It definitely sounded more like a jab at the entire race and not just Veressa.
Elisande says: Quel’dorei? You are peasants playing at nobility, all too willing to mingle with lesser races that dilute your bloodline. You are unworthy of the name high elves.
It’s pretty clear given who she’s talking to.
One of two elves known to have half elf children that she’s very protective of.
We have no evidence of any widespread half elf population.
In fact the devs say they’re rare.
We don’t see any in game, but Elisande clearly knows something we don’t.
Otherwise, why would she call out an entire race for something that only 2 of them did?
The verbiage suggests she is talking about them as a whole and not a singular jab.
Consider that belfs in the Horde are probably the reason we are able to play WoW right now because I don’t think people remember being Horde before TBC, with numbers dropping way under 30% spread across all servers.
And the compromise was good enough until it was made. Then they wanted a compromise to the compromise and another compromise to that compromise, so what are we talking about here? Cause it’s not a compromise since it does not mean getting what you wanted bit by bit.
The Horde has belfs, it’s almost 20 years later. Time to deal with it.
Then what are Silver Covenant High elves that we want to be playable?
She’s poking a proud high elf with significant ties to the term “high elf” who has two children very publicly with a human.
She’s trying to rustle her Jimmies like she did with Tyrande and Liadrin.
Not in context with who she’s talking to or the context of half elves being rare.
To low population to matter.
I can see humans and Kul Tirans reading this and sweating profusely.
So you want to role play as a member of a small faction? That doesn’t require anything more than cosmetics. Tools are available to do what you want already. It’s like me saying I want to play Defias Brotherhood so Blizz needs to make a new playable race of humans!
Its in context of the high elves as she judges each sect of elves.
This emphasis that its more personal is disingenuous.
Half elves are very unrepresented ingame but are mentioned in lore books.
Elisande doesn’t call out Veressa by name, she is very clearly addressing her race as a whole.
If she was addressing Veressa, the dialogue would’ve went something like this:
Elisande says: Veressa? You are a peasant playing at nobility, all too willing to mingle with a lesser race that dilutes your bloodline. You are unworthy of the name high elf.
i asked you a question, what are SIlver Covenant High elves then ?
They are faction of high elves in alliance, have a tabard, title, name tag, different voice lines, skin tones, city, tabard, leader. Least resources required to make them playble, and people were asking them playable forever.
Then create new topic and ask what you want.
People been asking playable the high elves since WCII.
We oppose eachother on this… making the naga willing to ally with their ancestral enemies in the night elves would be so… wrong. It would defy such deep enmity on both sides.
Also… i mean you are entitled to your preference but… the reality is there are already male naga who have “wrenched themselves up somewhat.” Several in fact. High Warlord Nazjentus. Prince Nazjak. Raj Naz’jan (who is canonically an emperor somehow? Might actually make for a prime candidate for the leader since we know very little about him, so a lot of story to be told…) Uu’nat the Harbinger of the Void, Skar’this the Heretic (another prime candidate as we’ve met him multiple times and he serves Neptulon, whom we are on good terms with) multiple overseers, Fathom-Lords, and lesser warlords.
No, to me, a true innovation, novelty, inspirational tale, and sign of someone truly exceptional enough to be a threat to Azshara’s stranglehold? That would truly have to be a male that managed to work his way all the way to the top despite all the obstacles, perceived and real in Naga society. He’d be surrounded by powerful women who he had to prove himself against where so many of his kind could never have dreamed of even wanting to challenge, much less do anything but fail against. But he not only succeeded, but managed to inspire some amount of true loyalty amongst a few of them, even if the rest no doubt would try to usurp him if they ever sense weakness. Which is why he has to be cunning, powerful, and charismatic enough to get and stay where he is.
That… is a story I am not sure could be as good or better if it focused on a female naga, given the nature of naga social structure. And I would need an example given for a better story.
Besides… between a typical male and female naga, which is really more iconic visually and thus more fit to represent them? Which looks the least like any other playable race? Which… was the one we saw first?
Care to share the data for this?
Each race we play is a reflection of their peoples and plays a meaningful role on the factions and in the world.
High elves are represented by blood elves who have championed the return of their species since the arthas attack and despite low numbers, have enlisted highly trained champions to represent them and show their worth to the horde.
You are asking to role play as a tiny group of Elves that has superficial differences like eye color or skin tone. Being in the Silver Covenant doesn’t make them a brand-new race. Having a tabard doesn’t make them a race. The Dragonmaw Orcs in Cata had all those things. They had a city, a leader, skin tones…and they weren’t a new race. They got folded into the Horde by Garrosh and are exactly like every other Orc from Outland. And do you know how very many NPC’s have different voice lines in this game? None of the things you mentioned qualify as being worthy of a new playable race. Its all cosmetic role play differences. You can’t even articulate what makes a High Elf so radically different than a Blood Elf that it needs to be made playable! Where they live doesn’t make them a new race. Who they have an alliance with doesn’t make them a new race. Blue eyes doesn’t make them a new race. If all it took was different politics, a tabard, skin tones/eyes and some voice lines we’d have 10,000 different races in this game.
Oh, and to the best of my recollection the only High Elves in Warcraft 2 were Alleria and Lor’themar!
No, we are asking for the high elves be playable since WCII, major high elf faction is silver covenant. That’s how it is.
Its more than thats how it is, you just choose to look away from it.
No. It’s a minor faction no different than the Argent Dawn, Thorium Brotherhood, Syndicate, The Defilers, Silverwing Sentinels. Thrallmar, the Scryers, The Sha’tar…
All of those are factions. They have tabards and everything!! None of them are separate individual races. So, we are back to you wanting to role-play a faction. A faction, big or small, doesn’t mean its a new race. I’ll ask again, what makes this small group of Quel’dorei (who are now lead by a Ren’dorei btw) fundamentally different from Sin’dorei to warrant a new race? Eye color, skin tone, political affiliation, TABARDS, don’t equate to a new race.
When did Reddit become the major feedback source for the WoW Dev team? If anything I’d say maybe twitter, but Reddit is as good a gauge of player sentiment as facebook memes are a gauge of the economy.