On several occasions after the Sunwell’s defilement, Kael’thas publicly asserted that his people would die unless they found a new source of magic. Technically the prince was mistaken. According to Azeroth’s top priests and medics, the only high elves to perish due to magical withdrawal have been the very old, the very young, and elves who were already in poor health.
Such a low rate of attrition might be considered an argument in favor of simply forgoing magic and suffering through the consequences. Indeed, a few high elves are said to have succeeded in taking this route through sheer willpower: they survived the process, however unpleasant. Apparently certain magical artifacts also ameliorate the symptoms of withdrawal and might, if sufficiently powerful, be able to suppress them altogether.
Yes, over 10,000 years after the WotA the Night elves weaned themselves using moonwells they no longer use them as arcane fonts but they did for a long time to evolve to a point where they no longer needed it to survive.
Yes they decided to do that, but they also decided to start draining magic. Those who decided to keep calling themselves high elves were the one who didn’t drink magic hence where the schism started.
Lother’mar decided to exile the high elves who didn’t drink magic. Hence where the schism happened between the two groups.
But it has everything to do with how the two group define themselves in relation to each other. The high elves were the ones who didn’t drink magic, while the blood elves were the ones who didn’t.
He NEVER did that. He exiled one small contingent of blood elven rangers for being violent defectors. And he was right, Renthar Hawkspear was a villian who siphoned the life out of his own rangers for personal revenge.
Zerde is like a current of water down a plinko machine. Any obstruction or diversion in its flow is deftly swerved and shaped toward its descent into two boxes labeled “alliance right” and “horde wrong” and anything that falls outside of that are mere abberant droplets that didn’t follow his proper logic path.
He exiled ALL high elves. We know this from Quest from Pandaria:
“Aye,” he pressed, “I’ve met high elves in me life. I know what ye did tae them. I come from Loch Modan; I’ve heard th’ stories from th’ Farstrider lass there—”
In a surprising display of raw physical strength, Talithar crossed the room in a single stride and lifted Baenan clean off his feet, slamming him into the wall. He held Baenan there at the blood elf’s own height, almost twice that of the dwarf’s, and stared him dead in the eye.
And yet this is exactly what has happened. Jaina is now innocent, I expect Vereesa will end up being forgiven/being allowed to move on and Alleria will be a hero as oppose to how Sylvanas ended.
The few times the Alliance does something horrible it does 1) try to correct it. 2) is still less horrible then the Horde. 3) manages to step back from the brink before it does something monumentally stupid as drowning an entire city.
I missed a long argument while sleeping, but after waking up, I can’t believe I’m hearing “They should’ve just stopped resisting,” in the year of our Lord 2024.
If Vereesa was going to die, she would have died in Dalaran. The fact she is alive tell me Blizzard has plans for her still and likely in a heroic role.
She is alive, working with Aethas with and Lother’mar considering the events of the Purge to be water under the bridge to the point he invited her to the wedding and is planning on vacationing in Kul Tiras.
Yeah, sounds to me she was very much innocent/any blame she had was negligible/long paid off.
The biggest horde-side problem with WoT is literally unsolvable, in that it cast an entire playable faction and its player character as genociders or accomplices to it. Night elves getting vengeance on the horde wouldn’t fix it. Amirdrassil being a laughable symbol of renewal can’t fix it. The horde showing up to help defend it can’t fix it. Bel’ameth being a summer home doesn’t fix it. Even hypothetically reviving every last person who died in the burning wouldn’t fix it.
Because none of that would change the fact that any horde alt you may make naturally has to be assumed to be part of the genocide in the first place.
In fact, it’s a permanent poison that Amirdrassil and even Anduin’s story continues to propagate, because all of it is reliant on story beats that only exist because of the BFA prepatch. Dragonflight was supposed to be a sort of chiller vacation expansion and all the 10.2 patch did was finger the open wound all over again.
