So on the first Island in Telogrus Rift you see Wayfareres and Scholars coming to learn from Locus-Walker. The Second Island shows new void elves learning to use and control their powers from an older void elf.
The suggestion is that Void Elves are being made from volunteers interested in using the void.
Void and Fel mix fine. Its only when you overdo it that we’ve seen any real issues. Like with any Cosmic force.
This is not true.
The only time this occurred was when ONLY Light and Void existed and ONLY after they began to tear away at each other.
Priests have been mixing void and light since WoW began.
But that’s using the power of the light or void. I’m talking about being physically infused with the light and using the void.
I can use electricity to power things, but there’s a difference between using a wire to connect a device to a power source and being the connection between the two.
Lightforged Draenei shadow priests exist, but that’s for game mechanics. Imagine if Blizzard added a new race, but removed a talent tree from one of the classes…
If we really want to go into WoW logic, it’s based on what sort of magic they’re using to sate their magic addiction. Blood elves were taught by Rommath (from Illidan, but was credited to Kael’thas) how to siphon magic from other sources, which is how they got hooked on fel, giving them their, in my opinion, iconic green eyes. Which is why high elves still had their blue eyes, they never fed on fel magic. However, they’re eyes are now supposed (I’m looking at you, Blood Elf leaders) to be yellow due to the Sunwell now being a mixture of Light and Arcane instead of just Arcane.
So it would be reasonable for Void Elves to exclusively have purple eyes. I don’t believe there is a definitive answer of when Umbric and the others were exiled, just that it was after the Sunwell was corrupted by the Scourge, so we don’t know… Actually, we would know if they had green or yellow eyes before being transformed, if we got close enough to inspect their eyes before they get voided. I don’t think we get to though, it’s been so long since I’ve done that quest and it’s not like they let you redo it. (Even though I’ve unlocked Mechagnomes and still see the Urgent Care quest, but I digress.)
I still like using green eyes for Blood Elves personally, but will use other colors if it makes sense with their class. But technically Void Elves having access to green eyes lore wise makes about as much sense as Blood Elves still having access to green eyes lore wise, fel is not the current magic they use to feed for either one.
Following the lore races like Void Elf and Undead wouldn’t be able to use the light and would be shadow Priests but game mechanics allows them access to holy and disc specs otherwise they’d only have access to one spec, it doesn’t change what they are and would be actually though which is what many people try to spin to fit a false narrative.
If void elves have white skin and blue eye options, i think they should retain the fel green they had before going void.
As the void affects to varying degrees now apparently
The only limits are that it causes some pain between two users of void and the light who are “infused” (though paladins are not actually infused.) this is no more or less a problem than it is for Forsaken being paladins. Which has been shown multiple times. Also the combination of the light and void is canon regardless.
Its not an issue in any form of reality.
Blizzard has recently pointed out that all of the things in game are canon. If a player can do it it is canon. This applies to the Draenei who are Man’ari, Void Elves who are blue eyed and natural skinned and blood elves getting their blue eyes back.
I don’t care about having green for my Void elves, ( y’all keep your looks, I want star cursed eyes and hair )
But in all the hullaballoo, why aren’t Blood Elves complaining that they should NOT have the option for purple eyes? Have you guys been sipping a little Void energy??
Easy because the purple eye option we have is more arcane based not the actual void looking one that Void Elves have it was given to both Blood Elves and Void Elves due to a bug that made NPC’s have it and so they made it a player option.
If we ever get your purple/pink looking eye color option I might agree with you but until then not so much.
Undead can use the light, it just hurts, a lot. Lord Zeliek says hi.
I do subscribe to the maybe canon that it was only the original void elves that became so… blue, from whatever his face is, the void prince or whatever, seeming as Alleria has been using the void for quite some time and has no permanent physical changes (although her eyes are still blue when they should in theory be purple, but gestures to Lor’Themar and co.). So technically for all intents and purposes, void elves should have purple eyes due to either being imbued with the void, or using it’s magics heavily, not green. But in the end, it’s not like Blizz even follows the ‘rules’ they set in the universe anyways.
NPC’s have always been exceptions to rules, doesn’t change what’s actually written in lore which would again be that Undead and Void Elf Priests would be shadow Priests not holy or disc like Lightforged Draenei Priests would be holy and not disc or shadow.
It shows that they live in a tiny bubble and have never touched anything except wow. Almost every other game nowadays has color palettes, sliders, etc. WoW players, on the other hand, seem to get upset about individual shades like toddlers, who have never learned to share their toys… even if they keep their own toy and the other child merely receives the same one. Pretty embarrassing, but I mean, this community hasn’t earned its bad reputation for nothing.
Void and Fel mix just fine. I mean, since the franchise began, demons have been using void magic, despite being entities of fel. You even had a Dark Naaru on Argus without the planet exploding.
The only time we see Void/Fel having an adverse reaction is a single boss fight in Hellfire Citadel. That’s it, and even then, it isn’t explosive until the boss gorges on too much of either.
When I ask this, I’m not trying to necessarily say you’re wrong, but where is it stated in lore exactly that the undead are totally unable to use the light? While I do understand the NPCs can be the exception and not the rule, at a certain point there has to be NPCs that follow the ‘rules’ because if the undead can not use light at all then the player character isn’t the rule either; or else there are no rules. There’s just words that become a suggestion to follow at that point.
I mainly pointed out Undead with Void Elves because of them being more shadow leaning, I have never advocated against anything for Undead so them getting Paladin would be fine with me, scroll back and read my original reply about this is why Void Elves should never get Paladins because legit I have yet to see a legit way it could be spun outside people saying they should get a special skin to play them which is silly because then it breaks what a Paladin actually is which is a light infused character not a void infused character.
Plus there are actual examples in game of Undead Priests and Undead Paladins using the light, nothing for Void Elves at all in that aspect.
I never said anything about void elves and the light, only the undead and the light. I don’t know of any examples in the lore that suggest it to be possible.
Are- are we agreeing or not? I literally gave an example of an NPC that is undead and using the light, and then you said that they’re the exception, not the rule, and now you’re talking about there being in game examples of undead priests and paladins… So are they exception or are they the rule?
I’ll agree with you that there are examples of Undead using light both Paladin and Priest wise but unless you can actually show me where there’s a Void Elf Paladin or Priest using the light I’m standing by my original stance of that Void Elves should never be Paladins and they shouldn’t be altered just so they can be playable for a minority group.
