… and during the chaos of the war, both factions simply presumed that their ships had been routed by the enemy when neither the Alliance fleet nor the Horde destroyers returned home.
Little did the world know that both the Elves and the Ogres became ship-wrecked upon a mysterious new land known to those the survivors as…
The Dragon Isles.
Solves the “all High Elves are Blood Elves” nonsense because the High Elves would never have suffered the fall of Silvermoon, and gives an excuse for why a faction of Horde-loyal Ogres wouldn’t have shown up earlier in the game’s history. It’d give the WoW artists an excuse to do some HD Warcraft 2 era art as well and would root Dragon Isles in the core fantasy of the World of Warcraft universe.
NOTE: This is just a creative exercise done off-the-cuff to show how easy it would be to justify this sort of stuff. If this was actually your job and you were paid to come up with this stuff, I’m sure someone could come up with even better ideas if they were capable of doing so. Nobody cares for why you think Blood Elves are High Elves or why the Horde doesn’t need Ogres. Long-time fans of the franchise want it, and if they can do mental gymnastics to justify Blood Elves joining the Horde, they can easily justify High Elves who never suffered the tragedy that turned many of them into Blood Elves or justify Horde Ogres.
I think Blood Elf fans would have a point that this group of High Elves would probably feel more loyalty to their homeland than an Alliance they haven’t had contact from in over two or three decades. I doubt a void-god Alleria approaching them would make them feel any more friendly towards the Alliance. Vereesa might be the better ambassador, but she has nowhere near the clout of Alleria, and I think Lor’themar would be infinitely more welcome than either (again, because Alleria is a Void Goddess).
It’d have to be a matter of chronology. The Horde would have to approach the Ogres and befriend them before realizing those High Elves were there. That would firmly put them against the Blood Elves, but I still can’t imagine they’d be too chuffed about Void Elves even existing.
Regardless, sounds like a good way to add Ogres to the Horde, but I feel like there isn’t a bad way to add Ogres to the Horde at this point. I’d prefer if the Ogri’la Ogres were the Horde’s playable Ogres, just because of their advanced intellect and wisdom. It goes back to the old WC3 identity of the Horde subverting the trope of monster races being evil.
What my mind jumped to was the two groups “got together” and made a new hybrid race, the high ogres! All the prettiness of an elf with the thiccness of an ogre. Who doesn’t want that?
But I don’t think we need a high elf race. We already have two playable races that use the blood elf model, and look virtually the same. A third one is overkill and a waste of a race slot that could be used for something newer.
This would actually be very cool. The Alliance rarely get to be the aggressor. If the Horde arrived before the Alliance and the Horde allied with the Ogres, then the High Elves, maybe not knowing the War is over, and seeing Blood Elves subordinate to an Orc captain (maybe thinking the Orcs have enslaved them), might strike out at the Horde. Then the Alliance could arrive later, ally with the High Elves, and then get entangled in a bit of a political mess due to the trouble the High Elves started.
tbh, there’s draenei and lightforged draenei.
Gnomes and mechagnomes.
Dwarves and dark iron dwarves.
Tauren and highmountain tauren.
orcs and mag’har orcs
Trolls and zandalari trolls.
So high elves and void can be together.
Edit: I’m not saying we should add high elves (though I wouldn’t be against it) just that it wouldn’t be any different if we did get them, as we have several of the same races.
I don’t really care about high elves, I would not like the game more or less if they were added. But I feel like it is a little bit different. Everything in your list there is a core race and their allied counterpart. High and void elves would be an allied race getting an allied race counterpart, which I think would be extremely unnecessary especially considering it would be as little as just eye color and racials
Blood Elves being High Elves doesn’t have anything to do with Alliance not having Helves as a playable race. Blizz being stubborn is. Because there were a contingent of Helves that stayed with the Alliance, others that left after Belves started sucking off mana wyrms for magic and even more who have left to be Velves, who now have the Helf appearance.
Belves being Helves and Helves being in the Alliance are both true. They already have the excuse of being in the Alliance, because THEY ARE ALREADY!
Most of the ars could have been rolled into the parent race as customization. I hate that they are separate races as it is. There are options to look like high elves, that’s good enough.
