âHadouken!â
What story does Void Elves have?
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Well I mean we know they live on a rock so thatâs something.
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Blood elves are lame. The male animations are god awful. Who even cares about this? Actually just give all the blood elves to the alliance so I get to kill them. They have cool death animations.
they are coming in shadowlands imo
we know preorders are below expectations. even if blizz thinks they dont make sense (they do) the sweet cash will lure it. they said already they are making tons of BE customization options. bet you high elves are on the way.
Since, I have 12 hours left, Iâm going to reprise some of my best posts:
If I were given the mission to define void elves, Iâd:
Recruitment Questline
- Include the Silver Covenant and Alleriaâs lieutenants in the story, helping her track Umbric in Ghostlands. Would use that to reintroduce several high elf characters that would be turned into void elves: Auric Sunchaser, Taela Everstride, Theloria Shadecloak, Summoner Nolric. Iâd give each gossip text explaining their reasons for following Alleria.
- In the Telogrus part of the recruitment, Iâd make the above lieutenants plus a squad of Silver Covenant rangers go with Alleria and the player. Theyâd be captured and turned into void elves together with Umbricâs group.
- Iâd explore Umbric a bit more during the fight in Telogrus, making him be trapped latter, and giving him chances to show his personality, his ideals and devotion to his followers.
- At the end of the storyline, a brief conversation between Vereesa (still a high elf) and Alleria, to show how the high elves react to the transformed void elves.
Racial hub
- Rather than just Telogrus, Iâd make Quelâdanil a small high/void elf town. Void elf players would start in Telogrus, but the portal would lead to Quelâdanil. The portal to/from Stormwind would be in the town rather than in the rift.
- Iâd establish through gossip text in Quelâdanil and Telogrus that the void/high elves would have a relationship like worgen/gilneans, in that only the former are playable but their lore would be intertwined from now on. Void elves would be like an elite force of defenders of their gestalt society, with people carefully chosen to join their ranks.
- Iâd also show thereâs two clashing phylosophies among void elves: Umbricâs, based on studying and acquiring power, and Auricâs, who thinks the void elf path must not be abused, as it is a sacrifice for the good their people and should not be taken lightly.
- Class trainers in Quelâdanil/Telogrus would be: Instructor Duskwalker (Mage), Theloria Shadecloak (Rogue), Taela Everstride (Hunter), Summoner Nolric (Warlock), Ennas and Lyria Skystrider (Priests), Kriss Goldenlight (monk, still a high elf)
- Hereâs how Iâd update Quelâdanil (Telogrus portal would be in the cave):
Stories
- Iâd use Stormsong to explore the void elves. Instead of the Horde being just chaotic evil and attacking Brennadan, it would be void elves investigating the void in the region. A high elf apprentice would be under trial to show his worth to become a void elf. Iâd explore their morality and how they learn to control their abilities.
- Then, during the questline, we find out the Horde building their base, and we sabotage using the void to weaken them (leading to the Horde questline in Stormsong, when their base is under attack). At the end of the successful campaign, Iâd show the apprentice becoming a void elf.
- Iâd put Umbric and Auric working together in the war campaign, to showcase their different ways of thinking as they bicker among themselves.
Other
- Iâd update the Priest Ennas/Lyria Skystrider event in Silvermoon, now with them as void elves preaching to recruit blood elves. This time, when the magisters summon someone to silence them, Ennas would stun the magisters with a void attack, while Lyria would open a portal for them to escape.
Appearance
- Iâd try to give them at least some ânormal-ishâ skins, like in the images bellow. Something not quite healthy, still purple-ish, but less blue.
- Iâd also add silver-blue (like Alleria in void form) and reddish hair colors.
- They should have tattoo options like Alleriaâs, in colors like violet, deep blue and red.
That alone would make the void elves a thousand times more interesting, and somewhat more varied in appearance. Also, it could potentially avoid the entire high elf discussion that followed their introduction and still plague the forums to this day.
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High elves vs. Blood elves: the lore
âWe 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 sinâdorei! For QuelâThalas! Hail to the sinâdorei!â
â Kaelâthas 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."
