My theory about Blood Elf Druids in Midnight

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My theory about Blood Elf Druids in Midnight

I believe (and hope) that one of the upcoming patches will introduce Blood Elf Druids.

Warning: spoilers and speculation.
Follow my reasoning.

I think some Blood Elves will become druids because they will need to heal and protect their new world tree, a tree that could eventually replace the Sunwell in their relationship with arcane magic. This tree could be located in a new neutral zone, possibly be a new neutral neighborhood for housing.

I’ll try to go through this reasoning step by step, as logically as possible.

From recent datamining, we learn that Xal’atath’s goal is to take control of the Sunwell. But why? Not just for its raw power, but because it is connected to Azeroth’s ley lines. By controlling the Sunwell, she would effectively gain access to the magical bloodstream of Azeroth.

When Silvermoon asks all elven nations for help, Tyrande agrees and suggests to Lor’themar that Blood Elves should consider moving away from the Sunwell. Given their history with unstable magical sources, he does not find the idea completely unreasonable.

To counterbalance the loss or corruption of the Sunwell, the Blood Elves could attempt to restore their ancient sacred tree, which was cut down by Arthas, called Thas’alah.

I believe that with the help of the Haranir, they might rediscover its still-living roots and attempt to restore it.
Thas’alah was known to be a magical tree connected to the ley lines, the Sunwell, and the life of the Quel’Thalas region. It could therefore become a perfect counterpart to the Sunwell.

At that point, all elven cultures could contribute:

  • Blood Elves with their knowledge of the Sunwell and runestones.

  • Night Elves with their knowledge of World Trees.

  • Void Elves helping protect the tree from the Void.

  • Nightborne with their experience restoring the Arcan’dor, a tree combining arcane and life magic.

At that point, they would need a unique kind of expertise to protect and maintain this tree, which could lead to the creation of Blood Elf druids specialized in arcane and life magic.

Other possible hints

Several elements could support this theory:

  • The mention of High Botanist Freywinn during BlizzCon, a Blood Elf strongly associated with plant magic.

  • The Amani Loa spirits: the lynx, the bear, and the dragonhawk, which oddly match possible druid forms.

  • Strange manifestations of life magic in Eversong Woods during certain quests.

  • The fact that some lynx models in the game files are labeled druid forms.

  • And in the animation A Place to Call Home, the final shot shows a Night Elf house under the skies of Quel’Thalas, which could symbolize a reunification of elven traditions, including those tied to nature.

If this theory turns out to be true, then Blood Elf Druids wouldn’t come from nowhere —
they would come from the need to protect Thas’alah, a new arcane world tree connected to the ley lines and the future of Quel’Thalas.
(*sorry for my basic english)

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I feel Thaemin’s Farstrider quests are the most likely scenario. They really seemed to be made purposedly foreshadowing something, and it gets more evident as the questline goes.

Blizzard loves to add hints about future class-based content with stuff like this. The inception of Blood Elf druids makes a lot of sense also thinking on how to keep their land safer, after the whole Lightbloom fiasco.

Just a correction, it’s Shandris not Tyrande.

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Oh man, don’t give me hope! I love the nature elf trope but that literally doesn’t exist for the Horde (yeah yeah Hunters exist I know but it’s not the same!)

I would swap to a belf druid day one! Pretty lynx lady tearing up the delves~

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Always and forever my #1 wish for WoW. :]

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Closest you have right now is Haranir at least.

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Yes indeed!

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And they are amazing! I love their druid forms, they’re so cute T^T

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I think pretty much every race makes sense for Druid in WoW, except maybe Undead and Mechagnomes

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Just have them become transformers

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I’ve said this as a joke before and while that would be awesome, I would be loathe to call them druids.

I wouldn’t even mind if they gave them all the same abilities, but maybe flavored a few of them different, for example, lightning bolt instead of moonfire, maybe little medical bots for the restoration spec. If you’ve ever seen the anime Zoids, (its basically transformers, but with animals instead of cars) you’d know how awesome that would be.

Just dont call it Druid lol.

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How about we call the Druoids?!

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since day one ive thought ud druid would be cool in the fungal and decay aspect of nature. maggot bear form, fly flight form, spider cat form…

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And somewhere, It’s the druid way of the Kultirans.

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ewww

Sure, just dont call it Druid

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cmon bro, parasitic fungal zombie druids are awesome. nature isnt all flowers and trees and bears. its also mindcontrolling fungi and parasitic wasp larvae that eat their host from within.

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I feel like if they wanna do something… they need to address how Quel’thalas itself isn’t natural and they subvert nature’s will to make it look like this. They’ve been ignoring it through the xpac, but the tauren druid ambassador called it out directly in TBC.

If they wanna move forward and give them the option, cool, but that history should be acknowledged for us to move forward from it at least rather than just ignored.

