Saying that to just get what you want? No wonder BfA story doesn’t make any sense.
it doesnt matter either. the few actual alliance ‘high’ elves arent the representatives of the high elf story. that is the blood elves. the alliance ‘high’ elves could become void elves, or have half elf children, but they dont have their own path anymore beyond background decoration
Why suddenly the opposition started to claim that lore was on their side?
Lore don’t take sides on this.
Taking bits of it and ignoring the whole image isn’t respecting lore either.
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This was during a time when Jaina was the leader of the Kirin tor and the Kirintor was allied with the alliance. The SC was at Jaina’s beck and call.
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and as khadgar was the present kirin tor commander at that battle, he outranked veressa on the battlefield. he even had to talk her down from pointing her bow at rommath
Sure. Void elves have been described by Ion as a crack squad, which is at most 15 to 20 people.
High elves are what’s left over of all the elves who renamed themselves to Blood elves, which is described as 10% of what’s leftover after the 90% renamed themselves.
You’re honestly going to sit there and tell me there could possibly be more Void elves than the leftover High elves? When Alliance High elves make up the rest of what’s left after Blood elves took up a new name?
SC probably has more Elves overall than Void elves could claim to have, seeing their presence all over the game.
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Get what I want? What do you think I want?
And where has Ion said that there is only 15-20 Void Elves?
Have you ever heard of the saying “I want don’t get”?
Kinda makes my point that the SC isn’t neutral. You don’t think they would allow a character to be killed off when there is a bigger threat involved right? The outrage would have been massive
At any rate you mentioned that the SC is somehow at Haldurons beck and call… if that’s the case, shouldn’t the SC be apart of the blood elves then If he were calling the shots? No
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No. What do you think I want?
Its a pain in the backside to get, I don’t have it either.
Hell I didn’t even have the achieve for having two max levels on each side until recently since i generally stayed on one side for the longest time and got distracted easily.
“We must put this misery behind us. We must enter a new chapter! And so I say to you that, as of this day, we are no longer high elves ! In honor of the blood that was shed throughout this kingdom, in honor of the sacrifices of our brothers and sisters, our parents, and our children, in honor of Anasterian… as of this day we will take the name of our royal lineage! As of this day, we are sin’dorei! For Quel’Thalas! Hail to the sin’dorei!”
– Kael’thas Sunstrider , Blood of the Highborne
"As I suspected, it gets worse up ahead. The Silver Covenant is outright attacking innocent Sunreavers!
This cannot stand. While our prime directive is to rescue Aethas Sunreaver, we must also protect as many blood elves as we can."
– Rommath , Quest: Violence in the Arena
“It unsettles me to have to fight directly with the high elves of the Silver Covenant … but I never tire of slaying Alliance.”
– Rommath , Quest: The Kirin Tor’s True Colors
“Do you know how many elves— sin’dorei and quel’dorei alike —died to defend that land? How many continue to die? And you say I should just let it go? What the hell is wrong with you?”
– Lor’themar Theron , In the Shadow of the Sun
Baenan spat on the floor near the elf’s feet. “Ye blood elves wouldn’t know nobility if ye had th’ definition tattooed on yer foreheads. Pathetic, slavering magic addicts, ye even sold out yer own people!”
Talithar’s face whitened, giving Baenan the satisfaction of having hit a nerve. He realized it was unwise to bait his jailor, but he was too angry to care.
“Aye,” he pressed, “I’ve met high elves in me life. I know what ye did tae them. I come from Loch Modan; I’ve heard th’ stories from th’ Farstrider lass there—”
– Quest for Pandaria, Part 4
“You think I do not know what I am? We sin’dorei were given a choice: our integrity or our well-being. As if that were any kind of choice at all. I chose my well-being. My wife chose her integrity.”
– Talithar Swiftwind , Quest for Pandaria, Part 4
One hundred years ago…
I and a small group of other High Elves traveled here from our homeland, Quel’thalas. We sought the ancient mysteries of Kel’thoril… to find why it was destroyed.
We found fragments in the ice, shards of the crystal. The Archmage we accompanied did not take long to fall under their sway. In our foolishness, we noticed too late.
