Did you miss the part where High Elves are returning to Silvermoon?
… But that’s what I’ve been asking for.
High Elves that we’ve had since WC2. That’s what really everyone is on board with in regards to playable High Elves.
It’s why Void Elves had such backlash as that was Blizzard not giving fans what they wanted but what Blizzard thinks they fans wanted.
Doesn’t help that Void Elves have like no lore and haven’t done a single thing since Legion.
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I think it’s laziness. Rather than make up a different Alliance based organization to mirror the Sunreavers for things like Dalaran they made a mirror faction of high elves up out of thin air so they didn’t have to think so hard.
And I wasn’t arguing with you about this here. I was responding to someone else who brought up Tolkien elves.
Now it’s a cultural name difference. Calling oneself a Blood Elf is going, “I define myself and my people by the Scourging of Quel’thalas, and I am aligned to the Horde who tried to commit genocide on us in the past” while calling oneself a High Elf is going, “I define myself and my people by our ancient heritage, and I am aligned to the Alliance who has acted as our stalwart allies in ages past”
I am giving some hyperbole and bait just for fun, but the general point still stands.
Void Elves are the Monkey’s Paw wish for High Elves. Alliance has wanted playable High Elves since WoW began because, hey, would you look at that-- they’re part of the WC2/WC3 Alliance. But the devs, in their infinite wisdom, decided helves weren’t unique/cool enough so they just pulled some void elves out of their backside to loosely link to Alleria.
Blizz be like,
“There’s not enough high elves left to constitute a playable race.”
Shows off high elves as Alliance partners at every opportunity between vanilla and present day
Adds void elves who are followers of one specific outcast Magister, numbered in the dozens
Belves/helves should be like pandaren in that you get to choose what side you go with. No blue eyes for belves, no green eyes for helves. Both can get gold. But that ship has already sailed long ago, so it’s best just to play pretend with a non-blue velf.
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Most aren’t and many still don’t forgive the Blood Elves for kicking them out, hunting them when they stayed in their own Forests, and for remaining with the Horde.
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I’m talking about the descriptor on the select screen.
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So… They’re Blood Elves.
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I can call myself Susan. It doesn’t change my race.
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Again, symbollically.
Do people understand what that means?
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Okay…?
Different cultures exist. If every race was put together then all the Humans would just be tabs under Human on character selection.
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Race doesn’t have the same meaning. On a technical level, Forsaken wouldn’t even all be the same species of undead lol.
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Still not High Elves. They’re Blood Elves.
The High Elves in the Alliance consider themselves the only true High Elves and despise the Blood Elves and what their culture has changed into.
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The humans are still humans though. Just from different places.
We are still high elves. Just like the high elves that stayed with the alliance are still high elves. Just like the Blood Elves that went back to be with the Alliance are still High Elves.
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Kul Tirans are a separate playable race, just sayin’
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Yes, that’s for selection reasons in a game. They are still humans.
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Yet they’re their own selection on character creation.
Blood Elves are a subset of the High Elves and are considered abominations by the true High Elves that never took in Fel or betrayed the Alliance for the Horde.
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Which is funny as the “high elves” are the ones who have abandoned that culture.
Kul’tirans are also a completely different appearance from regular humans and not just basically a copy paste with a new name.
I don’t care what elves that aren’t in the ancestral home consider us.
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yeah um… read a few lines further down… to the part where they renamed to bloodelves then started to sate their hunger with fel energies… and became something different…
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No they didn’t.
Those that weren’t with the Silver Covenant were literally hunted down and forced out of Silvermoon and its Forests by the Blood Elves for refusing to eat Fel.
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