Like it did kind of annoy me they had the unicorn spirit over the lake without addressing how Suncrown Village’s lore was they’d annual perform binding rituals on spirits to flex their powers over nature every year. Like I think addressing that there’s farstrider elements who care for nature, but that Quel’thalas isn’t largely aligned with nature, would make for a better storyline than like… vagueposting about random nature spirits.

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Agreed tbh. I’ve always loved the notion of Farstriders being nature-lovers with druidic tendencies because it chafes against the rest of blood elven society, which by contrast views nature as purely aesthetic & something to be bound to their will. I like the idea that urban elves vs rural elves have very different views on this type of thing. It makes for an interesting societal tension, which I fear they will abandon in favor of an overall “good guy blood elf” narrative which will whitewash the deep-seated flaws & wildly differing values within their society/culture.

I also think, as much as the Dawnwell isn’t… my favorite thing in the world, it does open up an opportunity for a plot that actually addresses the state of Eversong Forest. Because without the Sunwell, what happens to the eternal springtime enchantment? The Dawnwell is described as being far less powerful. Surely this would have an effect on the land? Surely they will need to seek out some other way to keep the enchantment going?

In truth, I think this should have been addressed long ago, since technically Thas’alah acted as a conduit that channeled the Sunwell’s magic into eternal springtime that permeated the land (this newer lore sort of contradicts the older lore that it’s solely the work of the magisters, so I tend to think it’s probably just a combination of both). So realistically I think we should have already seen some level of deterioration of the enchantment after the Fall, with the recent destruction of the Sunwell just “sealing the deal,” but eh, that’s getting too into the details I suppose.

But at the very least, if they do address it now, I think they can pull on that lore—and tie in the Haranir a bit—by having a world tree plot of some kind. If a magical tree was (at least in part) responsible for eternal springtime in the past, then surely it can be again! And then we don’t have to worry so much about it being “anti-nature,” since it’d be inherently natural. I’m sure it could be tied into some of the same logic that the Emerald Dream and Ardenweald use, where the former represents spring/summer and the latter represents autumn/winter. Given that Quel’Thalas is described as both “spring-like” and “autumnal” at the same time, it could even be explained away by creating a connection to both realms, and having Quel’Thalas exist permanently “in between” both extremes. I’m just spitballing at this point!

But yeah, there are 100% ways to do it that would pull upon the existing lore and help solve some of the potential plot holes/loose ends that the Dawnwell situation has created. And hopefully, as you said, they bother to address the whole other side of Thalassian society that has openly disdained nature all this time. It would feel bad to have their magical forest preserved/saved by nature magic without some of them having to be like “okay maybe those hippie Farstriders were onto something. don’t make me touch a bug tho”

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I’m very disappointed by how the lore and world dynamics seem to be merely a backdrop instead of being the focus of this expansion. This is surprising and foolish.

The lore is so rich; there’s so much material to use to justify the story.

But instead, they seem to be using the lore as a simple, simplified backdrop to impose a specific narrative.

For example, we’re in a crisis, who do we ask first for help? Not our faction, and not even the other elves of the Horde. Let’s go see our enemies, the night elves!

I really get the impression that this story was written by and for the Alliance.

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If blizzard wasn’t on a pretty fast content / xpac cycle now, i’d like to cope and pretend that the Lightbloom would’ve been used as set up for a misuse of a well of power, as their spells used to control and shape eversong end up affecting it in subtle, different ways. Even if they don’t change much, they could’ve leaned more on the belves seeing patches of lightbloom existing for years and just believing it was a blessing, until now that blessing they just accepted as a sign of their glory ended up being revealed as a giant magic tumor. It’d make sense too: since Warcraft 3 we’ve known Nordrassil stops the well of eternity from growing too strong over time like it’s predecessor and repurposes it’s energies, meaning the natural state of wells of power is to just keep growing and growing in power.

I don’t think I’m really in favor of wearing down what made the Sin’dorei interesting. But i can live with the idea of this story if they just put more effort into thinking of it’s actual history that plays into it. One downside i think of retiring Malfurion in DF with Tyrande is that he was the dude who exiled the highborne. And it was a point in Elegy that he didn’t hate them. He didn’t think of the belves as an innately evil people, he didn’t like that their exile brought a lot of suffering on them and their descendents.

I think if they really wanted to move past the divide, they should’ve had Malfurion do what he did with Hamuul, and make a foundation for Thalassian’s to develop true druidism. Something something “a path our ancestors closed in clinging to the ideologies of a sunken empire, while claiming to be moving forward.”

I think it would’ve used Alliance characters better if that was the case instead of pseudo character assassinating Turalyon and somehow trying to make us feel sympathetic for the Dark Horde of all things. Let alone how much night elf lore the Haranir steal and turn neutral.

No, I think it was made for fans who aren’t as interested in the minutia of the lore and are more likely to treat wow like a summer action movie lol.

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It would be very cool to see Thas’alah’s roots to still be able to be healed and the mother tree to be regrown in the place of Deathholme. Seeing the blood elves use their connection to nature again would be a nice turn of events for them to restore the scars of the Lightbloom and the Twilight.

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