â Rommath, Quest: Violence in the Arena
âIt unsettles me to have to fight directly with the high elves of the Silver Covenant⌠but I never tire of slaying Alliance.â
â Rommath, Quest: The Kirin Torâs True Colors
âDo you know how many elvesâsinâdorei and quelâdorei alikeâdied 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?â
â Lorâthemar Theron, In the Shadow of the Sun
Baenan spat on the floor near the elfâs feet. âYe blood elves wouldnât know nobility if ye had thâ definition tattooed on yer foreheads. Pathetic, slavering magic addicts, ye even sold out yer own people!â
Talitharâs 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.
âAye,â he pressed, âIâve met high elves in me life. I know what ye did tae them. I come from Loch Modan; Iâve heard thâ stories from thâ Farstrider lass thereââ
â Quest for Pandaria, Part 4, Link
âYou think I do not know what I am? We sinâdorei 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.â
â Talithar Swiftwind, Quest for Pandaria, Part 4
One hundred years agoâŚ
I and a small group of other High Elves traveled here from our homeland, Quelâthalas. We sought the ancient mysteries of Kelâthoril⌠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 shardâŚ
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Maenius was a powerful mage and an honorable elf. His spirit did not deserve such an ignoble fate.
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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 Quelâthalas.
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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 Sinâdorei, still striving for redemption, would return here as wellâŚ
â Quelâdorei 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 Kelâtheril?
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One year agoâŚ
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.
â Sinâdorei Spirit, Quest: Descendents of the High Elves and Quest: Pain of the Blood Elves
The opening of the Dark Portal brought news of my peopleâs fate. In a way, my exile shielded me from sharing in their downfall, but to see the Farstriders throw their lot in with KaelâthasâŚ
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.
â Theloria Shadecloak, (Link)
No, donât feel bad. I get that a lot.
<Taela looks both amused and annoyed.>
Iâm a HIGH elf, not a blood elf. Donât worry, Iâm not going to suck all of the magic out of you.
â Taela Everstride, (Link)
With those vessels and their power in hand, the scattered survivors of my people can resist the lure of demonic magic. Every quelâdorei we can save from our princeâs folly is one more that can help us regain our lost glory.
â Rosâeleth, (Quest: Vessels of Power)
Oh, and the Encyclopedia:
Blood elves no longer truly consider themselves high elves, and they tend to have different priorities and behaviors than their high elf kindred. Unlike high elves, blood elves have decided that in the absence of the Sunwell, they will feed their hunger for arcane magic by draining that magic from alternative sources.
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(Itâs sad that many other bookmarked posts disappeared because Blizzard deleted a lot of the old threads⌠
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Alamara's backstory (Click to expand)
Origins
Born only 54 years ago, Alamara Riverstrider is the only daughter of a great elven magister and a humble tailor from Silvermoon. Unlike her father, she never had any aptitude with magic, but, being very adventurous and a little anti-social, displayed quite some affinity with the forests and the beasts. She admired the Farstriders and, as she grew up, ended up joining them. After her basic training, she was sent to serve under Ranger-captain Alleria Windrunner.
The Second War
In the Second War, when news of the imminent Horde attack on Lordaeron reached Silvermoon, Alamara, despite being very young at the time, chose to follow her captain into battle. It was then that she first got to know the other races of Azeroth, fighting alongside humans, dwarves and gnomes against orcs, trolls and ogres.
Alamara fought from the battles of Hillsbrad to the final push against the Dark Portal. The war taught her some harsh lessons, and, when Quelâthalas recalled its forces back, she chose to return home. Because of that, she didnât went on the campaign beyond the Dark Portal, unlike her former captain.
The Scourge
Over the next decades, Alamara honed her skills as a ranger and fighter, but she earned to see the world beyond Quelâthalasâ borders again. Before she had the chance, thought, the Scourge came.
Like most elves at the time, Alamara lost her family and many friends to the horrors of the undead. When Silvermoon fell and the Sunwell was corrupted, she was among the Farstriders that helped her people survive. Luckily, her ineptitude with magic made her less vulnerable to the withdrawal.
A reluctant Sinâdorei
During those dark times, Alamara, as most of her people, became a blood elf. However, more than once she found herself at odds with what was required of her to honor that name. She had some affinity for those stubborn elves that insisted to be still called âQuelâdoreiâ, and agreed with them about how to handle magical addiction more often than not. However, she believed that the survival of the thalassians was more important than her personal feelings on the matter. More than once, as a loyal soldier, she had to escort high elf exiles to the Plaguelands. Sometimes, she felt she should have gone into exile with them, but her sense of duty to her nation and her people made her stay.
