I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but a big problem with void elves at their inception was how little effort was put into them (story or unique appearance) compared to the other allied races.
It leaves everyone struggling with “Blood elves who got TOO blood elfy and whoops wound up purple and with better hair”, and there’s not a terrible lot to fall back on.
The entire Alleria story that’s the unlock has… Very little to do with our playable void elves. Wasted opportunity – still should have been Broken, but that ship has obviously sailed off a waterfall and here we are, scrambling to explain blood elves who ragequit the Horde.
And no, this is not the thirsty side of me thinking about the goth bf, I mean it.
They need to consolidate themselves as their own people. Lore, development and yes, this includes visuals. Otherwise they will be always considered “Void Blood Elves” and that helps no one.
Because who knows? WHO FLIPPING KNOWS? We’re all just guessing.
Which is also part of the reason why the high elves get bundled in, because they at least have a bit of background and story. And obviously there’s SOME contact between void elves and the Alliance high elves.
…But we don’t even know the nature of that.
SEEMS LIKE A REALLY GOOD TIME TO DEVELOP THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN THE OLD GOD PATCH HUH
Are there high elves rejoining the Horde? Where are those blue eyes coming from? Is it natural? If so, how do the blood elves feel about that? Are they relieved? How’s Quel’thalas doing? What do the blood elves think of “Oh, it’s SCOURGE O’CLOCK again?” Will Lor’themar do anything besides worry?
I wouldn’t expect them to, but allied races (shockingly) arn’t seperate races. Kultirans are humans, Mag’har are orcs, void elves are blood elves. They almost all share a race. The only ones who don’t are the Vulpera who should have never been an allied race, it should have been fish-goblins.
The whole point of allied races was to add a new flavour to the pre-existing races.