Before BFA when Alleria visited Silvermoon, she insisted on speaking privately with Lor’themar, even offered to come later, he decided to speak publicly, despite the arrival of Suramar diplomacy. This is… a really big mistake in any negotiations. Later, when she starts talking about Anduin’s offer, Lor’theamr interrupts her calling him Boy-king. Where did this rude behavior come from? I can understand his attitude if talk was about Varian or Jaina. But this insults of Anduin, one of the best users of Light, peace-focus leader and disciple of Velen (who saved your entire race btw) came out of nowhere. Then he starts insulting and accusing Alleria for merging with the Void. Doesn’t he know that after thousands of years Alleria was still able to fight the Legion only thanks to void. As a blood elf he should understand this decision after everythink what arthas did. She didn’t want to do it, but she saw that this power was capable of helping Azeroth. Absorbing L’ura stopped further threats from her side and will save VE in the future.
About Void elves banishent. All of their research, study, risk of loss the sanity and even soul, were intended to understand new possible threats to Sunwell and better protect Silvermoon. They never been terrorists plotting downfall of Quel’thalas or puppets of the Void. I’m sure if Alleria told the rest of the Ren’dorei about Sunwell incident, they would shoot every one of their own if he even suggested going any closer to the Well. All Shadow examination started to keep their homeland safe. Lor’themar and Rommath concern about Void is obvious, but ignoring it won’t make it disapear and stop pose a threat. (As we see with Xal’atath and upcoming Midnight) Void elves and Locus walker have the biggest knowledge about the danger that await us. No one should call them traitors for following Alleria. She saved them in Telogrus Rift so it’s obvious they would follow their savior and potential teacher. Of course I must talk about the most controversial part. Opening the the rift in Sunwell chamber.
Alleria touch open the way to Void who started threatened the Well. But (-the key word-) she didn’t do it on purpose. Yes, she messed up, but she didn’t laugh diabolically and called the rest of elves stupid. She openly admitted her guilt, and was the first to try close the gate. Exactly. SHE close the rift. If another random Old Gods minion broke in, would Rommath himself be able to deal with the passage alone? We won against the Legion thanks to knowledge we gained about them over the years. If Lor’themar hadn’t been blinded by fear for Sunwell, now he would have the best Void researchers on his side.
Cool motive, still a liability to stay that close to the sunwell, which is frustratingly easy to be corrupted.
This just proves Lorthemar to be correct. If Alleria, which has more mastery of her void powers than other void elves is liable to do something like this by accident, imagine what kind of problems could surface if there was a bunch of Velves running around on the same postal code of the Sunwell. No. Lorthemar made the right call. It was a harsh measure but he had every right and reason to do so.
Regarding Alleria herself, Lorthemar was pissed at her for going to Silvermoon strictly to try and sway Belves out of the Horde, which took them in when they needed most, in favour of the Alliance, which shunned them when they needed help the most. There was also that minor incident in Dalaran some while ago.
Lorthemar has enough reason to not want anything to do with the Alliance in general, thus if Anduin is the head of state, he gets flack by association. I’m rusty on my Lorthemar lore, but thats what I’d wager on.
He called out her try to win the blood elves to the alliance. He had no intentions from the start and it was the right move to show that to his new allies too.
Void elves are too dangerous for Sunwell? Just keep them far away. As we see, they are doing very well on just a space rock, they don’t have to do research next to well. Knowing the threat they pose to Sunwell, I’m sure none of them would willingly go near it. The ideal solution would be for Lor’themar to give Umbric land somewhere in the dangerous parts of ghostlands, next to Amani or even next to alliance border. They will do void stuff far away from the capital. If they manage to discover something useful. Great! If something goes wrong, let our enemies worry about it. I see this is as an absolute win.
Yes, he could have done that, but would the Alliance/Amani simply accept a new settlement near their borders? I highly doubt it. Besides, the void is known for their insidiousness. All it takes is one Velf that doesn’t look voidy and yet listens to the voices a bit too much to have a huge issue down the line.
Umbric never wanted to be part of the Horde. He would have turned to the blue team either way. Even now he thinks all blood elves are stupid for not accepting Stormwind supremacy.
As Alleria observed in the quest, Anduin’s offer had been “anticipated and spurned” before she even presented it. The whole thing was political theater: Lor’themar was comfortable in the Horde, actively courting the nightborne for alliance, and had recently cracked down on the Void in Quel’Thalas; Alleria, an Alliance emissary corrupted by the Void, was behind the times.