The Horde
That inner conflict would only get worse as time went on. She really didnât like to see the Sinâdorei siding with the Horde. And, while she came to realise this new Horde was unlike the one she had fought some decades before, and learned to respect for the tauren, the darkspear trolls and a few orcs, she still felt kinship and sympathy towards humans and dwarves, never agreeing with treating them as enemies. She appreaciated the few times the Horde and Alliance worked together and hoped there could be peace some day.
Then came Garrosh. The new direction he took the Horde was at odds with Alamaraâs feelings. To make matters worse, as war between Horde and Alliance escalated, she was sent to fight with the Forsaken in Silverpine and Hillsbrad. What she witnessed in those battlefields made her lose any faith she could have in the Horde.
Her last battle for the Horde happened in Krasarang, during the Pandaria campaign. Facing a human paladin she had known as a young soldier in the Second War, Alamara was unable to keep fighting and deserted. For a few months, she traveled through Pandaria, ending up in the Isle of Giants.
When Alamara heard of Volâjinâs insurrection against Garrosh, she chose to join the rebellion. After the Siege of Orgrimmar, however, she chose to abandon the Horde and, through her paladin friend, turned herself in to the Alliance.
Alliance, and the Return of Alleria
Because of her past allegiance, Alamara was put under probation for a time under the Alliance. After the Legion invasion, she learned of her former captainâs return and sought Alleria to server under her again. She didnât like those void powers, but was eager to rejoin her former leader, who she remembered fondly.
Her very first mission with Alleria was to seek Umbric and his followers. During the mission on Telogrus Rift, Alamara was captured in Durzaamâs trap and transformed into a void elf.
A reluctant Renâdorei
Alamara feels like she was cursed. Whenever she gathers the courage to set her path right, something stirs her off-course. She never dealed with the Void, she never had any interest in magic. She just wants to be a better person.
It was hard to cope with the transformation. Sheâs learned to keep the whispers muted when sheâs focused on a task, but whenever sheâs relaxed the voices come to taunt her with her failings and insecurities.
Alamara avoids to use her new shadowy powers, but has come to terms that they can be helpful sometimes. She does not share the usual renâdoreiâs eargerness to delve into the void. Once, she had to devour th essence of a void artifact in order to destroy it, a harrowing task she hopes to never repeat.
Overall, sheâs still hoping to become a better person. Maybe this is all just a trial she must overcome. She has accepted this is a new life for her, and thus, like many renâdorei, has decided to assume a new surname, so that her exploits and failing do not tarnish the memories of her lost family in Quelâthalas. No longer a Riverstrider, sheâs now Alamara Shadestrider.
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gonna miss ya alamara 
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No, Blood Elves customisations are coming in Shadowlands. Yeah, people can say âBlood Elves are High Elves,â but actually, Kaelâthas Sunstrider proclaims the Blood Elves as âno longerâ High Elves the day they became the Sinâdorei. And since there is no Blood Elves with any High Elven customization, it makes no sense if Blizzard gives the Blood Elves those customization that are on the High Elves that are not with the Horde.
Well, except for Blue Eyes, because there is Blood Elves that do have Blue Eyes within the game, and there is also lore to support that not all Blood Elves were effected by the Fel Radiation during the reconstruction of Silvermoon.
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Alamara, create a WoW2, leave it as Starter Edition, and get a character above level 10, then tell us if you can still post then.
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Here I am with my friends in the Hinterlands.
https://imgur.com/nx7AjeQ
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Quelâdanil Lodge is another good example of where the High Elves could easily use as a hub if they ever become playable.
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I would really love that!
Not necessary. One can technically keep posting even after sub runs out. I wonât go into details because itâs not intended.
Hmmm, that is odd. I canât post without an active sub.
can you really call them friends if they wont speak to you
Yes. I like strong, silent types.
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It would be nice for old zones to be used some more, even for smaller things like a starting hubs for allied races. I liked that DI dwarves start in shadowforge city.
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Exactly. Instead of creating new hubs, re-use places that could be good possibilities.
Quelâdanil Lodge is really good spot for High Elves as it is home for the Highvale Elves. And yes, they are Alliance too. Something the Horde canât claim.
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