The thing with half elves is theres literally only 4 in lore. I know blizz can write new lore and all, but even void elves started with a bigger group than that. It just feels like elves hve issues reproducing in general. Its always seemed like their numbers are smaller than the other races.
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Nothing has changed culturally in quelâthalas in over 7000 years. The amount of time they have been separated is about a day in their life time. At best you could say they dont mind mixing with humans. But then, the sunreavers were always the most forward thinking of their people. Including kaelâthas who fell in love with jaina. They still consider quelâthalas home. Its a boisterous claim youve made, with no examples to cite i might add, which i am used to by now from the pro side
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So life and world outlook has not changed since the scourge invaded Quelâthalas.
The blood elves forsaken the name high elves.
They no long recognize a king or have tried to reinstate a monarchy.
They have abandoned any of their sympathies with the alliance, and made themselves staunch allies with the horde.
They are now willing to take part in mass murder when previously hated evil things.-this according wow pedia.
They had no issue of syphoning magic from living creatures?
No culture or life style change at all.
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You are referring to minor things, some have even been resolved. Changing the adjective was to honor the fallen and everything they lost(king,sunwell,silvermoon,their people). The only thing that has changed is their isolationism. Which arthas literally beat out of them. They know they need allies now. Thats about it
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Ive said it many times. Blood Elves are the little punk rock kids you see at hot topic (or kids like that when I was a kid anyway) rebelling against their parents or whatever and thats what they had to do to become a horde race back in BC. High Elves are their contrast.
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Its the other way around. Using the term âhigh elfâ in modern times is just a way to show political dissent
I donât really see them like that. Belves arenât as wholesome or nice as High Elves are, but they have a few reasons to be like that. Lorâthemar is a very good man/leader. If he was Warchief, the war, Alliance and Horde would probably disappear in a week or two. 
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Yeah. Beings that live for thousands of years radically change everything about their society in 15 years. Despite just being some disillusioned farstriders/magister.
Get with the program! Logic wonât stop the Helf train and their aversion to playing High Elves on the Horde.
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Since the blood elf NPCs actually disagree with you I guess theres nothing to talk about.
I never said it was a good thing or a bad thing. Its just how they were presented to us, and many players over the years saw through their act, but it is what it is.
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They proved it when development told them high elves are already playable and they basically responded with âbut we dont play hordeâ
There was even a thread a while back, where a fan asked for the high elf people to be reunited. Guess who showed up to say no, if it wasnt all about skin color they would have agreed as lorewise it would still be their âalliance aligned hign elvesâ yet they reject it and never bring it up as a possibilty
Asking for a model to be modified from high/blood elves, would result in something less then a high elf and a void elf with light skin is still a void elf
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I stopped conversing to some of the antis because of things like this. Elements in game show the differences between Quelâ and Sinâdorei and they say we refuse to see things? Yeah i just get tired of repeating things. If they refuse to see whats going on in game we cant have an actual conversation about High Elves.
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Iâm 90% sure the only reason anti-Helfers are alright with Void Elves is because of their skin colour. Playable Void Elves on the Alliance butchers the lore like crazy, yet having playable High Elves on the alliance is far too crazy. I havenât seen any of us asking for High Elves because of their beauty and looks.
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Yes, and the only difference is politcal
Its the same silly tactics over and over, and no matter how many times someone points out evidence that contradicts said tactics they will just repeatedly come back with âyoure wrongâ.
But trying to lump high elves and blood elves together in desperation to covet whatever one is trying to covet just throws the blood elf story in the bin really.
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Yeah, I am not on the Sethrak train myself.
And some people claim Jinyu and Ankoan are a hot alliance request, but all I think of when I see them is this.
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While they do have a similar story to the Draenei they still culturally and historically are closer to the zandalari trolls, the horde also does a lot more for them compared to the alliance, so Iâd say that they are heavily horde leaning currently.
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No offense meant Celekolnir, but the only reason you wouldnât have seen any examples of that in this thread is if you hadnât actually read it. Iâll sift back through it if you like, but looks are a significant part of several people in this threadâs desire for playable High Elves.
And really, fair enough because just how many people play the game who genuinely donât care about how their characters look?
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All I had to do was start working with my first Ankoan follower in Naz on my afflock to forever lose any desire I might have had to see them playableâŠbecause those voicesâŠ
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I havenât really ever seen it asked. If that was the case, theyâd probably be perfectly fine with normal skin options for Velves.
Could you reply to a comment to show me? Itâd be pretty weird to see, ngl.
Part of why i donât have flight yet, seriously obnoxious.
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