I haven’t been picked off by a demon hunter yet. Why let them take your soul when you can fight beside them?
They can, on the horde
Nightborne are truely the superior form of night elf.
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So, the point of confusion here is how “classes” break down in the lore, and how the game has adapted it’s class mechanics to the lore.
Case in point: Medivh. Technically a mage, he could easily fit the bill as a Warlock. In fact, in WCIII, Kel Thuzad remarks that his knowledge of demons was “staggering”: https://youtu.be/IIz4lgxlLHw?t=4091
It seems that, in the translation into an MMO, a “warlock” is a person for whom their principle way of interacting with the world is their knowledge of Fel magic and Demonology.
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Warlocks are just peeps who couldn’t hack it in Dalaran mage training 101. So they turned to the fel for their naughties.
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Why though? Why would you want a race to be entirely homogenized? Only class restrictions should be ones where the race is physically/mentally unable to do, for example Goblins being Druids, that would make no sense, but to think all Night Elves are nature hippies with the exact same views/opinions just makes no sense.
Nightborne can be locks, this satisfies me
Then we can siphon our demon form back out them.
Meh. Warlocks. Laughs in Shadow Priest.
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Anyone can become anything (mostly). Just not us players.
A Night Elf who decides to study Warlock arts, if exists, is a rare sight and not a welcome one among most of the Night Elven society.
It does not represent a majority or even an acceptable number among the playable people.
I would guess, it is because those 10.000 years back the Faction that became Nightelfs … did leave well before fecal matter hit the fan with Azshara and the Demons. Those said Night Elves did abdict any Magic … apart from Nature Magic. So no Mages, no Warlocks … that’s why Night Elves had Priests and Druids … but no Mages or Warlocks.
I would guess that stuff looked way too good for Warlocks and Mages with Azshara … so they stayed with her.
With the Cataclysm … the Shen’dralar … joined up with the Night Elves … and basically every Mage is a Shen’dralar .
The Nightborne are a total different case.
Not sure how you get homogenization from that idea that I would restrict classes from races. I’m arguing for more constraint, not less.
Warlocks are just really slow/fat demon hunters that couldn’t make the cut and started their own tykes demon team.
I would so play this! And no, a BE just won’t do.
Woah now! We were here first. Don’t compare me to a DH.
Well… guldan was a shaman. I think any magic user if any type can become a warlock… because magic potential is transferable to fel potential… but being a warlock doesnt necessarily mean they use fel magic primarily. It seems to mean they bind and use demons. In theory there is no reason night elves cant be warlocks, and if night elven society can accept demon hunters, then they can sure as hell accept warlocks.
Homogenize: make uniform or similar
You want to restrict class options for races, implying that Night Elves would NEVER EVER delve into Chaotic or Arcane magic because they ALL have a stigma. That’s homogenizing their entire culture as if they all are so pious and devoted to nature and Elune that absolutely none of them would practice and abuse addicting magics…
A lot can misread from text but I roll my eyes when someone feels they have to begin with a definition. Then comes the overreach into a misplaced conclusion.
Night elves did delve into fel and arcane magic leading to the equivalent of Warcraft’s original sin via the Shattering. Night elf culture has largely developed into response to it, and t has ostracized / imprisoned / killed those who have gone down paths it has deemed forbidden. That is hardly equivalent to homogenization. It is simply a cultural value.
Warlocks are hated within Night Elven Society just as much as Mages.
In lore they are actually, in game mechanics less so.
Side not, I find it funny how many of the Felblood looked like Void Elves before Void Elves were even considered. (Yes they had Blue skin High Elves with little demon Horns in TBC)