So, I assume Jace Darkweaver and Kor’vas Bloodthorn were born during/before the War of the Ancients, but… What did they do for those thousands of years? I assume most Demon Hunters were recruited not long after the Black Temple was conquered, but that’s a huge timeskip and I don’t really know what I could have my character do prior to joining Illidan other than have joined the Shen’dralar in seclusion, but it wouldn’t fit the story I am going for, any tips?
My tip would be don’t think about it harder than Blizz does. Loresh Sunbeam is 10,000 years old despite being just a Rogue, and ending up undead anyway so - surely he could’ve just been that from the start to explain it.
Basically everything’s functionally immortal until the writers remember they’re not supposed to be. And most of Warcraft history is nothing happening for millenia. Until everything happened all at once for like the past 30 years, and the past 10 in particular.
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Yeah, I guess I am just unsure how to fill in the gap on his motives. What I want to do is that his family and himself would eventually join the Kaldorei resistance against Azshara, alongside the Highborne led by Dath’remar, but he obviously didn’t sail across the Great Sea but he also wasn’t welcomed within Ka;dorei Society post Great Sundering but he also hated the Legion for about 10K years before they freed Illidan in the Third War and he was like “Oh, damn, that’s my chance!”.
It’s a bit hard to work that. I don’t know.
Yeah, I’ve my Belf Lock at 3,000 years old. That’s, sometimes, their natural lifespan and I explain him as being spry by powering himself with the renewable, green energy demon souls technically are.
The past 3k years are a lot more eventful than the last 10k but even then there’s a lot of spare time where I guess he was just getting wine drunk at Saltheril’s Haven for a few centuries. That’s basically how I spent my early 20s so, maybe elves do that for 1500 years instead instead of 5.
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Dire maul fam
Those elves were cut off from everyone else for thousands of years until the Cataclysm. He would have had to join Illidan side just before he skipped off to Outland.
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They self isolated. Dire maul is old… Leave it when it’s time appropriate.
And they didn’t leave until the cataclysm.
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I entered dire maul and met several elves in vanilla. Guess they weren’t exactly cut off…huh…Seeing as OP is an rper and rp isn’t canon, OP can be an elf whom after having their city raided decided to leave. As this happens in vanilla, that leaves plenty of time to go to outlands and study under Illidan.
Cataclysm represents highborn rejoining the night elf society…not when they rejoined the world.
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And before the cataclysm the remained in their little place by themselves.
So, it wouldn’t make sense for them to come from there at all within that time, but admittedly as Ben said, we shouldn’t think about it harder than Blizz would.
Right now we can only make things up.
Right…making things up. It’s not unbelievable that an elf ina library for thousands of years discovered a book that made them want to leave… especially if the book contained information about demons…or if the summoning of demons inside dire maul led to some revelation on how to exact the character’s own revenge.
Well, as I said, the Shen’dralar don’t fit the story I am going with because they isolated themselves during the early days of the War of the Ancients, I want this character to have fought for the Kaldorei Resistance as an Arcanist in that case, it wouldn’t work.
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The highborn weren’t exiled until after the war of the ancients…so you can still be one of them who fought in the war for the night elves. In this case, you can be a shendralar or highborne not ordered to go with the prince, as there were still highborne with Azshara. It also gives a starting point for seeing the ultimate corruption which could be why you work with the resistance. Afterwards, your goal could be to find the other Shendralar, for purpose of stealing knowledge from their library…etc. etc.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Highborne
Other options are a highborne who fought and escaped Suramar before the shield went up, for fear that the nightwell would lead to similar disaster like the well of eternity.
As long as your story is logical, other rpers won’t bat much of an eye at it…and not every story gets told in WoW. You might say no one went in and out of dire maul, but I’ll point out we had a decade of WoW before ever learning thralls dad had a brother.
By a chain of increasingly implausible events.
Illidan did not train any Illidari until after the events of Reign of Chaos when he fled to Outland and would-be students followed him there and took over the Black Temple.
Now keep in mind however that All Blood Elves are descended from the HIghborne that followed Dath Remar so you can have a Blood Elf that claims Highborne Heritage (they all do in a way) and that would keep faith with pre-existing lore.
So if characters like Lagrash can be considered canon, you could have a Blood Elf that claims such an ancient lifespan.
Well, I mean for my Night Elf really, I had a story going for my Blood Elf involving the Scourge Invasion of Quel’Thalas. For my Night Elf however, as I recently Faction Changed, I am a bit confused as if he was not part of the Shen’dralar, but he never took up Druidism like some of members of the Moon Guard. The only real Idea I had so far was him living as a wanderer within Kalimdor, hiding from the Sentinels.
I think you are missing a key element. There was a major event right before Illidan started recruiting. The Legion invaded. That single event could easily change a person’s path. That event would have been the trigger for most of the Night Elves that joined him.
You could imagine him as anything from a near hermit living with just his family in the wilds of Ashenvale or Ferelas to someone in Dire Maul to someone who tried to acclimate to Night Elf society. A quite farmer that likes to be alone to the grumpy guy that visits town once a month. Etc, etc.
There are a lot of lives that Night Elves would have gone to after the war. And a lot of them would have harbored that deep hatred for the Legion. The Legions return would have given a lot of them the motivation to look for some way of fighting back. And made them ideal recruits for Illidan.
It doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, I would argue the simpler and more grounded the story the more impact it would have. The farmer who tried to get on with his life but could never get away from the nightmares suddenly coming face to face with them again is more compelling (at least to me) than the guy who spent all those years searching for a way to fight with some contrived reason he was not able to.
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Sun well makes elves immortal apparently, which means night elves got extra screwed post Hyjal.
Really? Maybe I’m misremembering but I recall Anastarian or however you spell Kael’s dad’s name as being described as old.
Alleria’s story (forgot the title) mentions her being immortal thanks to the sunwell.
Edit: I stand corrected. https://wow.gamepedia.com/Sunwell#Notes
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I don’t think Blizz ever explained how there were DH in WotA. Illidan didn’t become one until after he switched sides and the current lore makes no Legion of him training any in Azshara’s palace. So it really doesn’t make sense.
The only highborne that were exiled were those that escaped Azshara’s palace with Tyrande. None of them actuality fought in the War of the Ancients.