I just woke up and I’ve seen too many void elf threads. 
It sounds more serious than your laughable idea of VEs druids.
Well, what can I say… The whispers are truly maddening xD
Play Horde. Case closed. Now shut up.
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That’s okay. I don’t think ideas like green eyes will gain much traction. For all the flaws Blizzard has, they haven’t stepped so horribly out of line with races/faction combos that I’d cry fowl.
Hahahah that’s okay. I stand for what I believe in and that’s how I’ve always operated. As long as I do my best to not be hypocritical in my desires, I’m happy.
You have a pretty lenient bar considering that everything that made Blood Elves unique, and everything that made Void Elves unique it’s now all in the garbage.
That’s fine, thalassian elves are the new Pandaren, and for good reasons. It’s one of the most popular models in the game.
If Blizzard wrote the story where Alleria gathered the remaining Alliance High Elves and taught them Void Magic I wouldn’t be asking for green eyes.
However, the fact of the matter is that Blizzard wrote the story to be that Alleria recruits exiled Blood Elves.
If Void Elves can’t have green eyes then they shouldn’t be able to have blue eyes.
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Well that’s where me and you strictly part ways in respects to lore I think. Thalassian elves were never unique, and they were represented in both factions.
Admittedly while the push for high elves was always a thing, the push REALLY started when Blizzard shot themselves in the foot allowing the thalassian model to sit on the Alliance side (even though they were represented with NPC’s, players weren’t a thing yet). So that opened the flood gates for support for high elves.
Blood elves on the Alliance is a totally different ball game, and in my opinion, asking for green eyed ‘Quel’‘dorei’ spits on everything that that helfers have been arguing for this entire time.
As much as I LOTHE the comment Ion said in that one interview, for this ONE case, it’s true. If you want to play green eyed thalassian elves, the Horde is waiting for you.
Ugh. It hurt my soul to even say that.
They do not have blue eyes in lore. It’s ooc customisation to look like a high elf.
If that’s you’re logic then give the green eyes homie. The green eyes actually make sense lore wise, blue does not.
Every Void Elf is not a “helfer” fan. The only reason I even rolled one is because Blizzard made it canon that they are Blood Elves.
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I don’t think it’d be a good idea. It would be too inconsistent even by Blizzard standards, and shameless to the point where it’s disrespectful to people who pushed so hard to be able to look like Quel’dorei.
The green eyes do not make sense lore wise for the same reason blue eyes make no sense. Void elves are just void elves physically now. No green eyes even though they used to be Sin’dorei, no blue eyes even though they used to be Quel’dorei.
People seem to be mixing up the Quel’dorei customisation as an ‘OK’ from Blizzard to assume void elves can shift their appearance at will. Nothing in lore thus far says they can, and if Blizzard wants to keep Sin’dorei as a unique horde faction, then velfs cannot change back.
Not su much that they can “shift”, but rather that these new customizations are indicative of new elves joining their ranks and following a transformation process similar to that of Alleria’s.
I repeat, indicative. I’m well aware that we don’t have any in-game official statement in this regard. We do have Danuser confirming their numbers are growing, though.
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The lore regarding this is that the High Elves & Blood Elves in telogras rift are being recruited into the Ren’dorei, which is the justification for High Elf customization.
Void Elves are made up of Blood Elves present during the Void ritual, High Elf wayfarers, and Silvermoon scholars.
The problem is that they are ignoring the fact that 2/3rd of the demographic are Blood Elves, yet we get no green eyes.
They add High Elf npc’s to TR meanwhile and give you guys blue eyes. It shouldn’t be either/or. They established the reason for having both and should make good on that.
Blood Elves still have their gold eyes and potentially red eyes from animus golems, so it’s not like they will no longer be distinct.
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I hear you, but what we do have in regards to the customisation was that blizzard post a couple weeks ago explaining that the customisations are specifically to allow players to look like high elves on both sides. It has nothing to do with velf lore afaik
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Which she rescued before they were fully turned into Void beings.
That’s the little part you’re leaving out, their mutation.
They’re not high elves who honor their fallen any more, they are they’re own thing.
In that we agree. They shouldn’t. They should shades of purple.
They were always playable in a single side, because sides are supposed to be distinct.
A few vendors and quest givers it’s really peanuts compared to the race which actually advanced the story of the High Elves.
“Blizz make my headcanon real!” Is all you’re saying here.
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It is still Velf lore bro, you can customize to be a High Elf all you want, but you’re still a follower of Alleria / practicing Void Magic.
Blood Elves & Void Elves are both physiologically Quel’dorei. so it makes sense to have the base skin/eye colors.
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And potential runic/Fel/Light/Arcane tattoos, and Blood Anima customizations… Blood Elves have so much potential to remain distinct from Void Elves.
Indeed, 100% agreed. The problem is that we don’t have any clear-cut canon source confirming this. We only have Danuser saying that Void Elves started (past tense) as a small group and that more elves are interested in the Void and seek them.
I truly hope devs bear this in mind and clarify what’s going on with these new recruits. In the end, it doesn’t make sense to make a race out of a “squad” - there has to be a means of recruiting new members.
You keep on ignoring the mutation.
That’s amazing how you guys refuse to acknowledge it.
Again, you have blizzard to thank for lowering that bar for a playable allied race when they said that a “crack squad” of void elves were going to be a playable race
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Indeed, but they’re not going to add customizations that go against a race’s lore.
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