The Sylvanas novel provides some additional context. Back in their high elf days, Lor’themar, Brightwing, and the other big name Farstriders recognized that Alleria was more loyal to the Alliance than to Silvermoon. Go figure they were unimpressed when she showed up 30 years later to try and sell Silvermoon an Alliance faction swap.
Maybe the void elf issue could have been handled better, but do recall that Umbric and his guys would have been that nether prince’s Void slaves had their banishment not hooked them up with Alleria and Locus Walker. A ranking Magister fallen to the Void, entrenched in Quel’Thalas and with a cult at his command, would probably have proved a direr threat to the Sunwell than Alleria in her ignorance.
The blood elves were right about the void elves though. Their prodding the void was risky and it did corrupt them and the only reason they were saved is Alleria. If Alleria hadn’t been there to save them they would have been a major threat to Silvermoon.
Look if you Research nuclear energy but end up irradiating both yourself and the local water hole, then ofc people aren’t going to be very happy with you regardless of motive
This is a tangent, but it’s funny to me how people will erroneously say, “Tyrande was right about the Nightborne! They immediately joined the Horde and helped burn down Teldrassil,” when this never happened.
Meanwhile, moments after defecting to the Alliance under Alleria’s guidance, the Void Elves immediately join the Battle for Lordaeron, potentially combating their former Blood Elf relations.
Lor’themar couldn’t have exiled a more unscrupulous, traitorous group of Blood Elves if he tried. When they eventually slink back into the spotlight in Midnight, it better be with their tails between their legs, and their tentacled heads hanging low.
I have a looming sense of dread that Midnight is going to be a parade of Belf Mea Culpa that somehow overlooks any wrongdoing by the cabal of void heretics.
I’m also consistently confused that characters in a fictional setting are always expected to behave and act with a level of rationality and logical overdrive that doesn’t even exist in real life with the internet at humanity’s disposal. Like, even if the Void Elves had done no wrong, it shouldn’t be unexpected that ruling bodies would be like “icky, Void, no thanks.”
Other people have shot your other points down well enough. So I’ll just focus on this one.
My guy, Alleria was the one being rude. She showed up under the guise of a hero and friend returning home to reunite with her people, just to immediately reveal that she was actually here to play politics instead. Lor’themar happily gave Alleria the benefit of the doubt and she stepped on it.
Not only that, but she did so to try to turn the blood elves against their allies. The sin’dorei have forged a far greater bond with the Horde than anything they ever had with the Alliance. So much has happened in Alleria’s absence, yet she thinks she knows better than they do.
It was a colossal insult to Lor’themar, the blood elves and the Horde as a whole. It only went to show that Alleria doesn’t know her people anymore.
But given the current trajectory of the writing I’m gonna predict they will instead frame it as the void elves having been right all along and they will be the key factor in saving Quel’thalas. Then Lor’themar will give them all gold stars and forehead kisses and form a new Council of Quel’thalas with Alleria as its main representative.
show up after atleast 20 years of no contact
Don’t even bother to learn about whats happaned
Don’t even bother to ask if your people are okay
Immediately just ask them to shift their entire geopolitics for no reason.
Alleria’s culture shock at returning to an Azeroth scourged of the high elves and 9/10ths of what’s left of them aligned with the Horde warranted a lot more drama than it got. Hell, her return to an Azeroth the Alliance cohabits with a reformed Horde warranted a lot more drama than it got. Her self-destructive hatred of the Horde was her defining character trait before the Void, and it never received closure. She just kind of muffled it.
I hope Midnight delves into why she failed to reconnect with the blood elves, because that was a fascinating plot thread confined to a single quest.
The proto Velves are studying the puzzle box from Hellraiser which is an idea they got from Dar’Khan’s research. You know the greatest traitor to elfkind who nearly doomed Quel’Thalas.
“Hey guys I found Pandora’s Box in Hitler’s shed. Cool if I poke at it near this Nuclear power plant?”
Lorthemar really could’ve given her a reality check then and there. Alleria barely understands the amount of horror the Blood Elves went through BECAUSE of the Alliance’s actions and lack thereof.
We did learn good and well that she was shocked to find that the Blood Elves allied with the Horde, through that conversation that got endlessly repeated on loop back in Legion. So there’s that…
(But yeah, this is the kind of drama and characterization I’d like to see more of in the game.)
To be fair, that was all 1,000+ years ago from her point of view.
This WAS RESOLVED. Specifically in the Beyond the Dark Portal novelization. The TLDR is Khadgar finally got frustrated with Alleria throwning herself at riskier and riskier endeavors and spurning Turaylon as a consequences. Turaylon ultimately helped her finally grieve and move on.
Fun fact, it is one of the few Warcraft books that ever implied characters had sex. And even then they made sure not to use the word sex.