She still says that those Night Elves that remain are far too few: “The World Tree was more than a city. It was an entire land, home to countless innocents. How many night elves were elsewhere in Azeroth? Far too few. Now, they were all who remained of their people.”
The fleet didn’t hold any refugees, and the army was so insignificant that it couldn’t even reclaim their lands even after it arrived.
Doesn’t change anything about the fact that there are far too few left and that the Night Elves have been ended as a nation and as people.
Can you source that? Because I’m convinced that it’s nowhere stated that only a thousand died.
And the entire townfolk…
They were obliterated because they weren’t saved, and the Jailer forges souls into weapons, specifically the Night Elf souls.
This is also untrue, and why would it matter when such a small fraction of the Night Elves are reborn? They still don’t have anywhere to settle and the Horde still has Ashenvale too.
We do know that it’s directly Elune’s fault that they went to the maw and that they were obliterated, and when she found out about it, the only thing she did was make a new sigil for her sister…