High Elf Allied Race Megathread (Continuation)

[Fyorsing-sargeras]

I just imagined this and I laughed so dang hard.

They’d be grotesque, but hilarious.

Certainly there are some who say they would accept a modified version, but if I wanted high elves available, why would I want them modified from the race I came to like back in WC2 and WC3?

Not saying I disagree with the notion in its basis, but under the context of the game’s design.

I’m not sure anybody would want for HE’s to become visually divergent, but I’m confident they would accept it if it meant actually being able to play as something derived directly from the Alliance-aligned HE’s they’ve been asking for for ~15 years.

An interesting thing to note about the way AR’s have worked, thus far, is that the system has invalidated complaints about model similarity in some instances (i.e. Zandalari and Kul Tiran) while simultaneously validating those same concerns in other cases (i.e. Void Elves, Nightborne).

They shouldn’t have utilized the AR system as a mechanism for giving players access to different skins of their existing races, IMHO. I would’ve built the system around the idea of introducing completely standalone races that present in a relevant way for any given expansion.

In such a system, instead of what we got in Legion (reskins of four existing races), we might’ve seen two extremely relevant races from that expansion be introduced using models and textures that are completely unique onto themselves – perhaps, Nightborne and Vrykul.

blizzard thinking they have a cool story prop to use, use them as they see fit when dalaran is in play in the story and thats it. and its almost always in oppostion of the sunreavers. if you want to put more into that its your fanfictions

Citizens of Dalaran, having their story focused around Dalaran. More news at 10.

I don’t think that’s happening until Khadgar no longer leads the Kirin Tor, Fyorsing. He was unambiguous at the end of Legion that he - and by extension Dalaran - would not raise his hand against either side. I suppose he could be outvoted by the Council - as Jaina was over re-admitting Blood Elves, but then you risk the same bad writing that had Jaina poutcrash out of Dalaran do the same thing with him.

This is why I said pretending.

They’re officially unwilling to participate in the conflict between the factions, but they’re also patently aligned with the Alliance on virtually every major social issue. You notice how when you take a slow-walk around Dalaran (Legion-version), you almost exclusively pass Humans, High Elves, Blood Elves, Gnomes, and Worgen?

There’s a reason for that.

[Prétre-sargeras]

This is my absolute expectation lol

People wont stop requesting them until this is said.

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

kylorendorei.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

someone in the thread argued that void elves aren’t biologically high elf anymore. we’re like a new race. we use to be blood elves who are high elves. now we are neither. we’re creatures from the void.

That someone was - and will continue to be - me. Void Elves are GMO Thalassians. They were in the process of being unmade as corporeal beings by a Nether Prince and turned into ethereals. Only Alleria and the player stop it, but not before they are forever altered. Hyper, you have purple blood and tentacles. You used to be a Blood Elf, you used to be Thalassian, but you’ve been forcibly altered forever.

You are not Alleria - who was carefully and methodically infused with the power and ability to control the void by Locus Walker and by her willing and conscious decision to drain a dark Naaru - you are something between a Thalassian and an ethereal. Some of both, all of neither.

[Kylorendori-lightbringer]

kylorendorei.

You rang?

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

i know. i’m a blue tentacle head redux.

have you met my sistahs from another motha, the draenei?

[Kylorendori-lightbringer]

kylorendorei.

You have no idea how long my fingers hovered over the keyboard awaiting Void elves being available so I could make sure I got this name.

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

whos your alt in the thread?

[Broflake-illidan]

So…no playable high elves then due to the implementation of void elves no?

It doesn’t say when. Not to my knowledge anyway.

The are exiled at the end of TBC right after the ignition of the sunwell.
The blood elves don’t assist the Horde until WotLK under pressure by Sylvanas. So, void elves never attacked the alliance and never worked against them.

Blood Elves are written by Blizzard to say they do not consider themselves High Elves. So if Blizzard already wrote that, and they make it that way in the game where Blood Elves and High Elves are separate peoples, Then Blood Elves are not High Elves.

Except they do consider themselves high elves, they simply renamed themselves. They still identify as that thalassian race with thousands of years of history.
They simply don’t want to be called high elves because that would disrespect the dead.
If Americans call themselves the chosen ones, they don’t lose everything that makes them who they are because of the name change.

[Kylorendori-lightbringer]

whos your alt in the thread?

You can’t really not know that…can you?

[Fyrebusche-wyrmrest-accord]

without checking profiles id guess murg, as you sound friendly to both sides here

[Elyssaria-kargath]

So…no playable high elves then due to the implementation of void elves no?

Remains to be seen

My beef in this is that I can’t stand humans, Draenei or dwarves for paladins… I’d rather have a night elf Paladin above all else, but iam digging this warrior as of late.

[Hypêrspace-dalaran (Hypêrspace)]

You can’t really not know that…can you?

/does an algebraic calculation on that sentence

yes, i cant not know that. tis why i asked

[Prétre-sargeras]

Except they do consider themselves high elves, they simply renamed themselves.

Except the Warcraft Encyclopedia stats they dont consider themselves high elves. This was written by Blizzard.

[Avarie-farstriders]

Where does it say that?

Regardless, they are not the high elves we want.

[Broflake-illidan]

Again though, that is just holding on to a wish and a dream.
If no one’s words, not even the designer of the game matters, then we look at what is implemented.
based on the implementation, void elves are the compromise.

[Fyrebusche-wyrmrest-accord]

Except they do consider themselves high elves, they simply renamed themselves.

Except the Warcraft Encyclopedia stats they dont consider themselves high elves. This was written by Blizzard.

thats because theyve rebranded themselves after a national tragedy. they changed an adjective to honor the fallen, the race is high elf. thats why the devs tell you blood elves are high elves. culturally they have changed nothing in 7000 years since they founded quel’thalas

[Prétre-sargeras]

Man if a dev told you to quit playing WoW you might really do it. You cling to his words like gospel.

[Elyssaria-kargath]

See my edited response.

But it’s what we have to go by, and there really is no harm besides going back a forth with old arguments. High elves don’t make or break the game for me.

[Prétre-sargeras]

High elves don’t make or break the game for me.

High Elves dont make or break the game for anyone. FTFY