They don’t you’re not wrong. I just prefer the story of the high elves more. The peoples that avoided the fel and conquered their addiction through sheer force of will. As well as being like an underdog of sorts that stuck to their ideals in the face of overwhelming struggle and distress. The fact that they are loyal to the core and didn’t slink away from the alliance in a dark time over 1 human. I just like everything their story embodies and always have.
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High Elves reinforce core faction identity. They’d also actually get played, unlike Earthen.
Legion Remix was the first time I’ve ever been in a group with an Earthen.
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First off I see you’re never quested in Outland, the Allerian expedition high elves were robbing draenei graves for the mana. At no point did the high elves win through force of will (especially considering the blood elves retook Quel’thalas before any of the draining mana wyrms happened - notably also not draining fel, your understanding of BC is meme lore)
Secondly when I said the thing about the purity fetish that helfers constantly bring to the table, this is what I mean.
As well as being like an underdog of sorts that stuck to their ideals in the face of overwhelming struggle and distress.
They lived in Dalaran, a place replete in sources of magic, while the bulk of Quel’thalas was being reconquered by people who were basically running on low to no energy because of the lack of mana sources, and Vereesa Windrunner has literally said she’d have stayed with the blood elves if she hadn’t been married to an archmage.
The blood elves were the desperate survivors and that was their thing since Frozen Throne.
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High elves are not the core of the alliance.
They’re a footnote in the history of a different alliance.
They’ve been relevant like twice in wow. They’re not core in the slightest…
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Well there is the Quel’dorei Steed so… unicorns?
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“Different Alliance?” It’s the same Alliance. Stormwind never broke with Lordaeron.
This is the same sort of nonsense people pull when they pretend there’s a “New Horde” even though the legal structures never changed and you can literally draw a direct line from Thrall to Blackhand.
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Uhhh. I mean yeah some people did some things. At least they avoided the fel. That would have been the biggest line in the sand for me if I was a person in this universe.
That’s like due to the Quel’dorei Steed from the Argent Tournament.
Yeah the traditional high elf ships even used unicorns on their banners. Their racial mount would certainly be a unicorn.
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So did most blood elves. The people who drained fel became felblood elves. Again this is memelore.
They literally had floating fel crystals in their city. With scary evil eyes on them and all. And their eyes turned fel green which like it or not, that’s fel magic use
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I mean, there is a “new horde” so…
Just gonna have to agree to disagree on that one 
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This ship already sailed.
Every week or so people come with this kind of thread.
And you always see the same faces with the most ridiculous, headcanon arguments to prove a point that doesn’t exist.
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Here’s the high elf ships I was referring to
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The crystals were powering buildings first off, secondly Rommath and co were actually pretty secretive about how things were running.
And their eyes turned fel green which like it or not, that’s fel magic use
No, fel acts like radiation, it’s ambient exposure.
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Sounds like a whole lotta excuses to me
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No, the desire for highelves is because people want highelves. Its that simple
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No, this is correcting meme lore.
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Meme lore is lore you don’t like ok lol
No, meme lore is popular fanon that clearly shows you didn’t actually do BC content and get all your info from MMOC.
BTW when people act like “most blood elves weren’t draining fel” is a retcon, the statement was made literally when BC was live. It’s in the dev commentary for BC itself.
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