Good thing I make a fairly strong effort to avoid making declarative posts saying āthis is how it isā. I am very careful to pepper my assumptions and conclusions with things like āI thinkā, āI believeā and āI think this is plausibleā or āimplausibleā. I try to avoid making black and white declarative statements.
Also remember, Blizzard writes the loreā¦ and the lore can change at the drop of a hat.
I dont see SW High Elf Wayfarers either.
They donāt say where theyāre from.
You canāt say at all if they are or are not from the SC. So there is no reason to assume a player canāt be from the SC either.
The sad part is people believing weāre not allowed to given this being what seems to be our āfinal avenueā, if Blizzard is trying to fix their mistake of giving us High Elves in Void Elves, then weāll definitely turn Void Elves into the āHigh Elf ARā they were supposed to be from the beginning.
As terrible an outcome as that turns out to be for Void Elves, but when your races entire existence is based on the ham-fisted delivery attempt of āHigh Elvesā, how terrible is that for the vast majority of players?
Well. I hope void elves stay void elves. Luckily blizzard doesnāt have a history of changing playable races like that. So I think Iām good.
There you go, apparently WoW characters are allowed to define themselves by more than just high elves/void elf and by extension it extends to us players to.
Coming out of nowhere and being one of the worst loreLOLs in WoW is ābetterā than Blood Elves?
Youād need a really good explanation for it. And a universe-destroying threat to convince them to go through with the change. Remember that it took Alleria an arduous battle with the Burning Legion and the death of Xāera before she started considering taking Locus Walker up on his offer.
Doing it right now would make little sense since a) weāve just dealt with an old god, which are connected to the void, b) not everyone will be up for it, since strength and mental fortitude vary from individual to individual, and c) itād be a bandaid to a problem Blizzard themselves created.
In concept Iām not against Blizzard writing out high elves and having void elves take their place, but writing solid lore to make it convincing is a herculean task.
Nuke the SC scourge 2.0 style and have the remainders join the void elves as the consolidated alliance elf presence. Sounds good to me.
The sc can be the next big alliance tragedy. Blizzard does love those.
Theyāve also never glued one races aesthetic to another.
Keep patting yourself on the back to make yourself feel better, most people donāt care what happens to a race with 0 lore, especially when thereās a better and more popular option to be had.
You know, like was the sole reason for Void Elves existence
Sure they do. Wildhammer springs to mind. And that one was actually written into canonā¦unlike some.
Hey if Iām wrong, Iāll buy you a coke. Doubt it though.
You are, High Elves are more popular than Void Elves, that is fact.
What will happen thanks to these new options is for time to tell, but weāre all well aware the only reason this has become a topic is because the road for Alliance High Elves is opening, not because void elves could be in danger. 
Thatās certainly an opinion to have
Youāre allowed to disagree.
Youāre not allowed to pretend facts are opinions my guy.
High Elves beat Void Elves in popularity every time, be as sad as you want about it, donāt be purposely obtuse and say itās an opinion, itās disingenuous and only hurts your argument.
If you have to lie, to defend Void Elves, there wasnāt much of a foundation to begin with was there?
Itās sad if there are truly people that are big Void Elf fans but at the end of the day I think its silly to pretend its anywhere close to the Pro Helf movement. I donāt think the Void Elf crowd is as big as some people are saying it is. Iām pretty sure thatās going to be proven as soon as the players get their hands on the new options.
For the people who like Void Elves though the options will still be there. Even if they rename the race to āHigh Elfā or something else the Void Skin tones and hair will still be there if you REALLY want to be a Void Elf. But I think those people are much smaller than the Pro Helfers.
Like I mentioned above, most Void Elf players are the people who want to be as close as possible to Alliance High Elves.
It sucks for people who grew to like what āvoid elvesā are, but that in itself is questionable as they were only introduced, they were not developed, they have no history or story in WoW, not even a mention before they were born.
What people fell for is a model and a niche, because there is nothing to Void Elves past that, and thatās for a reason, because Blizzard knew, that they made Void Elves for the express purpose of trying to give us our most highly requested AR.
Exactly. We donāt have any reason to assume a High Elf Wayfarer who went to study with Locus-Walker is or is not an SC elf or a SW elf or from some other place.
The player can decide that for themselves for their character.
Your opinions and his are just as valid as one another.
There are Void Elf fans. There are High Elf fans. Lets not try to trod on one another.
There being more High Elf fans than Void elf fans is not an opinion Fezzy, weāve all actively seen that here, pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
Heās allowed his opinion, but ignoring whatās infront of you as a foundation for your argument is obtuse.
Iām allowed to like High Elves more than void elves, heās allowed the opposite.
Neither of us are allowed to pretend that the popularity of those are equal.
No we havenāt. All weāve seen is that high elf fans are louder. What reason was there for Void Elf fans to shout on the forums before this? They had a thing, it was good, no pressing need to lobby for something. You all have something you want and wonāt shut up about, and now youāre trying to pretend that because up until now youāve had a complaint that has brought you to the forums means youāre bigger and more important than other players.
Then get back to me when they rise up, because as of late, itās only 1 die-hard.
Ah cute, youāre trying to turn it into something it isnāt.
Fact of the matter is numbers Tarrok, as bitter as you are about this continuing situation, you canāt sit there and pretend what was the biggest player request ever isnāt larger than the request to defend an empty husk of a race from a so far nonexistent problem.
Iām not the one who made up BS numbers for something that we donāt know. All we know is that all of us are a minute portion of the playerbase that actually cares about this issue. And itās really REALLY obnoxious the way you all are so casually deciding what needs to happen to an AR you were all unhappy with until it suddenly became the path to all your greedy little hearts desire.
Considering said AR was blatantly the āfirst bad tryā, at giving High Elves, I donāt see it as obnoxious.
You and many others seem to forget the sole purpose for Void Elves existing was for that purpose and that purpose alone, considering theyāve had ample opportunity to expand their story past their literal birth and actively chose not to, itās not as traumatic as youāre making it seem to steer them towards the direction they were supposed to be from the beginning.
Your objective and spiteful bias towards High Elf fans for the past 2 years is not a foundation with any weight that you can use to judge us on this issue, considering half your arguments all ever amount to is fearmongering and horde āvictimā hood, I donāt believe for a second you even remotely cared about Void Elves till they became our High Elf Avenue.
Please keep pretending the vast majority of people who played Void elves havenāt done it to be as close to High Elves as possible and the second these options are available wonāt completely switch to that new aesthetic.