More specifically: Blood Elves refer to the largest remaining population of High Elves on Azeroth, specifically the High Elves under the Sunstrider Dynasty at Quel’thalas. They we’re mostly killed when Arthas attacked, and renamed themselves the Blood Elves.
Together they represent the overwhelming majority of the entire High Elf population on Azeroth.
They are High Elves. And they’ve been part of the Horde since BC. Splinter colonies of High Elves in other places on Azeroth do not justify giving them to the Alliance when the vast majority of High Elf population is Loyal to the Horde
The Blood Elves are Highborne Elves, that use arcane magic, and created a Dynasty based around their royal bloodline.
They are High Elves.
They are a Different group of High Elves. But they are High Elves. They represent the majority of the High Elf population on Azeroth
Keep in Mind. You are talking a Night Elf fan here.
Any Elves that were highborne, used magic, and ran away to form splinter colonies, are High Elves. Because they have Highborne blood in them. Making them “Quel’dorei” or “Children of Noble Birth”
no it doesnt. high elves are blood elves. even the character creator blurb for blood elves in the damn game states this. a modern ‘high’ elf is really just a blood elf with a different political opinion
alliance high elves is the correct term you are reaching for
A group that contains… Maybe 90 people. “Alliance High Elves” does not justify a race…
The Blood Elves, on the Horde represent the group of High Elves that defended Quel’thalas. These are the SAME high elves that fought with the Alliance of Lordaeron in the second War.
keep in mind. The Alliance of Lordaeron and the Modern day Alliance are 2 different groups of people.
High Elves, throughout ALL the History of Azeroth have had a tendency to be cautious, and somewhat fickle. They really only show concern for themselves.
If it were up to them, they would keep to themselves. If their home wasn’t destroyed and their way of life wasn’t on the chopping block.
oh fo sho. the race is already playable. its like saying humans arent playable because its not a specific tiny splinter group of humans(eg defias humans)
with the restoration of the sunwell all high elves feed on a font of holy and arcane power, the alliance high elves are irrelevant as traditional elves. blood alves are the traditional elves now. theyre just mad they allied themselves withy ugly orcs
Exactly.
Not only do the Blood Elves represent most of the High Elves on Azeroth (except the Nightborne) They also represent the Elf units from Warcraft 2 and 3. considering they are the SAME GROUP of people.
Siding with the Orcs doesn’t go against the elves history or anything. High Elves have always been picky about Alliances.
Originally they only interacted with Human races during the Troll Wars, because they were given an ultimatum. Work with Lesser races, or Die.
Years later, They only help the Alliance of Lordaeron because Anduin Lothar was related to the SAME HUMANS that helped the Elves survive the troll wars.
Not because they liked the Alliance, not because they had any Alliance loyalties. But because they were paying back a favor.
When the High Elves of Quel’thalas get their homeland destroyed, they find themselves looking for Allies in Unlikely places.
So they find a strange kinship with the Horde. A Family of downtrodden and down on their luck races.
They even have a close relationship with the Forsaken as both of them are driven by vengance over Arthas.
Anyone who thinks the High Elves still belong on the Alliance needs to read up on the lore
I can’t Believe i’m saying these words. But I agree with Yifftron. The factions are a cancer on this game, and they have ONLY provided problems over the years.
Sort of; Stormwind was a signatory of the last league of arathor and despite not being directly involved in the events surrounding WC3 would nominally have still been part of it.
This is a request that has existed for over a decade. Some players say it has existed since the game launched (which makes sense considering the NPCs existed in vanilla), which means it existed before the Blood Elves were made Horde.
I want to play Alliance High Elves because strong faction identity is important. They made WoW so we could experience Warcraft as our Horde and Alliance characters from the RTS and guess what? Elves from Quel’thalas only ever appeared as Alliance units before TBC.
one of the problems is allied races are nearly invisible to new players. they login to char selection, see the core races and many will not even notice the allied races button and chances are, if they buy a version of the game that includes a free char boost, will jump right over the allied races section.
to increase alliance playerbase, at the very least we need a great new race that people will want to play, that is accessible from the core races screen. since elves are very popular, this seems the most logical addition. and it should be the old school style core race with its own leveling zones/mounts/faction/quest chains, etc.