Apparently their recruitment drives are pretty effective or Thalassian elves in general are just plain reckless and will say yes to anything, including sleepless nights filled with whispers from the void, as long as there is magic and power involved.
Depends on which country was theirs, considering Dalaran has always had a sizable population. Is it plausible the High Elves living in Dalaran were of a number enough to be comparable to Pre-Third War QuelâThalas? Of course not. Is it plausible they were of a number enough to be equal to Post-Third War QuelâThalas? Maybe. Canât say I find it likely, but even if Dalaran had as much as 5% of the numbers of Pre-Third War QuelâThalas, that already puts them half as numerous as Blood Elves.
The thing here is, we donât know those numbers. Thus, its impossible to gauge populations and their sizes. All we know is that 90% of the kingdom of QuelâThalas, in the geographical location of QuelâThalas, was wiped out by Arthasâ campaign to capture the Sunwell. That is the ONLY statistic we know for sure.
Seemed to be plenty of them, stealthed, out in the swamps.
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Lore wise they were larger since they could field an army and specialist corps all over KulâTiras, Siege of Lordaeron and in Zandalar. Also, Blizzard said as much since people were disappointed with Void Elves. They mentioned that Void Elves were much larger population. To what extent? Who knows?
We know the Windrunner family produced four kids. If they were typical, thatâs doubling the size of the previous generation.
In order to change the relative math, weâd have to accept the premise that more than 9% of the original High Elves were living outside of QuelâThalas before the zombie apocalypse. That seems like an implausibly high proportion, to me.
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No, youâre missing the point. 1% of the surviving High Elves refused to become Blood Elves. They were exiled from Quelâthelas. They arenât tabulated during the post-apocalyptic assessment by the survivors in QuelâThelas. As far as they knew everywhere was being attacked and these other High Elves may as well be dead. Dalaran fell. Lordaeron was in shambles. Who knew if the lodges still stood?
Only after the Third War did the elves realize there were more survivors, especially after the Dark Portal opened and they discovered an entire town in Outland called Allerian Hold. They later discovered that for the most part the lodges were unaffected, save the one in Eastweald later known as the Plaguelands.
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How am I missing the point? Tell me if Iâve got this right:
If the total original number of Thalassian Elves is represented by X, then
Current Blood Elf population* = X * 0.09
High Elf postwar exiles = X * 0.01
Rediscovered additional High Elf survivors = X * ???
Current High Elf population = (X * 0.01) + (X * ???)
For the current High Elf population to be higher than the current Blood Elf population, the â???â has to be 0.09 or higher, right?
*including Void Elves for convenience
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I would only say that nobody is saying that the High Elves are equal to the Blood Elf population only that the Thalassian exiles and rediscovered populations are larger than initially understood. Blood Elves are far more common and have a much larger population than the survivors/exiles outside of Quelâthelas.
Void Elves only add to the Thalassian exile population as the two factions are now cordial considering Auric Sunchaser was the 2nd in command of Alleriaâs High Elves in Outland. Vereesa Windrunner is sister to Alleria the leader of the Void Elves and Umbric just follows eagerly Alleriaâs orders.
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The title of the thread is âDo high elves have a higher population than blood elves?â
I disagree with the OP, but I understand his confusion. Most people donât understand that there are more factors at play than what we initially knew. Some of the lore we are using is quite old at this point and some of it contradicts what we now understand.
Still, the only Blonde elves you can make are Horde.
What?
Void Elves literally have Blonde hair options as of Shadowlands.
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Itâs a subtle implication that the new recruits seen in Telogrus Rift are a new generation of Void Elves who havenât had the extreme void changes that are seen in the first generation. Maybe these new Void Elves are former High Elves/Blood Elves who came later to join Alleria Windrunner.
I just checked youâre right⌠save for the race name on their character all those people who demanded Alliance High Elves now have what they want. As long as you donât m ind a character voice that kind of screams Lovecraft 
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I donât mind the voice. Just sounds very British and dark. We Alliance Void Elf players donât usually mind it. 
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British with just a seasoning of Cthulu.
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No, no I can have blonde hair. I just choose brown.
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Youâre right⌠just checked the barber shop awhile ago.
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Same here! 
fwiw, Chronicle is now no longer Word of God canon, as itâs just things from the Titanâs perspective.
We had undead guarding the Horde side, surely that means that weâre running low on Blood Elves too, right?
Itâs just because the devs wanted to underscore the Worgen Vs Forsaken theme of Legionâs faction conflict.
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