And the vast majority of whom (judging just by walking through any iteration of Dalaran), did not.
[citation needed]
I wasn’t aware they’d ever given hard numbers.
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Indeed, nor was I. I’m just going by the plethora of helves living in Dalaran. Considering just how many there are, one would be able to reach a logical conclusion that most helves stayed in Dalaran.
High Elves should rejoin their kin.
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Definitely possible if Blizz wanted to build on it, no retcon or any of that nonesense needed. Thing is, many of the named High Elves have expressed interest in them reuniting, from Vereesa to Auric. To my knowledge there isn’t a High Elf in game that has renounced their Thalassian heritage, they only show hatred toward the Horde
It’s unlikely that they’d ever go home, but I kind of like that about High Elves. I love a good tragic story
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Again, why not entertain the thought that helves are already with their kin? They live in other nations, among other helves, with their own cultures and perceptions on what is right and wrong.
Yep, we have the Sunwell and the independence from the Alliance, two things our race has always craved, and craved most.
Only those who are bigger fans of the Alliance than Thalassian Elves disagree.
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I’ve seen more interest in Quel’Thalas returning to the Alliance. I can’t imagine Vereesa, for example, would ever move back to Quel’Thalas. I’m not sure her children would be allowed there.
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Or maybe they left when Quel’thalas sounded the call to save it like the other high elves with a backbone.
Who could say? I certainly couldn’t so I won’t pretend I know.
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Good point, Kael did, and he likely mustered a butt ton from there.
Dunno what you mean by return, it was only ever a small group that even wanted to rub shoulders with the Alliance.
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If they did I doubt we’d see so many helves in Dalaran. I mean, the city is only so big, some kind of mass exodus of even a portion of it’s population should result in closed businesses, empty homes, etc… yet, Dalaran seems fully functional and even a bit packed in terms of population density.
If you’re still going to be a weird role playing weenie about it: The government is irrelevant. None of the playable High Elves in the RTS era were really part of some official delegation from Quel’thalas. In both Warcraft II and Warcraft III, the present High Elves were part of forces put together under informal arrangements.
People want to play High Elves regardless of what the most prominent government within their racial territory thinks because it’s never mattered for their Alliance alignment in the past.
The Horde means nothing to people who played the Alliance during the RTS era and made little armies of Elven Rangers or had tons of priests to support their footmen. We just want to play the High Elves we’ve always been here for as customers, and do so without being forced to play them in the wrong faction because of factors external to the lore.
I agree. If anything the High Elves should show interest in overthrowing the government of Silvermoon and bringing their people into the Alliance
Not saying that should happen, just that it should be their goal
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Dalaran High Elves lived there before the fall of Quel’thalas. High Elves that were exiled are spread all around Azeroth. Some went to Dalaran, like Vereesa.
Why would they leave their home, family, friends, and everything they knew to rejoin people who were fighting against that?
I honestly don’t see it, personally. Seems to me most helves outside of Quel’Thalas are there intentionally and don’t want anything to do with it other than seeing it not in the Horde. I always had the feeling that helves outside of Quel’Thalas sought freedom from the strict lifestyle of their cousins in the high kingdom.
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Maybe they’ll follow the same footsteps as the Horde, and establish a triumvirate of Thalassians in Blood, High, and Void Elves when the factions merge.
Lor’themar, Umbric, and Vereesa would make a fun group haha
I haven’t role played in this thread, that’s just what you say to discredit anything that proves I care more about the race than you do.
After Terenas Menethil sent a request of help, Anasterian sent only a token army to Hillsbrad.
You’re wrong, and don’t care about Thalassian Elves.
You’re an Alliance by heart, not elven.
Actually canonically, we like the Horde a lot, lot more.
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Fair point, actually. Quel’Thalas was never part of the Grand Alliance, only ever part of the Alliance of Lordaeron. Still, helves have been a part of both iterations of the Alliance. So, let’s forget Quel’Thalas and just make the Alliance’s helves playable already.
Kael’thas was tortured by a High Elf when he was imprisoned in Dalaran, right?
All we know is that Dalaran has the highest population of High Elves outside of Silvermoon, and that they’re culturally more accepting of humans, dwarves and gnomes then their kin are. We don’t have exact numbers or anything to go off of, or if they returned home at any point
It’s a blank canvas, I tell ya
You aren’t a Blood Elf, so you’re roleplaying.
Switching to a Troll toon would be more appropriate for you, though.
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