It can’t be a retcon at all, because I started a bloodelf paladin back in BC (she was too cute, came up when I started a new character and couldn’t just throw her away) and I sucked mana from living creatures. Not only was I never given the option to draw from anything else, but I can’t draw from the crystals powering Silvermoon even if I wanted to.
To restate from up-thread, Fel was fading from blood elves even before some of them were crammed full of Void, and as elves have been established as ‘magical sponges’ who absorb the energies around them and reflect them in their eyes, the only way for Fel to overcome the Void light in their eyes is for them to ditch the Void swirling inside them and uptake some Fel. As long as Void is the strongest magical energy for void elves, that is what their eyes will reflect.
Do you have any official source that says that there was a biological change? And I mean an official source, also known as actual, non-retconned lore and released on a Blizz approved way (meaning tweets would be a flimsy proof).
Because if it exists, I’d like to see it… much like when I saw the mutation of Void Elves with my own two eyes when I unlocked Void Elves.
Pretty sure you did the scenario and, as far as I know, there is only one of those, meaning, you’re flat out ignoring all that happened in that scenario to instead, focus on a bunch of NPCs with no background information… and I know exactly why.
The combination of Fel and Void does not result in an explosion like it does with Light and Void. Fel and Void can combine perfectly fine. However, just like with any Cosmic Force, if the amount of energy becomes too large, it will become volatile. There are three individual instances of Fel + Void combining in a “living” creature. Two (Iskar and Felhounds) resulted in no negative outcomes, and in only one (Xhul’horac) did it result in eruptions after he was absorbing more Fel than he could contain.
I know it plenty well, which is why I’ve responded to you.
He was able to contain both Void (being as he was originally a Void entity) and Fel. He only started having problems (which is mentioned in his journal entry) after being filled with an overwhelming amount of energy.
It’s undeniable when you take into account the other two examples I provided.
Shadow-Lord Iskar was a High Arakkoa that was mutated by the Void curse of Sethe. He was then infused with Fel to be returned to High Arakkoa form (albeit with Fel corruption). He combines Fel and Void throughout his encounter with no problem.
Felhounds of Sargeras are another, even better, example. The Felhounds are demons, which are Fel entities. One of them was infused with Void, and at no point in the encounter does it imply that Void Felhound is experiencing issues due to the combination of the two forces within it.
I’m not sure how the Curse of Sethe is related to Void other than obscure references to shadow. It can be argued that gloomhounds are void infused, but I don’t know that “infused” equates to actually manifesting void energy, if you take my meaning.
For me, the problem lay in a lack of definition (ie shoddy writing) as to exactly how fel and void energy interact. It could be argued that Xul’horac clearly shows the catastrophic results of manifesting void and fel, Shadow-Lord Iksar showing that they can possibly co-exist when manifested, and in the example of gloomhounds there simply isn’t enough data to determine if they manifest void and fel energy at all (looking at their casting abilities I don’t see any void or fel powers actually being evoked). Gloomhounds could possibly have no fel left in them at all after the transformation for all we know given the lack of data.
Xul’horac actually evokes both fell and void, and explodes as a result of it. The other two examples do not show evidence that they evoke both fel and void energies. The issue is too vague and can reasonably be argued both ways at this point.
Thank you for giving me cause to look into it more as I was honestly basing my observation on Xul’horac alone.
Noted. And you need to understand that you are posting your opinion on a public forum which opens your post up to scrutiny, criticism, and other forms of disagreement.
I’ve said what I wanted to say, which is I think your idea is entitled and dumb; and while my first impression of you is that you’re pretentious, I’m sure that you are also a perfectly nice person and I hope you have a good night.
So, by your own logic, Void Elves are now a different race as you so called claim, to the Blood Elves and High Elves…
Right, so how about you actually fully back that up with actual lore before making such a claim. Because Umbric or Alleria has not said the Void has changed there race
void elves are actually void creatures inside of an elf skin
have you tried that new shadowlands toy that turns most races into a child version of themselves? you actually get a glimpse of a void elfs true nature with it
this is why grape jelly comes out when your void elf takes damage
If you give them green eyes then you must give them red hair. That’s the only way I ever use the green eyes on blood elves anymore, the blondes and brunettes get blue eyes, the redheads get green eyes, then you put on your heritage and it looks like christmas!
The mage tower has a questline for a warlock portal. It shows different types of magic being used to make transportation (portal magic), which involves weaving together arcane,shadow, fel magics I believe. The right runes at the right time. If they do it wrong it ends up badly. So in theory different magics can mix like how Jaina and the void made a more powerful teleport spell mixing those magics. But if they don’t know what they are doing or intend for the magics to mix badly for volatility beings may do this like the void/fel demon.
Oh snap. When you’re right you’re right. I’m mostly advocating for hairstyles and luckily those are culturally memetic and epigenetic so there’s no logical reason not to have some of them. At least the ones other alliance races have, humans currently have like 40 styles including many that were exclusively blood elf and voids have 13 or something with zero blood elf do’s yet they came from the same culture, not very ecumenical.
