A class isn’t a race, nice try though with that brain dead idea.
You really thought you had something there.
I agree the class comparison was bad, but I think the intention was just to point out the divide between VE’s and Half Elves. I’m not sure though.
I am pretty sure that Arthas only wiped out 90% of the Quel’Thalas population. There were High Elves stationed outside of Quel’Thalas also at the time when Arthas sacked Quel’Thalas.
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It is stated he wiped out 90% of the high elves. Not sure what is thi recent thing where people play semantics.
That is not accounting for the young and old who died of mana addiction.
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It’s one of those things where the wording of the statement about that sounds like it is talking about the race as a whole and not just the ones in QT at the time. I personally wouldn’t label it as solid lore fact, but I have a hunch the whole 90% thing was just a quick and easy way to make it really bad and that they didn’t bother coming up with percentages of how much of the race was where, so they just said “Ok, that killed off 9/10 of all of those elves”
During the Third War, however, the high elves were nearly scoured from Azeroth. Led by the death knight Arthas, a Scourge army stormed into Quel’Thalas, slaughtering almost ninety percent of the kingdom’s population.
It says 90% of the kingdoms population.
And at that time, how many High Elves were not part of the kingdom?
Probably only a small number. There is no knowing on the number or percentage of High Elves that were not in Quel’Thalas at the time of the Scourge Invasion.
That is why it says on the World of Warcraft site “kingdom’s population”. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that I know the number of High Elves that didn’t rename themselves, but the thing is, nobody knows the true numbers of the remaining High Elven population that did not rename themselves to Blood Elves. That is why nobody knows how many High Elves were also outside of Quel’Thalas during the scourge invasion.
And that’s the problem, at the time just about all the high elves were part of the kingdom. And there’s the whole 90/10 split of the survivors that’s been put out before.
It’s probably purposefully vague so that it’s both easy to remember and easy to fiddle with after the fact. It just never seems worth it to try and logic out anything from the numbers as it can vary wildly based on personal opinion on who counts as what.
Well, that is why I don’t argue with numbers. Because using numbers as an argument isn’t really proving anything tbh.
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No intent of trying to say you did.
And think I didn’t quite leave in my main point that it was probably just straight 90% dead 9% Blood 1% High because that’s nice and simple, and in anything usually the fans think about some of these issues way more than the creator does.
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I know. I was just saying.
It is nice and simple. I think it is just easier to go by imo.
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All high elves were a part of the kingdom of quel’thalas. Its just an easy way of writing.
Well now I’m wondering if there’s a dual citizenship status in wow… Thaaanks. 
There is indeed.
Kael’thas was considered both a part of the Kirin Tor AND Prince of QUel’thalas.
The sunreavers also have a history of being both part of Dalaran and Silvermoon.
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Mmm. Likely means there’s more then, though I doubt blizzard has brought it up much otherwise. Lol
The more you know.
but but BUT, now that humans are getting access to african and asian skin/hair/faces, we might be able to tap into that for half elves, since they’d be half human, resolving to the first african and asian elves! they’d have smaller elf ears and smaller elf eyebrows too. could make some that look like vulcans. i am ready for this.
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The more you talk about it the more appealing I find it actually. The Pictures helped. I kinda like the Half Elf idea… my Hubby would go nuts too, he loves Half Elves.
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i’m excited for the idea. if they are done well, would be incredibly popular too.
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Half Elves would be a better compromise. Though, I think they could end up with something more unique too that neither Elves or Humans have. Could be anything 
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