If we ever get playable High Elves a house in Stormwind would be enough for me.
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Maybe near the gates of Quelâthalas in Eastern Plaguelands. I donât think the Forsaken would take kindly to setting up shop in Silverpine Forest.
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The Shenâdralar Highborne is part of the Alliance Night Elven society since Cataclysm, which reintegrated the Highborne bringing their themes, culture, and lore back into Night Elves, thus making them playable as well.
Using your logic if the High Elves factions such as the Silver Covenant and Highvale decide to come back to Quelâthalas and join the Horde theyâll still belong to Alliance?
Yeah, thatâs the main difference between them, their models, but their culture and themes remains the same.
Excuse meâŚ
WHAT??
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Highborne
Cataclysm
Following the successful negotiations between Mordent Evenshade (likely aided by the research from [Darosâ Journal]), and Tyrande Whisperwind and Malfurion Stormrage, the Shenâdralar Highborne have rejoined the night elves and has started to train them back into the way of magic and arcane. The Highborne were given a green, secluded area next to the Temple of the Moon to dwell in.
Many of the Highborne have returned and are now residing within most of Alliance cities, mainly Stormwind, Darnassus, Ironforge, the Exodar, and the neutral city of Dalaran. This shows that the Highborne have been recently re-accepted back into the Alliance as many act as trainers for the Alliance, offering their services or giving out questsâŚ
âŚthe Highborne have continued to provide considerable assistance since to the kaldorei, such as the Highborne mage Estulan informing Silvia of Choâgall, ogre mage and leader of the Twilightâs Hammer, trying to use the Gordok to gain access to the remnants of Eldreâthalas within Dire Maul, and Lorekeeper Amberwind and her apprentices âoverseeing the Alliance investigationâ of Azsharaâs ruins in an effort to uncover arcane knowledge amidst the remnants of the night elven empireâs capital. Arcanist Delaris aids the Emerald Circle of southern Felwood in battling the Jadefire satyrs and cleansing the area of corruption, noting that the forestâs demonic presence could be considered the fault of her kind but seeking to make amends. Further south in Kalimdor, Arcanist Valdurian settles in the Stonetalon Mountains and helps to settle and bind enraged Highborne spirits lingering in the vicinity as well as to gather information for his personal uses before sending adventurers to Lord Fallowmere, while his apparent student Neophyte Starcrest requests the collection of ancient relics in the Ruins of Eldreâthar, a forgotten Highborne city, for study. Groups of night elf magi are also deployed to help stop the ongoing Horde advance in the neighboring Battlescar Valley, albeit with limited success.
Mists of Pandaria
With the night elves keeping the [Divine Bell] to Darnassus for safekeeping and study, several Highborne mages portal themselves to Lionâs Landing in Pandaria, asking for reinforcements from the Alliance and reporting a stealth attack on the night elven capital.
Magister Xintar, a mage specializing in portal magic, accompanied Lorekeeper Vaeldrin and his daughter throughout Krasarang Wilds as they sought something which they believed might restore the kaldoreiâs immortality, only to have his powers sundered by a mogu trap, and later decides to visit the Timeless Isle as well as joining other night elves in the defense of the Shrine of Seven Stars.
Legion
While the Shenâdralar as a whole did not seem to actively participate in the Broken Isles despite its ties to their ancient civilization, at least one of them, Tarelvir, left Darnassus to join the reformed Tirisgarde in the Hall of the Guardian alongside the greatest magi of all of Azerothâs different races, and the group seemed to have maintained their ties with the Kirin Tor.
A female night elf, Archmage Nielthende, affiliated with the Kirin Tor, expressed interest in ley energy strewn throughout the region and asked adventurers from either faction to hop on a mana saber to absorb any lingering energy present, while two other night elf magi, Kallistia Starlance and Olothil Starlance, went to Azsuna from Dalaran in a reconnaissance mission seeking the spirits of their long-deceased parents.
Elegy
Tarelvir seemed to have returned to Darnassus after the defeat of the Burning Legion, rejoining Dyrhara and Maelir next to the Temple of the Moon, where the three warmly greeted the dwarven guests of Darnassus and where Dyrhara transported the three surviving members of the Explorerâs League expedition to Stormwind with messages from Malfurion to Tyrande and Anduin. It is mentioned that the Highborneâs presence in night elven society has allowed the kaldorei to expedite travel for small groups, sparing them lengthy sea voyages, as well as quickly conveying information to allies in potential times of war.
After learning of the Hordeâs invasion of Ashenvale under Sylvanas Windrunnerâs command, Malfurion authorized some of the Highborne magi, including Sarvonis and Ralara, to assist Commander Delaryn Summermoon in fending off the assault. The Highborne were immediately met with unexpected cheers from their brethren, and they quickly transported more reinforcements, in the form of a dozen druids, to their aid as well. The Highborne magi on Delarynâs command burned all the bridges over the Falfarren River in an effort to slow the enemy advance, and were said to have helped immeasurably in the early stages, destroying many of the Horde siege engines. They were then targeted and killed by Sylvanas and her dark rangers, preventing them from helping the night elf defenders melt the frozen river later in the conflict. A single Darnassian mage was later seen accompanying Delaryn in the Twilight Vale.
