If you want to play a perfect pure sus imposter amogus elf with blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin, I think you’re in the wrong SL. You don’t want Shadowlands, you want Second Life.
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You’re right, blood elves being able to pretend to be high elves with their blue eyes is a nice compromise, glad Blizzard gave blood elf their RP tools while void elves can actively RP as the high elves present in telogrus. 
Your intolerance of people’s hair colors is irrelevant to this, however.
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Blood Elves have always been high elves.
Per the devs the blue eyes were always going to return to them over time.
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Unnamed NPC Wayfarers you mean? Representative of flavor for RP tools imo because they are neither canon player VEs until commented on by Blizzard, nor are they even named. (Wasn’t the last we heard that VEs weren’t recruiting? I thought HE fans used to throw that up in these threads when people suggested giving VEs a few HE options in the past) so they’ve done the skin tones, but still haven’t commented on the status of the Wayfarers, most intriguing to me which indicates RP tool.
I love our new named NPC mage trainer.
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I mean they are canon…
The Wayfarers are there.
But thats all we really know about them.
They’re there, they’re studying under Locus-Walker. Beyond that we have literally nothing.
Oh! I remember this one!
I used to suggest adding those options to void elves back when I thought people would be reasonable and it wouldn’t hurt void elves.
High Elf Pros used to get so uppity when I suggested that.
Canon player characters? It’s a bit different then because Blood Elves are High Elves, where as VEs have RP tools.
Which btw I support more being done story wise to help people who want story confirmation but I want it done in a way that removes the possibility of more HE options on VEs, bring them unique options moving forward that focus on their void theme while confirming the story that is important for some.
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Aye.
They’re canon in that they -are- there.
There is nothing to say that our characters come from them. Though I can see that logical leap to explain the new options.
There is nothing more concrete than that though.
Their existence and that they’re studying under Locus-Walker are the only Canon parts.
Anything else is guesswork at best.
I do on the whole support this.
I want a little thing to play out in the Rift showing new recruits going through some ritual or process to become full void elves that shows that it incurs a change in them.
Probably using a randomization of what we currently have but showing that the tentacles, or hair colors for void elves, show up on otherwise regular void elves.
In a perfect world (for me, personally) they’d address the blue blood and that they’re no longer what they were.
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Hi there. Since we are repeating ourselves, let me repeat that we have 2 new named High Elven NPCs in Boralus, and that means twice as much as your one NPC!
We can say that twice as much High Elves wanted to be part of the alliance war effort than wanted to be in Orgrimmar. And that’s just Boralus.
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But you also have statements from Blizzard confirming Blood Elves are High Elves and that Alliance leaning HEs are few and far between a rare site.
Thats never changed, but what has changed is the implications of HEs returning to Quelthalas now to their people.
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Oh yeah, I just thought you were against repeating arguments and such. So I think we can let the named NPCs things go. Because, I can love two NPCs twice as much as you can love one.
Besides, if you did azerite expeditions there was a chance that you had to kill a named high elven NPC fighting for the alliance. We only killed Blood Elves.
As for the distinction I’ve already said that it is nominal, but unsubsantial.
Blood Elves have the same substance as High Elves. Void Elves do not, as we have a void-tinged substance. Since substance is essence, we can conclude that Blood Elves are essentially High Elves. Void Elves are essentially different.
The difference between Blood and High Elves is a mere language thing to make sense of their political separation.
Is that agreeable to you?
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If we want to get technical here, blood elves don’t identify as high elf so there are realistically more high elf identifying high elves on the alliance than there are high elf identifying high elves on the horde.
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Yeah but if we can agree that the difference between Blood Elves and High Elves is nominal but unsubstantial we can stop going in circles.
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Have we seen yet if returning High Elves actually stop using the name?
The mage trainer in question doesn’t particularly state such and I don’t think the high elf Horde-side we see in MoP does either. (nor the few others I’ve heard about but escape me at the moment.)
I know it stands to reason that a high elf rejoining their kin in Quel’Thalas would probably take up the name, Blood Elf, but just as I never accepted that as an ALL CASES scenario back when I was pro-high elf I still don’t know if that is true in all cases now.
Like you earlier pointed out Generalizations are not always correct.
I’m here in support for:
• black, white, blond hair colors for Void Elves
• more pink and purple hair for void elves
• optional voidy tentacles, mix and match!
• pink hair for every race
• give worgen tails!
The End.
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I think the only part of that I disagree with is the blonde hair bit.
#giveworgentails
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void elves have black hair. it should have been locked to the original void skins imo but whatevs
Who cares if they’re unnamed? They’re high elves. I would like a source of these so called horde high elves please.
You think blood elves are still high elves, that’s factually false, sorry about your identity crisis.
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That is incorrect.
Blood elves and high elves have only politics between them.
They’re 100% the same race.
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They may be biologically similar, but they no longer consider themselves high elves.
VS.
The high elves who still to this day refer to themselves by the name “high elf”, and are alliance or neutral.
You’re the one that’s incorrect, unless you can provide me a source showing these horde high elves you speak of.
Anywho, I don’t expect anyone in the lannsquad to not double down on their dilusions after years of constantly doubling down on their delusions.
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I dont use blond hair myself on any toon but I see enough people wanting it and I support more choice.
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