dear god those waists yes. they look aweful, male nightelves have a thinner waist than the do neck, its obserd. they look like they spent those 10,000 years abusing corsets, add in the old man faces and they legit look like Ethel Granger
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dwemer didnât look like dwarves. they were basically normal altmer, only they had black hair and styled their beards and hair in those cool babylonian styles.
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Donât drink the rotmeth.
Iâll try, but I am a Florida Man. If my gator fetches some for me, I canât tell you I ainât gonna drink it.
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I am confused. Who came first? Elder scrolls or Warcraft? Really find these cross-fantasy ties a bit thin⌠elves have been apart of the fantasy universe for a long time.
Both came out in 1994. Theyâre also both Tolkien and DND derivatives.
Night Elves arenât really knockoff dunmer, theyâre more knockoff Silvan.
âŚreally wish the writers would give us some more knockoff dunmer ideals though.
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Arena came out in March 94, while Warcraft came out in November 94. Very close together.
Theyâre not really related at all, only tangentially in that theyâre all based on D&D, which is in turn based off of Tolkein works and the like.
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But they feel unique enough on their own, I understand blizz has gotten their inspiration from sources, but who hasnât?
Just seems like the playerbase like to hate on elves, because they donât think they are original enough⌠I think itâs just the cool thing to do.
They are unique. Iâm not saying it to down on Warcraft or anything. Iâm using âknockoffâ loosely as âinspiration,â so just poor communication I suppose.
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You are fine lol.
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i feel like elderscrolls did a good job of differentiating itself from dnd and tolkein.
kirkbride, and the original forum posters that wrote most of the background lore, did a good job for bethesda in that regard.
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Kirkbride is trippy. I love him. Vivec alone makes the entire Elder Scrolls universe one of my absolute favorites.
Agreed, they certainly did the uniqueness of the elves justice there. Warcraft did in its own way, too, the night elves are aesthetically and thematically very different, but sadly writing has made them a bit generic lately.
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writing really did fail the night elves after wc3.
started off with a good, rather unique elf for once. the telepathic communication, savagery, was good stuff.
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I want Tyrandeâs story in Shadowlands to make us those wild, savage elves again. Iâm sick of the hippie, frolic with faerie dragons stuff.
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itâs the one retcon iâd happily accept with no questions asked.
just retcon everything from the last 16 years related to them and i am golden.
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No kidding, but by the Steve danhouser interview I think the problem only will get worse. Tyrande seems vulnerable to be killed off.
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He âjust vibesâ to write the story. Expect Tyrandeâs death, Malfurion weeping and moaning and self-exiling, and another large chunk of nelves getting used as soul mulch by Sylvanas.
No kidding.
Really hope this isnât the case, itâs really not a Positive thing for the night elf player base when we are constantly bailing out our leaders. Hopefully we just have to assist her with the separation from the night warrior.
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This is why I was kind of excited that they were adding faction icons to characters on the selection screen, it led me to believe that they were going to add more factions. The undercurrents were there to split off the Kaldorei and the Forsaken to be their own factions, which would have been fantastic.
Of course, it seems they just added those icons for no reason at all.
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