Pretty much. “Unreliable narrators” is a lazy excuse for it too.
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I thought they became addicted to fel after Kael brought them to outlands.
I could be misremembering but I thought there was a cut scene where Valen cleanses the Sunwell of fel energies after on of the dungeons up there north of Quel’thalas.
as others said, weren’t kaeltha’s elves, still bloodelves?
There are only a handful of Elves that went to Outlands and returned to Silvermoon.
Your Joe Schmoe High Elf wasn’t gorging on demons, the ones in Outlands did though which is why they are mutated.
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They did become addicted.
The fel crystals in Silvermoon existed as a source of fel energy. Initially when the technique to drain magical energy from living creatures was taught to the elves, they used it on mana wyrms and such, but the population of those creatures is finite, where as demons were an unlimited resource. Those that got desperate turned to fel. It was especially common among the Blood Elves of Outland to drain demons for their magic, and that practice eventually caught on to the Blood Elves in Silvermoon.
But even if you want to ignore that as speculation, Kael’thas’s blood elves are still blood elves, and the survivors who did not become felblood elves would have rejoined their people after Kael’thas was killed so, yes, the Blood Elves were addicted to fel.
As for the Sunwell. It was destroyed by Kael’thas before he went to Outland (Kel’thuzad corrupted it when it was used to turn him into a Lich, making it a font of necromantic magic, which was withering the Elves who were exposed to its magic), and upon his return, he attempted to turn it into a portal to summon Kil’jaeden. That corruption was undone by Velen after Kil’jaeden was defeated and the Sunwell was turned into a font of holy magic (which is why Blood Elves how have a gold eye option, their eye colours change depending on what type of magic they drain/are exposed to).
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Exactly. Highelves fed off the sunwell’s energies. When it was corrupted by Arthas they could no longer access it which led Kael and company to outland to find alternative energies. That endeavor drove him mad etc.
Back on Azeroth the elves turned to draining magic from anything they could get their hands on.
Enter Anveena (embodiement of the uncorrupted sunwell) and the Sunwell plateau raid at the end of BC. She sacrifices herself to repurify the sunwell so the elves can access it once again.
The highelves/bloodelves were addicted to magic…all kinds not exclusively fel. I’ve never seen anything official in game claiming a fel addiction.
The whole eye color thing was simply the eye color chosen when bloodelves first came out. It had no other meaning at that time. Nothing official anyway.
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Right and there are far too many examples in this game of what actual Fel addiction looks like…
Horde Orcs have been cleansed of their Fel taint for 2 (3?) generations and they’re still green.
Blood Elves eyes changed color for a little bit and changed right back when the Sunwell was reinvigorated. That’s not Fel addiction.
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I think so too because it wouldn’t make sense for Shaw to get this wrong. From a story perspective I’m not sure the point of casting doubt on this either, because it undermines their own story. It makes less sense for the draenei to be motivated to help the blood elves reclaim the Sunwell if they thought they were addicted to fel. Also on other cases fel energy addiction is portrayed as being much more severe then just some green eyes.
Hmm so “addictive magic” was priestly propaganda then (sort of). Sounds oddly legit.
I agree, they are human they do not need to know all the details of a society they do not know.
To power buildings and nothing more. All of the lore explicitly states this, and there was a developer qna that clarified even further on the issue.
The fact that this book takes place from Mathias’ point of view indicates what humans thought was occurring.
Chronicles, however, which is from the Titan’s view, as well as the dev QnA both provide what happened in detail. Particularly where the devs stated the blood elves would be horrified at the notion of draining demons.
basically that the green crystals were used solely to power buildings, and that the blood elf population was draining magic from creatures.
The humans thought the blood elves were also draining demons, which isn’t true.
…why? Velen witnessed first hand the result of a people falling to the influence of the fel. First on Argus, and then on Draenor. Why wouldn’t he want to prevent it from happening yet again on his new world?
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If it is like that then it may be the character misunderstanding events, like in the campaign they misunderstood some of the horde stuff happening in those quests and were fighting off enemy zandalari that the horde was fighting too.
They literally feed off the energies from demons :V
Past the restoration of the Sunwell they’re not longer addicted to Fel but yeah, they were for quite some time, which is why their eyes became green.
Elves are addicted to fashion not fel! =p
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Isn’t Shaw like Azeroth’s CIA? He should know his enemies pretty darn well.
Because in the lore I don’t think it’s possible to recover from fel addiction. I mean Xe’ra tried to cure Illidan and look what happened to her.
Maybe Shaw thinks they were addicted to fel energies but that doesn’t make him appear to be very bright considering he has multiple people he could ask and it just doesn’t make sense logically.
But she was curing him… The only reason it failed was because his will was stronger than hers. Had he wanted to be free of the demonic influence, he would have been.
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She would’ve cured him, had he not fought against what she was doing. Illidan didn’t want to be cleansed.
But he didn’t want to be free of demonic influence because fel magic is addictive. Chronicles describes fel magic as the most destructive force in the cosmos. If Blood Elves were addicted to fel energy we would know. The felbloods were and they mutated to look like demons. Kael’thas was and he looked depraved and sickly.