High Elf POSITIVITY Thread 😎

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

@Aguni-illidan

Yes…yes theyhave Talendrion.
The first high elves the horde meet are thalothas brightsun and his friend firebough, and they’re not alliance based.
Those few blood elf NPC’s that did exist used a blue model night elf model as well

Thalo’thas was a High Elf, not a blood elf.

The other BE’s you mention? Got updated to green eyes. If it’s retconed, does it count?

@Aguni-illidan

Why do they have to be named NPC’s to be relevant? If we go off this logic, this makes the entire argument about high elves being in BFA completely non-existent outside of Vereesa.

Well, there were 4 named HE characters in BfA, not the point tho.

This whole thing misses the point; which is about what’s representative of a race. I’ve always believed there was no reason for blood elves with blue eyes to be impossible, that doesn’t mean they were representative.

@Aguni-illidan

If we are playing the never been playable argument, then high elves have absolutely no claim.

Not the point; the point is that non-playable options of each playable race are outliers, and obviously, not representative of the race as a whole.

@Aguni-illidan

High elves make up 10% of the entire thalassian race, therefore, exception, not the norm. Therefore, no one should have blue eyes. The argument of “exceptions dont count” is clearly non-functional considering blood elves just got blue eyes. So you can’t even cling to such an argument anymore.
Let alone the fact the devs said their green eyes were being cleansed which meant they would have blue eyes eventualy

The point is that BE’s didn’t seem to have blue eyes as the norm so far dear lord. How are you not getting that? Which again, is moot now since they are getting blue eyes now.

Unless you point is to say Blood Elves have always ahd blue eyes in significant numbers. Which, again, might not even be true since it quite as well might be that now we get to play as outliers.

@Aguni-illidan

Uhh…yes…yes they have.
There have been occassions where they popped up with green eyes, but the helf community complained so hard that they had to fix it in a later hot patch

I mean if they fixed it was a bug, otherwise the answee would be “oh yeh some high elves have green eyes” which… would make sense since some BE’s also had blue eyes.

Doesn’t change the facts of what is representative for each group sweet jeesus.

@Aguni-illidan

The deliberate attempt to differentiate was because of how limited WoW was in terms of customization.
Face = eye color.
So to make it easier for the player, and not necessarily lore accurate, they did such a thing. A lot of the things we see in game are for gameplay, not lore.

At best this is speculation on your part.

But man, I literally can’t get your angle here; why are you arguing against the evident fact that up until now, BE’s and HE’s were differentiated by their eye color, safe for exceptions?