suffered by the Highborne, and to a greater extent by their descendants. … After 7,000 years of being suffused by the power of the Sunwell, their people — known as the high elves , then as the blood elves — developed an innate, seemingly incurable addiction to its arcane energies."
lets just dial it back to your own definition again
Here you narrow your definition to Dalaran citizens with blue eyes. Neglecting stormwind citizens, lodge settlements, or anyone else. Even though they have blue eyes.
Depending on your perspective and if you see the developers as people acting in good faith. If you don’t see them that way, I can relate to feeling that way.
How is the sunwell being re-ignited, have anything to do with your statement of the blood elves being fel junkies? Neither of those are inclusive of the other.
Secondly, per the devs, blood elves, especially the PC, never drained fel crystals or demons for fel energy. Every. They would be horrified at the act.
Read above.
You’re trying to link unrelated events together.
All descendants of the highborne have magical addiction.
Ergo, both the high elves and blood elves political groups have magical addiction.
Blood elves who did not follow Kael’thas did not absorb fel nor use fel as a form to ease magical addiction. Per the devs.
The vast majority of the blood elves were infused with the Fel, leaving an even deeper addiction to magic. That is why Literally every single Blood Elf has green eyes.
Edit - Either way you slice it, BEs are magic addicts.
Per the developers, the only blood elves who did this were those who followed Kael’thas, and we killed them. If the blood elves knew of what kael’thas was doing, they would be horrified. Using fel to feed magical addiction was considered a horrible act.
That isn’t why. Green eyes is a result of residual magical energy. It is a trait of high elves. So when exposed to holy energy, their eyes glow golden. Fel, it turns green. BLue with arcane, etc etc.
I mean…so are high elves what is your point?
Heck the night elves also rely on moonwell’s for their magical fix as well.
Let alone its stated the new sunwell is removing their addiction anyway.
Horde got blue eyed blood elves. Blood elves are any former high elves that donned the name. Biologically any of them could not be as fel tainted as other elves were and still call themselves blood elves. They listened to community feedback on customization and how lore plausible it is for both sides to get it which is good.
The Fel magic use wasn’t just ones that were palling around with Kael. It was Everywhere in Silvermoon. It was used by almost everyone. And even those that didn’t directly use it, were still getting a taste of it from the Sunwell. There was no avoiding it.
Again, the devs said no. Chronicles said no. You’re simply arguing against fact. The only thing those crystals were being used for, was to empower their buildings which needed magic to stay intact.
What? The sunwell was destroyed in WC3. That is why they had the fel crystals to empower their buildings. There was no sunwell until it was reborn at the end of TBC.