So, How Are They Gonna Ruin Silvermoon City in Midnight?

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I’m one of those boomers who wish Blood Elves stayed a little fiendish and dark compared to the typical high elf tropes we see in fiction. You know, the Blood Elves we saw in Warcraft 3 up until the tail end of TBC (a short time, I know but it left an impression).

Edit: I have been unable to talk on the forums for over a week. The GMs told me to open up a forum post about the issue.

So I guess I’m just blocked from using the forums ever again. Bye guys!

In fact, according to behind the scenes interviews, they made the blood elves explicitly to create a twist on the general high elven trope.

But we all know Blizzard hated that idea as the story went on, so they fixed the Sunwell and turned us back into generic high elves.

But to this day Silvermmon City remains locked in time. It’s so laughably outdated, with statues of Kael’thas everywhere, but it harkens back to the days when Blood Elves were…well…to quote Kael’thas from Warcraft 3,

“edgy”.

But we all know this version of Silvermoon is no longer canon. The fel crystals are gone, the warlocks were probably kicked out of their luxury sanctum (or joined the void elves who sometimes feel more blood elfy than blood elves ever did), the demon slave-drivers and the owner of the leper gnome sweatshops have long since been arrested. The authoritarian tendencies are gone, and their society seems basically perfect.

So, since Silvermoon will likely see a major update in the next expansion, I’m kinda curious: what exactly are they gonna do with Silvermoon? Because right now, it looks like they’re going to have to remove all the elements that separated it from a generic high elven city. Without the “edge”, what is left of Silvermoon?

I mean at least the architecture is still cool. MENA elves have always been a cool concept, but that’s literally all blood elves have left.

So what are they gonna replace it with? What can they do to make Silvermoon, and the Blood Elves, feel more distinct again?

Or are we all content with getting one of the most generic elven cities in gaming history?

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Yes, I’m content with getting a generic elven city, as long as it gets its aura of mystique / beauty.

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Fair enough. I can get that in almost any game, including other MMOs. Part of why I got into WoW was because they twisted the normal fantasy tropes.

Do you have any opinion on the characterization of the people who live there and their society? There just doesn’t seem to be a lot TO the high elves (which is what we are at this point) to create mystique around.

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They’ll ruin Silvermoon the same way they’ve been ruining towns for years.

They’ll build a strip mall.

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But will the strip mall at least have some personality…?

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Is it? I haven’t read anything to claim as such.

My assumption is that there will be two versions of Quel’thalas: the old questing zones and city through the portal on the Outland map and the new Quel’thalas that’s accessible just by flying past EPL and Strat.

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Since when do strip malls ever have personality?

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I’m pretty certain that beneath whatever facade is presented as the “new” Silvermoon, there will be some sort of struggle between the old, darker forces and the reformers.

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It’s described in recent books. Someone else can probably find you the precise quotes.

It’d be hilarious if the blood elves were still totally fine with powering their city on fel magic, but couldn’t stand anyone experimenting with the void XD

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That’ll do it. I haven’t read the recent ones. lol

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God I hope so. We need more nuance to the blood elves! We aren’t all light worshipping stooges. Some of us liked being mana vampires and stealing the Light instead of worshipping it :stuck_out_tongue:

That said, I can totally see this being a plot thread that’s resolved in a single patch with some goody two shoes speeches and a hug.

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They will dump a bunch of Void Vomit on it for the Midnight then forget about it for a decade because it’s not “current content” like they have done with loads of other zones.

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I think they could go really hard with it and make it the new Visions like in BfA. They could revamp it and bring it up to current standards and use it as the new template for visions. It’s been due for an update for a long time. Midnight xpac seems to be the perfect time considering the overall theme of the xpac is the void.

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Silvermoon City will be just fine like before…

Just with ALOT more Kul Tiran sailors crashing high society parties.

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I’m not going to lie… this made me giggle. :grin::grin::grin:

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Visions? I don’t know what this means in this context. Please, explain.

We laugh so we don’t cry.

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It was a whole thing that overall was pretty fun.

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You guys are British.

Your arguments are invalid.

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By letting in the stinky charcoal brickette elves and the grape elves

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Well, I haven’t seen the source you mentioned in the OP (that developers made blood elves in defiance of the usual high elven trope) but from my observations / reading the books, I’d say that the narrative was always pointing in this direction? Lor’themar and the general blood elf population (playable blood elves) renouncing Kael’thas and trying to find a cure for their mana dependence, the presence of Lady Liadrin & the rise of the blood knights, and several other things all foreshadowed the eventual redemption of the blood elves.

So, it’s only logical that Silvermoon gets updated in lieu of that. Blood elves are still based around having their powers / immortality derive from the Sunwell, which has never really changed. And like you said the city itself will still have its blood elf architecture and visuals, which is all most players will want with the updates.

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