Yet they fit the bill on almost everything except appearance.
Even the WoWpedia states they were directly inspired from Drow in D&D.
And there’s the unused files in the system - see first post.
Who ever told you that Nightborne were supposed to be the WoW version of Dark Elves?
WoWpedia. Officially endorsed by Blizzard. Which I quoted. Above. That you didn’t read.
But I would stop insisting they are drow, since this is a game with alot of borrowed ideas from many many many places.
Drow worship spider queens. ZT whorship a Spider Loa, her priest even drains here power and becomes a Drider herself.
Read. The. First. POST.
Nobody is doing this.
Drow are not a D&D-exclusive race. Everyone thinks that D&D invented them. They did NOT. They are OPEN GAME CONTENT.
Drow and Dark Elf/Elves are completely interchangeable in vocabulary.
Also, the lady-troll who drained the Spider-Loa became a Troll Drider-thing. So, unless we have an endless amount of Spider-Loas to drain, we’re out of luck in that department.
I did and the only reference to dark or drow elves is a single sentence
" The nightborne also share a physical resemblance to the drow of Dungeons and Dragon , though it is mostly superficial as the nightborne, while aesthetically calling to mind the classic “dark elf” fantasy,"
You mean need to look up what “mostly superficial” actually means…
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Look at the file as well.
Of the unused skin. The gray skin. Specifically, the more Drow-like skin. Drow and Dark Elf are the same thing. Period. Full stop.
Stop trying to differentiate the two. They are the same.
Again, SUPERFICIAL. They some what resemble them, that doesn’t mean they are modeled after them or they are supposed to be the WoW version of the Drow race.
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What color is the skin on the left? I’ll give you a little time for that.
? I said in the post? Nightborne are not drow! They are heavily based on but not drow lol. Wow tends to add twists to there races.
Eredar and dranei are like Tieflings as well… but they are Eredar.
while they are at it, they should add a pure white pale skin tone too.
Facedesk.
Okay, so. This is a thought exercise. I’m not doing it to insult you.
A Drow means Dark Elf. The two are synonymous. They existed long before D&D.
These are the qualities of a Drow - which is also a Dark Elf.
“Drow are similar in stature to humans, but share the slender build and features of elves, including the distinctive long, pointed ears. Their eyes lack pupils and are usually solid white or red. Drow skin ranges from coal black to a dusky purple. Their hair is typically white or silver, though some variation is not unknown.”
Essentially, the Nightborne are DARK. Elves. As the quote says - appearance-wise. AKA. I want my DARK. Elves. I want my Drow. I want my dark-skinned elves. Which is all Drow stands for. That’s all it means. Any culture a Dark Elf has is entirely up to the company / group writing for them.
If I wrote an RPG tomorrow. Let’s say I called them Dalfs. I could not copyright Dalfs. Anyone could use Dalf interchangeably with Drow or Dark Elf. However, if they copied their society, culture, and deities I wrote for my books - I could sue them for stealing Dalfs, but not using the word.
I painted a picture with my description. Either way, solid white eyes - sound familiar?
According to who, you?
Only to someone desperate to justify shoehorning Drow into an IP in which they do not exist.
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Throughout all of this I find it hilarious that the OP refuses to accept Night Elves as WoW Drow Elves when in reality the Drow were actually the initial inspiration for the Night Elves during their creation in Warcraft III development. For obvious reasons many of the Drow like concepts did not survive, however they are a Matriarchal society the believes in a very powerful goddess that has warrior women and priestesses with men being the mages and the druids.
Edit: Cause it has been a day and I goofed.
more customization for nightborne please !!
why not go play the game with drow then? neverwinter online still exists.
quit trying to homogenize universes. so sick of this.
what nightborne actually need is to look like the actual race we saw in legion, and still see on many npcs.
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oh there is drow, check the ptr, night elves can be drow now
I don’t think the servers can handle the number of permutations of Drizzt Do’urden that would be created.
Once more. WOWHEAD. Endorsed by Blizzard.
Yes. And as soon as they have the gray skin, I will call them Drows like they are. They are DARK elves. Night is even in their name.
Anyone still saying Drow and pointing out anything related to WoTC isn’t clever or smart. Drow don’t belong to them. Any elf with dark skin (black to gray to purple and other shades of purple) is a Drow. A Dark Elf.
A rose by any other name is still a rose.