As a guy with no skin in the pro-HE/anti-HE debate but has supported everyoneâs desire to get the customization they want, I would have to say to those who see this as a win, Congratulations. To those who donât, I hope you get something more to your liking one day, but Iâm seeing less of a way forward barring something like âLight-forged High Elves,â and does anyone want that? 
This does strike me as something more akin to a âcompromiseâ than the original Void Elf story (if lore is provided connecting them to Alliance High Elves at least, or if we assume the same connection can be made between HE and VE as between Dwarves and the new WIldhammer customization), but Blizzard couldâve saved themselves a lot of trouble, as has already been noted by many of us, if they had simply drawn Void Elves from any one of the Alliance-aligned High Elf groups in the first place (i.e, Alleriaâs Elves that she took with her to Outland wouldâve been a fine choice imo).
I never understood why Blizzard thought drawing them from Horde Blood Elves was going to win over Alliance High Elf fans, but then they were created in the same era as âDo you guys not have cell phones?â so there it is.
Thought on Void Elf Paladins (not giving a good or bad, just entertaining the thought):
Back in the day, Priests had some extra abilities based on race. How about something similar. Say for a Void-infused race like Void Elves, taking on a power antithetical to their nature, like the Light, and specifically Paladins here, they have to maintain a careful balance to not go boom. Say that as they use Holy spells, they fill a bar towards a build-up. The more they fill the bar, the worse it gets for them: a debuff, up to a heavy DoT akin to being in lava. GIve them an ability called âVoid Dispersionâ to dump this bar, with a scaling benefit to doing so, starting from a debuff on nearby enemies to an AoE attack with a full bar. So, it gets more dangerous the longer you wait but it comes with a payoff if you can wait long enough without going boom.
Give a matching one to the opposite side, say a Lightforged Draenei playing a Shadow Priest. Call it âHoly Dispersionâ, range its benefits from a small AoE HoT to an AoE Holy-Nova kind of effect, maybe giving a short buff on the high end.
The idea being youâre trying to bring down the power youâre naturally infused with to handle more of the power youâre using âunnaturally.â
Of course this would require other race/class combinations to be given equally compelling abilities, so it probably wonât happen, but it was something I was thinking of as I was reading the post, so thought Iâd share.
Silvermoon Warfront:
Let me preface this by saying that Iâve said on several occasions how Iâm done with the faction war because I donât think itâs ever going to be resolved in a satisfactory way for everyone.
That said, if weâre going to have a faction war, I agree any city should be fair game for an attack, lorewise. If there can be an interesting story to tell with a SIlvermoon warfront, why not. I doubt Blizzard is going to make any capital city change hands lore-wise or gameplay-wise. Personally, I would love for Alliance players to sound like they have more fire in their belly. Maybe itâs just the threads I end up reading, but Iâm tired of seeing the Alliance players always sounding downtrod when talking about their faction. Some Horde players like to make comments about burning down Teldrassil, The Alliance should have something they can talk about. What do they get to say? âYeah, well,⊠we made Sylvannas blight her city. Stop blighting yourself! Stop blighting yourself!â
So yeah, I wouldnât be terribly upset by âWeâre gonna take Silvermoon for the Alliance!â We all know the Alliance wouldnât be allowed to canonically win a Silvermoon warfront. Period. If there was even the tiniest chance of Blizzard doing that, the Blood Elf (player) backlash alone would dwarf the complaints that the Alliance didnât really win Undercity.
If the concern is that we would sit too long without a canonical winner, I posit this: make it part of a pre-expansion event. Then we wonât have it for long. If we were to have this, then the best reason (in my opinion, of course) for it would be to tell a narrative where the HE/VE as a people (or peoples), seeing the carnage this battle wrought on the land they professed to love and the people who remained there and still call it home, came to the conclusion there was no place left for them in Silvermoon, and to completely sever any hope or desire of reclamation or reunification so they can finally and firmly turn their attention towards their own future and founding a realm to call their own. This would then be Blizzardâs opportunity to tell that story in the ensuing expansion. Whether or not one believes Blizzard is capable of telling such a story Is up to oneself.
That would keep the legacy of Silvermoon in the hands of the Blood Elves, and it would give the High Elves and Void Elves of the Alliance a clear chance to grow their own narrative (as if they didnât have enough opportunity already). Hopefully everyone would be happy at that.
Anyway, thatâs my two cents.
Take care all, and enjoy any good news about Shadowlands you can find