But that’s exactly the issue, Void Elves were not good despite being “new”, because they were poorly implemented. All the innovation didn’t save them from a bad introduction; being “new and different” does not a good addition to the lore make by itself. That’s the point.
Yet the Pandaren have done almost nothing with their political clashing, unlike BE’s and HE’s who have actually met on the battlefield. It’s a great shame that Pandaren just don’t make use of the narrative possibilities.
Oh come on, everyone knew that Zandalari and Kultiran were going to be AR of the expansion, but that’s not the point.
I’m not saying that races get development when they are chosen to be AR, but that we just don’t delve into race’s specifics -unplayable or otherwise- until their are relevant to the specifics of a narrative. Zandalari and KulTirans were painted with very broad strokes before BfA, which made a deep dive into them and then made them playable.
Exactly, because I am not saying that only AR get development, I am saying that races as a whole don’t get developed until they are specifically relevant to the narrative, and as pointed out with Zandalari and KulTirans, it can take 15 years for that to happen.
They weren’t critically relevant to the story, no, specially their background. Yet we did get development about them. Dalaran is said to be their home, they become the enforcers of the Kirin Tor in MoP. It isn’t a deep dive, it doesn’t need to be, but as with any race that shows up at some point, we do get to know stuff from them.
But again, asking to be shown High Elven assimilation is like asking why we didn’t see all the KulTiran drust narrative explained before… it’s just not what the story was about. Not because something isn’t addressed doesn’t it mean it won’t be later, and as you know, sometimes we end with a lot of rectcons.
Again, not because hasn’t been delved into doesn’t meant it hasn’t happened. It’s not hard to understand as already pointed out.
Why would Blizzard bother to expand upon an NPC group that is not critically relevant to an expansion’s narrative? That they have lore relevance doesn’t mean any narrative has been “about” them. We really don’t need more to understand them so far beyond just seeing them as citizens of the cosmopolitan city of Dalaran.
Like, the fact they live on such a city already makes evident their context is different from the BE’s.
Seriously I don’t get your issue here, do you really think we should have spent more time on High Elves so far?
And? I am literally pointing out how different groups of High Elves hold different beliefs.
And how is not a different cultural context dear lord?
Okay just miss the point. Whatever. Look, Elisande, evil and all, is an ostensible neutral party, yet common knowledge that reaches her clearly makes her value Blood Elves and High Elves very differently. It’s evident they are seen as different groups to garner such disparate responses.
As if BE and HE have such different cultural contexts than even an elf that was 10k years under a dome and just got out can clearly realize it…
I mean even when you bullet point it derisevely it’s still fairly obvious that IDK living in human cities and breeding with humans is a fairly different cultural context than blood elves have. Or that another group of High elves literally doesn’t do magic anymore.
But sure, keep trying to make the point BE and HE’s cultural context are “basically the same” because you refuse to look at, you know, the actual context.
Like for real, I just can’t take your opinion as a serious or informed one if you continue to stick to the idea that the cultural context of Dalarani High Elves and Silvermoon Blood Elves is the same. That’s laughable.
I mean it’s pretty clear that the Highvale have a pretty unique culture by not practicing magic and devoting themselves to the light. Not because we don’t delve into it those facts don’t exist.
So yeah, when they decide to make HE playable, it’s the perfect opportunity to fill in that lore, obviously.
Because really, saying that because we haven’t delved on the specifics of a group so far it means there are no differences, is just ridonkulous.
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