problem is, an actual elf, wouldnt join the horde. chances are, they wouldnt join the alliance either but be more sympathetic to the guys that werent harboring the extra-terrestrial orcs. . or rather, extra-azerothian orcs, who burned forests and slaughtered elves by the millions and attacked nature. the blood elves and nightborne elves so contradict elven tradition, behavior and hierarchy of importance, that they dont much resemble elves in anything other than ear shape . sorry to say it but elves place nature above almost everything else lol yes, they are tree huggers. in that regard, they resemble night elves but thats where they depart from night elves also, as elves are not warrior women lol
Elves in Tolkien works follow that rule, but this isnât LotR or DnD. Elves in Warcraft are not Demi-Gods from a far continent that live beneath a glowing tree of light.
Theyâre mutated trolls who sponge up magic and mutate further depending on the magic they sponge.
Fantasy races are dependent upon the franchise youâre playing them in, hence why Tauren arenât your stereotypical DnD Minotaur, or the orcs arenât the same as DnD/LotR/Elder Scrolls orcs.
The only thing that defines an elf in WoW is being kin of the Dark Trolls and their Well of Eternity mutated ilk.
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The Vulpera dance is so cute. Sadly, it reminds me how bad I want fluffy tails on Worgen and Blizzard denied me the option.
Sad doggie.
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this IS d&d lore wise. every elf on azeroth is a drow descendant/variant. even have video of a vanilla dev saying flat out, night elves are dark elves (drow), that just happen to have more appreciation for nature and have evolved to appreciate surface dwelling. iotw, weâre in drizztâs world. elves are all surface dwelling relatives of drizzt. might as well call it, world of drizzt.
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Itâs more Warhammer Fantasy, and has slowly deviated from it over time. The lore of WoW has little to do with DnD, the dev was probably just comparing racial design and aesthetic in that the night elves are darker skinned elves that were once magically proficient.
They donât just happen to have an appreciation for nature, itâs by choice. They chose to pursue Druidic ways and the Priestly magic of Elune after the sundering, forsaking arcane arts.
Also, theyâre descendents of the Dark Trolls, cave dwelling dark skinned trolls. So that can be compared to drow, especially since both were savage peoples.
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in drow society, the women are in charge. the only elves in wow that dont have a female leader, are blood elves but they deviate otherwise, so dramatically from elven behavior, that only their ears belie their heritage of elf and even then, its dark elven heritage. all wow elves are descended from dark trolls from the shore of the well of eternity, and dark trolls are the original drow. that is not an elf. thats drow.
just sayinâ, i want high fantasy elves. archers, rangers, rogues, trappers, bards. svelte, feminine, graceful, delicate, beautiful. whats wrong with that?
Drow⌠Are elvesâŚ
I feel like you wanna play a Tolkien elf, and in that case you should look into Lord of the Rings online, because there are no LotR elves in Warcraft lore. There never has been.
There are also generic elves that have no identity in Everquest, Everquest 2, and Neverwinter Online.
In any case I hope you find what youâre looking for!
this. And alliance now has VE. Be a blue/purple be who is a HE. I like my void elves so I am happy.
and, imo, the small sect of âtrueâ high elves to me has looked at the crap show that is azeroth faction BS and saidâŚscrew that noise.
We will say hi sometimes when the world needs us but yeah, when our choice is a horde all over the place from year to year and queen anduin to be subservient to hell the f⌠no.
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Interesting when the High warlord bike came out you had to log in during anniversary to get it if not it was your loss (Horde side)
Donât worry though if you play alliance you can still get the bike you just need to run to the vender (Alliance) Yea Horde got the short end of the stick there but you alliance players didnât complain.
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i want a high fantasy elf. if tolkien has high fantasy elves, then yep. you said think outta the box for new races. well since all we have are drow, i want an elf not from drizzt land - thats outta the box thinking. thats non herd thinking mr. dont be part of the herd, while playing a cow. hehe. youâre playing a herd animal. hehe. just ironic. it truly is.
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oh isnt there some story youâre leaving out there? hahaha.
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actually when it came out the ally got the short end, horde get their mount for free while ally needed to pay 100K+ to buy theirs which was consider stupidly pricey to buy for 2014 standards, this was suppose to be a horde boom and its for everyone who played during the event they probably left in the game because for a lot people who played during the event 100K was simply too much and only recently they might have been able to acquire it
I say this because wowhead list that only like ~10% of their profiles have this mount (which is way higher than back in the day) while the horde is something like ~35% (lower than back in the day)
basically what I saying is that those mount are really some special case
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could you imagine the uproar if horde had to pay 100k for theirs back then, and alliance got theirs free? the game would melt down. the world would come to a screeching halt.
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I think the actual quote was something like⌠if you want fair skinned elves, Horde is waiting. Well, if you want dark elves⌠the Alliance⌠oh wait. Hmm⌠so why did Horde get Nightborne again?
Just stop. The players arenât at fault for asking for things, even if theyâre unreasonable. Blizzard is at fault for creating this divide.
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No, Iâm not going to stop repeating the actual truth of the event in the original three games. The High Elves (as a race) left the Alliance. They went back to Silvermoon because the Alliance wouldnât help them fight off the Horde and condemned their leader to death for trying to find someone who WOULD help.
Then most of them were wiped out. They named themselves Sinâdorei out of RESPECT to those who fell. You know, the ones the Alliance wouldnât help defend.
The splinter group that stayed in the Alliance isnât a race. Itâs a schism. They have no respect for the sacrifice of their people, they have no respect for the dead, and they donât care that the Alliance was instrumental in that.
Alliance high elves arenât a race.
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And yet the Alliance are still able to purchase their mounts and no one in the Horde is. Horde got the short end of that stick.
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Goblins have a population of 8282, more than the Panda population for both factions and many AR.
KT are low yes, right with HMT but no need to lie about Goblins.
The Realm Census is not 100% accurate but way more so than no evidence at all.
Yeah, you might say that Blizzard doesnât care much for human rightsâŚ
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yes it backfire for the horde but when it was introduce it was the ally who had the short end of the stick, for everyone who played since 2014 ally got the short end of the stick, and I bet thats most of the players
That is not the actual truth, that is a load of exaggerated bull fertilizer. The majority of high elves left the Alliance after Warcraft 2, but a great deal of them stayed loyal to the Alliance - hence the priests and sorceresses available to the human faction in Warcraft 3. And the Alliance actually did help fight off the Horde attack on Quelâthalas, but they arrived late because they were tricked into thinking the Horde was attacking Aerie Peak.
And by the time Quelâthalas was attacked by the undead, Lordaeron was in pretty bad shape. Their king was murdered, Uther and several other paladins were murdered, their prince was a death knight for the scourge now, the plague was still a thing, and Jaina had taken most of the Alliance forces- including the surviving high elves; who were still loyal to the Alliance, away to Kalimdor. So even if the people of Lordaeron knew about the invasion of Quelâthalas, there really wasnât much they could do about it.
And, as I keep saying, the high elves who are still loyal to the Alliance did not rename themselves because they werenât present at Quelâthalas to experience what the blood elves did. The Alliance was not responsible for that, Arthas; whom Uther, Terenas, and Muradin tried to stop, was. And if the splinter group that stayed in the Alliance isnât a race, then void elves shouldnât be either.
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