If I were given the task, I could come up with explanations for everything. I’d write down an ethos of the void, explain what their recruits are seeking, create several characters with different PoVs, integrate void and high elves, create reasons behind it, plan their capital…
You could do the same. Or Shadows. Or Avarie.
The problem is that all of that is fan fiction. It’s Blizzard that needs to put those details on the lore, through the game, short stories, comics, cinematics, wharever…
Until that happens, the discussion goes nowhere. It’s just a clash of potential stories, conjecture, headcanon and personal hopes.
that the high elves were always an alliance is a lie
As many times as they say it will not come true, the elven civilization has more time than the existence of the lordaeron alliance
Anesterian only accepted the lordaeron alliance because they reminded him that during the trolls war humans helped elves against the amani threat
When the alliance wins the war against the orcs, the high elves leave the alliance saying that it was mishandled, not only the elves of quethalas but the humans of guilneas and kultiras
only alleria continued with the alliance until the end disobeying the orders of its king, which disappear in draenor, the only high elves that have always been faithful to the alliance have been the alleria family
the fact that the blood elfs are called that has nothing to do with the high elves, it is a symbolic name, with no intention of changing anything
the blood elfs we are the ones who rescue silvermoon
the blood elves we are the ones who are protecting the most important legacy of quethalas which is sunwell
and most importantly we try to protect the largest number of thalasian elves after the arthas massacre
that 1% of the survivors of stop comes to say that they are the pure ones without caring about the fate of the sunwell or the city itself is ridiculous
Some void elf fans would be disappointed in my writing of them though. They would disappear just as quickly as they appeared and high elves would take their place. Not literally, they’d have a better hub than a few rocks in the void.
Except people try to argue that Blood Elves are not High Elves/ Are High Elves and people go in circles leading to 20,000 post threads that get flagged needlessly and bogged down by bickering confirming what I said is true that there’s too much bickering over the name “High Elf” and that it should just die and fade away.
if we think about the high elves that are in the alliance are still in a frozen state
How they are healing their mana addiction, how they plan to build a settlement where and when
your fate is to be diluted in human blood?
where is your lore going? their only participation has been as an antagonist of the blood elfs, and having an expansion of factional warfare they did not show their heads as if it happened in legion or in the same mop
Light doesn’t send whispers in your head telling you to murder your family and pledge yourself to tentacle beasts.
I mean, Alleria has the fame of being the first mortal ever to not go insane upon mastering it. People, especially those not interested in magic, like civilians and martial practicioners, would be kinda of wary of being injected with the stuff.
Lightforged draenei are just martial-inclined draenei that got infused with the Light. Regular draenei already worship the Light. It’s nothing too hard to grasp.
Also, lightforged draenei can hardly be called a race. They are more like a military order.
Too bad some continue to ignore these historical lore facts, yet also continue nitpicking any pieces that fits their fiction from the same lore, and barking “they’ve always been in the Alliance cause LORE!!”.