Yeah I know of the renaming and the fact that it’s symbollic. We still hold our same traditions in our ancestral home.
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Arguable. The blood elves adopted a new culture of “We will do whatever it takes” while high elves refused to partake in demonic energies. They abandoned Quel’thalas but kept the history while blood elves kept Quel’thalas and abandoned their history in favor of their new ideals (and allies).
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Nope.
One lodge was banished for going against the mana draining of creatures. And aside from the newly changed race text, the story has historically been that Rommath did not teach the elves on Azeroth to eat Fel as he knew that would be too much and they’d revolt. The ones that went to Outlands with Kael did eat the fel, and many of them turned into the felblood elves. But Silvermoon just used fel crystals to power the city and that ambient level of fel is what changed the eye color.
Got a citation, as usually the thing with the high elves (outside of the lodges) was that they were basically integrating into the societies that they joined up with.
Because, again, Blizzard likes pulling things out of their backside at random. “Why do Kul Tirans randomly have 8 foot tall, pot-bellied giants?”
“i dunno they eat fish a lot lol”
And before one mentions Drust, that was debunked by a Blizz writer saying that they owed their random hugeness to “fighting sea monsters”.
Also never mind that no Kul Tirans have showed this sort of feature in the past. Shh.
There’s SO many threads and so many fan concepts revolving around how one could make high elves visually unique to belves that it’s absurd. All it boils down to is, “Blizz didn’t want to” and that’s all it will ever be.
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Even when we were high elves, it was us willing to do whatever. Which is how we got exiled to Silvermoon.
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I don’t see how sucking Naaru energy and gorging on Fel Magic is considered a tradition of the High Elves as they did neither of those things.
Blood Elves are the ones that did that.
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Actually no there was a vast change in culture after WC3, including the use of fel magic, summoning demons, draining magic from mana wyrms and torturing Naaru.
The quote YOU posted outright states how we sated our hunger with fel magic, and the intro outrite confirmes we live in a ‘cursed state’ from that. Bloodelves have different views, different allegances, and are physically different from fel abuse. We are no longer Highelves.
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They still ate the Fel. It wasn’t only the Outland Blood Elves.
I’ve seen them, and they were absurd as they all basically boiled down into “Let’s make a model that’s JUUUST different enough from the blood elf model that we can claim it’s unique, but at a glance still looks exactly like a blood elf.”
And who care about the lore when we’re talking pc models? They wouldn’t have added KT humans if it was just gonna be SW humans with a different accent and some nautical flavor. They made a brand new model for players to have access to, which opens up new visual storytelling for players to work with.
Indeed.
We all know what Fel Magic does to creatures that utilize it.
Saying Blood Elves are the same as High Elves is like saying Fel Orcs are the same as Orcs.
Technically they’re the same original race but they are leagues different after that.
We did that stuff until our well was restored. Now that that it is, that other stuff is no more. And then it was written after that all the fel stuff was the Felblood and the fel just powered our city.
We don’t have different views. Everything we do is for the Sunwell. And the other High Elves come back via pilgrimmage to the city on occasion to visit the Sunwell still.
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Don’t give blizzard ideas. Just give BE/VE some high-elf stuff and end this.
You do understand that those that want High Elves don’t care if they look similar to Blood Elves and Void Elves, right? They’re High Elves and that’s what fans have wanted since WoW Beta.
I guarantee you that if Blizzard released High Elves on the Alliance that they would end up one of the most played Alliance races.
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doesn’t matter if I did, Demon Hunter is only limited to one race per faction
‘other’ No, there’s no other. Blood elves are not high elves. Infact it’s outright disrespectfull to a blood elf to call them a high elf since you’re disreguarding their vows and hardships.
But those Highelves who come visit the sunwell and have returned to silvermoon, are infact now reprisented by the blue eye options bloodelves get, you can infact play as a highelf if you want to by picking those eye colours. Just like you can play a Dark Ranger by picking the skintone for it. But Blood Elves, High Elves and Dark Rangers are all three seperate things.
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There is other. All Thalassians are High Elves.
How can something be disrespectful, when I play one and I’m ok with it? We aren’t a hivemind.
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Not to mention that High Elves that returned to Silvermoon agreeded to assimilate into Blood Elven culture. They’re effectively Blood Elves now (whether they eat Fel or not) by returning and ailgning with the Horde.
That’s why Blue eyed Elves on the Horde are still listed as Blood Elves.
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The High Elves that come back because of pilgrimmage to the well do not stay.
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So where are the Stromic humans? Alteraci Humans? Scarlet Crusade humans? Argent Crusade humans? Kirin Tor Humans in the character creation screen. Or do you simply just roll a Human and create your own back story and RP the way you want?
What matters is art assets. Your Worgen example doesn’t hold up because they’re literally worgen art assets that use a completely different model. Kul’Tiran are bulkier humans that use a completely different rig and there’s nothing stopping you from using a typical human model that’s Kul’tiran.
LFD/DID/Mag’har Orcs muddied the waters since they’re reskins. But your request is even more muddy because it’s a direct copy and paste of 2 races that already exist.
Your issue is rooted in RP. Which can easily be solved by RPing the way you want, and getting some sort of cross-faction restriction removal that effectively does what you want without wasting another race slot, or muddying the waters of another AR that has got 0 new unique art assets since it’s inception.
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No. We’ve had playable high elves in the Horde since 2007.
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