High Elves VS Blood Elves

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Do people not realize Blood Elves are the High Elves? When they renamed themselves Sin’dorei they didn’t magically morph into another race. The renaming was to honor 90% of their kin that perished in the scourge onslaught. Yes their eyes changed color because of fel, they still didn’t morph into another race. Sin’dorei are the Quel’dorei. The only difference between the Alliance Quel’dorei and the Horde Quel’dorei were that one turned to fel to satisfy their addiction while the Alliance Quel’dorei used moonwells.

My question is did the sunwell 100% convert to Holy energies or is it still Arcane + Holy? If so then the added Holy energies might eventually turn them into a new race. The original sunwell is what morphed the night elf highborn into the Quel’dorei. So it would be safe to assume the newer holy energies will do the same again.

Hopefully the Arcane energy is still there. It’s why I play a blood elf arcane mage. For lore reasons. It does seem like they are becoming Sun Elves though.

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I don’t think the Sunwell turned Night Elves into High Elves.
If I remind correctly it was stated that the transformation occured because of lack of exposure to Well of Eternity/Nordrassil blessing.
That made them shorter and frail.

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I have the sunwell trilogy and the first few pages say the sunwell energies changed them. /shrugs

Edit: it does say the lack of the well of eternity changed them but the sunwell evolved them further.

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Every Blood Elf is a High Elf.
Not every High Elf is a Blood Elf.

No, but they did adopt a new culture, one that cast off the rigid shackles of the old ways, put less emphasis on bloodlines, and in which ambition, power, and strength became the cornerstones. The Blood Elves became a meritocracy where one’s abilities and deeds were the means to advancement, rather than marriages or wealth.

Ninety percent of the kingdom of Quel’Thalas, you mean. Specifically, those elves who died during Arthas’ assault on the kingdom. This figure has never accounted for elves outside of Quel’Thalas, such as those whom remained with the Alliance after the Second War, those trapped on Outland, those in Dalaran, and now whatever theoretical number of High Elves live in the Arathi Empire across the sea.

Plenty of races haven’t morphed into another race. Mechagnomes didn’t cease being gnomes. Kul Tirans are still humans. Orcs and Mag’har orcs are both orcs.

Not quite.

Old RPG lore tells us that the Night Elves never let the High Elves near their moonwells, and while the RPGs were decanonized, there was, lorewise, mistrust and suspicion from the Night Elves towards the High Elves. As such, there’s no indication that High Elves ever used the Moonwells to sate their addiction. From the comics we know the High Elves in the Hinterlands just went cold turkey, while from Vereesa’s perspective, we know High Elves in Dalaran were supplied with magical artifacts to drain in order to avoid the effects of withdrawal.

Also, the Blood Elves at large didn’t turn to fel to satisfy their addiction. The reason Blood Elves have green eyes is because fel was the fuel for the magic Rommath and his magisters used to rebuild Silvermoon City practically overnight. All the Blood Elves were exposed to fel on a large scale, which was why they developed green eyes. Otherwise, they drained mana crystals and mana wyrms.

Arcane and holy.

Maybe, but I doubt it myself. Even if that were the case, High Elves are connected to the Sunwell as well, so they too would become this theoretical, ‘new race.’ Perhaps even faster than the Blood Elves would, since there was no trace fel to remove from them first.

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It’s still a mix.

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The connection seems to be linked to distance, since some high elves have retained their old eye colors. And I don’t think the Sunwell would work any easier on high elves than on blood elves, who are constantly exposed to the source.

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To be fair, the eye color change comes about as a result of using specific powers. Lorewise, the Blood Elves with gold eyes are primarily Priests/Paladins. Doesn’t mean a Warlock or a Mage couldn’t have those eye colors, just means they’re pulling on the Light from the Sunwell a bit more.

Distance is not a factor when it comes to the Sunwell. High Elves stranded on Outland felt the well’s destruction, meaning they were still being sustained by it after all those years of the Dark Portal being closed.

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Man you are contradicting your own point.

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How?

I pointed out that distance isn’t a factor, but the type of power one uses when it comes to their eye colors.

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The “High Elves” are ex-patriots from the Blood Elves. They have joined a few groups (like the silver covenant) but the only state they have is the that of the Void Elves. But they would be even more “not High Elves”.

If you want to argue that calling themselves Blood Elves makes them not “High Elves”, I know of nothing that says they renounced that term. It still applies. Though I think the whole point is pretty pedantic. In contrast to the Void Elves who had a real change.

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