Roles change. the Night Elves are no longer the sole protectors of World Trees. Deal with it.
Same thing could be said about the Horde and their tendency and eager participation with genocides. Its just how it is, no need to cry over it.
Ehh… Yeah, no. That’s not true either.
IIRC, that particular line comes from the Warcraft 3 Artbook, but it wasn’t really mentioned anywhere else. All Druids were men. Not all men were druids.
The reason all druids weremen is because outside of people like Azshara, spellcasting was seen as a Male thing. Since the Highborn that DID move on from arcane turned to Druidism, a lot of their customs followed.
This is (or was) also the reason the Sentinels were all women. The Sentinels were originally an offshoot of the Church of Elune, which was the only organization that was powerful enough to act as a Government post WotA.
And only women could join the church. In those same not really canon anymore books that named Nighthaven as the old capital, it went on to explain that every single Sentinel was more or less someone who tried to join the church but couldnt make it as a priestess but still wanted to serve.
Which is getting a bit off topic.
Druids were a rarity. Not all men were druids. Not even most men were druids.
Fun fact, this is also why Warden were women only, as Warden were picked from ranks of the church as well, and spun up from there.
All I fail to understand is why would you plant a massive tree, climb into the canopy of it, and then… dump a bunch of dirt, to form the soil to plant more trees on top of the tree?
It wasn’t like Darnassus was built by weaving the Night Elves buildings through the branches with beautiful bridges like the Star Wars Ewoks, or the Elves from Lord of the Rings.
No, Darnassus was built on DIRT. DIRT pilled up on top of a TREE. My understanding of TREES is that they don’t like it when they’re covered with something that could block the sunlight they need for their leaves. So who the heck decided to pack a giant dirt clod into the branches of the tree just to grow more trees? It’s like you have the biggest tree there ever was, you need more trees? Trees upon trees upon trees?
Tree-ception?
Honestly, I’m not defending the loss, but you have to admit, the original concept had some flaws. I hope the Night Elves build a proper capital city around the base of this tree, because nothing I say is going to change its location. So at the very least, they deserve their own version of Suramar except with the trunk forming the center point of the city.
I mean, do we know that isn’t also happening?
Forsaken got their entire civilization retroactively destroyed in a friggin’ novel, so Blizzard has had some serious missteps there too.
Most likely technology limitation but on a meta level, playing in a literal tree sounds like such a pain in the butt
Now see, this I actually agree with. I was never really a fan of Teldrassil and always thought the concept was a bit flawed. I also think the concept led and still does lead to a lot of misconceptions about Night Elves.
The old “Tyrande was only the acting leader while Malfurion was away” is STILL something you see pop up, when it’s been expressly stated for 20 years that Tyrande was the Sole Leader of the Night Elves. That didn’t change until Stormrage, where she forced it on Malfurion to help. And part of that misconception was because Fandral was seen as one of the leaders of the Night Elves, despite him only being listed that way for achievment purposes.
It’s kind of one of those things that didnt ever work in game.
It’s like… Ashenvale technically being blessed to always be night time, because the Night Elves are nocturnal. That’s kind been changed to just be Moonglade, but I mean… Then that would make sense for Moonglade to have been the overall capital for Night Elves, you know… Since sunlight actively weakens them (and yes, that is the case. They are actively weaker in the sun, especially with magic).
Teldrassil should have been the headquarters of the Cenarion Circle.
Moonglade should have been where Night Elves started.
It’s completely reversed. Teldrassil sucked, and I’m glad it’s gone as a concept.
But the new tree should have still been in Kalimdor… Or they should haved moved to Moonglade.
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What I am trying to say is that in the game, which is our main source material, the night elves have a huge presence on Kalimdor. They had outposts in multiple zones and even the neutral cenarion zones were clearly Night-Elf themed. It wasn’t until the War of Thorns that certain night elf fans began to self-own the race and diminish their own standing on the continent
Malfurion was their spiritual leader.
Sure, if you count the Cenarion druids as members of Darnassus.
But I think that’s a bit like considering the Forsaken as part of the scourge.
That’s been an ongoing debate for nearly 20 years.
It’s pretty obvious that when people talk about Night Elves, it’s not the Druids.
And had no official authority.
I don’t know if there’s any Night Elf law books cited much.
He outlawed the arcane, imprisoned Illidan, exiled the Highborne. Didn’t seem like it being official mattered.
Speak for yourself, man. As far as I’m concerned the night elves wouldn’t be the night elves without their druids. Aren’t they the ones that planted Teldrassil to begin with?
I mean, it was also the Tauren. And the Circle of Elders.
I think it would be disingenuous to deny that the Cenarion Circle (and druidism overall) is disproportionately Night Elf themed. Their settlements have night elf architecture, and they are filled with night elves. To the point where it feels like non-elf druids are just visitors. It is actually a complaint from people who play other druid races that it is so blatantly lopsided.
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Originally Malfurion and Cenarius just did it. Jarod in later version is involved but agreed Malfurion has rights too.
“Jarod…forgive me for being late,” interrupted a figure behind Illidan. “May I still speak?” The armored night elf nodded almost gratefully. “This is yours to decide as much as it‟s mine.”
Malfurion walked around his brother. Illidan‟s face followed him as the druid stepped between the sorcerer and the soldier. “I‟m sorry, Illidan.”
But Malfurion was the one to do it.
Malfurion’s act that they backed, sure.
If Malfurion does something and other people back it, that doesn’t make it not his act.
And I’m saying who cares about legal authority when he was the spiritual leader and on various big stuff people did what he said.
I mean, legal doctrine.
If Jaina decides something in Stormwind, and Varian backs it, it doesn’t mean Jaina was in charge. It means the King of Stormwind agreed with her.
I mean, I’d point you to Cataclysm where there was an entire questline dedicated to Malfurion’s neutrality that resulted in people turning to Druids of the Flame because the Horde was killing Night Elves and teh druids stood back and did nothing,.
Not in BfA: Prior lore actually had it decently far away.
Again, who cares about the legal doctrine? If I declare something and people do it because of that, that’s my act. If Varian does something because Jaina said so, doesn’t really matter if it was official, she’s responsible.