Their solution to the high elf debacle was to split the difference and give blood AND void elves high elf customizations. You’re on some mad copium if you think there’s a chance in hell of them carrying their own player race after that.
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Oh yeah it’s not happening now
But it’s just funny
The devs/leadership were so aggressively petty and hyper fixated on their ideology and contempt for players desiring high elves that they constructed a multi tiered solution that pissed everyone off
Like the sheer contempt that bled through Ion’s various statements on high elves and the choice of void elves (down to the name, Kylo Ren Dorei) was and remains flabbergasting
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All they had to do was turn the high elves into void elves, and they couldn’t even get that right
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I don’t even think void elves - or at least “high elves with a twist” - were that bad an idea on paper. I agreed with Blizzard’s core issue with the request; that the HE fantasy would need some significant narrative/aesthetic alterations to not just be a cheap riff on the incarnation already playable.
But of course they solved this in the stupidest possible way. Instead of being story progression for the Silver Covenant or Alleria’s followers on Outland, their members were derived from some blood elf void cult awkwardly retconned into the story.
Yep. There were dozens of ways to make it work, and they settled on one so obscene and polarizing it can’t have been anything but tone deafness.
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Cuz that wasn’t the intent lol
It was pettiness with some Kylo Ren themed and Emo themed mocking memes
Man, if we’re rehashing this one, a lot of my issues with void elves would be solved if they’d been drawn from the ranks of Alliance high elves to begin with, instead of being a random crack squad of blood elves who got exiled for delving into FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE and then double exiled when they got smacked with the wrong set of magic.
They could still desperately use lore, because most of what we have is assumptions scotch taped over the bare bones of a frame Blizzard threw up as an allied race. Compared to the other 3 Legion allied races, who came in with a solid level of backstory and quests, then got actual customization passes with UNIQUE assets, void elves are a little… depressing.
Interesting hook, could really use some execution of said hook.
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If this change is any indication then all bets are off on what Blizzard can/might do in the future. As it is people are still asking for true high elves for the Alliance. Heck, they might just end up giving us sub races/allow further customization to void elves to allow them to be high elves.
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All blizz had to do was make the High Elves already in the alliance (Looking at you Silver Covenant) playable. Nothing had to be changed in the lore to make it work.
How tone deaf and hateful does one have to be to go the insane route that Ion and his buddies chose? 
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High Elves are the single most controversial subject on the General Forums, bar none. I’m a Blood Elf main, but I never havd a stake in it. I could always see both sides. High Elf fans have a bad reputation for being bigots, and whatnot. One of them threatened to quit over Pelagos
Anyone wanting to play High Elves should be satisfied with what was given when Shadowlands released. The added customization in 9.1.5 was icing on the cake. There’s no need to give anything more. Maybe perhaps they can get most of the same options from Blood Elves, such as hairstyles with Blood Elves getting the ones they don’t have too. But it isn’t necessary and anything other than that should probably have developer time put elsewhere.
The thing is Blizzard has never “wiped out” anyone before. The fact there are still high elves means Blizzard will probably use the high elves again in the future.
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Nightborn shouldv’e been neutral like Pandaren, Horde get Highmountain Tauren, and Alliance get Kokrul Broken Draenei. Call it bizarre, but I honestly prefer the idea of all High Elves finally getting completely wiped out rather than become playable in any form (aside from Blood Elves) purely to spite the people who keep asking for them.
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And I prefer we get them to spite people saying we should not get it. I at least got half my wish so far.
“We’ve decided the Alliance isn’t generic enough, so we’ve added the most generic version of Fantasy Elves to go along with the most generic version of fantasy humans and fantasy dwarves. We considered adding tall purple semi-matriarchal elves who were kinda like good Drow instead, but decided that would be less bland and generic.”
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Considering the Alliance has had nothing but non-traditional good guy added since Vanilla(night elves, draenei, worgens and except the Kul tiran humans all the allied races border on darker side of the spectrum). If anything a “generic good guy” race is actually a breath of fresh air.
Also, who care if they are generic, they were ours first and have been part of the Alliance for as long as there was an Alliance. Heck, they were the second race to join it.
Of course they will. That’s the problem. The high elves have more exposure than some playable races.
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for the alliance I would like to have:
- Stormheimvyrkul as contrast to Ogre(horde)
- Arrakoa (Winged and Crippled) as opposition to the Mog’natal (Draenorbundle)
- Jinju for the alliance, sethrak for the horde.
The high elves can be realised now within the voidelves.
What is funny is that Blizzard was like, “not enough high elves for them to be playable” then blizzard pulls void elves out of their asses which had a lower in game population than High elves.
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But now we have voidelves and voidelves literally have multiple identities actually. The “high elf” fantasy identity, and the void elf identity.
Both can be well implemented and integrated into the race, now to add additionally really high elves would be redundant.
It was never explained in the lore how the High Elf options make sense however. There are High Elf Wayfarers, but they are not actually Void Elves, like your character is.
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