His spirit wanders in the southeast, among those he drove to madness, still clutching the memory of the precious shard…
…
Maenius was a powerful mage and an honorable elf. His spirit did not deserve such an ignoble fate.
…
We were shocked before we died. Shocked that one among our noble and austere kind could descend into vicious obsession so quickly. We died as naive fools, the victims of our own blithe assumptions.
The living would know that these events would play out yet again… both here, and among the entire elven race with the fall of Quel’thalas.
…
Long after my death, my people would suffer an even greater mistake. The High Elves relied on the Sunwell and its glory. Never imagining a world without it, we would never make preparations to deal with such a fate.
Later, when the Sunwell fell to the forces of the undead, what was left of my descendants would be lost and helpless… and the path they would take in response would change them forever .
The Sin’dorei , still striving for redemption, would return here as well…
– Quel’dorei Spirit , Quest: Legacy of the High Elves ] and [Quest: Descendents of the High Elves
We were not naive, as our forefathers were. We were suspicious and cunning and ready for betrayal at every turn.
Yet our pride and greed drove us to ruin once more. How many more will be lost to Kel’theril?
…
One year ago…
The legend of the Crystal of Zin-Malor reached Silvermoon, and I led a group of the finest warriors and scholars avaliable to this land. We brought ample mana crystals, so none of us would be tempted to taste the crystal itself.
The crystal did not need our hunger to ruin us. Once in our possession, it warped all but me into wretched beasts.
– Sin’dorei Spirit , Quest: Descendents of the High Elves and Quest: Pain of the Blood Elves
The opening of the Dark Portal brought news of my people’s fate. In a way, my exile shielded me from sharing in their downfall, but to see the Farstriders throw their lot in with Kael’thas…
I never imagined my one-time brethren capable of such a thing.
The homecoming I once dreamt of will never happen. This forest is the only home I have left.
– Theloria Shadecloak
No, don’t feel bad. I get that a lot.
<Taela looks both amused and annoyed.>
I’m a HIGH elf, not a blood elf. Don’t worry, I’m not going to suck all of the magic out of you.
– Taela Everstride
With those vessels and their power in hand, the scattered survivors of my people can resist the lure of demonic magic. Every quel’dorei we can save from our prince’s folly is one more that can help us regain our lost glory.
– Ros’eleth , ( Quest: Vessels of Power )
(credits to Alamara, original version with links on the OP)
Hey, why are those pieces of lore and in game lines treating High Elves and Blood Elves differently? Aren’t they literally the same? Isn’t lore on the anti side as they say?
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You act like that’s a bad thing?
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They are, and all you’re doing is playing a game of semantics while being needlessly pedantic.
Blood elves are the same race as high elves.
It is even in your quote where they state our prince’s folly, Kael’thas sunstrider, who they acknowledge as their prince and one of their own even though his title is blood elf not high elf.
Good job shooting yourself in the foot at the end.
Now, where is that quote Mowa? The one where I made a claim about the impact of playable high elves?
Still waiting.
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Should tell this to all those asking for blue eyes on Blood Elves. They even get TWO options, a Blood Elf DK for Horde side or a Void Elf for Alliance! 
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Hey, theoretically then, we don’t need high elves as a playable race 
Who’s “we”
The people that want playable Alliance High Elves and those that want Blue Eyes on Blood Elves are TWO entirely different groups.
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Yet I see no one denying that, but there was a culture shift and a distinction between the groups and their lifestyle choices…
Simplified-One lifestyle choice pushed them to ally with the horde, the other lifestyle either exiled them, they left or were already separated by the closing of the dark portal.
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So I guess Stormwind is only a city with a few hundred people right?
In-game NPC numbers =/= in-universe population
They’re there to rep a percentage.
For instance SW being a Human city has mostly humans in it, that doesn’t mean other races don’t live there as shown by the various elves/draenei/gnomes/dwarves etc.
But I guess this kind of logical deduction isn’t common for some people.
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Primarily because if the only difference between the two is eye color, and blood elves have it through DKs, then no need for a high elf.
Void elves can provide the aesthetic while being alliance faction based.
That, and I was clearly and intentionally being facetious.
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