Probably more friendly than the Undead… the undead could have been the alliance orginal dark race option and night elves could have been the Horde pretty race.
Night Elves have a lot more in common with Horde races than a bunch of lightbulb worshippers in the east.
So you have some guy on reddit claiming there was a poll.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/world-of-warcraft-expansion/662507p1.html
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With that out of the way, Dabiri was finally ready to get to the good stuff – and there’s a whole lot of it coming our way. He first introduced the new playable race coming in The Burning Crusade – Blood Elves. These Night Elf cousins were once members of the Alliance, but when their homeland and source of magical power were destroyed by Arthas, they were left powerless and desperate for a magical “fix.” Now they’ve allied themselves with the Horde in order to discover new sources of magical energy and hunt down the demons who destroyed their homes.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/world-of-warcraft-expansion/662576p1.html
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Metzen went on to explain the backstory of the Blood Elves, which we covered in this profile piece. Afterwards, the floor was opened up for questions from the audience.
Naturally one of the first questions was about the new un-announced Alliance race to be featured in the expansion. Metzen gave no hints, and implied that they’re still working out all the details. But he did acknowledge that once everyone hears about the new race, part of it will make sense, and part of it will make everyone go “huh?” …We can’t even speculate. (But it won’t be Pandas.)
One gamer asked why the Trolls would ally with the Blood Elves – or any type of elf, for that matter. “I want that guy escorted out!” Metzen bellowed to laughter from the audience. But then he explained that the Horde is “an alliance of convenience.” The Blood Elves hate dealing with the Trolls or the Orcs, but need their help to reach the Outland. And, while he didn’t give details, Metzen explained that the Blood Elves have something the Horde desperately needs that helps to hold the fragile truce together. We expect more to be revealed in the game itself.
I couldn’t directly quote Izzabelle because she included links I needed to add ` at the ends to but she has already debunked this reddit “it was an asian poll” attempt people use to validate themselves ignoring Blood Elf story going Horde.
Now we’re back with someone posting that same guy on reddit it seems
Speaking for myself, I still feel like the Forsaken and Blood Elves should’ve been part of a third, Illidari faction.
Yeah I really cannot disagree with this at all. Night Elves joining the Alliance just never made much sense.
Looking back it does make sense in a way, Horde chomped their trees down ruined the earth(Aezroth) they loved . Darkshore was one example and the forest around. Horde ruined their land and were a threat to their lives.
During the Third War, yes, but afterwards? Would’ve made perfect sense for Malfurion of all people to decide the Orcs can be saved and to try and help them.
Except We know Thrall Horde wasn’t doing this from Garrosh POV.
That was specifically the Warsong clan, Thrall was very diplomatic with the night elves so them not joining the Horde especially with the Tauren being present is strange
Help them by ruining their lives? Do you know what you are saying?
Malfurion and Thrall have always had a cordial relationship. Thrall’s respect for the elements reflected Malfurion’s devotion to nature. The two peoples had more in common than not. I don’t think it would have been outside of the Night Elves’ characterization to want to try and redeem the Orcs, having personally known what it is like to be betrayed by their own to the Legion, and then having to pick up the pieces. It also doesn’t hurt that the Tauren, whom the Night Elves have longer positive relations with, were already a part of the Horde.
And yet,they did any way and kept doing it and still are doing it. Do you even know what a centralized earth living being goes through seeing their environment being destroyed feels. Even mighty Trall felt the elements screaming.
It’s propaganda.
Realistic the Kaledorei would have joined with the Horde.
You literally have the entire player base. Stop being so greedy.
You’re viewing as relationship based but not tribal based even if they did have common likes they are politically different.
If the horde wasn’t so aggressive and pushy they might have.
dont get gaslighted fen. you were right the previous post. high elves never cared about the alliance or interacted with humans outside of dalaran. and that has continued to this day
see how they phrase this? yes a couple priests stayed to help heal the wounded and maybe a bored mage was around but they completely disregard the events of tft expansion which only distanced the high elves from the alliance even further
we all know their canonical status and the devs comments “only a couple, dont support the alliance like that” “such a rare sight in alliance territory they always get mistaken for blood elves” the last one most likely out of respect for the race. but high elves are horde. void elves are alliance its time to move on from this
everything alleria did was to protect her people and homeland. even after the second war when they all went home. where her sisters were content with peace and defending the homeland she continued to hunt orcs wherever she could find them. she was estranged from turalyon too. she didnt move to stormwind or some nonsense
now she supports the alliance because she has nowhere else to go. she could have easily been a valeera liaison type character and the blood elf allied race could have been san’layn but here we are
Not my fault y’all faction is bland and homogenized.
The problem with the alliance is instead of being a faction of multiple races and crowns… instead it’s a faction of humans and its subservient helpers.
That person is Xelnath… he was a dev. So it wasn’t just “some random person.” That said it still sounds semi-anecdotal.
And I’d imagine you’ve seen all the links showing that that nonsense was just a small part of why high elves went horde in BC
Do you really want to play the look at the one vanilla npc that proves my point game?
Right so where is the poll?
Not some twitter account claiming there was one not some salty ex blizzard dev, where’s the poll that you and others use to feel better about ignoring the lore that places Blood Elves Horde?
Because the decision for Blood Elves to go horde was basically made during WC3
its there just like the invisible elves
Right they have no poll they have claims there could have been a poll and these claims seem to help them feel better about ignoring the story and other statements showing how far back Blood Elves were planned.