“We must put this misery behind us. We must enter a new chapter! And so I say to you that, as of this day, we are no longer high elves! In honor of the blood that was shed throughout this kingdom, in honor of the sacrifices of our brothers and sisters, our parents, and our children, in honor of Anasterian… as of this day we will take the name of our royal lineage! As of this day, we are sin’dorei! For Quel’Thalas
— Kael’thas Sunstrider
Let me repost that for you…
We must enter a new chapter! And so I say to you that, as of this day, we are no longer high elves!
Once more for the people in the back!
we are no longer high elves!
Do you understand yet?
It’s the same concept as to why Australians and Americas are no longer British.
What part of “Blood Elves are High Elves” do you not understand. If you want to argue that they are a different race, then you are basing it on headcanon.
The name change is just political. Something in which you both are ignoring. But good news is, both of you can go on ignore. Sick of trying to explain the same thing over and over.
Infact I outright said you could have a familly of three siblings who are all in different factions, let me repost that for you since you obviously can’t read.
That dosen’t change the fact that Bloodelves are NO LONGER High elves and are infact two very seperate things.
Bloodelves are NOT High elves anymore, they are Bloodelves.
i think the problem is that people treat the title high elf as if it describes genetics, when its the regent who does this by applying whatever title he wants to his / her kin. the high elves who decided to continue to embrace the high elf title, did so illegally.
How so? The actual High Elves living in the Wildhammer regions never stopped being High Elves, nor went they back or anything lore-based as we know. They simply stayed in a vacuum. All the bickering about “iAm ThE rEaL hIgH eLf” was checkmated right from the very start. The Alliance are the only faction who have actual High Elves, until further story-relevant changes.
The better question would be, if the Sin’dorei-turned Void Elves went back to being High Elves or not.
well the legality only applies to people who are claiming citizenship in the blood elf kingdom, who are the same race as the regent. like he doesnt apply the same rule to nightborne even if they are citizens of silvermoon
people retaining the high elf title have historically only been granted temporary visas for sunwelll pilgrimmage
This exactly, ‘high elf’ was also just a title that Dath’Remar Sunstrider made up in honour of being highborn, a title that the blood elves abandoned in place of a new title, and the High elves kept when the two divided.
“Thalassian elf” would be the term for the biological race of the elves from the quel’thalas region. Which would include Blood elves, High elves and void elves, who are all esentially the same genetics.
Devs don’t even pretend to care for the Alliance anymore. They gave up when they enabled cross-faction play.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence when the Game Director REFUSES to even play Alliance. He literally has no idea what 1/3 of his paying customers’ experience is like!
The other devs are pro-Horde. I’ve never even heard of a Pro-Alliance dev, have you? Don’t even think of “My heart has always been with the Horde” Metzen.
Oh and whenever a new dev gets a job, watch Twitter/X: Here’s how their first post goes:
They are excited to be on the team
They look forward to doing great things
FOR THE HORDE!
Comments pile up with For the Horde! And the three Alliance characters then get bludgeoned by the dev’s own words.
you literally do have them. They specifically added high elf customisations to the void elves so people can play as a high elf.
That was the whole point of doing that.
They are CALLED High Elves or they just look like them? If I’m wrong, I’ll apologize, but I haven’t played retail in two years and have no faith in Blizzard doing ANYTHING positive for the Alliance.
mechanically ‘void elves’ just like the dark rangers are mechanically ‘bloodelves’ and the sand trolls are mechanically ‘jungle trolls’ and the wild hammer dwarves are mechanically ‘bronzebeard dwarves’. The customisations were there to let you play the charater you want without needing to put in hundreds of copy/paste races.
Because adding void elves closed the door on ‘high elf’ being it’s own specific mechanical race.
But I have no idea why you are targeting this question at me specifically.
Swapped characters to make a point, you can make a ‘void elf’ who uses the high elf cosmetics, to basically look like a high elf, it’s a ‘sub race’ sort of thing, though mechanically, I’m still a ‘void elf’. But… look at me, I’m clearly a high elf. And they added High elf NPcs, around stormwind and in the void elf starting zone to show high elves are part of and working with the void elves.