I’d argue Drakthyr were as close to true neutral as we have gotten, given their faction division is superficial at best and the wing commanders all are still close friends.
I found the Dracthyr siding seemed to be rather cliche with the factions.
“Oh the red one joined the Horde and the blue one joined the Alliance!? … What’re the odds of THAT!?”
Just once, I’d love for the blue npc to join the Horde & the red one to join the Alliance — or for us to have the Horde claim the blue zone & the Alliance grab the red one. lol
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Dang right.
We also need a few really large races for the Alliance while the Horde gets really small ones. To balance taurens or something.
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Draenei are about the same height… Night Elves tower over quite a few Horde races.
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Was about to say, Alliance got draenei and then worgen and then split pandaren. Blizzard has given the Alliance a few big/“monster” races already.
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Now I think of it, it’s pretty shameless that they contrived an entire playable race of turncoat blood elves who abandoned their identity and reinvented themselves in the Alliance, yet never so much as a single quel’dorei who took up the sin’dorei mantle after WC3. Given the respective processes involved, you’d think the latter would be the more common conversion.
Trying to tell us something, Blizzard?
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By ‘Neutral’ – Akin to the Pandaren, I meant under the umbrella of one singular race selection; not several selectable race variants. 
- I’m not entirely shocked they had Man’ari as merely a customisation option & not a whole new race … Same with the San’layn — Also wouldn’t be surprised if they use the same ordeal for Felblood Elves too.
It would’ve been nice to perhaps have Man’ari join the Alliance and the Felblood Elves join the Horde at the same time via new races — but in the grand scope of things, I’m not too bothered about it either.
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Blood elves had a meaning. To honor their fallen nation. The high elves never joined that group since they are proud of being mere human armcandy.
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Tauren and trolls are the tallest.
After being showered in hatred from many important alliance leaders since Legion the audacity stinks.
Blood elves going neutral would be very bad. Loss of a horde city and changing the culture for a fraction of the population would be crazy.
I feel a disappointing hand waiving is coming our way because I don’t think Blizz wants to write the hostility between the elves.
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Umbric and Vereesa attacked the blood elves all the time so painting them as misunderstood victims would be bad indeed.
Not when they are perpetually bending over, sorry I went there.
It’s almost like the factions are stupid and childish and the fact that anyone still cares about them is ridiculous.
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Yeah I think the Horde & Alliance ordeal with factions is a rather outdated ordeal.
Pandaria surprisingly did it well, to be honest.
Since then though? Hmm, eh ~ not so much …
However I do think the races in WoW should pay homeage to their history with the faction they’ve stood by & had help off over the years, and keep large aspects of their identity that’s been established over-time 
… Which is what many are worried will be tarnished & washed away with Silvermoon opening its gates to the Alliance. 
- Not to mention, we all know the ‘High Elf’ playerbase are most likely going to force their own agenda & such in Silvermoon + Quel’Thalas over the Blood Elf identity & history – with their own headcanons and projections of “what it should now be like” etc.
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I have no idea where this idea of changing the already playable races into a neutral one comes from.
Void elves are not blood elves or high elves, changing them into either is eliminating a whole race that was made during that period, and even if you claim they shouldn’t have been made in the first place, now they exist, you can’t change that. You also can’t change the identifying factor of blood elves since their introduction in BC.
And Blood Elves are also the ones rulling quel’thalas, you also can’t change that.
Y’all are reading too much into the “uniting the scattered elven tribes”. It probably just means some feel good friendship yay momment where void elves, high elves, blood elves (and maybe night elves and nightborne) do something together to save the world from a big bad guy.
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Literally.
Rarely see anyone with Horde faction pride anymore.
Leaders just get killed off, demonised, second-hand fodder to get a beating or merely just a background character for the spotlight [Insert name] Alliance hero.
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Just saying this again.
There is no evidence, at all, that Silvermoon will become a neutral city, or that the Blood Elves will become a neutral race.
When we have evidence of that, okay, go off and criticize. Shoot for the moon.
But right now all the people freaking out are just being paranoid over nothing. Just like how the ‘Night Elves will abandon Kalimdor’ people were being paranoid over nothing.
Blood Elves are already a “neutral race”, Alliance have Void Elves which are a majority former Blood Elves.
If anything, the neutral hub is going to be the Sunwell, and an updated Isle of Quel’danas. Calling it now.
Alleria and Anduin are alliance. Why am I supposed to care about what they want?
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