So we have been seeing half elves more and more in-game, as well as in the lore. Starting with Alleria and her sisters all (minus Sylvanas to our knowledge) having half elf children. Now we have an entire human culture that is descended from elvish ancestry as well, leading humans to get the elf ear combinations in game soon. But like…
Why are all Half Elves from a High/Blood Elf bloodline? Why don’t we see any Night Elf/Human half elves? Is there a reason humans don’t do the hanky panky with the purple elves? Wouldn’t it make sense to have them walking around as well? And for that matter, where are the dwarf/elf hybrids?? I can’t knock the blood elves for not wanting to get with any of the mongrel races on the Horde, but eventually we’ll see half Nightborne/Blood elf children walking around.
I’m sure there are a couple running around but to answer your question, the reason there are more High Elf-Human hybrids is because they’ve been allied with eachother for a every long time.
Night Elves are famous for not doing the hanky panky. Their birthrates are so low that realistically they should have gone extinct before their race even got going.
Also, Night elves and humans have only known about each other for some 30 years. While High/Blood elves have been in contact with humans for a couple thousand years.
Because humans and high elves have been intermingling for thousands of years. Whereas humans and night elves have been intermingling for about 20. And night elves are famously reclusive, so it might be a while before they warm up to humans in that way.
To my knowledge due to long life spans and cultural practices night elves rarely populate, and since it was like 20 years ago I imagine it’s another multiplier for rarity.
They are?? They definitely seemed to have been the most populous of elves since they spread out all over Kalimdor. I thought they were all about the hanky panky.
They are very spread out because they used to occupy most of Kalimdor pre-sundering. But their actual numbers are horrendous. The RPG books (which are non canon now) suggested their population was less than 50.000 in total. Likely way less than that. And that was before the burning of Teldrassil. Which supposedly took out the majority of Night elves alive at the time.
But you only have to look at major Night elf characters. Almost none of them have confirmed childern. Tyrande is 14,000+ years old and have no biological children. Shandris have no children. Maive have no children. Jarod have no children. Staghelm had a single one in 10,000 years (whos dead).
Not to mention there was no Night elf childern npc’s in the game prior to the last patch of DF.
Based off what we know from ingame lore. Their birthrates are somewhere in the 1 child every couple of hundred years, across their entire specie. There is a reason why all Night elf characters are several thousand years old.
I don’t know why, but these 2 (mainly Maiev) gave off the vibe they batted for the other team and would not be having elf children lol. And unfortunately Tyrande is married to a very bad-A guy who spent the last 10,000 years sleeping… Doesn’t really make it easy to have bebes.
Oh yeah, Shandris is all about humans if some cut BFA dialog is valid. She is the one who coined the term “human potential”. Which you might have seen been used in memes over the years.
Maive never struck me as a motherly character or someone who would want children in the first place.
On a second thought, maybe the characters i mentioned weren’t the best examples. Hahaha.
I just think it’s funny that for many, many, many years you’ve had thread after thread asking for them to let Alliance roll High Elves. A deeply rooted Alliance-themed race. But after:
Night Elves.
Blood Elves.
Nightborne elves.
Void Elves.
And now half Elves (through cosmetic adjustment)
Still, the game never made “high elves” playable. At a certain point, it almost looks like Blizzard’s purposefully mocking the High Elf thing.
I’m fully expecting us to discover a new pure-elf sub-culture in the Arathi empire that becomes a new player race, hilariously cutting in line in front of the “high elf” request yet again.
Dad was a human, mom was high elf nobility, but she had a thing for bad boys that worked in the stable. Sadly, Dad was technically Gilnean, so I am a Furry half elf Druid Behold the fruit of Silvermoon passion!
Behold the fruit of Silvermoon passion!