So really how many would race change their Blood Elves to High Elves if they became playable on the Alliance

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exactly. devs have to get approval from story before they can just start making random named alliance elves :smile:

im claiming that alliance elves are traitors and relics of a core horde race that will never be anything but randomly scattered flavor NPCs

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Too many elves. How about more variety races. Naga, tortollan, vulpera, sethrekk, and ogres are abundantly available in the world. Why can’t we be them?

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I vote no because blood elves are high elves

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No, you were claiming that Blood Elves are High Elves. And you keep using “core race” as if it means anything. Blood Elves are less of a “core race” to the Horde than the Forest Trolls and Ogres are, yet neither of them are playable.

You are an Alliance group shoehorned onto the Horde because the Horde needed a “pretty race”. That’s it.

So, Blood Elf population is lower than even the Gnomeregan Exiles, and the Blood Elves are considered a “fallen, all but extinct race”? Heh.

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No because Horde > Alliance.

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what does that have to do with anything?

There is litereally no differnece between the blood elves of the horde and the miniscule ammount of “high elves” in the silver covenant. The only difference between a blood elf and high eilf is name. They biologically the same, especially now that the sun well is remade.

Because you know all high elves of any kind that could call them selves high elves are from quel’thalas.

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I am a high elf?

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What does it have to do with anything? Because you’re trying to use race as a biological term. It is not. It is a social construct. Yes, it often times uses outward appearances to differentiate, but that is not always needed. You are confusing “race” with “species”.

From the very beginning in the Burning Crusade, Blizzard made it very clear that High Elves and Blood Elves were considered different races. In each expansion afterwards, they continued to expand on that. They expanded on it in their literature as well.

And, yes, there are physical differences between the two groups, too. Not only that, but you seriously cannot claim that a High Elf would have the same racials that a Blood Elf has. A High Elf would definitely not have Arcane Torrent, for example.

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It is almost like they need to write some of this lore down in some kind of Chronicle to help straighten out the lore mishaps that were made with cross fitting expansions and other books and stories… Just to iron out the lore that is attached to this great game…

OH WAIT! they did it is called Chronicle…

All white skinned gold eyed elves originated from Quel’thalas. And there was no difference between any of them until arthas showed up and carved up the city. Then they relied on fel magic for a while to feed them, and then they restored the sunwell. Or did you not actually play legion with the final unlocks where aleria was kicked out of Quel’thalas. And guess what. There is no difference no between any white skinned elf anymore. You all got the sunwell back.

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Why Blizzard has basically alluded to that they’re never putting High Elves into the game…

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lol $25 for eye color

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I want to roll a Tortollan sage.
:turtle::turtle::turtle::crab::crab::crab::dove::dove:

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You started off on the wrong foot. Not only did the Elves not have gold eyes at the time, not all of them were even living in Quel’thalas. Many High Elves, in fact, have not called Quel’thalas their home for years, especially the ones that were in Outland.

Secondly, only the Sin’dorei, the Blood Elves, relied on Fel Magic to feed themselves. This is one of the biggest differences between High Elves and Blood Elves. High Elves never used the Fel Magics, nor did they use the siphoning techniques taught to Blood Elves to feed off of the magical essences of living creatures.

The Sunwell was indeed cleansed of its corruption with the essence of Mu’ru, a Naaru, and with the help of Prophet Velen. If you actually did the quests afterwards, including the Quel’Delar questline, you would have seen that the Blood Elves did not want the High Elves even visiting the Sunwell in pilgrimage. There was a large amount of friction between the two groups.

But the Sunwell being uncorrupted does not make the two groups the same thing. That’s hilariously wrong. That would be like claiming “With the Nightwell gone, Nightborne and Night Elves are the same thing.”

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Are Stormwind Humans biologically or physiologically different from Kul Tiran Humans?
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The answer is no. So how do you race change??? :thinking:

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have you seen their bodies? basic humans cannot achieve that body!

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That’s a game model. And if you haven’t noticed, most of the Kul Tiran Human NPC’s don’t use that model. Try again without conflating game assets and biology.

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the large kul tirans clearly have some kind of hereditary gigantism gene. ive even heard rumors they have drust blood in them. maybe they mixed and are descendants of giants? these are traits that are biologically and physiologically different then normal humans. the same cannot be said for high/blood elves where the only difference is political affiliation

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That’s a whole lotta head cannon you have goin on there. I can do that too. Like how High Elves have diluted bloodlines and thus are biologically different than Blood Elves who have pure bloodlines, but the High Elf models just haven’t been updated yet to reflect that.

See? Head cannon works both ways. :wink:

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Drust are Vrykul. All Humans are descendants from Vrykul.

And there are outward physical differences between High Elves and Blood Elves, but you just ignore it every time it’s brought up.

And STILL you’re confusing “race” with “species”.

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But high elves are already playable??

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