There’s no really lore reason why they should. the High Elves with their thing on purity should feel nothing but disgust for the Voids. They certainly would not want to willingly transform themselves. And it would explain their reduced presence in the Alliance of late.
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This idea of High Elves and, ‘purity,’ is fan-made nonsense. We’ve seen a High Elf Warlock, within the ranks of the Silver Covenant, no less. They mix their blood all the time, producing Half-Elves.
High Elves were defined by their choice of morality over pragmatism. Considering the Void Elves go out of their way to use the Void as responsibly as possible, there shouldn’t be all that many hang-ups over it, aside from the more Light-Worshipping High Elves.
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Half-Elves are both rare and looked down upon.
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I would legitimately like a source on that one.
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That was old RPG lore, but I still think half elves are unlikely to be popular amongst the elves. Though at this point Vereesa’s kids and Arator son of Alleria and Turalyon are good examples of half-elves being accepted by their immediate families. Can’t say for most Thalassians.
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RPG lore has been, (as I have been violently reminded) entirely retconned.
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There aren’t any direct sources but consider this.
In the entire game world, we’ve only met ONE example, Arator and he only shows up in Honor Hold and the Draenei ship we that we take a ride to Argus on. (which is the only occasion for Horde players, including Horde elves, to have met him.)
The treatment and intrigue that Nathanos had to deal with in his ascension to membership in the Quelthelan Rangers. and the overall atttitudes demonstrated by the High Elves follow the Greyhawk Elven tropes to a T… not really surprising given how much Warcraft has pulled from Dungeons and Dragons.
I figure there is no real given attitude towards Half-Elves in Warcraft.
Given they’re just such an insane rarity, it’s possible most of the population has just never considered it to even be possible, let alone have biases for or against them.
Writers said themselves “Half-breeds are rare in our universe”
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If half elves look as hideous as Alleria’s kids in the comics, I can totally see why they aren’t popular in universe.
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Good news, they don’t. And thanks to Kalec we have a new potential look for any half elf.
https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/65475-new-kalecgos-model-in-dragonflight/
That’s NOT a Night Elf visage by any measure.
Who said it was night elf? I thought it was self evident when I said half elf, I meant half-human and half high elf.
The article you highlighted.
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Well the poster was clearly wrong on that part. Kalec’s visage form was always half-human half-high elf.
No, that forum is a living quarantine zone for good reason.
Consider as well that Arator uses the Blood Elf model, meaning any High Elf in the game, until stated otherwise, could be a Half-Elf, because there is no unique model for them.
I’d also say Arator isn’t the only Half-Elf we’ve met. If you were a mage in Legion, you came across Alodi’s ghost.
Realistically, Blizzard could come out tomorrow and say every High Elf NPC in the Alliance is actually a Half-Elf unless they’re specifically stated otherwise, and there would be no way to disprove it. It’d even fit in line with the concept of High Elves being so rare they’re almost never seen; all these High Elves all over the Alliance are just Half-Elves. That the Silver Covenant would suddenly be made up primarily of Half-Elves wouldn’t even be that weird since most of them come from Dalaran, which would be the most logical place for Half-Elves to originate from to begin with.
But, none of that is lore, just as there is no lore about how rare or commonplace Half-Elves are.
alleria was a high elf the moment she became a void elf , she is the first void elf and is an actual co-leader of the rendorei, how can we say rendorei are not former high elves after that? they are both.
Lore no… but of the main player races… we see tons of examples and only ONE clear example of a. contemporary living half-elf. A statement of comparison can be made with some confidence even if it can’t be iron clad. (Cos-playing Dragons don’t count.)
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