Eh no idea what you are talking about regarding that stuff it always seems more like the opposite, most night elf posters are just Lena posters or they are too filled with apathy to care about the subject.
As for e(le)sa(na).
Idk you have caused me alot of laughs. hysterical laughs at that, glad to see your forum posting is a character homever, as you had me worried.
There is a certain irony in it happening to Elesa’s thread of all places, though.
Fine. I’ll post this on my druid alt so we can get rid of the distraction of horde vs. alliance.
Let’s talk about all of the wow races in terms of what they tend to lose.
Orcs: they have lost their entire homeworld and all of their sacred places aside from the quarantined village in nagrand. Orgrimmar is a pit in the middle of the desert that Garrosh was miserable to be in.
Gnomes: they have yet to reclaimed mechagon and many gnomes feel trauma still from the curse of flesh, making many of them obsessed with replacing body parts with mechanical pieces.
Dwarves: one of the few races that haven’t lost a lot en mass, but they are barely in the story and get very little focus. Temporarily lost their leader but got him back.
Draenei: they were genocided by orcs and their own people. They lost their homes twice and then nearly a third time when the legion invaded the exodar.
Blood elves and high elves: 90% of them are dead thanks to arthas and their city is in ruins. Lost their faction leader in BC. Took until MoP for Lorthemar to get development.
Nightbourne: temporarily got their happy ending but lost many loved ones to the Legion.
Tauren: almost as irrelevant as the dwarves tot he main story but got to keep their village. Lost their original leader in cataclysm.
Dark spear trolls: Lost their leader in Legion. Lost their homes at the beginning of wow but got it back.
Zandalari: Lost their leader in BFA. Had their holy sites pillaged and their navy decimated. Still crumbling from within and worse off than they started during BFA.
worgen: lost their [new at the time] city but retained most of their lore leaders.
Kultiras: Doing just fine, ruled by a demigod.
Stormwind: Doing just fine, don’t need to talk about this one. Lost Varian the moment he got some interesting moral nuance though.
pandas: had their entire continent violated by the faction war and their most sacred places destroyed.
Forsaken: lost their homes twice, betrayed by their leaders twice, reviled by the world, entire thematic narrative underminded
Vulpera: caravans set on fire, mobile homes destroyed.
void elves: outsiders literally everywhere, no home, no close allies
night elves: one of their world trees burned, none of their major faction leaders offed, Tyrande likely getting set up to make night elf paladins in the lore, still have the blessing and are the chosen of the main deity in wow
where there are woods, there can be night elves and new moonwells. nelves are an incredibly versatile and omnipresent race that are tied to the land itself.
The entirety of legion and a good chunk of the war campaign was about nelves being the stars of the show while the horde collapsed from within yet again.
Nelves get plenty of attention and shining moments of glory and with ardenwealde once again giving them a large chunk of the enchanted forest fantasy this does not seem on schedule to change.
Finally, you really shouldn’t play games you hate
Okay, but, do you see her die?
I am always so confused by these threads. Night elves are one of the few races in a good spot. They are a big part of pretty much every expansion, having their own zone 90% of the time, still retain their leaders, still have their identity, have raids and dungeons specifically for there lore, all they are missing is a home… and even that is questionably since they are present in many other places, Nordrasil being the most obvious.
Lets look at Forsaken on the other hand. No leader, no home, no identity, barely any presence in the story unless there needed to be a villain. And are now lead by someone who isn’t even Forsaken. I could go on. This could be said for many other races as well.
Night elves will be fine and be arguably the largest developed race in wow since they are the most present. If you think losing a leader will be the end of the world, as Horde I can tell you its not. In the end, the story is pretty crap and its not worth devotion of any kind really.
I guess, but it doesn’t make it anymore right.
Seeya, Elesana. You’ve been my favorite meme, no ill-will intended: a little ridiculous, but always fighting the good fight. Ande’thoras-ethil.
I agree that it’s been bad, but I also agree that this isn’t the thread to go into it.
I have to say that it’s sad for me to see you leave but I completely understand because I too have left the game because of all this nonsense of lore and being back from time to time because of the free game time I get from the recruit a friend rewards.
I always felt you were the voice we needed to make ourselves heard in any controversial night elf topic.
Also I was always happy to see your posts because most of the time they expressed my ideas and feelings the way I could never say them because English is not my native language.
Hopefully the story will finally get better for Night Elves so that we can come back and enjoy the race we so passionately love.
Meanwhile you will be missed a lot.
Take care!
All I have in my head now is a bunch of Vulpera standing outside a burning trailer park.
“Ma! Those gosh dang Alliance yankees done tore up our house again! It’s high time we got back at them varmints!”
Cocks shotgun
“Darn tootin’!”
This is so funny and over dramatic. Don’t get your life tangled up in a fictional world.
I always loved seeing your posts, even if they were overblown and pessimistic but i knew deep down it’s because you desperately wanted the opposite.
I understand and empathize with you a thousand percent but it isn’t over until MY last spark has died (Tyrande) and i won’t stop until it comes to that conclusion <3 I will always have hope and i hope i get to see you again on these forums someday <3
Most nelf players refuse to wait for the story to play out
With Elesana gone the story forums have become even more of a weepy Horde echo chamber. Farewell Elesana!
I won’t miss the tedious, repetitive complaining!
That said, if Tyrande DOES end up dying because she became the Night Warrior, I do agree she could have at least accomplished a little more for the price she paid.
Because the wait and see thing never really works out in anyone’s favor, not just the Night Elves. It’s just that this time the race got hit hard and we once again have to do this wait and see thing. Besides that the Night Elves have been crapped in a lot so it’s understandable why some are extremely hesitant about the future of the story.
it literally does tho, if it didnt there wouldnt be a story there wouldnt be people that like the story, just cause you dont like them doesnt mean others dont
That’s what happens when you put a race of demigods into a game with mortals and have both be playable. You have to knock the demigods gods down a notch. Blizzard did their standard hamfist pumbleing of the lore, and night elves took the brunt of that beating. Is it over for them? No, they do need some proper attention though. Its questionable as to how much shadow land will or can address the issues that BfA introduced.
Oh that’s a relief it was my first thought reading the last part of your post. It’s just a story in the end. Take care of yourself Elesana.