Inside the Temple, around the same time, Maelir helped transport Mia Greymane from Stormwind to Darnassus, telling the Gilnean queen that it was his honor to assist with the evacuation of her remaining people from the Howling Oak, which was successfully completed within several hours. The Highborne and Stormwindâs magi managed to evacuate hundreds of worgen and night elven civilians from the capital as the war overtook all of Ashenvale and reached Darkshore, despite being unable to transport many more in time. As Teldrassil was being burned by the Horde, Tarelvir could be seen caught in the chaos of the devastation, but could be saved by adventurers, while Maelir and Dyrhara were seen together maintaining one of the last portals to Stormwind moments before the World Treeâs destruction, through which Genn Greymane emerged to rescue his wife and an orphaned kaldorei baby.
While many of the Highborne were presumably killed on Teldrassil, several night elf magi later joined the Battle for Lordaeron in retaliation for the Hordeâs attack.
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I think giving the Night Elves some Highborne customization would be very welcome, because the current options we have are just unsatisfying if you want to play as a Highborne.
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And, even with barriers, 15% of characters are allied races. Collectively, they are more popular than any race save blood elves. Individually, some of them are more popular than some normal races.
Allied races are doing what they were designed to do: increase play time and sell character services.
One may say details of the system need revision, but the system itself is a success.
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Theyâre not exactly well defined visually in the very short amount of time theyâre shown, those two background characters could just as easily be void elves.
Thereâs only one encampment there, no buildings. But sure, that place can be used to give them a proper home.
I replied to Kirela implying faction bias, it has nothing to do with High Elves. But you can quote me showing otherwise.
Night Elves didnât give up on it, itâs the complete opposite actually, since theyâre reintegrating those themes in their society.
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Personally so long as there is something that makes you look at them and see a void elf Iâm fine with white skins and stuff.
Just make like void hair non optional so players can maybe hide it under a hood.
Well every race apart from Worgen, Undead, and pandas have an allied race now.
Are you trying to say they should be skipped even though the other 10 races have a counter allied race?
I see nothing forcing Blizzard to follow a âpatternâ. People were insisting vulpera couldnât be an allied race because all others before them were sub-races. Blizzard also used one model twice (night elf male) and skipped three models (human male and female; troll male). One allied race had new models entirely.
Nothing says thereâs a quota to be filled.
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From my previous post:
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Although you are ignoring the fact that even though the KT are not based off human models they are a clear counterpart the the regular humans.
It is down to one race per faction minus the pandas which are shared that they havenât added as an allied race.
If you were asked to pair a race to an allied race I doubt you would be left with anything other than the 2 races I mentioned left over.
Oh wow, a circular citation. The âcitationâ for that quote is just the cinematic.
Youâre free to show another citation.
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Not how it works. We donât know what type of elves those are, and that wasnât a citation, it was a sad attempt to pass off speculation as fact. Iâm not claiming they are definitely one thing or another.
When nightborne were given to the horde, the alliance received void elves. So, yes, expect for the Horde to get something alliance based in return. Otherwise, it would create an imbalance between the two.
I only respond to the parts which have something worth note. The rest was simply words.
It would be wise to follow those proverbs you speak.
I can agree to that matter. If it were not for the barriers I am sure we would see the allied races in many areas rise n popularity.
They can expand upon this area then, it would be a good idea and solidify their theme.
That is why I said implied, not explicitly Arch. What would creating palyable high elves fix in your view?
Werenât they allowing them back into society with a weary gaze and remaining largely, close to their druid basis?
Granted my knowledge on night elves is not very good since they were not my favorite race so Iâll defer to you on this notion.
In terms of their theme, it may be sort of vice versa. Night elves are primarily druidic based with some of their highborne themes, whre as nightborne are entirely highborne focused.
Under what logic? The Alliance doesnât receive a pterodactyl for every Horde one, just as the Horde doesnât receive a bee for every Alliance one.
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Some people actually think Blizzard would add Lightforged Undead and Purple Worgen over requested and popular Allied Race options just to follow some kind of baseless nonsensical pattern or quota they pretend exist.
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The alliance gets a horse for ever pterodactyl, and the horde is getting their own version soon IIRC.
The game is about equity. You get something, the horde get something.
You get Worgen, the Horde get Goblins.
Alliance got shamans, Horde got paladins.
Well at least you are calmed down a bit. We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one, Iâm certainly not budging and we arenât discussing the same thing so 
Youâre right, theyâre probably Alien Elves from Kâaresh.