Changed into an entirely different race after roughly ten thousand years of separation.
Highborne are just a caste of Kaldorei, unchanged and not a separate race.
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Thatâs what âdescendantsâ means? Highborne are an upper class of Night elves, serving even under the Queen.
There was a split. Night elves stayed behind and Highborne later became High elves.
Correct wording would be âwere Highborne,â not âare Highborne.â
And not all Highborne became High Elves.
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You misunderstand. The night elves responsible for the rebellion, were not Highborne. This is the alliances night elves. The only Highborne (upper class Night elves), are High elves.
Other than the ones that blizzard introduced for mages.
Night elves on the alliance were considered the lower class, non Highborne. They were the ones who staged the uprising where Highborne DID join the fight. Including DathâRemar Sunstrider, a Highborne.
What rebellion?
The Shenâdralar are Highborne.
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Iâm pretty sure thatâs what I said here
Lol. Never mind.
They arenât exactly the same though. Kaldorei did have certain different features like Highborne being fairer, and those are more noticeable when it comes to style.
No, In the cata dungeon we see Azshara had that skin color long before the Naga thing.
No Highborne are not high Elves. Yes both are Quelâdorei but what because High Elves are the elves who migrated and evolved to adapt to day life and are known as High Elves and their off shots.
Highborne are still nocturnal elves.
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Makes perfect sense.
No. Unless they are dead, no. Most Highborne sided with the Queen, other than the one I mentioned. Who helped free Tyrande.
You already recognized the Shrenâdralar are Highborne. Thereâs your alive Highborne.
Note, High Elves are not Highborne.
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Well true, I suppose. The rest are spirits.
I never said they are ânowâ, I said descendants of.
Ah yeah definitely.
OkâŚ
- Trolls make a camp by a magical lake and evolve intoâŚ
- Night ElvesâŚwho are divided by social caste intoâŚ
- Night Elves and Highborne Night Elves
- Highborne recklessly follow Azshara (with a nudge from Xavius along the way) into drawing ever more power from the Well until âHey, letâs open a gate for the Legion!â seems like a great idea and then, whammo!, The Sundering.
- Many Highborne die, many more become Naga, and some decide this hasnât been a great idea and the surviving Highborne split off intoâŚ
- These Highborne groups:
6a. Shenâdralar who bail out and hide in Dire MaulâŚ
6b. Nightborne who decide to dome in whatâs left of Suramar City and hide from the world for 10,000 years, mutating into Nightborne after living off the Nightwell for ten millennia under a sunless, moonless dome.
6c. Highborne who do neither but who receive a âLeave the damned Arcane alone now!â edict from the rest of the Night Elves. - Highborne from 6c decide to ignore that and to prove just how cool they are they unleash an arcane storm on Ashenvale.
- Tyrande and Malfurion make a huge mistake and exile those Highborne instead of killing them all.
- Highborne hightail it out of town and over that same 10,000 years that the Nightborne were mutated in evolve into Thalassian ElvesâŚthe High Elves. They are no longer Highborne.
So, we have Night Elves of two castes, but both Night Elves; Shenâdralar and lower caste Night Elves. We have Nightborne, mutated former Highborne. And we have ThalassiansâŚHigh ElvesâŚwho evolved from the exiled Nightborne.
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Besides, how do you explain any living Highborne as living in a shabby place like Stormwind lol.
Most of what you listed, has nothing to do with DathâRemar Sunstrider. I suggest you read up on him. I assume thatâs what the post is trying to crack at.
I mean Stormwind is WAY better than Dire Maul, and they are living there now because they have no other option.
He is the leader of group 6c/8, not difficult. He owes his life, as do all of you, to Tyrande and Malfurionâs overdeveloped sense of mercyâŚnothing more.
True, I suppose. Better than nothing at all.
Ohh, I see. The post was over exaggerating lore, emotional dribble and hyperbole.
âThey went pow pow, cause magic addictsâ is what your post reads as.
There was no rebellion. There was this:
the Highborne foolishly attempted to convince the kaldorei race of the power of magic by unleashing a magical storm on Ashenvale
It wasnât a rebellion. Just an attempt to show how powerful Arcane was and that it was needed. And it backfired and got them exiled. Once they were gone, they changed and became an entirely new race. They were once Highborne. They no longer are. Therein lies the difference in wording.
And the Shenâdralar werenât created for Nelf Mages. They existed in lore well before Nelf Mages were introduced.
They are exactly the same.
The Highborne (or quelâdorei, meaning âchildren of noble birthâ in Darnassian), were the upper class and a sect of the ancient night elf civilization
The gameplay gave some of them different colors simply to make Azshara or some other NPC stand out. But the Shenâdralar in Dire Maul always were just regular Nelfs. The lore doesnât state they look any different. There is only a note after the lore that says:
While not universal, many Highborne NPCs are of fair skin, with white hair and no tattoos on their face.
Which we see in game, but is not defined in lore. Lore states:
This selective breeding, combined with frequent access to the Well of Eternity, resulted in night elves with progressively stronger magical abilities and greater understanding of how to use those skills.
And says nothing of a difference in their appearance. Because there really isnât one.
Highborne are just a caste of Nelf. A caste that isnât even recognized by the Nelfs any longer.
Like I said, jewelry and golden eyes for females are great ideas that I hope they add. But it doesnât have anything to do with them being Highborne. Especially the golden eyes.
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Itâs the actual timeline of Elves in Azeroth. None of it is at all exaggerated, itâs what happened in canon.
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