metzen said night elves are drow with a twist. they apparently are part wood elf. blood elves are drow with a twist since they left the nature part entirely being tied more to arcane, and as a result can be neither druids or shaman. drows are like dwarven elves - prefer underground caverns, but they still embrace the natural environment of the cave, with an affection for spiders and crystals. explains why a mutation of the nightborne were the faldorei and why we had to collect mana crystals for them. and why their entire network of magic conduits were underground caves, powered by mana crystals. blood elves are their relatives.
maybe we could get elves that look like this https://www.movies4kids.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/l_1296728018-745.jpg
nope they never changed their stance on them being drow like, only that they would no longer be insect riders. they kept the skin colors of the drow, the matriarchal society with a powerful female goddess - elune - and all they needed was a good enough artwork to sell it. they mixed enough wood elf in, to sell the idea but night elves are primarily drow. all elves in wow are primarily drow, always with a twist.
read your own excerpt. they kept the skin colors and the hair colors and the matriarchal society of warrior women with a powerful female goddess. the only things they didnt keep were living in cities built underground and since we havent seen elune, presumably, sheâs not a spider goddess. also they fit the dnd description of a drow = troll descended. all wow elves are descended from dark trolls.
Arenât night elves only getting something approaching an obsidian black skin tone in Shadowlands? So not at all the same color really.
Is nothing like the evil society of the drow with itâs reliance on backstabbing and whatnot.
Goddess hinted at being the source of light based beings versus evil spider goddess
Since when? That doesnât sound like anything Iâve seen in dnd, no googling shows any connection between the two, and as the Dnd trolls, especially from back then are nothing like wow trolls but are based on the ones from Poul Andersonâs Three Hearts and Three Lions that are lanky swamp things they arenât nearly as similar.
Also the fact that they arenât intrinsically evil, donât have a society thatâs built entirely on slavery, arenât famous sorcerers, arenât aligned with the forces of the underdark, night elves arenât taught from birth that all other races are inferior and should be crushed beneath them, drow donât often keep pets because they donât understand the concept of a relationship they donât directly benefit from, preferring to keep favoured slaves.
They are nothing alike aside similar colour schemes.
he spewed out theramore to counter you then just gave up after you pointed out theramore was completely wiped out expansions ago. another great example of its about the âloreâ not aesthetics
yeah nelfs are like the descendants of drizzt. toss in some wood elf. make them like he was - he deplored the evil alignments of his relatives. so the first neutral or good aligned drow.
No need to argue over D&D lore here. At face value the Night Elves feel like they were loosely designed with both wood elves and drow in mind, but thatâs just my observation
Just seems like very little of drow made it in, especially since the one settingâs drow that would be closer to night elves was released a few years after wc3.
The only parts that seemed to be based on drow was dark skin (cosmetic) and a matriarchal society which was phased out after WC3. Meanwhile in every meaningful way theyâre wood elves from society, to architecture, to religion.
