High elves are mutated highborne?

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I would too!

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Speedy evolution.

Because magic.

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I posted this yesterday; it’s a brief history.

The Highborne (or Quel’dorei, meaning “children of noble birth” in Darnassian), were the upper class, and a sect of the ancient Night Elf civilization composed of the favored servitors of Queen Azshara.

The Highborne were largely responsible for the War of the Ancients, and most of those Highborne who had allied with the demons and survived the war were turned into Satyrs or Naga. Those that allied with the Kaldorei Resistance before the last battle of the war found themselves exiled from Kalimdor, and eventually became the High Elves of the Eastern Kingdoms.

Dath’Remar Sunstrider was the leader of the Highborne who survived the War of the Ancients.

7,300 years ago, in the centuries following the Sundering, relations between the Highborne and the rest of the Night Elves were strained.

The Highborne pursued Arcane Magic, and bristled against the rules set by the Night Elves, who they considered to be lower caste.

Dath’Remar Sunstrider stole one of the vials of water from the Well of Eternity confiscated from Illidan, and after an incident in Ashenvale the Night Elves exiled the Highborne,

Eventually Dath’Remar became the founder of the kingdom of Quel’Thalas and the first of its royal family, the Sunstrider dynasty.

Using the vial the he had stolen, Dath’Remar created the Sunwell, a fountain of magical energy that, while weaker than the original, Dath’Remar claimed would one day become stronger than its predecessor. That day, the Hgh Elven race was born, the energies of the great well immediately altering the Elves’ appearance from their Night Elven forebears. - Wowpedia.

There’s so much more depth to this story, it’s really interesting.

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Descendants. When the Highborne were exiled, their mutation started a few hundred years later, when being cut off from the Well of Eternity set in. They further evolved when they created their own well, the Sunwell. But those descendants have long since passed away. Dath’Remar Sunstrider was the last true Highborne and his child, though not much is known about them (actually, nothing at all). High elves (us) are the evolved.
Meaning, the living Highborne became High elves after they evolved.

There was no other evolution or mutation after that. Just after effects of fel. So blood elves are high elves, yet still. Stunted growth etc.

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Don’t show me that Nightborne, it pains me to know they are not like that in game!

As for OP, they are descendants of the Highborne exiled, but I still think they live less than Night Elves.

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I mean, considering the numebr of peoples that almost destroyed Azeroth, odds are in favor of yes :smiley:

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Canine candy cane. Smooth. :rofl:

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Rise of Quel’Thalas

Sunstrider led the high elven fleets across the world for many long years. Their goal was to find places of considerable ley power for them to build their new homeland. After landing on the Lordaeron continent, they moved inland and formed a settlement in the Tirisfal Glades. After a few years, however, many were driven insane. The belief at the time was that something evil slept beneath the Glades, so the high elves abandoned the region and moved northwards. They wandered the land for years.[15]

Around this time, they had become completely severed from the life-giving energy of the Well of Eternity. This meant that they were vulnerable to the elements and had not received immortality from Nozdormu and the World Tree. They had shrunk in height and their skin had become a peach hue similar to most dwarves and humans.

According to this being addicted to magic isn’t what changed their appearance. It was Chan because they were cut off from the Well of Eternity. Yet their Sources say differently. So I guess it’s whichever you choose.

Also I always wondered why they didn’t convert back into Dark Troll once they were separated from the Well of Eternity.

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They evolved after migrating to Eastern Kingdoms and from living around the Sunwell. The Trolls had evolved the same way into Night Elves after living under the World Tree and around the Well of Eternity.

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I thought the Nightborne were night elves. Remember hearing somewhere that Suramar was the heart of the NE empire.

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It goes: Trolls>Night Elves>Highborne>Night Elves>High Elves>Blood Elves… if you draw a sort of downward sideways arrow from Highborne to Nightborne you have pretty much the complete Elf evolutionary line as it is currently understood.

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Then we have examples of Blizzard further confusing the issue on high/blood elf lifespans by adding a character like Lorash Sunbeam (blood elf rogue in the war of thorns who was killed by Malfurion and rezzed as undead), who says he was born in Tirisfal Glades after the Highborn’s exile to the EK, which would make him thousands of years old if he was born post exile but pre founding of Quel’thalas.

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That may come in the end, Azeroth change us all and will continue to do so.

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Nightborne are one of five modern groups descended from Azshara’s Highborne night elves along with the various forms of Thalassians, the Satyr, the Naga, the Nightborne and the handful of surviving Highborne who act as teachers to non-Highborne night elf magi.

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NEs abandoned the use of arcane magic after they blow up the Well of Eternity to stop the Legion invasion thru it. They blamed the rampant misuse of arcane magic for drawing the attention of the Legion to our world to begin with.