The fact is that no one denies that the high elves have their history in the alliance, but it is that they are also in a frozen state that they cannot be like this forever
The void offers many avenues, since it is a sustainable source for the elves and that they can use according to their capacities, it gives them the sufficient differentiating gene of counterpart against the blood elfs
If the high elves of the alliance continue as they are now, they would lose aspects of their race at the time by not being in contact with the sunwell, and at the same time by being in human populations, they would end up being half elves and in the long run simple humans
The blood elfs have gone a long way in lore in history to something new, and I think the high elves of the alliance should still go their way.
Perhaps, but you have to remember the in universe logic is affected by where the writers want to take the story.
If the point is to make the alliance elves more different than the horde ones, they could accomplish that by making them lean towards the void.
Just like when Blood Elves joined the Horde. They were independent and could have gone either way, but they wanted them on the horde, so the story went there.
Design choices influence the lore more than the other way around. If lore was the priority, we would have had plain High Elves long ago most likely.
The fact they created the VEâs to me says they want to keep a degree of difference, even when we are seeing the harshness of it decrease.
So IMO, given what their design sensibilities so far, itâs more likely high elves join the void elves, but certainly form a meta level, not an in universe one.
Silver Covenant joins the VEâs, Alleriaâs rangers rejoin her, the scattered elves come together, etc. The Highvale are the only ones for whom it makes no sense in universe.
But yeah, I have to agree that from a strictly in universe perspective, it makes more sense for all the thalassian elves to unite under a different moniker than Void Elf, and they all become different aspects of said super-group.
I hope the new generation of Void Elves relies more on the current Alliance HE population. We see both Silvermoon and High Elf Wayfarers / scholars in the rift. But I dislike the idea of some sort of population exodus to join Alleria. There are already people who think Blood Elves arenât âhappyâ on the Horde even though they donât have much basis for that sentiment in my opinion, so I hope the same coin that solidifies the High Elf lore with Void Elves to allow people to finally have the High Elf that never left the Alliance, that we also see it solidify Blood Elf ranks.
People are discussing possible High Elves joining Quelâthalas? But why must we keep seeing Blood Elves joining Alleria, weâve never been lead to believe anti Horde sentiments is some widespread thing and personally Iâd assume most with those ideas were the original Void Elves anyways.
I really hope we can get options for just high elves without them being pushed into void options. It makes very little sense. I am still hoping for some sort of toggle that maybe eventually allows for the selection of different classes and racials and stuff.
I mean what makes sense will be what Blizzard decides âyeah, so most High Elves decide to merge with the Void Elves and start using void to a degreeâ
Would be pretty much the same that âSo yeah, the Blood Elves decided to join the hordeâ it makes âsenseâ to a point, doesnât meant itâs the most logical choice.
I mean if this customization even addresses High Elves lorewise -which, might not even- at most I am hoping we get more of the alleria look -braid, feather, tattoos- since she is as much of a void elf as she is a high elf, so she could serve as the exemplar of the more HE side of the spectrum.
While this makes sense, it is also something that should have been done from the start. Doing it now is fine as long as you have proper lore and good writing to back it up, but even then fuddy-duddies like me will see it as efforts that instead of being good developments are there to correct a problem that shouldnât even exist in the first place.
The void elves arenât just a political faction. If it were, I would have no problem with the idea of high elves and blood elves deciding to follow Alleria. Taking in the void has a bunch of strings attached to it, which is why I argued Alleria doing it in a time of need made sense, but people doing it out of the blue for no reason other than âAlleria did itâ makes little sense. Youâd have to lower the potential risks of taking in the void to make it one of those âsome risk, some rewardâ deals.
I know some would still be happy and Iâd be happy for them, but it still wouldnât be the high elves I personally want. I donât need the name to say high elf, but if Iâm stuck looking voidy it will pull me out too much.
I would prefer the high elves to be an AR and to have them turn more to nature or elemental magics. It just doesnât make sense for them to suddenly embrace the void.
Yeah, but arguing about âwhat would have been betterâ is at most a foolâs errand. We canât change the past, and I doubt they are going to outright retcon the Void Elf origin and implementation.
(Imagine if they do lol)
Yeh, and thatâs an entirely personal issue. I donât even care about the racials, they do not break my immersion as they are only gameplay conceits for me. Hardly use spatial rift and Entropic Embrace is simply a combat proc.
Itâs sort of interesting to me that this may have been a new decision they made, but they always left it open for bringing HEs and customization in with leaving Alleria like she is and going out of their way to refer to her as the first Void Elf, and just leaving the statement at that not reminding us her circumstances were different.
Their two leaders from the start highlight the two stories we may see told under the Void Elf banner.
What risks do you see? They have a path to use it with little risk. None of them have so far fallen to the void beyond an Old Gods vision. Not to mention in that same vision many of them clearly resisted as theyâre littering the streets.
But for real, feels like a watershed moment for Vereesa as a Leader. Do we continue this path of assimilating into humanity, or can we create something entirely new that carries forwards us as a people, even if very different than what we were?
You know that there is a town of high elves that disappeared and they were close to Quethalas, right?
if they have to be around, the high elves of dalaran and other towns have overcome their mana problems in other ways that have not been explained very well