it isnt made up. if they hadnt forgiven each other, theres no other way to establish trust. they still werent targeted to be horde then, but once they were, then the shared moonwells became non-cannon
The lore for them to make up wouldn’t exist until the books were written. It has nothing to do with the Horde.
Also just to be sure; you’re not referring to the ttrpg right? I only ask cause I don’t really remember any lore about sharing moonwells but the ttrpg often had odd stuff like that. The ttrpg of course was decanonized before it’s release because they veered too much from the lore in the viewpoint of the devs at the time.
so the moonwell doesnt radiate but the sunwell does? this is the point for why being with the night elves, establishes magic withdrawal relief for blood elves. we just dont know the range. the sunwell is universal and potentally interdimensional. moonwell local?
And I pointed out the distrust wasn’t fully written until later when the war of the ancients books were published.
I’m saying this was not a formal alliance as well as pointing out that the night elves weren’t Alliance at this point either.
They didn’t… Your buildings in WCIII are not canon. That’s a game mechanic not a lore one.
The blood elves being not Alliance was telegraphed for years. It wasn’t a big surprise to anyone paying attention. The Horde thing was more surprising but made sense the way Blizzard ended up doing it. They’re (at the start of TBC) more allied to the Forsaken, a group who had been hurt just as much by the Scourge and had common issues with the Alliance in the present day. They also saw the Horde as a good ally to get to Outland to find their king.
i feel like this is a semantics dance - doesnt matter if the moonwell is a mechanic, the result is the same - satiation for those capable of absorbing it. helfs in alliance lands didnt follow kael’thas.
You’re claiming they were allied to the Night elves and used moonwells to satiate their need for mana.
The Lore does not have them allied beyond a short bit where they help each other and does not include them satiating themselves with moonwells.
This is not semantics. Nothing about what happened indicates an alliance that would lead them to be Alliance down the line. The Night Elves weren’t even Alliance at this time.
It would have been a very odd choice for them to return to the Alliance. They had several reasons and story hook pushing them away which is why they were not Alliance to begin with in WoW’s start and we only have a few scant groups that notably weren’t super thrilled with the Blood Elves in their lore back then either.
And again none of this is to fly in the face of the High Elf requests. That Blizzard dangled them in front of us for years from at least Wrath on (but also during Vanilla) makes the desire for them valid enough.
Its just there is literally no reason to be making things up about the High Elves or the Blood Elves to try to make that case. We have plenty of actual lore that defines those requests already.