Elves change a lot when confronted with magic. They were originally trolls, then night elves, then high elves, blood elves, void elves, spider elves, felblood elves, demon hunters. Etc. Etc. They wither without magic, or go crazy when they drain too much and kind of wither too.
The Naga and Satyr are a little more questionable since they’re changed by old gods, demons, etc. Kind of a bigger change.
Fel Totem Tauren are kind of the only other race I’ve seen change a whole bunch?
But maybe they’ll make Demon Hunter everythings. Man, not looking forward to Demon Hunter Vulpera and Pandaren. ~_~ but to each their own.
This kinda thing begs for expanded glyph systems that add different color tints to different type of magic. The idea of “Void Knights” who basically channel Void the same way Paladins do Light is 100% lore friendly, and would make Void Elf Paladins really flavorful.
She may still consider herself a high elf, or just not want to be labeled void elf. But she is a void elf. A void elf that got the ritual right, not one that got botched in a ritual. She is shown to have the same afflictions as them. Same schizo-voices. Same dilemnas. The label is a new thing. She missed out on like a few hundred azerothian years and probably doesn’t cling to such titles so much. As Alleria is much like someone who spent many years at war, and in prison. She just probably doesn’t cling to labels and that’s her personality trait.
I think how she became a void elf is a distinction without a difference. For instance there are worgen nightelves. They came to it through normal druidic shapeshifting and affiliation with a wild god. Playable worgen are humans that were bit by those druids and infected with that uncontrollable druidic magic (or subsequent infections from other humans).
Which are proper worgen and which are not?
I think it is just semantics because void elves aren’t exactly a race either. They are high elves enchanted with void. By that definition she is a void elf. She just came to it differently. She certainly isn’t an arcane elf. Or a druid. Or affiliated with some other enchantment.
Certainly. You can play Void Elves that seem barely influenced by the Void (clearly an effort to meet the playable Alliance High Elf demand halfway)… at most they look like they’re having slightly bad hair days. Channeling light when Void Energy has barely impacted you would not be lore unfriendly.
And if you wanted to play a totally tripped out Void Character and still channel Light because you think its cool and don’t really care about being “lore friendly”… go nuts, its your character
Yeah. It’s Warcrafts weird, “Race and group is the same thing.” problem. Technically Lightforged and Draenei are a different race. Mechagnomes and Gnomes too. But that’s a gameplay thing.
Though, I do disagree on that, “How she became a void elf.”
Naaru are pretty high up there in the power scale. They’re kind of like demi-gods. It’d be odd if they were like, “She absorbed a Dark Naaru but doesn’t have Dark Naaru powers.”
A Naaru reignited the Sunwell. I think Alleria’s a pretty odd character.
Yea. The void elf is a name meaning children of the void. I am sure in a setting without gameplay mechanics they wouldn’t consider themselves much but elves. Altgough they have there own identities and social groups and different societies.
Much like how we are all one human race, yet our cultures are so different from different countries to even neighboring cities or city districts.
She found the void elves, weirdly with mostly the same situation as her. There origin story is a bit too convenient but we know lore isnt that good in quality sometimes.
But there introduction was more of a gameplay> lore imo. We as players wanted sub races and they gave us there version of allied races.
Draenei Shaman makes no sense lore-wise, since the Draenei are Eredar who follow the Light; specifically, they are hunted for extermination because they follow the Light.
They pray to the Light… and do not commune with the elements… so a shamamistic Light-being makes zero sense.
I agree with the rest of what you said mostly… I would like to see a VOID paladin. A paladin of the void, where all the spells are purple instead of golden and renamed to fit the void theme.
Canonically the Draenei Shaman started with the Broken. The Broken are Draenei who got caught in a huge Fel explosion that completely severed any possible connection to the Light and mutated them. While not being Eredar there connection to the Fel made them outcasts. One of them, while meditating, spiritual connected to the Elements and became a Shaman. They already knew Shamans where a thing cause they had already met the Orcs.
In modern WoW they would have made the Broken an allied race and let them be Shamans, but this was BC and that wasnt a thing yet.
If you had any concept of how much shoe horning and retcons has been done for draeni… it is actually your perspective of draeni that makes no sense. This is not an attack on you or your perspective, but on how much the lore has been manipulated and flat retracted for this race to elicit that perspective from a casual observer like yourself.
Basically draeni went from yawning potato looking natives of Draenor, that had nothing to do with eradar, to what they are now. The whole devoling broken thing was inserted so the retcon didn’t seem like total nonsense.
For a time, before they realized the glued together lore did not fit, and corrected it on their lore page, this was the official story of the draeni, eradar, and Sargeras:
The eradar demon warlocks including Kil’jaeden and Achimonde were imprisoned by Sargeras the titan, but between them and the dreadlords managed to corrupt Sargeras. Sargeras freed the eradar and made Kil’jaeden and Achimonde his lieutenants and started the buring legion. His legion made its way through the universe, and eventually got to Argus where he met and corrupted the draeni Kil’jaeden and Archimonde, turning them to eradar, making them his lieutenants, and forced Velen and the rest of the draeni to flee.
Back in BC, we had those damn Fel Reavers in Hellfire Peninsula sneak up on us and kick our behinds! If a DAMN FEL REAVER can sneak up on you, a Tauren or Dranei’s Hooves are gonna be quiet as the, the, damnit! I can’t think of something thats really quiet, but if you do, insert it at the end of my last sentence!
Seriously though, those Fel Reavers did sneak up on you in BC.
