You don’t have to understand what makes someone else happy. People don’t have to justify why they enjoy something. That’s not how happiness works. Even if you find them bland, others can find them fun, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
This is demonstrably untrue. You know the words coming next: Silver Covenant. They are active. There’s nothing to suggest they aren’t. They were involved in Legion.
But also… Like “outliers”? The Void Elves were originally only the handful that joined Umbric. I mean, it couldn’t have been more than a hundred, and that’s a conservative guess.
Quel’dorei have to be excluded because they’re “outliers”, but not ren’dorei? If the ren’dorei have bolstered their numbers beyond those initially shown in the recruitment scenario, then those numbers likely came from uncorrupted elves. This suggests that there are ren’dorei that are not void-corrupted, because, again, the void-corruption was only because of the Ethereal attack, not just because they used void magic.
Hair color is a customization option, not a distinguishing factor of a faction or character race.
https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Equivocation.html
This is conflating High Elf the Alliance-aligned faction with High Elf the race. This is why I prefer to refer to the whole race as “Thalassians”, to avoid confusion. When people request High Elves, they’re requesting Alliance-aligned, uncorrupted Thalassians. Obviously, they aren’t asking to play “High Elf: The Race”, because they can already do that.
Several people have said, “So, it’s okay if hair is important to high elves, but not to blood elves?” To which I say, “So, it’s okay if faction isn’t important to high elves, but is to blood elves?”
Between faction and hair color, one is definitely more important to a group’s identity.
